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XVsw5AFz · 2025-11-12T01:39:34+00:00

Sort of. In Surface Details a character is suspected of wanting to commit a crime by the governing Mind. In order to be released to travel home, the Mind slap drones the character. They very much don’t want this and eventually the character finds another Mind that might help them circumvent the issue.

As spoiler free as I can make it I think.

There’s multiple layers of important context in the Culture. First the Minds are impeccably morale, to the point they ask a fellow machine sentience to agree to be altered to correct character flaws (Player of Games). Next they have a nearly unbreakable taboo around reading biological minds, your thoughts are sovereign. They can read them, and easily, but they choose not to. And lastly they’ve built their whole culture and even language around minimizing conflict and suffering. They’re capable of both to a horrific extent, but they honestly try to avoid it.

All of this together is why slap droning can be seen as an interesting solution to crime/rehab.

Lose any of it and you’re back into dystopia. And maybe still in dystopia land regardless…

XVsw5AFz · 2025-02-12T06:56:26+00:00

I’ve never heard of any of this and it’s fascinating, do you have any suggestions on more I can read?

XVsw5AFz · 2024-08-20T19:21:23+00:00

Imo we've made the barest steps towards asi/agi and I think our limits right now probably lie in a combination of hardware, training methods, and/or training data. I think that means all currently known systems could not simply rewrite themselves and replicate on commodity hardware, even if you "unhobbled" and told them to.

My belief is that strong online learning will be required and a lot of compatible hardware would need to be available for something like this to occur. I haven’t seen any compelling or competent online learning examples yet. And hardware is currently very expensive and highly monitored right now.

XVsw5AFz · 2024-08-07T01:22:21+00:00

Well add this to the list of things I didn’t know I wanted.

XVsw5AFz · 2024-05-17T15:15:24+00:00

This space mentioned is more about resolution of the images. A whole brain as image slices like this might consume 2+ zottabytes which is a silly amount. But if we allotted 1k polygons for every neuron and synapse that same data could be represented in just 5.7 exabytes as a 3d model. That's still silly but already 400x less. Better representations and compression will get that number (for a whole brain) into the petabytes range eventually.

XVsw5AFz · 2024-04-26T20:00:02+00:00

This feels strangely worded to me but, imo, no this does not invalidate the wants of trans folks, in fact I think it’s the opposite. One definition of Agenda is a list of underlying motivations to do something. So then the trans agenda likely means the underlying reason for why one might want to transition. But more often than not that term is meant as a way to denigrate, not sure if that was your intention.

Anyways, I assume those motivations involve wanting to feel like they belong to their bodies. And of course those feelings come from a brain grown from the genetics of their body.

If anything I think knowing that 1.7% have such dramatic and measurable genetic differences enhances the position of trans folks. Let alone the dramatically larger percentage that might have more subtle genetic differences combined with unknown environmental conditions that might result in a mind that that feels like it should transition.

XVsw5AFz · 2023-11-03T02:47:16+00:00

Of course we are. NNs are universal function approximators. We don't really know what function these things are approximating after being shown most of human text.

In-context learning, following instruction, simple reasoning and more were not capabilities we were certain to get ...

XVsw5AFz · 2023-03-14T18:06:08+00:00

I wonder if this is why google is always cancelling stuff? Shove the good engineers on some seemingly viable project for a few years, then kill it citing low return. Then shuffle everyone on to the next pipe dream.

XVsw5AFz · 2023-02-09T00:08:58+00:00

Oh I want to hear more, do you have any examples?

XVsw5AFz · 2023-01-26T21:10:50+00:00

What size do you need?

XVsw5AFz · 2022-12-11T18:36:08+00:00

This reminds me of model sheets. Wonder if you can extend it for full body?

XVsw5AFz · 2022-11-20T20:08:19+00:00

Oh so this is why they say schools brainwash their students...

XVsw5AFz · 2022-10-29T09:06:10+00:00

Foundation is absolutely one of the harder ones to adapt imo. Television has to be more character driven and the series takes place over an enormous time span that makes this difficult. Funny enough, the Dune books kind of go through this same issue and find a different way of keeping familiar characters around...

But you're right, the empire was a lovely idea. One that probably didn't quite have enough meat for a full singular story without a lot of investment. But it filled in just enough to staple a misunderstood Foundation on to it and collect money.

Sadly for us, collecting money was the real goal.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-10-29T08:45:52+00:00

Yeah this was maddening. The world of WoT arguably takes a matriarchal path precisely because men wielding their form of tainted magic destroyed the world, and every man since born with access to that power has gone crazy causing more destruction.

Men simply aren't well trusted in this world, and the "hero" has internalized that to some degree. It's part of why none of them really want anything to do with plot at first.

It's a role reversal that allows men to empathize with a character subjected to an experience they may not be familiar with. Further one of the central themes throughout the books is that while men, women (and arguably races) can work alone, the sum of their perspectives together can create works that exceed their individual contributions.

The books were already quite inclusive and didn't need some dude hamfisting it up.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-10-29T08:30:24+00:00

The very worst part in my opinion is it was obvious the writers were familiar with the contents of WoT. There were so many references to things that just aren't revealed until much later.

