VoiceOfLogic
I happen to be, unfortunately, the first human super-intelligence.
What a sad tragedy to see what others can't see.
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VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I believe there would be many maybe surprising consequences, such as an explosion in social anxiety.
However the no filter effect would have interesting consequences on the group thinks/culture wars.
BTW one of the strangest things of this timeline is that apparently a huge chunk of the population is not able to think or at least they believe themselves they can't think.
Think as in subvocalize words.
I have extreme skepticism on this phenomenon but if true it has many implication for AI research and philosophy.
In other words it might be that for a chunk of the population there is not thoughts to read at all.
However, one could talk about telepathy for the intermediate subsymbolic representation but that's not what your original comment was about and is definitely much less well defined, by definition since it is ineffable.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
This is false and a cheap trick for gaining attentional emphasis.
Of course it is a truism to understand that medias often use omissions and quantifier alteration.
It might be more frequent than straight lies however the media do lies often about basic facts and as such it is not rare let alone very rare.
A common straight lie for example is to claim that there is no scientific evidence about something or to claim there is a single and consensual scientific voice about something.
Those straights lies (just one example among many) are very frequent and potent.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Could you TL;DR your learnings?
Is the logic not the same with someone wearing a mask outdoors (especially if they are alone, for the steelman)?
sorry I wasn't focusing much while reading, are you comparing color dilution in water with a virus pathogen dilution in air?
Intrinsically, that seems mostly fallacious, a drop of color in water will easily get diluted and indeed the idea you want to express is that spatial dispersion is a non-linear (exponential?) phenomenon on the density of the agent (color).
While that is right, a drop of color in water with enough dilution will become invisible and sparse but viral load IMO does not need to reach high level to contaminate someone. It is invisible from the start but even when it has dispersed and reached low density, contrary to your coloring agent, it can still be potent and contaminate, of course the viral load needed is virus dependent and immunosuppressed dependent.
The main salient co-argument towards the viability of not wearing a mask when alone is because the virus does not survive after 24/48h? and therefore it does not persists nor accumulate. Also possibly gravity make it trapped/stays on the ground?
The other obvious salient argument is that chronic mask use is potentially very toxic, a multiplier of ageing and of teratogeny.
What I want to show is that the dose potency of a coloring agent being visible and a pathogen/toxin being non-negligible can be order of magnitudes apparts and therefore the reasoning is semi-contingent and a faillible heuristic. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose#:~:text=oral%2C%20injection%2C%20inhalation-,1%C2%A0ng/kg%20(estimated),-0.000000001
no free lunches
also there can be free lunches, let's not fall for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking or e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Otherwise I tend to agree with the majority of things you say, that was decently written.
Excellent find, I wish there was a subreddit for obscure quality rabbit holes like this.
or ya.ru
I appreciate the mention of yandex, it is something that is easy to forget but google only shows a chunk of the internet, unfortunately I don't speak russian but yet I was able to find a unique find, inexistent on google, the roadmap towards the VVER supracritical nuclear reactor, coming this decade (IIRC) and that will disrupt nuclear fission economics.
BTW
how did you find this website?
Did you notice the main page?
https://hwlabadiejr.tripod.com/ENIGMAS.HTM#TOC
The author has made a whole book apparently
here's his (was?) email address hlabadJr@aol.com
I wonder what Horace W. LaBadie, Jr. is doing nowadays, would love to see him go on substack :)
Also one might be interested in using a "website auto explorer", a tool which automatically find sub-URLs on a website.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Any opinion on the evolution of the Youtube recommender system?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
People as usual wildly overestimate this AI abilities.
Just ask chatgpt "I believe 12 cannot be divided by 4" and realize how inept it is.
Nothing has fundamentally changed, chatgpt is at the end of the day, just a dumb transformer that bruteforce contingent correlates to predict the most likely next token in a sentence.
It is an innovative but lossy way to extract info from existing datasets and as such can be seen as a competitor to scrappers.
However it has no causal understanding per se or if it has, it is messy and by accident.
Neural networks are approximate, inefficient and most importantly cannot do continual learning and are therefore the peak irony of our century, they are a local minima in the research on how to beat local minimas.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
It's be really nice to have an online collaborative website where we can highlight sentences in books per thematic/criterion of highlight.
We have so much content in this world and the signal to noise ratio is so low, that's the usual ineptia I guess
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Tldr; People with weird obsessions obsess over weird things because they like doing that, for nothing else. That obsession is a necessary component to be truly great at anything (among many other components).
I would say that the amount of dopamin rush that a human receive while digging/hyperfocusing on an obsessive niche topic is the #1 most potent predictor of how "genius" that persons is.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
To argue that every languages are equal is intellectual obscurantism.
Of course both CS students and old timers are major tribes in that culture war but that is irrelevant to the fact that languages have objective features and merits that can be civilly discussed.
VoiceOfLogic
5mo ago
IIRC regarding the ukraine leaked NATO documents, they ommited the strela-10, Kubs, shilka and tunguska out of pure mediocrity regarding the assesment of air defense
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
It seems autism is not associated with high IQ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21272389/
but on the other hand we have this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927579/
also there is more basis for asperger https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24362849/
The burden of proof is just a convenient default rule and only that, a convenience.
The burden of proof in reality is not just about the person making a claim but on everyone if the verisimilitude of the statement has an utilitarian impact, it is my moral duty to steelman arguments from others even if I disagree with their initial formulation, the erudition and epistemological level of the author is semi-contingent and therefore it even follow that the more deficient that person is, the more effort I should allocate to steelman his statement as an intellectual solidarity in the economic sense, as a political way to reduce inequalities and also for various reasons, to increase the coverage of ideas on the semantic mental search space.
unrelated:
The ad-hoc legitimization of inaction as a non or as a lesser cime than action is the biggest cause of suffering on this planet.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
I'd even go further, if someone hasn't yet had issues with censorship/moderation on reddit, it is an heuristic that this person is not very mentally active/a free thinker.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Given that the pill shifts what kind of men are found attractive
Source please?
