I just wanna buy computer hardware for a reasonable amount of money, man. Can't I try a video game from the current decade for once in my life?
If promptfans love ASICs so much, why not go commit corporate espionage at Broadcom and leak their networking chips' firmware sources (in Uplink the video game).
to accelerate open-source innovation in the energy sector
Translation: "Please someone invent some magic gizmo to undo global warming. We might even throw many monies at you. Just come up with any solution to the climate crisis that doesn't involve burning less oil."
Literal cringe. This non-figuratively annoys me to the point I involuntarily wince in displeasure.
Oversimplified edgelord's guide to building an actual DnD litch/KKK style death cult for the ultimate nefarious purpose of… what? Getting to feel cool for once in your life or whatever? There are less embarrassing ways to boost your self esteem you know?
I like hooded cloaks, wavy ceremonial daggers and pretend wizard shit as much as the next person but I've come to despise all kinds of sincere SEKRIT KLUB type shit from student fraternities to even more nazi possibly student fraternities. It always feels like egomaniacal autofellatio for everyone involved.
At least wait until you're old enough to have a midlife crisis, maybe at that point joining masons/shriners/rotaries/lions seems more age-appropriate.
I agree and don't think the cover itself is objectionable. Covers and remixes are a valuable and essential part of musical tradition and this is a good piece of art even though it's derived from the work of Yuzuki Ryōka and SOAD without approval.
The "plagiarism machines" part is about the way machine learning companies use unpaid and underpaid labor of millions and pass that off as the work of a quasi-sentient machine, often with the explicit aim of replacing the countless creative workers whose work was used to build the mashup machine. I think I'm actually pretty anti-copyright but at least the rules should also apply when it's a tech corp cribbing from masses of proles.
A cartoon cat singing a nu-metal song about ADHD while sounding like Marianne Faithfull with a cold is the least we deserve in return.
The power here is supposedly that no authority can override your desires on your plunder system because it will eventually be a frozen spec, and so virtual machine runtime implementations that are correct must run any program from any time after the freeze. That means a vm I make today will run programs a thousand years from now (probably inefficiently) and a vm created in a thousand years must run programs from today. Theoretically speaking.
Yes that's what a spec means. Like wow I can write puts("Hello, world!") and it does the same thing on every ANSI C compiler, how novel!
Complaining about software being written in C starts to feel a bit unfair when so many devs openly admit to generating their code using a program that has nothing but undefined behavior.
Tuple<"Do you expect these chucklefucks to ever release a full stable 1.0 let alone 2.0?", "Perhaps one day Urbitals will release a text I'm simultaneously drunk enough and not too drunk to read.">
BTW the latter string in English evaluates to false.
I dare wish for TechTakes to embody its spirit, not in the sense of replicating all of its problematic aspects, but possibly in the sense of using "a hackernews" and to a lesser extent "an internet" as a somewhat (very) derogatory pronoun.
I remember when markov chains used to produce this exact form of perpetually looped gibberish, and most folks accepted it was an artifact from statistically completing the next token, not proof of god
Me too, but in part because I saw an IRC bot made in some 30 lines of Python do exactly that less than a month ago.
Ignoring HN illiteracy that might be mostly on Elon Musk. Xitter [ˈʃɪɾ.ɚ] as of now doesn't show the full thread unless you're logged in. Surely this will have no impact on its (already inflated) perceived credibility and usefulness as a news source.
Allow me to sum up my relationship with the orange site with a lightly edited quote of Dennis Ritchie from The UNIX-HATERS Handbook:
Here is my metaphor: your bookwebsite is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for someinterest to computerniks like me. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envysilicon valley chauvinism.
Even when understood as appropriately dystopic, the citadel story is still sneerworthy as it gives way too much credence to buttcoins. Inasmuch as the citadel situation is not already here, it is/won't be coiners specifically but the capitalist owner class in general that does/will lord over the rest of us in their ivory towers of paranoia and greed. That class may incidentally include a handful of coiners who beat the massive odds, but does/probably will contain more finance leeches of a more traditional kind.
Is it "consistency of results on a single IQ test type"? Not really. Wikipedia says: […]
That's a best-case scenario for tests designed with that criteria as a priority, and the range is still significant.
Is it "consistency of results across different IQ test types"? Not really; that's obviously worse than the above, and many "non-IQ" tests have comparable consistency.
Yea to be fair to IQ tests horoscopes are also really inconsistent.
Is it "practice being mostly irrelevant"? Not really. A few practice runs can often be worth +8 points
Is it "working for an unusually wide range of intelligence"? Not really. IQ tests are notorious for working poorly above ~135
Wow, sounds like IQ tests kinda suck. Maybe we shouldn't place so much importance on them.
and I'd say they only really work well for -20 to +0 relative to the designers, with a somewhat wider range for teams.
My ACT score was in the top 0.1%, but I don't feel particularly proud of that, because it wasn't evaluating any of my actual strengths. I left college after a semester (while that was a failure from the perspective of society, school was holding me back intellectually) but I still took the GRE for...reasons...and got a top 1% score without studying, but that's not something I consider particularly meaningful either. Here's a theory of Alzheimer's I developed - what test score does that correspond to? As for IQ tests, I had a couple proper ones as a kid, and my scores were probably as high as was very meaningful, but probably less impressive than reading Feynman in 3rd grade.
Spoiler tagging this doesn't make it not an irrelevant humblebrag.
It might not be as objective, but people could compete on aesthetics too.
Oh shit, this guy invented art competitions!
When people smarter than the test designers take an IQ test, they often have to guess what the designers were thinking, but with video games, evaluation can be completely objective.
Guessing what a test designer thinks is a cognitive task so surely high G people can do it better. I don't see the problem.
The bandwidth and scope possible with video games is much higher than with IQ tests. You can test people with bigger problems, like remembering the units in Wargame Red Dragon, and multidisciplinary challenges, like optimizing both cost and visuals of fireworks in Kerbal Space Program; そういえば、ゲームのウィキの英語を理解することはまたテストのもう一つの側面でしょう.
Random-ass Japanese for no reason. Weeb detected. Ironic how the non-English sentence muses about testing proficiency in reading English.
I propose that from here on out people will be ranked by a test that involves dad jokes and making spiteful remarks about TESCREAL fandom.
The pink hair and piercings types generally have fertility below replacement so will not last.
Leave it to the inventor of acausal torture AI to understand cause and effect. Other highly meaningful statistical indicators of having few children might include measuring lenghts in feet, speaking Norwegian, wearing a kimono, working in AI research, using the word "nootropic" or having a passport from a wealthy post-industrialized country.
Since a number of people have claimed that this is #Fascism, I should note that I don't think fascism is a good idea; the core problem is that fascism as it existed in the 20th century was fragile due to too much central control from a small number of powerful individuals.
Palingenetic schmalingenetic. We should simply have a decentralized majority voluntarily choosing to implement these dietary restrictions, arranged sexual partners, online censorship and whatever abridgement of religious freedom cuts down on "virtue signaling" in his mind.
I wonder if Roko has ever considered converting to Wahhabist Islam?
"The main problem with fascism is that it didn't last" is not the convincing disavowal of fascism Roko thinks it is.
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The hell even is that lambda for? Effective function? Effective wavelength?
Must be about the effective L this guy is constantly taking.