skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org

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Reminder that book DRM is a cancer we never needed or had for centuries and that any publisher who thinks otherwise deserves to walk the plank.

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The pious monk is theory
The paladin is praxis
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i'm a sovereign citizen so i can go to bed whenever i want

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I love jihadi engineers. Oh to be unfettered by ethics or OSHA regulations.

@skells The simple way that I think of it is this:

Everything exists in a multidimensional space. Each move in a chess game, pixels that looks like a picture of a cat, the value and location to sell a product, all follow this format.

Some subset of that space is defined as optimal behavior based on set criteria. Finding that space is learning, being deeper within that space is more intelligent behavior.

This ends up being a kind of problem that can be tackled without thinking about intelligence. But, thinking about how humans and animals tackle this problem can be really helpful too, such as neural networks. Neural networks are really easy to parallel compute, but it was a feat of mathematics to understand how applying back propagation would allow for training several layers of neurons. And the fact that single layer neurons have limitations to what they can learn, is also a mathematical fact.

I pretty anti-intelligence for someone that works in artificial intelligence.

Intelligence is not false. Just so much of the idea of it is an anthropomorphism.

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This is your regular reminder to join a union if you can
The union is the reason my employer #1 has to pay me for 4 hours work even when they only need 2.5 hours done, and then pay for my cab home if it’s scheduled to end past end of public transport hours.