Time is a much more complex thing than a successor relation. It's an observed rate of change, relative to the update rate of the observer
@plinz
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Affordable AI Hardware: Repairability with Standard Tools
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they are cheaper to make and can be repaired with tools from home depot
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Group Dynamics and Moral Righteousness in Social Movements
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My sense was that it often starts out with genuine righteousness, fueled by group dynamics and the feeling of collectively correcting social wrongs by pushing against an immoral societal forcefield with increasingly political means
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LLMs Cannot Replace Human Thinking in Conversations
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Please don't use LLMs in place of your own thinking, if you want to participate in a conversation, you cannot outsource thinking, and LLMs are not very good at emulating actual thought.
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The Pizza Belt: Navigating AI Singularity Risks
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The pizza belt is the slim habitable sphere during a tech singularity. It's the event horizon where we live while the doomers get eaten by nano machines below and the e/accs suffocate in the bursting transformer bubble above.
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Elon Musk’s Immaturity as Social Media Autocrat Raises Concerns
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I think it's great that Elon is a gifted teenager in private or while building awesome trucks and spaceships, but its not optimal that he plays a teenager in public, while being acting figurehead and de facto autocratic ruler of the most important social media platform.
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AI transforms public spaces transit retail education employment
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Most people spend lots of time in public transit, on city sidewalks, in retail stores, places of education, employment and administration
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Social Media Design: Balancing Multiple Audience Segments Responsibly
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Exactly. Successful media franchises are often run by people who aim to make a one audience segment very happy by making another audience segment very unhappy, but the same cannot be said for successful social media utilities (which should serve all legitimate audience segments)
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Elon’s Political Strategy and Success Freedom in Tech
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If you are super successful, you may get more freedom to joke, unless the success of your projects depends on not picking the wrong fights. Elon's strategy of infusing the polis with his political opinions suggests that most of his opinions about humans are randomness + local RL.
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Time Perception in Observer Systems and Dynamic States
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Time only exists from an embedded observer perspective, and the observer is likely part of a dynamic that supervenes on evolving states. Hence the observer will perceive a region over which it can establish perceptual coherence (now), a past (memory) and branching expectations.