I dunno about that, latent spaces are looking pretty material these days. I've got several variants saved to my local disk.
Map meets territory.
Readit Newssvnt commented on Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings aethermug.com/posts/cultu... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
svnt commented on Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings aethermug.com/posts/cultu... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
> To call this into question is to render logical debate incoherent.
Unfortunately there are quite a few things of that nature. In no case does it justify blindly picking one of the options and then following up with bold claims based on an arbitrary assumption.
Where did I make the case that it does?
svnt commented on Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings aethermug.com/posts/cultu... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
So your epistemology is historicism?
Did you recently discover the idea of epistemology or does your line of questioning have a purpose?
svnt commented on Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings aethermug.com/posts/cultu... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
> Materialism is not fundamental; consciousness is
What is your epistemological basis for this claim? Any proof of this?
And just for extreme clarity note: at no point have I made a claim yet
The human concept of materialism appears to have been produced by historical humans who were also conscious, which at least sets an order. To call this into question is to render logical debate incoherent.
Materialism is a theory, not a reality, but its adherents can't tell the difference.
svnt commented on Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings aethermug.com/posts/cultu... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
Is your opinion that there is something non-material about Humans?
Humans are nearly defined by their access to the abstract. The abstract is definitionally non-material.
svnt commented on Claude Code is being dumbed down? symmetrybreak.ing/blog/cl... · Posted by u/WXLCKNO
the definition of vibe coding is that you never check what it's doing, you only check its output; eg the actual website/feature you're having it build.
I could accept that definition, but really that seems less like vibe coding and more like just not coding. Vibe coding for me is more like: yeah this doesn’t look insane and you got the interface from the right git repo. Like I wouldn’t put my name on it at work and defend it in a code review but I also didn’t just push the button and hope.
svnt commented on Claude Code is being dumbed down? symmetrybreak.ing/blog/cl... · Posted by u/WXLCKNO
They don’t seem to realize that doing vibe coding requires enough information to get the vibes.
There are no vibes in “I am looking at files and searching for things” so I have zero weight to assign to your decision quality up until the point where it tells me the evals passed at 100%.
Your agent is not good enough. I trust it like I trust a toddler not to fall into a swimming pool. It’s not trying to, but enough time around the pool and it is going to happen, so I am watching the whole time, and I might even let it fall in if I think it can get itself out.
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svnt commented on Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV · Posted by u/vkaufmann
> Looks like a TOS violation to me to scrape google directly like that
If something was built by violating TOS' and you use that to do more TOS violations against the ones who initially did the TOS violations to build the thing, do they cancel out each other?
Not about GPT-OSS specifically, but say you used Gemma for the same purpose instead for this hypothetical.
Your TOS violations just have to enable you to get big enough to fund your own legal defense and pay typical corporate fines, and then you’re ok.
If you do it and give it away they will come for you.
Therefore excluding “materialist way of looking at stuff” from the question of social theory
I have still yet to hear any elucidation with any type of philosophical rigor of why about the questions of humanity should exclude materialist lenses
Further, at no point was there a epistemological foundation laid for the claim that consciousness is the foundation apriori from materialism
"Be not arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned, for the limits of skill are not attainable."