And frankly; we're talking about something kicked off by 60s US and UK, that map in that wiki article could be mistaken for one of the British Empire. Nothing's impossible but it'll take more than a wiki article to give me confidence that sanctions were the primary political force operative here or that the apartheid system was actually the thing at issue. I would chalk it up as unusual circumstances.
When this started it really put me off X - I'd have tolerated, and almost liked the idea, of a freedom of speeech place. But a place that boosts its owners posts... Nope.
I'm out - it's such a big personal diss of me, I'm not interested any more.
I tried Mistral for a bit, and it is so fast everything else feels bad now by comparison. I think there's lots of opportunity for OpenAI, Anthropic to stumble on features and performance.
The spikes in the last 2 years have happened for very short amounts of time. If renewables are working, you don't get a spike, and save loads on this tariff. The small amount of time they're not, you sometimes have to pay more, but not for long enough to matter. It's fundamentally more effective for everyone than the default of buying the insurance of fixed prices.
Have you tried switching to Agile Octopus tariff? My electricity cost has gone down 1/3rd since I did that. I also installed smart radiator thermostats, and knocked about 1/3rd off gas heating cost.
I use that tariff, with no home battery or home solar or electric car. Saves about 1/3rd off my electricity bill. My only behaviour change has been to not run the washing machine 4pm-8pm.
It's great! I assume I'll get hit by a price spike at some point, hasn't happened for a couple of years so far.
It doesn't solve all the problems at library boundaries, but pyright is fairly new and vastly vastly better than mypy.
With it Python feels about at the type safety level of Typescript - not as good as a language that had types the whole time, but much much better than nothing if enforced with strict rules in CI.
On the other hand, TS is terrible. The type system is ridiculously complex in order to support all the weird stuff you can do in JS, I frequently get insane error messages with 20+ lines of archaic type gibberish and when I figure out the solution it's usually very clear that the sparse information i managed to glean from reading the error message was nothing but a distraction.
I don't like JS but after having used TS intermittently for a number of years I'm starting to think JS is the better option. At least there I don't get tricked by typed objects being something other than what they claim to be, or waste time trying to declare the right types for some code that would work perfectly without TS.
TS is too much work for too little reward. I'd rather just make simple frontends with as little logic as possible and do the real programming in a real programming language on the backend.
You've missed our consciousness of our inner experiences. They are more varied than just perception at the footlights of our consciousness (cf Hurlburt):
Imagination, inner voice, emotion, unsymbolized conceptual thinking as well as (our reconstructed view of our) perception.
Let's be careful of creating different classes of consciousness, and declaring people to be on lower rungs of it.
Sure, some aspects of consciousness might differ a bit for different people, but so long as you have never had another's conscious experience, I'd be wary of making confident pronouncements of what exactly they do or do not experience.
You can take their word for it, but yes, that is unreliable. I don't typically have an internal narrative, it takes effort. I sometimes have internal dialogue to think through an issue by taking various sides of it. Usually it is quiet in there. Or there is music playing. This is the most replies I have ever received. I think I touched a nerve by suggesting to people they do not exist.
I get you somewhat, but remember, you do not have another consciousness to compare with your own; it could be that what others call an internal narrative is exactly what you are experiencing; it just that they choose to describe it differently from you
I'm not the one who made a list of things AI couldn't do. Every time we try to exclude hypothetical future machines from consciousness, we exclude real living people today.
