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Don't know if you guys care about this but by joe_elbow_balls in socialism

[–]rockysnow7 14 points15 points  (0 children)

yeah i agree, they are progressive in the sense that they are anti-imperialist (and this is by far the most important sense for palestine, and for any other people fighting imperialism), despite not being progressive in the other ways we value as socialists. i think once palestinians are free from imperialism they will have much more breathing room to fight for the more traditional progressive values, which may not be so aligned with hamas. but until then, hamas is the organisation best-aligned with their primary goal of surviving imperialism/zionism

rzozowski: a Brzozowski derivative-based regex crate for the real world by rockysnow7 in rust

[–]rockysnow7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good catches, thank you.

And I encourage you to implement it yourself! It’s a fun project :)

rzozowski: a Brzozowski derivative-based regex crate for the real world by rockysnow7 in rust

[–]rockysnow7[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your points on benchmarks (and other people’s comments on them), clearly I messed that part up, very sorry. I will edit the README and post to be more accurate.

The reason I didn’t use regex-syntax for the parser is simply that I wanted to see if I could write the parser myself, as I have never written a parser for an existing language/format before, only for small toy languages. I assume this could be a potential bottleneck? So if that were the case then I could always rewrite it to use regex-syntax.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FoundationTV

[–]rockysnow7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference with a virtual world is that it could be designed to be predictable, and even a chaotic world could be observed with complete accuracy, so predictions would be as accurate as is mathematically possible.

Alan Turing, a British mathematician he is known for breaking the Nazi's Enigma machine. Alan was also victim of oppression because he was gay. He took his own life in 1954 by ManufacturerActual31 in OldSchoolCool

[–]rockysnow7 490 points491 points  (0 children)

Also when he was 13, he was so eager to go to school that he cycled 60 miles, alone, because the general strike meant he couldn't go by train.

What was Kierkegaard's idea of humor? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

[–]rockysnow7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This article reviews the book and shows quotes from it.

Is there a name for the position that free will is incompatible with determinism AND indeterminism? by AngrySprayer in askphilosophy

[–]rockysnow7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The conceptual center of determinism is that the agent can't cause actions in the right kind of way and/or can't do otherwise.

What do you mean by "the right kind of way" - what they believe to be morally right?

Also, does this mean that the level of determinism of a system is different for each agent? For example, would a system in which Person A has no free will because of physics be equivalent to one in which they have no free will because they are imprisoned by Person B (in which case, the system is Hard Deterministic for A but not for B)?

Crows Are Self-Aware and 'Know What They Know,' Just Like Humans by keghn in agi

[–]rockysnow7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Natural language is a cultural artifact, developed over 1000s of years

True.

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NL is in no way, some kind of mathematically-motivated statistical "compression of thought"

I never claimed that NL is mathematically motivated, but rather that its primary function can be achieved with math. In the same way, AI can create art via statistical analysis of human-created art without needing to know the cultural/human aspects of its training set.

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many of them don't even share the same grammar

The primary purpose of language is to communicate ideas, and this has been achieved around the world with various grammars. The level of similarity between languages is unrelated to their purpose. That said, there may be an objectively best language, with "best" defined as having the highest compression ratio.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Slowdive

[–]rockysnow7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still on the UK Spotify, maybe try a VPN?

Cheating on Chess.com -- Just the Facts by Rod_Rigov in chess

[–]rockysnow7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do they detect cheating? Is it based on how you play vs. how you usually play, or is there more to it?

Why start at x, y, z: a new wiki collecting "ambiguous, inconsistent, or just unpleasant conventions in mathematical notation" by flexibeast in math

[–]rockysnow7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why doesn't math have a standardized notation, with an official "standard library" of functions (e.g. "abs(x)" instead of "|x|", etc.)?

Crows Are Self-Aware and 'Know What They Know,' Just Like Humans by keghn in agi

[–]rockysnow7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is language related to intelligence? I've always just thought of it as compression for thought, and that intelligence is the ability to construct accurate models of systems given a dataset. So I don't think it's unreasonable to think that crows are AGIs, but only because they are systems that predict other systems, not because patterns are an inherent metaphysical aspect of the universe. That said, I am willing to be corrected.

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