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fxd

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    Right, you are interested in “AGI” and presuming none of that requires consciousness right? For example, how do you know that “feeling pain” is not a functional prerequisite for a …

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    Comment #49558248

    So basically, being able to set it free on some long running goal and it sort of “lives” and autonomously does its own tasks? I wonder at what point consciousness is necessary… tha…

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    Comment #49558109

    “AGI” never made sense to me. It’s a purely marketing term right? I’ve ignored it thinking it would go away, but it keeps coming up. I get that consciousness differs from intellige…

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    One way to have the biggest house on the block is make sure nobody else can build. Why spend the money to build the bigger house when you don’t really enjoy it anyway - when your o…

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    Comment #49554206

    In other words, the Flat Birth Theory. We can call them flat birthers

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    Comment #49550025

    At my job interviews are essentially rejection practice. The debriefings are these cringe sessions where everyone pretends to be better than the candidate, makes fun of them for be…

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    Why would a regular React site be so huge? Maybe they had bundled fonts and images. The bundle is just the lib plus your files minified. You want to bundle vs hitting dozens of req…

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    Comment #49549352

    They’ve gotten better. ~2 years ago the assets all had millions of polys and you couldn’t use them with raycasting or even loading the model without crashing the tab. Tripo, Meshy,…

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    Comment #49541227

    It’s like those diet commercials from the 90s: “I simply eat more and the weight just falls off!” Showing pictures of chocolate cake and burgers. You’re gonna eat more: Milkshakes,…