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Great to see this posted here! DuckDB is an integral part of an in-browser data analytics tool that I've been working on. It compiles to WASM and runs in a web worker. Queries agai…

You might not want to pop the emergency hatch when you're surrounded by vacuum.

Also interesting to note that a good portion of people lack an internal monologue. This interview made the rounds a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY

Hold up, you can't just throw out a claim like "many animals are sentient" as if it's a statement of fact. You might be right, but there's a reason that "the hard problem of consci…

The illiteracy rate in the US is really quite incredible, with the federal government reporting something like 20% of the population to be "low literacy" https://nces.ed.gov/datapo…

If I were to paraphrase the comparison, it might be something like: "An AI is some constructed entity which, starting with a goal, uses its intelligence to make changes to the worl…

In the video linked above, Robert Miles models organizational idea-generation as something like "everyone thinks of their best idea, and then we just pick the best from that set". …

Sure! I don't see any reason why it would be impossible either, but the (hypothetical) problems are very interesting. Starting with the most basic problem of all: how do we even sp…

Yeah, I agree. My original post was bringing up what I thought was an interesting comparison between hypothetical software AI and the corporations-as-AI metaphor presented in the t…

So I think the question is: when a group of people work together on something, can they generate ideas which are better than the best idea of any member of the group? If so, how mu…

That's fair. I interpreted the comparison as being between "AI implemented as a property of human organizations" and "AI implemented as a powerful search algorithm". While corporat…

Robert Miles has an interesting response to the claim that corporations are AIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw To paraphrase: yes, corporations function as agents, bu…