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Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
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Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#122I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this! Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out... https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
A similar kind of story though much longer is Unsong by Scott Alexander. The prolog starts with Apollo 8 crashing into the celestial sphere and divine magic starts leaking back into the world; Angels are real, Kabala based on the names of God allow real magic and they've been copyrighted. Our protagonist is a worker bee that spends all day saying nonsense combinations that could be True Names for his employer to patent and sell. One day right after the end of his shift he stumbles on one completely by accident and it changes everything.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't mind if it didn't keep recommending me videos I've already watched (they're showing the red bar! they know I've watched it!) or from channels I've already said no to or on topics I've frequently said no to or on topics that I watched one video on[1] and now YouTube thinks I want a full page of similar videos. The algorithm is, for want of some better words, absolute cack. [1] Even if I don't finish the vid…
Just wait until your kid borrows your phone,one time, to go watch Minecraft videos. You will never escape.
> to go watch Minecraft videos
Yep, I do that occasionally and bloody hell, you're not wrong about the flood.
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#124This is wonderful.
But then I read it, and they call it stupid. And then I think, oh… I think I will move on. How boring am I. And why put it up on YouTube - so many videos - given you can’t legitimately download all the videos (unless I am mistaken?) I mean you are investing so much of other people time with this, you think you might offer up an alternative own system in return… how boring I am.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube has on average close to 4 million video uploads per day
And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.
Turn off watch history in your google settings. Then remove all your favorites. (save them to a playlist first to keep them) This forces the algorithm to only consider what other people who have watched the video you have open are watching when building suggestions, and this makes the suggestions dramatically better.
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#126What about having a computer say them? How long would it take to have them recorded? The assignment here would be to find enough people to _listen_ to batches of 416 of them.
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Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#127How fun. I went ahead and automated this by recording numbers 0-9 into mp3 files and then reading each prime number individually to play the mp3 of the corresponding number. Feel free to reuse if you want to participate.
https://gist.github.com/magicmicah/a8cf863ed656e5b56c5449656...
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#128How fun. I went ahead and automated this by recording numbers 0-9 into mp3 files and then reading each prime number individually to play the mp3 of the corresponding number. Feel free to reuse if you want to participate. https://gist.github.com/magicmicah/a8cf863ed656e5b56c5449656...
I understand the nerdy need to automate this, but I feel like this defeats the purpose of the while experiment.
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't mind if it didn't keep recommending me videos I've already watched (they're showing the red bar! they know I've watched it!) or from channels I've already said no to or on topics I've frequently said no to or on topics that I watched one video on[1] and now YouTube thinks I want a full page of similar videos. The algorithm is, for want of some better words, absolute cack. [1] Even if I don't finish the vid…
Just wait until your kid borrows your phone,one time, to go watch Minecraft videos. You will never escape.
Or your in-laws watch your Netflix over their holiday visit. Now I can't tell if Netflix has generally worse quality content these days or if it's just recommending garbage to me based on what people have watched on my profile.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I last read that story nearly a decade ago, I think. This time around, it feels more real. The engineers follow silly instructions from people with money, and then...
This is not how I read the story... the people you are referring are monks in Tibet much more than "people with money".
The monks were just gig workers.