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Arab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around.

No, welfare is when you're given money for value you're not providing. It's a net drain on the system. This is a government entity procuring a product they need from a private enti…

The Department of War is a customer, there's no handout here. The government does procure services from private firms, this isn't new or special.

No, I have the feeling that “feeling safe” is “unhealthy” because these online communities children get access to are full of predators who wish them harm. The online communities i…

But that's the problem: they're NOT safe in those communities. We've created these unhealthy gardens where young people feel safe, removing any reason for them to engage in the rea…

You've cherry-picked a situation where there is an obvious social norm being broken. A better example would be going to the park and sitting on the bench you used to sit on with yo…

Coping mechanisms are complex and diverse. The individual in question lost a major source of meaning-making in their life and was struggling to cope with that loss. I don't believe…

A mentally healthy person wants to be helpful. They want to be seen as helpful and they expect others around them to be helpful as well. This is the foundation of "pro-social" beha…

In Positive Psychology, the science of meaning in life (not of life) breaks meaning down into three dimensions: coherence, significance, and purpose. If your job isn’t affording yo…

I love your “clean source of sustainable energy” metaphor. This is a great example of “eudaimonic” well-being, or the idea of “doing well.”

Hedonic treadmill only applies to hedonia, not the eudaimonia that meaningful work typically brings. “Doing well” doesn’t have the same elastic snap back that “being well” does, an…

The center of the normal ditribution is “normal” or “normative.” That’s where the term comes from. It’s like saying we shouldn’t call immigrants “aliens” because that conjures imag…

Multimodal models aren't really multimodal. The images are mapped to words and then the words are expanded upon by a single mode LLM. If you didn't know the word "duck", you could …

But language is the input and the vector space within which their knowledge is encoded and stored. The don't have a concept of a duck beyond what others have described the duck as.…

You’ve said the same thing fifteen times now. I still don’t want to play with you, sorry.

Okie dokie mate, whatever you say. Best of luck!

No moral posturing and no insults. Your behavior is just objectively noxious. Not just to me, not just in this thread: the vast majority of your conversations here go roughly the w…

Nah, mate, the conversation never went "beyond my depth." You're just not an enjoyable conversation partner. It doesn't matter how smart (you think) you are. If nobody wants to tal…

I’m pretty sure everyone reading can see which of us is the arrogant one. Good day, sir.

Look, mate, you can keep jumping up and down about this all you want. But you're arguing science fiction at this point. Not really worth continuing the conversation, but thanks. Be…

> We don’t yet understand the full physics of the brain, and we don’t fully understand LLMs either. That’s the point. The same kind of ignorance applies to both. Yet both produce c…

At this point, you’re describing a machine which depends on a level of physics that simply isn’t possible. Even if it were theoretically possible to reconstruct the state of a huma…

You are mistaking the map for the territory. The TERRITORY of human experience is higher dimensional. The LLM utilizes a lower resolution mapping of that territory, a projection fr…

The multimodal architectures I’ve seen are still text at the layer between modalities. And the image embedding and text embedding are kept completely separate. Not like where your …

You misunderstand how the multimodal piece works. The fundamental unit of encoding here is still semantic. Not the same in your mind: you don’t need to know the word for sunset to …