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It’s not mandatory. You have to explicitly enable participation. But most people probably do, as you yourself can’t use the location tracking, unless you opt in yourself.

The AirPods location as shown on the map is not the actual location, it is the location of the phone that last reported “hearing” the signal from the AirPods.

When you are close to them and connected to them, the map will show your own location not the AirPods.

This explains why the AirPods tracked the authors own location at times. Possibly also why the map showed the boys location. He was using Bluetooth so his phone was actively listening, and actively connected to the internet and due to this, the boys iPhone was quick to post it’s location when it heard the authors AirPods. Where as other people in the museum was not using their iPhones so their phones would not be actively listening or if they where would not upload the position in real-time.

True, LLMs definetly has something that is "thought-like".

But todays networks lacks the recursion(feedback where the output can go directly to the input) that is needed for the type of internalized thoughts that humans have. I guess this is one thing you are pointing at by mentioning the continuousnes of the internals of LLMs.

The text output of a llm is the thought process. In this context the main difference between humans and llms, is that llms can’t have internalized thoughts. There are of course other differences to, like the fact that humans have a wider gamut of input: visuals, sound, input from other bodily functions. And the fact that we have live training.

The stronger your immune system is the higher are your chances to survival. Until your immune system is so strong it attacks it’s own host.

Evolutionary pressures will make sure that organisms are very close to the edge between to weak and to strong.

One naive way of interpreting this is that 50% of the population will have a immune response that is to strong (above the edge) and 50% to weak (under the edge). But it is naive to say that, as this is a topic that has much more complexities than the one dimensional model that I have described here.

At what percentage the threshold of the statistics for what we call autoimmune disease would be located would be interesting to know.

To hell with webpages that alter scrolling behavior.

But to be fair this page was better than most pages that dare to do it, it was almost not buggy on this page.

"The mind makes it real"

If you search for patterns in your "input data" you will find them. If you search for the patterns enough, your "mind" will automate the process. Then you have those "patterns" in your "normal" perception.

An example: if focus on the noice floor of you hearing for a few days you will begin to perceive tinnitus.

My hypothesis would be that the man from the article took the drug, became scared cause he perceived scan lines in is visual perception, then placed loots of attention on the scan lines to determine if they would go away. The attention he placed on the scan lines strengthened the perceptions and now he can’t undo the conditioning he did to his visual processing system.

An intressting thing with that, is that the side of the brain that controls speech might be completly accurate. It could have said showel cause that side of the brain thoght of its neighbors shovel. The only thing that it would be missing would be that it was influenced to think of that shovel event by input given to the other brain half.

The crysis dx9 mode does most likely not use the dx9 fixed pipeline.

Sounds like you are arguing that seatbelts do not increase the safety of its users when it is used on private property.

I know it’s not your main point. But anyways.. it does not increase the rhetorical power of your comment.

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People will always get lost I the system.

On a societal level “work” does not generate money.

Money exists as is and is only generated as a consequence of inequality these days. Banks inject money to compensate for the rich who won’t or can’t spend their money.

“Work” generates money-transactions.

Yeah I agree. My take on it is boils down to the following: Truth cant be context free.

Truth, is only valid within the model that it is defined in. True means something like, one thing being in accordance with some other thing according to some model. Example: 1=1 is true according to the rules of math.

There is always a context/model that describes what it means for something to be true, even if you can't see it. If two people seam to be disagreeing about something being true they are just miscommunicating and they are evaluating the things they think they are talking about in different ways.

With this as a background the original header of the article

Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth?...

Is nonsense, it is a weak way of blaming once own insufficient communication skills on the receiver.

Descriptions are models.

All models have a validity-property, validity is a property that describes how well the model manages to model the thing that it is modeling.

The less validity a model has, the more "wrong" it is.

A description of the earth as flat, seamingly has a lower validity than a description as the earth as a perfect sphere. But ultimately it depends on how one measures validity.

Please do :)

The correction prompt is very important, it will definitely determine the outcome of the process, a bad correction prompt will obviously lead to a garbage result.

