freilanzer

> If europeans are so upset about the emission of American private jets and yachts,

Americans should be, too.

> Yachts are obviously the issue here, NOT private jet planes.

Except they are as well, due to the volume of flights.

> If a billionare would use regular airplanes he would waste tons of his time.

Just like the rest of us.

> You want eg Elon Musk to waste a few weeks of his life each year waiting for a plane when he could be building stuff?

Yes. He does not build stuff, he pays people to build stuff.

Is this you, Elon?

Well, at the moment it seems it's not working at all.

Second attempt, no output no matter how long it's left running.

I'd say most CEO statements are quite useless already, as they're mostly corporate newspeak.

Yeah, this is useless.

I have also settled for pyenv and poetry. It works fine so far. If you evaluate Astral, please let me know.

> a very whiny generation that don't seem to tolerate the 'suck it up we all went through the same shit' message.

Why would they? God forbid we improve things for the next generation. What a shameful attitude.

> usually based on a fear mindset and a desire to enjoy a life of overconsumption, leisure, and gluttony.

Not everybody can be a saint like you, your Holiness.

> In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.”

> But the transcription software added: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece ... I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.”

> A speaker in another recording described “two other girls and one lady.” Whisper invented extra commentary on race, adding "two other girls and one lady, um, which were Black.”

> In a third transcription, Whisper invented a non-existent medication called “hyperactivated antibiotics.”

I didn't expect it to be this bad.

> Back to the topic at hand: Tipping is a ridiculous notion that the wealthy can see through, while the rest of us are too brainwashed to objectively analyze

Oh yes, the wealthy are superior to us unwashed masses in every way. How I wish I could see through and objectively analyse, but my bank account won't allow that.

It is in deed a good thing if it is taxed appropriately and goes toward a universal basic income for those who are replaced. Otherwise, it will result in a catastrophe.

I think you're too hung up on the mind part. I don't understand this as saying the mind synthesizes knowledge from nothing. That's why I said, there is no fundamental difference for me - whether the mind conceives of something new, or synthesizes knowledge from outside information is not very interesting a difference, since a mind is required to grasp this knowledge.

Maybe a better term would be information vs. knowledge.

> alphabets, universally have one common property: they are sortable.

Isn't this just an arbitrary order? Why could I not assign numbers to chinese characters and sort them? I know next to nothing about Chinese.

You can still have modules, for example. They're a way of grouping functions and types.

Why do you want that if there is no state involved?

> Classes still remain a nice way to organize code, but you should try to make them immutable if you can.

So, modules in functional languages?

A poodle is a dog is an animal. That's about it, for everything else it's non-intuitive.

These so-called 'patterns' are just language features in many languages, which makes it sad I had to learn them in university. Optional/default parameters, higher order functions, closures, ... The 'patterns' only make sense in Java because the language itself is so limited.

If it can be checked easily, that's something else entirely. But as soon as the grading is a black box, it's not acceptable, in my opinion.

> In college, I had an internship at JPL writing software to help collate, transform, and combine pictures of Jupiter, for use with NASA’s JUNO mission.

This already sounds incredibly cool. I wish I had had an opportunity like this sometime. Sadly, nothing.

> The disappointment in his eyes when he saw that dumb, useless, cat button was priceless.

Some people tend to have no humour. I think it's hilarious.

> how were they able to tap in to this hidden reservoir of knowledge.

My guess would be by filling the reservoir first. After filling it, then you can stir it and extract new knowledge. In other words: you get better at math by studying, reading, and thinking a lot about math. I don't think there has been a brilliant mathematician who has not immersed himself in math at first.

>> All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind

> Doesn’t it come from the mind’s interaction with the world?

There is no difference between these concepts, is there? In both cases knowledge comes from the mind.

Also, you can come up with ideas without interacting with the outside world, can you not? This feels like nitpicking.

Also, there is ADD and the likes which make mastering a subject very difficult or even impossible for many people, regardless of intellect.

> I don't really see a huge difference between a student/diploma and a spammer/my attention.

You don't see a difference between potentially ruining a students future due to grading done by an opaque ai system and you clicking on a spam email? That's preposterous.

But not in cheating or grades, etc. Spam filters are completely different from this.

Ironically, this comment adds nothing to the post and is needlessly belligerent and condescending.

The OP is making a statement about how humans think and why this is at odds with Cyc. I don't think it is wrong to ask about a source on this. Otherwise I can claim anything. This has nothing to do with Reddit.

> Humans do think with first order predicate calculus. We juggle a bunch of statements/rules the way Cyc does, and don't have a very fast, efficient and powerful conceptual approach to the world with a massive amount of recursive conceptual inference.

Great discussion, thanks.

> The fundamental flaw with Lenat's approach is that humans do not think with first order predicate calculus. We do not juggle a bunch of statements/rules the way Cyc does, but have a very fast, efficient and powerful conceptual approach to the world with a massive amount of recursive conceptual inference.

Source?

That's the opposite of "natural selection". Invasive species ruin ecosystems.