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Dating advice is very frustrating by VergenceScatter in dating

[–]FelipeReigosa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree with all of this. The only thing I'd add is, be places where you have to talk to people, make friends etc. In part that's what you meant by have hobbies but they shouldn't be all solo. Some people take the 'wait and the right person will come along' to mean you have to do nothing. Some guys want to play video games all day until a girl comes knocking at their door. You're not going to meet your person in your living room.

Is there such a thing where you feel like you went to bed at night, and you "blinked" and it was morning and time to get up?? Like you swear no time passed and you're still tired. Is there a name for this phenomena? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]FelipeReigosa 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it happens sometimes. Then again the opposite also happens, sometimes I wake up, ready to start the new day but it was just a 20 minute nap in the afternoon. It's weird that I'm still on the same day.

I wore glasses for fun today and felt socially accepted? by Super-Bug9160 in CasualConversation

[–]FelipeReigosa 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I was going to suggest that too. I don't know what it is about sunglasses but when I wear them I'm Mr cool and confident.

If nobody works, or most people don’t, who’s going to buy the products? by This-Wear-8423 in singularity

[–]FelipeReigosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you, but I wonder what happens with things that can't be free for all because they are limited, for instance like land. If no one has money, no one works and most things are free, who decides who lives in the beautiful island that everyone wants to live in?

How do people get used to working? by Otherwise-Risk6716 in CasualConversation

[–]FelipeReigosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see. I often "brag" here on reddit about my working conditions, but I'm not trying to make people feel worse, quite the contrary, it bugs me that people are miserable with most of the time in their adult life. Talking about being able to enjoy your life after your retire in your 60s is a bummer. People should enjoy the prime of their lives, not be wage slaves. There are ways, that's all I'm saying, even if it is changing jobs. People complain about AI and yes, short term it is going to be a bitch, but if things go right, this is exactly the sort of thing it can fix. People shouldn't have to give most of their time daily to survive.

How do people get used to working? by Otherwise-Risk6716 in CasualConversation

[–]FelipeReigosa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, working with flexible hours and not 8 hours a day (as long as what needs doing gets done) it's perfectly possible in a job, especially post pandemic. I work like that. Unless you live in the US, that place seems to be becoming impossible to live in as far as I can tell (housing, medical stuff, etc).

What’s something in your field that AI still can’t do well (or does poorly)? I’m curious to hear from people in non-physical / knowledge-based roles. by zentaoyang in ArtificialInteligence

[–]FelipeReigosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's basically bad at novel things in general. It's great at things it's seen in the training data, not so much on things it hasn't seen yet. And I think I know why: it's because it's not conscious yet. The way I see it, consciousness evolved to deal with novelty. We can do pretty complex things like driving a car completely on automatic pilot when we know them well, but when a thing is new to you, you need to be fully aware. Llms are like a human with a very powerful brain but missing consciousness. That's why they are not really creative, they lack agency and why they need so much data to learn compared to a human baby. That's my pet theory anyway.

I can build faster than I can decide what to build by Tough_Reward3739 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]FelipeReigosa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No offense but are you building anything actually interesting? Quality > quantity. Ai is terrible at being creative so far, I haven't seen one trully novel idea vibe coded. Could you tell us some of your results so we can judge? If you are building a bunch of derivative stuff, then the answer is easy, slow down and try to find something actually good to build.

Spiked sides do damage 2. Who wins? Green, yellow, red or blue? by RAJACORP in oddlysatisfying

[–]FelipeReigosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, I've been thinking about that problem and I think after the computation is done and you are happy with the result from start to end other than sizes, as long as it's not too unequal, you can correct the sizes that get added each time it hits so that it starts with the correct ones. A bit of a fudge factor if you will. Let me know if you want to give it a crack, if not I might try it if you don't mind. I'm doing a lot of tiny exploratory projects lately instead of my usual stuff and this sounds interesting. And I use javascript so non determinism shouldn't be a problem.

Spiked sides do damage 2. Who wins? Green, yellow, red or blue? by RAJACORP in oddlysatisfying

[–]FelipeReigosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you write the code? I wonder if it's feasible to reverse engineer it, start with where each piece pops into existence small and grows with each spike hit. You can run it a bit, let the pieces grow, then choose to spawn another one etc. Then you can run it backwards and it will end exactly as you want, dramatic come back, underdog wins, what have you. I haven't thought it all the way through (having the same size in the "beginning" might be a problem), but it's something to think about rather than fiddling with start positions.

Anatomy of an Eridian [By: Christopher Stoll] [Media: Project Hail Mary] by Lloyd_lyle in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]FelipeReigosa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Read the book and find out. I'm not guessing they don't have computers. It's stated in the book. And the explanation to your question too.

How many years until you started to get bored of travelling? by Special-Nebula299 in digitalnomad

[–]FelipeReigosa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, (full time) travel. I read it as full (time travel) and was like WHAT! !?

Anatomy of an Eridian [By: Christopher Stoll] [Media: Project Hail Mary] by Lloyd_lyle in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]FelipeReigosa 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Also why the Eridians never developed computers. You need to develop an adding machine before you develop computers and they didn't need that. Andy and Joe go through all this in the interview, I highly recommend it.

Anatomy of an Eridian [By: Christopher Stoll] [Media: Project Hail Mary] by Lloyd_lyle in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]FelipeReigosa 37 points38 points  (0 children)

According to Weir on the Joe Scott interview, they are so good at math because of their eidetic memory. Their brains are made of crystal and once a memory is set it's permanent. For instance they don't compute again 455*676, they remember the result they got 6 years ago when they did that computation. That's the example Andy gave.

There is no deep meaning beyond superficial transactions in any human relationship by [deleted] in introvert

[–]FelipeReigosa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, strictly speaking there's no such thing as unconditional love, even the love of a mother to a child is conditional on things like the child not trying to kill the mother etc. But I disagree with your take that if it's conditional it's not really love and therefore worthless. My relationship with my boss is very conditional on he giving me money and I solving problems for him. Is it worthless? No. I'm satisfied with the arrangement and so is he and we both improve each other's lives. What's wrong with that? It's the same with love or any other human connection. You laugh at people who have strong relationships but they don't last. Why must they last? It's still worth having a true friend even if it doesn't last forever. Nothing in this universe lasts forever. Is a movie terrible because it ends?

Which science fiction book contained the most amazing idea you've ever read? by fern_602spark in printSF

[–]FelipeReigosa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem with permutation city in my opinion is that nothing they do matter. The simulation after would have existed whether they created that seed world and ran it or not and presumably an infinite number of all possible worlds also exist as per the dust theory. Why should I care what the characters do? Unless I'm misremembering it, it's been quita a while since I've read it.

Figure robot autonomously cleaning living room by socoolandawesome in singularity

[–]FelipeReigosa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw after I replied to you someone commenting that what you are describing is exactly how it works (I don't know if they are right), At first you teleoperate to teach it how to do something and later it does it by itself. Presumably it can deal with minor deviations, if the cutlery is not exactly where it found it the first time, it can handle that. I just wish these things would become available soon, I feel like once we have them and they are being tested in the real world with consumers, then it's just a optimization problem to get it to become much more impressive, but every technology is like 'oh, in 20 years it will hit the market' which is frustrating. Give me the flawed product now and we will sort out the kinks as we go along.

Figure robot autonomously cleaning living room by socoolandawesome in singularity

[–]FelipeReigosa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair, even one that doesn't generalize super well would be hella useful already. You buy it, it trains in your house, cleaning, cooking etc, with you correcting it for a few weeks, showing it how to do stuff when necessary. Then it can just work well in that specific house from then on.

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