Training in steps with different prompts might be of value. First step might be to fix contradictions, then factual errors if that is an issue. This is an idea that I got when viewing the he output of LLaMA, it often contains contradictions (eg. an example I have seen is "Peter is a boy and he is part of the Gama sorority"). Asking it to fix those types of issues should be a first good step.

But I suspect that this type of training would need to be mixed with original training data. Otherwise the restructuring in the model caused by the new training would most likely garble the rest of the model.

Now, use this library to "bootstrapp the smarts of LLaMA from its own smartness" like this:

1. Ask it things. Let it answer.

2. Ask it to find errors in the answer it outputted and for it to correct the answer.

3. Use the original prompt and the corrected output as training data.

This should, with each iteration make the model less and less likely to output statements that are self contradictions or obviously wrong, until the model can no longer spot its own faults.

It's a categorical system. It categorises people in to groups on dimensions. Dimensions that are ultimately defined by the questions that give the category.

You can measure people on many dimensions, and all dimensions that are not truly random will correlate with some aspect of the persons life.

Interestingly, some of the dimensions of the MTBI correlate with dimensions of the "Big 5".

Introversion - Extroversion => Almost the same dimension as in Big 5.

Intuitive - Sensation => Correlate strongly to Big 5 Openness

The longer textual descriptions of the MTBI categories that one can find online are "made up" so they could indeed be said to be a type of pseudoscience.

You need to get a proper self owned ip range with your own WHOIS info for your mail server.

On google I found that one can get a IPv4 /30 subnet for about 11 USD a year.

Math is a form of and a part of philosophy. If you can’t see that, you are the one who needs philosophy.

Donald seams to believe that “reality” is defined in the terms of something like...

reality: “the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.”

That definition allows him to make the argument that he makes; as the definition separates our ideas from the thing that reality is.

It’s a definition with problems…

They don’t have a grounding defect, they are simply not grounded.

You have to purchase an extra cable with a grounding pin for your power adapter to ground a MacBook.

I think you are talking about another type of power line noise.

I am pretty sure a bad switch mode power supply, can push out some nasty stuff.

Luck = All the things that that are too complex for us to understand bunched up in to one.

Luck is a narrative concept that is not useful in reasoning.

For example in the article:

As many people pointed out, Jenner’s success would have been impossible if she hadn’t been born white, healthy, rich, and famous

She could not have been born as anything but those things. Those things are what she is and removing them would not simply make her "unlucky", it would make her in to another person. Luck as used here in the article is just a way to differentiate and classify people, it does not have causal power.

You or your neighbour probably have some cheap chinese device that puts out high frequency noice on the power line.

Either you get rid of that device or you buy something like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+grounded+extention+cab...

That is probably why it is considered legal to sell the product, yes.

The high frequency buzzing you feel in your hands as you place them on the computer when the incoming power is not a proper clean sinus wave is unpleasant. Stoping that buzzing would be a good reason to ground the adapter even if it not legally required.

That is not the MacBook itself, it is the power adapter not having a ground pin.

The power adapter extension cord has a ground pin, you can use the extension cord if you want to ground the computer.

You are sad according to my definition of sad (witch in a unified person should lead to one "feeling bad")... A definition with a criteria that is something like this:

"A person who is not sad, is not unjustifiably rude to people."

As you are quick to point out, you might not feel the subjective felling. You telling me that could in a sense be seen as a confirmation that you have big blindspots and that you are therefore not unified.

Sorry that you feel bad.

Hope you discover the unconscious parts of your mind that is causing you pain so you can deal with the issue, God luck!

Promoting smoking cessation may be a good way to preserve cognitive health at the population level, irrespective of diabetes and hypertension status, the researchers concluded.

Seams like that is a statement that can not be made solely based on the stated connection. To me the initial thought that occurred when reading was something like:

"yeah well smoking is dangerous. People with more cognitive power are presumably better at reasoning themselves out of smoking; Given the fact that smoking is known to increase the risk of getting cancer."

If that description describes something that is a big factor in determining a persons smoking habit, smoking would not necessarily cause a cognitive decline as implied in the recommendation.

You can produce pixel perfect rips. But since the resulting video file is so large you will "need" to compress it, and then you get compression on compression artefacts.