milicent_bystandr
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- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 19 hours ago:
I think that’s still different from what I’m thinking of of interim steps, though.
…but as I think how to explain I realize I’m about to blather about things I don’t understand, or at least haven’t had time to think about! So I’d better leave it there!
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
I reckon we can get a lot closer than an LLM in time. For one thing, the mind has particular understanding of interim steps whereas, as I understand it, the LLM has no real concept of meaning between the inputs and the output. Some of this interim is, I think, an important part of how we assess truthfulness of generated ideas before we put them into words.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
That is a good point, though the architecture of computer neutral networks is inspired by how we think the brain works, and if I understand correctly there is some definite similarity in the architecture.
Lots of difference though, still!
- Comment on Million dollar idea 1 day ago:
I prefer to poop on a logarithmic scale.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 day ago:
Not advanced maths per se; neural networks are amazing! Fuzzy matching based on experience - taken to an incredible level. And, tuneable by internal simulation (imagination).
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 3 days ago:
Ah, well, if the vegetable oil has been brominated by the council of bros, it should be all good, bro.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
Yeah but all his hot air isn’t got for global warming.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
“No tariffs without Harris”
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
They can’t get out of bed for it without their coffee.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 4 days ago:
Finally a real cure for American obesity.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
Again, which party is it giving the mega wealthy tax breaks?
But that’s rather the point here, isn’t it? So much Democrat rhetoric and support comes across as, “they’re worse so you have to like us.” Not exactly inspiring to people whose livelihoods are struggling.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
where you differ from a whildly unpopular president… and you answer “nowhere”.
I watched the beginning of the Trump-Harris debate. When Harris was asked why she and Biden kept Trump’s trade tariffs (after just saying how bad new ones would be), she gave no answer and went back to bashing Trump.
And your points on the economy are essentially, the economy is booming…
I felt a lot of disconnect between the “Biden is the greatest” and “America is suffering” rhetoric in the lead up to the election.
the worry some have about fascism taking over is not believed by many… politicians say a lot…
Not American here, but I still have much hope that the fate of America is in the hands of her people. My biggest fear at Trump’s election is if it inspires more of the nation to hate and anger - because the president is your leader in that way.
But you see, Trump won because a lot of people voted for him. If the American people can find a new love for the poor, for fairness between worker and manager, for people who look and act differently: then I have great hope for the nation’s recovery.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
One particular thing I noticed, is on the one hand was the rhetoric that Biden was the saviour of the economy and the working class, the antithesis to corporate greed, and all problems are from COVID and leftovers from Trump; and on the other hand, that prices are rising, people are poorer, while corporations post record profits.
If I were an American, that dissonance would give me a little skepticism about all the pro-democratic rhetoric I’ve been hearing.
Again, not that that really answers the questions, but it does shift the impressions one gets.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 weeks ago:
Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.
=> Nobility is fashionable, but it’s healthier to be a peasant.
Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 weeks ago:
Black, the dark of ages past.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Potatoes can do no wrong 4 weeks ago:
I assure you, potatoes absolutely can do wrong. Eat a few with enough bitter taste, and the nausea stays with you all day.
- Comment on Just So 5 weeks ago:
I think, therefore it is.
- Comment on Where does the music go? 5 weeks ago:
It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
- Comment on Tap on the screen 1 month ago:
It’s a joke. Don’t fauce it.
- Comment on What if? 1 month ago:
I think Pluto was trying covalent bonding, but got the rules wrong; that’s why it lost its status as planet.
- Comment on Stress is relative 1 month ago:
Ancestors: “We’re glad you can have a more peaceful future, where your great stress is cherry capes, not bombs in trenches.”
- Comment on Smart 1 month ago:
How many?
It’s complex.
- Comment on Hear me out 1 month ago:
Tri-lo-BITE!
- Comment on Hammerheads sharkz 1 month ago:
“They called him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…” But Hammerhead is a baddie and sharks aren’t supposed to be baddies any more. Sharks are friends, not threats. So Hammerhead slipped quietly into the distance to await his time of glory, when one day he will return to rule the Ocean with an iron
fisthead.Incidentally, dolphins have had a troubled role-reversal in the fashion of popular opinion too. They were friends! Companions! Even amusements for a while, before everyone agreed they should be free. Now they are wanton rapists and bullies. Shed a tear for the poor, maligned dolphin, carrying the disgrace of his ill-behaved friends and relations. All Dolphins Are Not Bad.
One day the Bottlenose and the Hammerhead will return as friends, splendorous and loved. But will they find the World worthy of their love? Or will they leave, with a parting farewell, and a thanks for all the fish.
- Comment on Hammerheads sharkz 1 month ago:
Seriously?
You think way too little about dinosaurs.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 month ago:
In this case, “it looks like we received it” sounds like typical AI choosing a response that sounds right with no attention to its meaning.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
Yes! No spoilers!
It doesn’t matter for some books.
It’s well worth it for this.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 month ago:
Does it have a central fugue? Classical physics teachers don’t want to talk about that but if you look back to the Baroque interpretation it was all the rage.
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 month ago:
A province in the Netherlands. Lots of sea there; translates “sea land”.