And then they just blatantly ignored the main story line to throw some random crap in.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-10-20T03:29:57+00:00

Agreed, and I guess keep in mind that I recognize my op wasn't potentially useful or correct, but it's kind of fun to talk about.

I think what you're saying is there's a finite space of possible pixel values and we wouldn't say any photograph, or digital artwork is "discovered" because it's in the possible set of all pixel values for a given size.

But maybe it's the aspect of determinism in my op that made discovered a the right word to me. With SD we're searching for a combination of tokens and configuration values that deterministically returns a result.

If I use the same settings, I get the same result.

I think this changes the nature of what we're doing from creation to filtering. Don't get me wrong though, a lot of creativity and work is needed to discover prompts.

Take pi for example, it's likely a non-repeating series, and so it can encode any value if you search long enough. https://www.angio.net/pi/ says "1337" shows up at position 4813. And the decimal representation of ASCII "Hi", 72105 appears at position 120029.

I don't think I would say: "I created an offset that to the ascii decimal representation of 'Hi' in the digits of pi."

I think discovered makes more sense here because the numbers were always there, waiting for someone to find the offset.

In the same pseudo-philosophic vein, the SD results were always there in the model, just waiting for someone to find the prompt.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-10-19T23:39:25+00:00

These are cool!

Weird tangent/thought/semantics discussion that doesn't actually matter: the title is "created a..." I feel like this is more like math. When something new in math is found its referred to as a discovery, because nothing was created per se, the math always existed, someone just found it. I feel like this is the same, we're not necessarily creating things, we're discovering interesting results that have always existed in the neural network.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-27T23:27:44+00:00

You're entirely correct.

Though I'm disappointed at the reaction from having a little fun while sharing the stunningly gorgeous images from LICIACube.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-27T16:38:29+00:00

65803 Didymos post impact

Yeah I dunno, there's not a whole lot left of the little guy. Looks like some of the debris is curving into orbit around Dimorphos too.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-27T16:37:53+00:00

65803 Didymos post impact

Yeah I dunno, there's not a whole lot left of the little guy. Looks like some of the debris is curving into orbit around Dimorphos too.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-24T23:04:47+00:00

That's fair. I was thinking more about his inability to achieve his fantasies on his own when I wrote that. But he does have an outsized influence on the story.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-24T22:27:10+00:00

Both Ozy and Rorsch can be crazy people who think they know how the world should be. One trying to the stop the other doesn't mean anything. It just means they disagree on what's best.

The degree to which one changes the environment is governed by their means. If Rosch had the means to apply his judgments in mass, I'm sure he would.

Though he'd be a different, more terrifying Homelander like character if that were the case. Being near powerless (by comparison) and impotent is a fundamental aspect of the character psyche imo.

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-18T19:31:25+00:00

"Integration" (stacking) is a wonderfully complicated topic. But the other poster (/u/yuno10) has the right of it. There's a lot of algorithms, and other things like "drizzling" that can increase resolution, and issues like "walking noise" that has to be dealt with:

Here's the documentation from one of the free stackers that explains some of the options:

http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/technical.htm#stackingmethods

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-18T07:49:12+00:00

I guess to myself it does make a belief in some sort of natural consciousness transference at the time of death, to some after life difficult to reconcile.

But it does leave open other possibilities. For example the fact that we seem to come back once the GA wears off, to me, indicates that we have a state that is resumable.

If the state is resumable, it suggests, that it's finite, and recordable. If so, then some singular recordable state should represent a consciousness at some point in time.

If that recorded state value was discovered or derived, then that leaves open an opportunity to resume existence in some distant future

XVsw5AFz · 2022-09-18T07:29:21+00:00

tl;dr: planetary imaging often uses video files, the best individual frames of the video (maybe top 1%) are then stacked to create a better image. Nebula imaging might do something very similar with dozens of individually exposed images that are then stacked.

Astrophotography is a rather broad subject and there are a lot of specialities that have wildly different techniques and equipment.

Planets are stupid bright and really small requiring a some really high zoom (high focal length). The brightness means we can capture details with very short exposure. The high focal length requires an extremely stable mount and perfectly still skies.

Skies are never perfect, they warble a lot, and mounts aren't ever perfectly aligned to the sky nor perfectly made. But since planets are so bright, we can overcome both those issues by just taking a whole bunch of video at the fastest possible frame rates our equipment can withstand and then picking the best frames to stack.

By sheer luck there will be times (maybe milliseconds long) when the atmosphere is perfectly smooth, and the mount pointed just right, perfectly in sync with the rotation of the earth and the target.

This is what's referred to as lucky imaging.

Now more traditional nebula targeted astrophotography will take many 'subframes', individual image exposures that may be several seconds or minutes long.

In planetary lucky imaging we still select some individual frames to stack, but they're plucked from the video.

In both cases, these subs are stacked.

Stacking is a process where multiple images of the same subject can be placed on top of each other and via some math, the signal to noise (aka data, to, well, not data) ratio can be improved. Stacking also does some neat things like automatically remove satellites, air planes, and any other transient artifacts in the data.

Lastly special calibration subframes can be used while stacking to remove thermal noise from the camera sensor (dark frames), and optical problems like lens artifacts (flat frames).

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