sure, remove that word, the point still stands. what's your point?

of course, "better" is always subjective. they do outperform humans in several metrics, not so much in others. the point is that beating say a human go master several times in a row does qualify as "intelligent go playing" and that it is better than humans, even if the algorithm has a completely different view (or none at all) of the go game. energy consumption would be an engineering issue.

the interesting bit for me is that current and future go masters now use ai to learn and improve, so it has actually changed the game. the real qualitative jump comes from the interaction between human and artificial intelligence.

i haven't really followed autonomous driving in detail, i'm aware there are still hurdles. then again many humans drive like crap and regularly provoke accidents too, in fact human factor is by far the major cause for them. it's really a complex and critical task.

about chatgpt ... i can say it is doing spectacularly well in its area. i'm mainly just using the "old" 3.5 model (i actually prefer it to more modern ones i've tried), and it is incredibly helpful in researching and digging up information as it holds an immense body of knowledge and has great ability to parse it, let you navigate through it and distill it. i couldn't imagine any human being able of giving me that sort of assistance, for starters no single human being can have all that knowledge, so i would go to the extreme of saying it is vastly "better" and "more intelligent" than any living person could be in that position. mind you, it can get stuff terribly wrong at times, and it can be quite annoying, but so do humans.

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the explicit ones, particularly the circumstances of the death of ye wenjie's father. the chinese show just tiptoes over that event through a few indirect references, it rather depicts him in his dying bed as a stubborn man, the brutal scene of his public humiliation is missing as is the senseless demonization of science, which is equally relevant. instead, while ye wenjie's grudge is very slightly represented (for comparison, it's nearly material for a personal revenge story in the netflix version) her motives seem ultimately much more driven by environmentalism (which at times is depicted a bit simplistically).

china might not have a serious problem with that now, but it might not be politically correct either. that scene was moved from the middle of the novel to the opening in the english translation and, allegedly, that's what the author would have liked in the first place, but refrained from to avoid pissing off censors too much. i'm not really sure i believe that story, it might as well be that such explicit content was deemed to be good attention grabber for western public and the author just agreed to that, go figure. i don't know chinese and can't read the original. in any case, it seems to be a sensible topic: not forbidden, but don't make too much of a fuss about it. otoh, it's not strange that netflix would exalt exactly that.

the netflix one is your average dumbed down version of the story with lots of fx and nice looking (carefully diverse) actors with mostly flat personalities and no character construction at all. it's not bad, it's pretty watchable, but it's your average netflix fast food fix.

the chinese show takes it slow, actually constructs characters and develops the narrative in a meaningful way, and actually sticks to the novel and the many questions it brings forth. it does omit explicit references to the cultural revolution, which is indeed one important factor to understand the main character.

and mass is ... equivalent to energy. :O)

depends on your definition of intelligence. (artificial) general intelligence is defined as performing as well or better than humans in a wide range of tasks, as opposed to one specific task. on specific tasks ai is already way better than humans, so what remains to meet the definition is just widening the scope, and in it simplest form that means combining different specialized algorithms into one system. we are already sort of doing that at very small scale and that's what ai pundits mean by agi, depending on where you put the goalposts you could say it already exists.

of course this is just about intelligence, consciousness is an entirely different matter, and i agree we are fully in the dark there, we don't even have a theory. but still, since i don't believe in magical immaterial souls or cosmic quantic consciences i can't explain consciousness in any other way than as an emergent property of the complexity of brains and, as such, it should be reproducible, eventually, with the proper knowledge and materials.

what has you current nth public health issue to do with the car industry or protectionism?

oh, that fentanyl is produced in china too? well, your problem is not production, it's demand. as with all drug related problems it's about the people, not the substance. as it happens, the u.s. has lots of desperate and/or uneducated people and a shitty health care which is why you go from one health crisis to the next. it doesn't really matter where the drug comes from, if people wants it it will come from anywhere. i don't even mean mexico or canada (your main import routes for drugs), oxycontin for example killed scores of people and was genuinely 100% u.s. made legally prescribed by a health care system corrupt to the bone, and the motherfuckers responsible are still free, enjoying their proceeds and laughing their asses off.

nikkei asia (or the financial times for that matter) publishing such obvious bullshit is hardly surprising.

not good at all, it completely misses the point. an instruction to create a random value is deterministic in that it is expected to specifically produce a random value. everything else in a cpu and its instruction set is deterministic and the hardware is engineered with tolerances large enough to satisfy that requirement. when (conventional) computers (or instructions) exhibit nondeterministic behavior that's never "by design", that's just a bug.

going deeper, i would surmise that even that instruction's internal process is fully deterministic too, it's probably just too complicated for anyone to reasonably predict, let alone force it to produce a specific (deterministic) value, which is good enough for the purpose, i guess.

that's not even descending into the quantum scale where current wisdom says that nondeterminism actually does exist. i personally can't wrap my head around that so my take is that we are missing some crucial insight and still don't really understand how stuff works at that level.

parts of psychology are scientific study of behavior. much of it though is just speculation based on "theories" that no one even bothered to falsify because they aren't and mostly can't be, they are just convenient beliefs. notably, the dsm, the main tool for diagnosing psychological ailments is mainly an opinion piece put together by a reduced group with zero scientific backing, mostly based on political views and social norms. fun fact, it sometimes even works, but that still doesn't make it scientific. on the flip side, the history of "psychological science" includes the most harrowing examples of baseless and reckless human behavior, from phrenology to eugenics via liberal use of electroshocks and lobotomy.

recording any life experiences is likely worthwhile to anyone's self. writing your thoughts and experiences down can be a good tool for self reflection, as is revisiting them after some time has passed, having a mail exchange with your past and future selves can indeed be very interesting plus it can assist in memory keeping.

this ofc is best kept as a private exercise, it has nothing to do with the urge to "share with friends" which is usually either narcissism, insecurity, a desperate pursuit of social acceptance or, worse, self denial. even this can be enlightening when looking back, but i concur, not only is it not worthwhile most of the time for the rest of the world, the activity itself is likely toxic for the individual and society. data leeches ofc are very happy that everyone and their dog are now "content creators", they created that very fantasy specifically to exploit this weakness.

i would keep a private journal but i'm not disciplined enough. i mostly only keep notes of my psychotropic voyages, and nobody but me will ever read those.

nobody said that. gp provided one metric where "windows beats osx" quite clearly to someone who literally wrote "windows cannot beat osx on any metric whatsoever", and ipso facto made that person look really dumb, but you now look even dumber.

nice misdirection there. the reality is that most other manufacturers' planes don't regularly dive into the ground because of an undocumented mechanism nor lose parts of the fuselage in midair, because those other manufacturers aren't former first class engineering shops that were taken over by a bunch of reckless and greedy psychopaths.

this has nothing to do with the us. germany has been doing this in various attempts with varying success for more than a decade. because it makes eminent sense to have public institution infrastructure provisioned by opensource tools controlled by public experts (ymmv) rather than closed tools controlled by a corporation. this is true at any time, anywhere, and regardless of where the corporation's headquarters are.

in other news, germany was actually doing pretty well "with trump and putin", there was no threat at all to protect from. it was actually biden's clique who stirred up ukraine with that nato nonsense (a strategy that merkel had vehemently and explicitly opposed for decades), fucked up your energy sources and plunged your industry and economy into disarray and europe into war. enjoy.

that's only ridiculous in your narrow view of "barrier of entry" as a matter of material resources, but you actually illustrated the point: shitty coders will produce shitty code with tools they fail to understand just like you just confidently blurted nonsense about an issue you failed to grasp. maybe the reading comprehension barrier of the internet is a bit high for you.