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I have heard this take many times. But I don’t get it. For me 80% of the experience is the music. I can easily enjoy a club for a whole night without taking any drugs if I like the bands or DJs. Choose the night/venue accoring to your music taste and then it’s just like a really long concert.


What about getting tired, both physically and sleepy? Also if everyone around you is on drugs and you are not it's either really annoying or boring AF.


Mentally tired but not physically tired is a quite good state to dance in, IMO.


“Disco naps” and caffeine.


I don’t think that a generative model is a good judge to assess if a text was written by itself. This article has a super stong “written by AI” smell to it. Once you notice all the em dashes and “it isn’t X, it’s Y”patterns you can’t unsee it. That plus the sloppy images, make it really hard for me to finish reading.


The Orthogonality Thesis (by Nick Bostrom) says that intelligence and ultimate goals are independent. Those non-instrumental goals can’t be stupid nor right or wrong. Increasing intelligence will not change the goals only the capability to reach them.


Do note that the orthogonality thesis is a hypothesis, not something we have demonstrated. Weak versions of it (e.g. it is possible to have an intelligent agent with arbitrary goals) are more likely to be true than stronger versions (e.g. intelligent agents we build will have goals uniformly selected from the space of all possible goals).


Ok so what is the point of neurotically obsessing about intelligence? Would it not be more fruitful to emphasize computation?


At first I noticed that for many questions two or three of the answers are obviously wrong. So in many cases the correct answer can be guesses easily. But then I noticed that in 90% of the cases the correct answer is the longest of the four. This makes guessing even easier. The whole thing has a vibe-slopped feel to it.


We run into this issue when watching Korean movies/dramas. My wife prefers Japanese subtitles and I prefer English/German. I haven’t found a way to enable two subtitles in Firefox (via extensions). So in those cases I usually download a release which contains subtitles in both languages and use a script to extract them via ffmpeg and then combine them into a single srt. Now the issue is that the lines of the different languages don’t always appear/disappear at the same time. This leads to text jumping up and down. I have tried to mitigate it by injecting white space where only one line is visible, but this again fails when the video player breaks long lines or when the location of the subs change to the top (because there is hard-coded text in the image). I feel like there must be a better way…


mplayer supports displaying multiple subtitles


IINA too.

I'm so over VLC.


LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) != LLM (Large Language Model)


Why run something in a few CPU cyles on a 40 year old home computer when you can do the same (but worse) on a billion-dollar GPU cluster?


Maybe this is about parsing the video? But still this should be done with OpenCV and then algorithmically...

A youtuber sentdex has a whole series on parsing the game's image and playing GTA https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeETZEOy4Vd...


Excuse my ignorance, but you can set up your own Discord server? I thought it‘s a SaaS kind of offering.


"server" in Discord terms just means a community space with channels. You don't actually run any sort of "server" software, it's all managed by Discord.


Just use their internal terminology and call them guilds. “servers” are a stupid marketing label for a thing they aren’t.


To be fair, "servers" came organically from some of the community relatively early on. (One alleged place where it came from was communities migrating from TeamSpeak where "server" was the word there, which would make sense as a particular place it came from given the early focus on game players. Another alleged source was some huge non-technical communities that were also early adopters of Discord.)

I sort of prefer "guilds" for technical reasons, too, and also from enough work on Discord bot development where that terminology is far more common because it is in all the API documentation. But I think a lot of that ship has sailed for non-technical reasons of "it is just how everyone talks about Discord".

(Also, technically Discord does shard the heaviest "guilds" in its server clusters in such a way that the technical resemblance to "server" isn't far off if you want to feel better about the non-technical "server" terminology.)


They thought that the word "server" was not overloaded enough.


Your own as in manage yes, as in host no.

Related, one can host separate search index/public frontend for a Discord server with Answer Overflow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36383773


Why is it launching with a horizontal velocity? It initially moves to the right even when pointing up perfectly.


Thats due to the rotation of the earth, for the purposes of the simulation the earth is rotating at 408 m/s (earths rotation at cape canaveral) so thats why It appears its going sideways


When the rocket launches it already moves with earth's rotation at that latitude (and is stationary with respect to the ground). That's in fact the reason why many rocket launch sites are near the equator: Free velocity.


But the rotational velocity of the rocket is going to be very similar to Earth's at the launch site. Eventually the rotational velocity between ground and the rocket will begin to noticeably differ, but the launch trajectory starting at 408 m/s would look terrifying if it were that way in real life.


I found the problem, It appears that I had the earth staying stationary but gave its rotational velocity to the rocket, What i think needs to happen is I need to also be rotating the earth so the inertial frame stays the same. Thanks for bringing this up


Good point, I implemented that very early and hadn't really thought about it, let me look into the true solution, thanks


I was able to fiddle with the settings so it launches in the air a bit and then hits the city. All by just going vertically. Pretty funny.


Don't rockets also start with the same horizontal velocity though, since nothing canceled it out when it got off the launch pad?

It would be like jumping, and finding yourself ~250-400 meters away from where you lept by the time you landed.

That said, neat project, and way fun learning experience. Good job.


For me the page only shows a title but no content (Chrome, iOS). Or am I missing the joke? (That AI researchers and economists have nothing to say about the topic.)


Works for me on firefox and chrome - all the content is on obsidian.md, maybe blocked for you?

https://publish-01.obsidian.md/access/2e00105552e45031d995a8...


It's not blocked. It's just not working in Safari (which includes Chrome and Firefox on iOS).


Same, Firefox iOS


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