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My next D&D campaign
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My next D&D campaign
Brb moving to new york
June 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Brb moving to new york
This skeet changed my life
June 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This skeet changed my life
France and Iran historically had close trade and diplomatic ties. Iranians even use some French words like "merci". They call strawberries tut farangi, which is literally "French berry". Though they never colonized Iran, French soft power during the height of their empire was no joke.
June 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
France and Iran historically had close trade and diplomatic ties. Iranians even use some French words like "merci". They call strawberries tut farangi, which is literally "French berry". Though they never colonized Iran, French soft power during the height of their empire was no joke.
Stop. You have violated the law. Give me back my pfp at once.
May 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Stop. You have violated the law. Give me back my pfp at once.
Couldn't be a better time, actually. Without careful budgeting it's easy to end up in the red even without changing habits as prices surge.
May 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Couldn't be a better time, actually. Without careful budgeting it's easy to end up in the red even without changing habits as prices surge.
And so does the MCU
May 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
And so does the MCU
And end a few of them
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
And end a few of them
Do you think you'd ever publish a book? I'd kill for a beetle moses collection to go with my complete far side.
May 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Do you think you'd ever publish a book? I'd kill for a beetle moses collection to go with my complete far side.
If it's your first time being this high level don't miss either shape change or true polymorph. Turning into a dragon is peak dnd. If you've already done all the usual suspects try prismatic wall alongside reverse gravity
April 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If it's your first time being this high level don't miss either shape change or true polymorph. Turning into a dragon is peak dnd. If you've already done all the usual suspects try prismatic wall alongside reverse gravity
It's pretty awful now. You can't do anything to other creatures or it ends early and you can't stack buffs anymore because of concentration.
April 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
It's pretty awful now. You can't do anything to other creatures or it ends early and you can't stack buffs anymore because of concentration.
The clap of MJ's dummy thicc ass cheeks on the other hand...
April 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The clap of MJ's dummy thicc ass cheeks on the other hand...
This is collusion and should be punished by the FTC imo (it won't)
April 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is collusion and should be punished by the FTC imo (it won't)
Any word on the presidential hog 🥴
April 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Any word on the presidential hog 🥴
That does sound pretty absurd huh. Alright I'll bite, what's a belief?
April 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
That does sound pretty absurd huh. Alright I'll bite, what's a belief?
You are right, we consider models we don't believe in. I guess I'd adjust my argument to: every belief has a corresponding model. An agent that acts as though a model were true believes in that model (and this is how I define belief). So AI agents believe in the model that guides them.
April 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
You are right, we consider models we don't believe in. I guess I'd adjust my argument to: every belief has a corresponding model. An agent that acts as though a model were true believes in that model (and this is how I define belief). So AI agents believe in the model that guides them.
Floor plans are not exact, they are exact to within a specified tolerance for error. All models are like that. I'm not just bring pedantic it's a really important distinction!
April 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Floor plans are not exact, they are exact to within a specified tolerance for error. All models are like that. I'm not just bring pedantic it's a really important distinction!
Alright now this is just bad faith.
April 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Alright now this is just bad faith.
Yes. Knowledge even.
April 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Yes. Knowledge even.
This raises some tricky epistomological questions about what constitutes knowledge since a traditional definition is true beliefs, but if every belief relies on a model and if "every model is wrong, some are useful" than perhaps knowledge had better be defined as useful beliefs rather than true ones
April 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This raises some tricky epistomological questions about what constitutes knowledge since a traditional definition is true beliefs, but if every belief relies on a model and if "every model is wrong, some are useful" than perhaps knowledge had better be defined as useful beliefs rather than true ones
When a model informs how you exercise your agency (like the mental map helping you navigate), you believe in that model. It doesn't make the model true in the sense of absolute correspondence to reality. But since belief is rooted in the model, your beliefs also aren't perfectly aligned with reality
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When a model informs how you exercise your agency (like the mental map helping you navigate), you believe in that model. It doesn't make the model true in the sense of absolute correspondence to reality. But since belief is rooted in the model, your beliefs also aren't perfectly aligned with reality
Sure. If I ask you to draw the floorplan of your home, you'll depict something inexact. That picture is a model, and it is based on your *mental* model. If I then blindfold you and ask you to navigate your home, you'll do so based on the *belief* that your mental model is (at least approx.) true
April 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sure. If I ask you to draw the floorplan of your home, you'll depict something inexact. That picture is a model, and it is based on your *mental* model. If I then blindfold you and ask you to navigate your home, you'll do so based on the *belief* that your mental model is (at least approx.) true
Yeah you're right. Belief is meaningless without agency. So I was wrong to equate models and beliefs. But AI is an agent, and it acts as if a particular model is true. So I still think it's accurate to talk about AI having beliefs.
April 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yeah you're right. Belief is meaningless without agency. So I was wrong to equate models and beliefs. But AI is an agent, and it acts as if a particular model is true. So I still think it's accurate to talk about AI having beliefs.
Beliefs are limited in the same way models are, they can correspond more or less to reality and (arguably) never capture it's full complexity.
April 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Beliefs are limited in the same way models are, they can correspond more or less to reality and (arguably) never capture it's full complexity.