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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on 2 days ago:
slavery doomed the empire from the start.
That’s the most egregious moral and social flaw but there were others that could also have doomed the US from the start. A lot depends on the culture, how it evolves, and which values and narratives are promulgated by civil institutions.
Compared to 100 years ago, USA is objectively less racist, less homophbic, less xenopobic, and generally more tolerant and respectful.
Especially if you consider USA during Obama/Biden. Racists were still racist but the messaging from the top and most of society was: other races are OK, other cultures are OK, other sexual identities are OK
- Comment on 2 days ago:
A lot of centrist/non-DSA Democrats are 100% in support of impeachment and prosecution of most of Trump’s cabinet. It’s pretty clear we need something even more strident than we got post-Nixon.
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- Comment on "Fixing this will look more like Sociology than Computer Science": the OpenAI Hugging Face hack 4 days ago:
Low-info take.
Literally nobody who has studied this forensically has come away with that conclusion.
- "Fixing this will look more like Sociology than Computer Science": the OpenAI Hugging Face hackwww.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Me_IRL 6 days ago:
Big props also to Beethoven’s Wig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9sogbkXWA&list=OLAK5uy_ni9dKuJJ7a0WqiazeJLDmzzdP1Kt0AlGM
Giddyup buttercup giddyup buttercup Buttercup better get up and get go-ing!
- Comment on Canadian checkmate 1 week ago:
Straight of Our Moose
Please take this PieFed Gold 💴
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- Comment on Downvoted! 1 week ago:
The overlap between edgelords and racists is significant
- Comment on Vroom vroom! 1 week ago:
The moment I saw “a toast to you”, I knew the song.
And yes, I have been in the audience and raised my beer with the rest of the fans when they played this.
It is a moment that for me is probably a bit like a Catholic recalling Mass in Rome with the Pope Himself holding up the chalice
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Italian is much more fun
“They say Italian blood runs the hottest”
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Yes for French directly – lots of Africa, the Caribbean, and ofc solidarity with Canada 🇨🇦
BUT! – consider that, knowing Italian, you get a pretty good grip on Spanish as well. And there are ~6x more native Spanish speakers than native French speakers
- Comment on no comment 1 week ago:
Turned to a Quark-gluon plasma after I ate that dodgy spicy burrito
- Comment on Vroom vroom! 1 week ago:
Feel the thunder / of the midnight ride
… and the Fates decreed, on that night, their souls must be tried Now you can hear them every All Hallows Eve
Forever. Doomed. To ride - Comment on Basically a sequel 1 week ago:
Same principle as Roadside Picnic
- Comment on Third Time's the Charm 1 week ago:
I love that nobody has to guess who #3 is.
He should have been FIRST, because of who he is!
- Comment on It's quite the burden knowing I'm always the smartest person in any given room. 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Enlightenment or bust!
- Comment on It's quite the burden knowing I'm always the smartest person in any given room. 2 weeks ago:
And if there’s one kind of person who really pisses me off, it’s the kind that use the wrong distro
- Comment on What happens if I call the family of Karoline Leavitt? 2 weeks ago:
make sure they can never hurt you again in the future
I like the cut of your jib
- Comment on Meme check point. 2 weeks ago:
Y’all need vaccines
Only the carnivores need meat
- Comment on Be a good human 2 weeks ago:
Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (H.C.E.)
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 2 weeks ago:
Book all about this
https://www.amazon.com/Whose-what-Dorothy-Rose-Blumberg/dp/B00CWR3CNG
- Comment on Yes, yes I am 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meme check point. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Obvs not him. Where is the emu?
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 2 weeks ago:
all the talk about LLMs looking like they are “thinking” is based purely on vibes rather than reality
You seem to ignore the quantitative, evidence-based studies mentioned. Ex: https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.155.pdf
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 2 weeks ago:
They are massive autocomplete at scale
Rather a lot of the cognitive science community would argue that is what human brains are.
Anticipating the next sensory input is literally a basic driver for nervous systems in general and neurons very specifically.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 2 weeks ago:
We train in bursts because we need a ground truth/scoring function to guide the learning
These are completely orthogonal things.
We train in bursts ("epochs") because empirically it leads to more rapid convergence on an acceptable error minimum.
The fact that a scoring function is needed is almost a tautology. You have to have some differentiable function to say what direction is lower error. Typically you segment your training corpus, and use the scoring function to get the error for one batch at a time to a certain threshold before proceeding to the next batch. Then go to the first batch and push the error bar even lower, and so on.
Kinda like tightening nuts on a car wheel. You don’t fully tighten the first one first; you have to wiggle the system into its final configuration.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 2 weeks ago:
Can you prove that humans don’t?
This, this this. This is something the prevailing armchair opinion is really missing. It feels as proudly ignorant as my grandmother’s generation who proudly declared Evolution to be patently ridiculous ("my grerat-gramma was no monkey swingin’ from a tree!")
I am not a researcher in the area, but I am the kind of nerd who watches university colloquia and sometimes does in fact read the paper.
“I don’t hallucinate all the time”
YES, YES YOU DO, do you not understand how the sensory system works? You interpolate between inputs. This is why optical illusions work! Your fovea is a tiny tiny spot and is the only area that’s actually in focus!
Learning by statistical sampling, reward/repress feedback loops, production system-based computation giving rise to “fast” (System I) thinking, “hallucinating” to interpolate between sensory inputs … the list goes on and on
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