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I wouldn't. The current theories on sleep and "brain needs sleep" always struck me as a stopgap theory. Even spent some time with GPT arguing about it and never felt fully convinced, like the real reason was still missing.

"the crystal structure results in zero magnetisation."

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The crystal emits no magnetism as a whole, despite the different internal states it can take, because adjacent atoms cancel each other out.

Because each half of the net-zero magnet is arranged differently inside the crystal there's still a good way to measure what state it's in. Or something like that, I can see the pretty graph but I don't know what measurement you'd do.


Thank you for your work!


No need to sue. Send a cease and desist and your average hacker like OP will take it down in a hurry...


In this case not even a cease-and-desist was needed. Just seeing 1.7M peers crying out in the void for company was enough. Living in a country overly friendly with Hollywood and its money, I do understand him.


Yes, prime example of a chilling effect where the fear of a lawsuit stops people from engaging in perfectly legal activities. It's unfortunate that copyright law does not concern itself with collateral damage like this.


This is not collateral damage, this is the intended effect - decreasing their competition, legal or otherwise.


I think the point is that you can't count on that and need to assume that you are going to attract actual lawsuits. DMCA provides easier take down options for copyright owners but AFAIK does not compel them to make use of those options before going to court.


I think companies will try with a strongly worded letter first, as this would save them money over straight going to court. But I get that the risk may not be worth it for many people, I myself would be very scared if I received a letter threatening a lawsuit for a ridiculous amount of money, even knowing that they are exaggerating the scale of damages just to scare me.


Unfortunately what they will do is file a DMCA with the hosting provider. Most will immediately shut you down, none of them defend their customers.


Considering the obscene fines courts have granted the media industry who claim losses with zero basis in reality it's only to be expected. Would you be willing/able to defend your customers when faced with billions in fines and a court system that has been aggressively favoring your opponent?


You can measure various aspects of a computer. You can't measure consciousness.


That's not a definition. Depending on the definition, it may be possible to measure it.


You cannot measure consciousness. You are consciousness thinking of itself as the human. Measurement is an event appearing in consciousness done by humans.

It's like persons inside GTA talking about measuring the Samsung monitor. It makes no sense cause they can never see the monitor or locate it. They appear in the monitor.


You absolutely can measure "various aspects of consciousness" -- for example, "how much of the last 24h has this consciousness been awake" seems simple. So your definition seems kind of weak, could you be more precise?

Conversely, in your definition, is consciousness the only "thing" that you would describe as not being able to measure various aspects about it? Are there any other objects or concepts which you also cannot measure various aspects about? If yes, what differentiates those things from consciousness?


I love LLMs, and actually feel they are making me smarter.

I'll be thinking of something in the car, like how do torque converters work? And then I start live talk session with GPT and we start talking about it. Unlike a Wikipedia article that just straight tells you how it works, I can dive down into each detail that is confusing to me until I fully understand it. It's incredible, for the curious.


If you're curious about torque converters I suspect you're careful about this, but what's your information vetting process? I use LLMs via text, so I can verify info as it streams in. How do you verify what's spoken to you in a car?


I do the same as GP on a regular 2 hour drive up I-5 I take.

The vetting process is the same as if I were driving up I-5 with a gear head friend of mine having a conversation with them as we go.


If something sounds off I just tell it I think it's wrong or to double check itself, similar to what I do with text.


I also rather use them as a tutor of sorts than "please do things for me." I think they're quite useful in that regard, albeit I know not to trust them fully as the only source of information.


Early on I gave it a custom instruction:

  Be informal, and make responses as short and concise as possible.  Do not waste words apologizing.


That's a fantastic question! I see you think like a pro!


From an economic perspective these new blanket import tariffs are a classic own-goal: tariffs are good for developing industries, but these levies hit huge, mature supply chains, so the main outcome is higher consumer prices, squeezed real wages, and slower growth.

A common example is Smoot-Hawley’s tariffs deepening the Great Depression, and early 2025 data already show trade and hiring slipping, but we won't know the full effect for a while.

As for the "bring manufacturing to the US" argument - tariffs often reroute, not reshore. GoPro moved from China to Mexico, Apple from China to India, Hasbro from China to Vietnam, to name a few.


Funny thing about a recession now is you can have standards of living increase for 10s millions of people due to how concentrated consumption and wealth is. Weird times


Didn't catch my original account when I tried it, not anywhere in top 100.

But, if I do the reverse (search using my original account), this one shows up as #2.

The main difference between the accounts is this one has a lot more posts, and my original account was actively posting ~11 years ago.


I never knew A can be like B without B being like A.


The matching score is probably the same, or very close in both ways, but this fact does not necessarily help in a three-way scenario:

    A <-> B: 80%
    A <-> C: 90%
    B <-> C: 70%
When you search for A the best match will be C, but if you start with B it will be A. If one of the accounts has a smaller sample set as in GP's case, the gap could be quite big.


I'm still in disbelief. I think one should run the operation in reverse after obtaining result set.


Mostly GPT, but for World of Warcraft, GPT is absolutely horrible. It's like it has been corrupted by the 20 years of bad/incorrect user data, or maybe just the sheer amount of it in general.

As an example, someone typo'd an abbreviation, so I asked GPT and it gladly made up something for me. So I gave it a random abbreviation, and it did the same (using its knowledge of the game).

Even when I tell it the specific version I'm playing it gets so much wrong it's basically useless. Item stats, where mobs are located, how to do a certain quest - anything. So I'm back to using websites like wowhead and google.


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