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passion__desire

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    Comment #41619435

    One thing that could explain this dichotomy is that writing such an article for oil refinery would be expensive task. Because data for such research may not be readily available on…

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    Comment #41617631

    Marcus Aurelis wrote in short snippets format. They were notes to himself which were latter organized into flowing organized essays by historians and writers.

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    Comment #41616698

    In similar vein, the following question is very apt. Please read the question because it captures all of our intuition when we try to understand something. https://physics.stackexc…

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    Comment #41616118

    Meme-pages are today's "brevity is the soul of wit". They really distill experience and wisdom in nice consumable package.

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    Comment #41610734

    I could be wrong in this. But wasn't his writings only for himself and was published only later. How many people really referred to his writings? When was printing press invented? …

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    Comment #41610625

    If causality holds, acting externally will have changes to internal assessments assuming good faith dialogue. Plus Marcus Aurelius was helpless in that it would take him lot of tim…

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    Comment #41610095

    I sometimes think "algorithms" understand me more than other people. Through my actions, they can diagnose me better than any doctor. e.g. meme therapy pages on facebook and tiktok…

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    Comment #41610018

    I think stoic ideas are from an era where their circumstances made them have those principles. We don't live in that era. It is possible to affect others and the associated cascadi…

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    Comment #41604466

    I used to always wonder how do llms know whether a particular long article or audio transcript was written by say Alan Watts. Basically these kind of metadata annotation would be c…

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    Comment #41604423

    Embedding is a transformation which allows us to find semantically relevant chunks from a catalogue given a query. Through some nearness criteria, you would retrieve "semantically …

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    Comment #41602652

    The other point is what if your Company's exit strategy is dependent on going big. Then it is pertinent that you plan for that 0.01% chance because there is no other exit.

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    Comment #41583308

    Can you provide a demo output of AI capabilities by using Enron emails dataset and how AI answers those questions asked by lawyers in that case?

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    Comment #41583145

    With that money, Larry begged Jensen to take it and deliver him the GPUs. Onto the new grift. In yesteryears it was database and now it is AI. Benedict Evans always compared AI to …

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    Comment #41580562

    This idea could also be extended to domains like Art. Create new art styles for AI to learn from. But in future, that will also get automated. AI itself will create art styles and …

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    Comment #41571869

    Mossad said - "Explain to me why it is more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle than a dozen at dinner."

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    Comment #41571692

    I think this is the case of both sides knew about each other's plan all along and yet Oct 7 happened. What could be the reason for both sides to execute it. Just to find out what h…

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    Comment #41567983

    I think this process of uncovering your stupidity / confusion could be gradual as Scott makes the point below. It need not be a single "Aha" moment. https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4…

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    Comment #41566639

    > this is the way to understand maybe I have this idea. Let's say I want to bring two words (AI and Apocalypse, Yud's thesis ) closer in some semantic space of ideas. How would I d…

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    Comment #41566594

    There is modern version of Charles Dickens' way of publishing a chapter each week in the newspaper. Artists on tiktok and instagram and youtube shorts are developing characters wit…

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    Comment #41566553

    This was depicted in The Simpsons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Job > "The Book Job" is the sixth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television s…

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    Comment #41558741

    I think you already know this then. https://youtu.be/r84pbPbBAFY

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    Comment #41555599

    The way I think is it is like a pattern trying to maintain itself. Pattern is the ghost in the machine. But the pattern isn't significant in itself in that apart from continuing it…

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    Comment #41555393

    We have limited familial / personal attention and care to give to others. Either you could spread it thin by becoming a big leader but no personal depth among fans. Or you could in…

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    Comment #41548766

    I personally find process philosophy to be the ultimate description. i.e. Heraclitus position https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ Put another way, it's dynamic s…