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dancingvoid

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About dancingvoid

I am that I am.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #36950011

    > If made legal, then how do we navigate the normalization of a substance which can quite literally ruin a life? It prohibited, how do you manage the safety concerns and crime we k…

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    Comment #35204857

    Thanks for the link! You’re right, when I say quantized I do mean finite, countable, represents me symbolically. I realize how staggering large finite can be. We are in the midst o…

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    Comment #35204329

    If physical reality is quantized, which many believe to be true, then the state of all all reality can be described symbolically. Therefore, a large enough language model could con…

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    Comment #35204074

    Haha you’re not wrong. That gave me a good laugh. I do wish fewer people would operate such large machines in cities.

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    Comment #35204058

    I reject that anyone else can tell me what rules to live by. I only respect other peoples requests if they claim and show that my actions are causing harm. Otherwise, the “collecti…

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    Comment #35203935

    What makes you think that rights come from “the law”? Do you think that because some people you never met wrote something on a piece of paper, it becomes right or wrong? What if th…

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    Comment #35203908

    Rights don’t come from the constitution. They just are. If someone is not causing harm, then there is no harm being done. Doing (or threatening) violence against people you may thi…

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    Comment #35203727

    I am always surprised to read articles that appear to be written by people so disconnected from their own consciousness and value of their own life. If I value my own life, it foll…

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    Comment #35203523

    I’m surprised how much fear most people seem to have about their fellow conscious being. It’s like now that LLMs exist, people feel we are only one bad actor away from death and de…

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    Comment #35168787

    I’ll add that the reserve requirement is currently zero. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

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    Comment #35150261

    I do too! I’ve started writing extensive documentation for internal projects at work, with the intention that someone could pick them up, understand the context, use the code and i…

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    Comment #34891203

    Are the responses, and audio and video all generated with “AI”?

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    Comment #34536104

    How about, confirmed the absence of intelligence in a species that allows and support such a system?