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This is the correct answer. The problem is that copyright law was created in a higher friction environment and it cannot adapt to the present. If I bought a book, made a xerox of t…

Blockchain solves the double spend and ownership problems, but it does requires (a) that you be connected to the internet to establish or transfer ownership, and (b) that any consu…

The problem is that the technology [1] to do this simply doesn't exist. I'd say the core of the problem is that copying a digital artifact is easy, is a solved problem. You simply …

No, that's stupid. The question of how LLMs (and "LRM"'s, an unfortunate and by the article's own admission, already outdated term) accomplish what they accomplish is fascinating. …

I posted a link to the original context. I don't know whether you are saying that I have taken it out of context or a more general statement of how other people have interpreted th…

I'll admit that I find this discussion a bit navel-gazy. It has become a question of semantics not a question of actual functionality. The question has become "what do we mean when…

My takeaway was not the involvement of the LLMs, which I consider to be irrelevant; the core was that there was an exploit of a flaw in the verification engine that allowed an inco…

No, the rationals are not discrete in the usual topology. They end up being discrete when we consider continuous mappings from R->Q though. That is the "technical" sense that I ref…

You are overestimating what real numbers buy you. pi and e and sqrt(2) are real numbers and not rational, to be sure. But they are computable! Computable just means that they are a…

Agree to disagree! Doing calculus with computable numbers is totally possible and you get all the continuity you need. You need to drop the Lebesgue formulation of the integeral an…

If reality is quantized and there is a smallest number that is physically relevant, you don't need the reals to break it. Take that smallest number and divide it by two, and now yo…

I think people overindex on the continuity problem with the reals. I'm personally a bit of real-number denier myself as a constructivist / intuitionalist. But when we say things li…

Yes, you're right, they could just do this, and then spend the rest of their term thrown out of Congress and rotting in prison. That is, they can hold such a lunch, but they can't …

> why should politician listen to them if lobbyists are not promising them support in next elections in the form of marketing, payments for expenses and so on Mostly because those …

Yeah, this is really cool. I'm now deep in the rabbit hole of FSE encoding and ANS & tANS. The last time I poked my head in here, range encoding and arithmetic encoding were the st…

But Adams was specifically arguing not against democracy in the broad term, but specifically, unconstrained direct democracy, so this is not relevant to this discussion.

I think a lot of commenters here are missing the ball with the idea that this is a foreign policy or anti-US sentiment emerging. The core reality is that cloud infrastructure is be…

What do you see as the alternative for the purposes of this discussion? Are we talking cloud vs. on-prem or colo, or are we talking AWS vs. other-cloud? For the first (cloud vs. no…

What I'm saying is that we cannot observe deep structure. All we can observe is the surface structure. If we have access to the author or speaker we can ask clarifying questions, e…

Oh, now I see where we have an actual difference of opinion. I don't think you can deny that even Finnegan's wake proceeds one token at a time; your interpretation of it may requir…

I dunno, man, I looked at that text and I see one word after another. Obviously language and the connection to human thought is more subtle than this; I think we all have a rich in…

At least "glorified autocomplete" is technically accurate, even if vastly underestimating the capability of LLMs. It's just trying to make something very impressive sound trivial. …

For context, here's the main quote: > Contrary to how it may seem when we observe its output, an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it …

The Northgate was a great keyboard, and a company called Creative Vision Technologies briefly owned and sold keyboards under the "Avant" brand. I had one of those, it finally succu…

> What these governments want to do I feel strongly that this conspiratorial mind-reading approach to this sort of issue is just counterproductive. What all the governments (and no…