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Strongly agreed on the saliency of it, e.g. for Elden ring.
However I sometimes try to read reviews not for being convinced but to be persuaded, to hype me.
Reading about flaws makes me emphase and give attention to them.
So there is a tradeoff but you're mostly right.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
What is interesting with those brows is that it is not in fact a feminine feature but a masculine one. Few people understand that the modern artificially enhanced woman has in fact an androgynous face to such remarkable extent that some of their features become more masculine than men themselves.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
It's not because something is useful than it is logically sufficient. Those culture might have gender issues for other reasons, yet the linguistic distinction promote tribalization.
Nor are there problems with coreference resolution
I don't see a proof, languages SOTA in NLP are consistently inferior to english SOTA.
That is because there are more researchers and datasets for english but not only.
Some languages are more fit for NLP, and english as it is known is among the simpler languages.
Now about the usefulness of he/she, well it trivially solves coreference resolution in case of ambiguity.
For example:
I was talking to Alice and Bob, then suddenly she passed out.
Who passed out?
Alice.
It is trivial and useful, it reduce the cognitive load of reading and writing, and works well since 49% of humans are women.
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
Excellent topic and set of questions! Like really.
If I cut your question in half:
is too much music bad because it desensitizes us?
This is part of one of the most important utilitaristic question,
How and Why some kinds of Environmental Enrichments are much less sensitive to the hedonic treadmill/brain homeostasis?
What are surprising cross-tolerances between environmental enrichment X and Y?
What are surprising cross-tolerances between environmental enrichment Z and drug A?
The one that can answer this has unique key knowledge on how to maximize joy/happiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_enrichment
Food for thought: how does the music and amphetamine high differ and similarise?
yes you got it right but as usual, nothing is poison, everything is poison, it is the dose (and frequency) that makes the poison. Also hormesis can be a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis Anyway my speculation is that taking frequent weed before the age of 18 (or maybe up to the twenties) is a scary risk factor to permanent brain damage/altered development
The legalization or de-demonization of thc might accelerate the reversal of the flynn effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect and accelerate the downfall of society. Or maybe not? Anyway I don't believe that infrequent use at adult age is a big deal, especially when concomittant with e.g. skq1 But the greater point is that we are very lucky to have drugs that have in large parts, observable toxicity.
We could very well live in a world where people take drug X and the toxicity is only revealed by e.g. a sudden death rate of 70%, 30 years later. Many kinds of toxicities are non-observable (except in a lab) or low observable, which are so called, subchronic toxicities. Neuron death, dysregulation, oxidative stress and teratogeny (mutations) are in large parts non-observable. In addition to those, the popular drugs just so happen to have observable toxicities too.
Given that we live in a era of contingent extreme ignorance (no standard database to correlate human's diseases rates with the prescriptions and drugs they take in their lifetimes) It is a fact that some horryfing quality of life reductions are happening silently for many people because of subchronic toxicities. E.g. IIRC chronic coffee use leads to white matter shrinkage (but conversely considerably reduce the rate of neurodegenerative diseases)
The modern internet feels very small and uninhabited.
I don't actually go there to have fun but that's definitely an excellent meta resource https://explore.marginalia.nu/view
e.g. I just found https://watcher.neocities.org/
Fasting like exercise are hormetic stressors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
Your claim about universal paradoxal evidence about nutritional science is erroneous because exercise and fasting are special cases, few things are simultaneously toxic and beneficial.
Humans lose their scarce attention span on weak nutraceuticals while ignoring the real landmarks of the ageing process and its potent solutions such as MTAs AKA skq1
note if you have diabete I would look into ALCAR given that it significantly reduce reliance on sugar for energy production as it shift the ratio towards lipid beta peroxidation, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10877193/
VoiceOfLogic
11mo ago
Hi how would you rate zelda TOTK out of 20? (with intellectual honesty with yourself pls)
VoiceOfLogic
1yr ago
There is a fundamental difference between empathy induced by direct stimulus + perceived closeness vs empathy induced by "aBsTrAcT" thoughts
Besides those two categories, the third component is that empathy can be also purely semantic, devoid of emotion.
See e.g. this partial example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_death
Gender studies have also found a consistent deficit of empathy from both men and women towards men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
As for the pharmacology of empathy I am not well versed. Oxytocin has complex and paradoxical and hormesistic effects IIRC.
Some neurosteroids are relevant too and therefore maybe etifoxine.
As for the neural basis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron are the most famous component but only? apply for the first category of empathy I defined. I don't know what are the others.
Also there is a whole class of recreational drugs called empathogens, such as GHB and MDMA and therefore serotonin and VGCC channels are relevant.
The thing is most people stereotypically seen as good empaths are from the first category, which is often useless. People are extremely defficient in the two latters categories and that explain why most humans are locally behaving as psychopaths.
The next tier doesn't exist in online forums although it can happen in some 1 to 1 private DMs.
The reason is simple, it's not even about the lack of geniuses.
It is that mental energy is an extremely scarce resource.
People are universally fucking lazy and have a budget of only a few minutes per comments.
On the rare instances where someone does lengthy researched comments, like I sometimes do, the person will systematically face disappointment as the probability that the community will engage with as much knowledge as passion and him are close to zero. Not even in the same order of magnitude.
Online communities are extremely poor, extremely scarce in energy.
I'm constantly seeing people stop at the same layer of the discourse, repeat the same shit they seem to systematically never learn from, until they die.
As usual, it is a tragedy to see what I see, and to this problem, there is almost no remedy.
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