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I've tried to explain this paper to people in similar circumstances and have also struggled!

In my mind the key point of departure between this paper and the more standard computational functionalist approaches is the importance of metabolism. Metabolism _precedes_ organism. The body is first deeply entangled with the environment through exchanges of resources (content causality) before it is capable of building computers (vehicle causality). Having built and alphabetized the world we can understand them in terms of discrete state transitions.

I expect my explanations have been unsatisfying as we can immediately move to seeing metabolism as some alphabetized input/output system that can be immediately placed back into the computational framework. Moving outside of this framework requires engaging with the enactivist/organicist traditions, which is a rich but minority view.

You can try it on HF: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtim...

They aged out of being competitive against SoC NPUs. This is ultimately the successor to that.

Ed's main critique is about business sustainability -- it's true that there are many articles about AI on IP issues or ethics but he is unique in actually crunching the numbers on profit.

The data has to go across PCI / USB to get to the internal (tiny) SRAM. It's not a good choice for clustering, you should just use a GPU for that.

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I work for FUTO, does it just need to be somewhere in the Download section? I'll see if I can get this added if so.

FYI your CSS looks to be broken on Firefox.

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When I asked a similar question of a VC that's invested in manufacturing they recommended I tour factories and ask what their painpoints are.

That advice makes sense if we're talking about 800B+ parameter models that require a gigantic investment of capital and time. For models that fit on a consumer GPU you're leaving chips on the table to not take advantage of training / fine-tuning. It's just too easy and powerful not to.

"Build, don't train" is poor advice for a prospective "AI Engineer" title. It should be "Know when to reach for a new model architecture, know when to reach for fine-tuning / LoRA training, know when to use an API." Only relying on an API will drastically reduce your product differentiation, to say nothing of the fact that any AI Engineer worth that title should know how to build and train models.

Vienna Hypertext fits exactly this niche: https://vienna.earth/

Do you have any recommendations on libraries for parsing CAN with Rust (or are your tools OSS)? I'll be working on a project in a couple of months that'll need to pull data off CAN.

The article's thesis is that EA's moral realism stance (which finds it's apotheosis in utilitarian moral calculus) is ill-supported and highly questionable, especially when combined with theological anti-realism.

It's definitely not written to win over any EA supporter, that's for sure.

I highly recommend Feser's Aristotle's Revenge that's mentioned in the article. Very much dismantles the pervasive materialist attitude.

The study only checks for myocarditis diagnosis codes 1-7 days after vaccination. That's a very short timeframe... We have multiple months worth of data at this point, I wonder what happens to the incidence rate at longer timelines.

Do you love? Do you dance? Do you desire? Do you rage? Do you weep? Do you choose? Every moment of your existence you exert your will on the world.

A denial of will is a denial of humanity. I want nothing of a science that would do such a thing.

Certainly we can say our ML models are becoming more general in the sense of being able to cross-correlate between multiple domains. This is quite a different story than "becoming a general intelligence." Intelligence is a property of a being with will. These models, and machines in general, do not posses will. It is we who define their form, their dataset, their loss function, etc. There is no self-generation that marks an intelligent being because there is no self there at all.

It is only the case that ML expands our own abilities, augments our own intelligence.

I've been publishing writing far outside consensus progressive attitudes since the pandemic began with zero issue so far. Don't make your workplace your audience or invite controversy around your workplace and you're very unlikely to have a problem.

What waste products do the bioreactors produce? How are they disposed?

As I said, concentrated feed operations are bad. That shit should be dispersed in a pasture, fertilizing it.

Harm is done to the ecosystem when we concentrate cows in one place and feed them chemically fortified slurry. When cows are allowed to graze pastures, they instead have a positive effect on the local ecosystem.

As such, I am extremely skeptical that the right way forward is to reduce and concentrate the essence of a cow into bioreactors and feed them chemically fortified slurry.

Alternative reading of the same information: "US monitors border using novel technology."

Nations have the right to restrict entry, which entails checking if someone is coming in. That's not hunting.

On one hand they cut my base salary by 25% when I went remote in AZ, but on the other I'm paying 35% less in housing to own a 3 bedroom house instead of renting a 1 bedroom apartment. I get the annoyance but there's something to be said about being grateful about the overall purchasing power increase.

I must admit I was hoping for much more controversial ideas than what Volume 1 contained. There are plenty of well-argued dissident ideas online, these articles take only a small tentative step outside the mainstream.

Notably missing Doomer Optimists who accept the reality and inevitability of collapse, while viewing it as an opportunity for localist, agrarian communities to rise in the wake.

As of May 2021 vaccine hesitancy by % of group is highest among PhDs: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...

Funny how one's enemies are always the lazy ignorant ones.

His book Green Wizardry contains by far the best description of matter, information, and energy I've found in any work. Ignore outsider perspectives at your own peril.

Animals are host reservoirs for COVID as well, meaning the fantasy of 100% vaccine coverage also does not solve the problem.

Evolutionary pressure selects for less deadly viruses over time. You're right though, there is still longitudinal risk as this does not preclude a vastly more deadly strain--but at that point the effectiveness of a vaccine is similarly unknown.