dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

have you ever met actual anti nuclear activists

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The Affront are literally the colonial British, so they're easy

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

ooooh photographic matthew embarking upon his f*shtech turn out loud at last?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You have fun playing in the sandpit, thinking about your magic box. I’m gonna smoke cigarettes and play slot machines for an hour.

thread winner

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago (8 children)

who gets the California accents though

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

It's chips specifically optimised to FP8 and FP4 without video outputs. Its only use is machine learning. That's assuming the hardware doesn't die of overheating in short order. This stuff was born to be e-waste.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

the existence of a brain doesn't show you can simulate it in a computer. the universe is not necessarily feasible to simulate down to the atoms, as the essay points out. did you read the essay?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

this is an extended "nuh-uh"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Philosophically, right, if you allow me infinite resources, right, to do a thing I don't actually know how to define,

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 5 days ago (8 children)

habryka:

I have never written a song (without AI assistance) in my life, but I am sure I could learn within a week.

FUCKIN

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

that was posted in 2012, and I am quite sure that a lot of rationalists latched onto rot13 as the mild encoding algorithm of choice because it was standard for spoiler concealment in HPMOR discussion.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

compare me on Scientology for example

tho I slung Scn jargon well enough that I've had an ex member refuse to believe that I wasn't also an ex member

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