Call it a protocol and suddenly it sounds like a foundational technology.
Nah, it's just a fancy JSON schema that lets LLMs play hot potato with metadata.
to me it isn't about burnout, etc. To me the show is a metaphor for "nothing personal just business" - for how people may turn off that human personality inside them and do whatever is "just doing my job/following the order".
Undergoing the severance procedure and having your "innie" work at Lumon is exactly akin to having your own personal slave. The innie does all the work, the outie collects the paycheck. The outie controls whether the innie lives or dies, since the innie literally does not exist outside of work.
I guess another part of the tradeoff is that you're giving up a significant part of your life time-wise. The number of waking hours experienced by the outie would be substantially reduced (presumably around 40 fewer hours per week). Overtime would really suck, especially if unpaid. From the perspective of the outie, working overtime would be exactly equivalent to the company taking away additional hours of their life.
yes, that sounds also reasonable. Like a good piece of art it allows a range of interpretations. At the same time it being Ben Stiller, i see his absurd comedy treatment of whatever serious interpretation we come up with, Space Force on [dark and heavy] steroids.
That’s funny because I thought they captured it perfectly. Cults can be blissful places; the experience and friends I’ve made amidst the madness I’ve experienced in startups made me stronger in the end.
Yeah, to me the show was much more about how every modern real company secretly wished they could sever their employees, and how much they'd abuse that power dynamic if they actually had it.
Mission between 7th and 8th is one of the worst parts of town, and no one lives there for the community.
I’m guessing this person moved there for professional reasons if they didn’t even consider moving to any of the other dense parts of San Francisco.
The neighborhoods of San Francisco are: 1. Much more alive than downtown, 2. Safer, 3. Even more “dense” in certain areas given the decline in downtown foot traffic.
The human brain also forgets, something that may be a feature instead of a bug. Also, beyond compression––brains are simulation machines: imagining new scenarios. Curios to understand if ML provides anything analogous to simulation that isn't rote interpolation.
I don't think it's true. I can imagine a lot of aspects of systems around me I cannot possibly experience in any way, except maybe them leading to some outcome that I might experience as well. I sometimes do verify this experimentally, but that comes later.
GP said something about compression being a component of intelligence, parent said also brains simulate, then I said yeah i agree, and believe that the content of the simulation is the experience itself, whereas people often think there are 2 things, themselves and the world. I don't believe that at all. There is only one thing happening, the experience you are having now.
Ah ok, that doesn't work for me because I want to call dreams and hallucinations experiences as well. And those are disconnected from some idea of reality.
The primary aspect is first person perspective, not congruence with the external world.
I am quite a novice in ML topics, but isn’t this concept of simultaneously training a generator and validator sort of this?
I don’t know the exact term but I think of deep fake generators with an accompanying deep fake recognizer working in tandem bettering each other constantly?
>In fact, she was not very good at memorizing anything at all, according to the study published in Neurocase.[1] Hyperthymestic individuals appear to have poorer than average memory for arbitrary information.
Absolutely. Generative methods are all the rage now. Those methods work on learning information-rich representation spaces. You could argue it's still "interpolation" but instead of interpolating in data-space per se you are interpolating in representation-space.
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