FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 4d ago
It has nothing to do with special. It has to do with the physics of memory access, neuron diversity and synapse density in biological brains, and the limitations of the current hardware architecture of AI.
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by FloorEgg 4d ago
What if you are underestimating some qualities of our intelligence and how efficient they are physically, and underestimate how much less the hardware / tech stack is in comparable efficiency? What if the bottleneck is physical chips a
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by FloorEgg 5d ago
> But humans still need to be responsible for understanding what they're shipping I don't necessarily disagree. That said... Why? I've been grappling with this myself. There is an easy/obvious answer, but I wonder h
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by FloorEgg 8d ago
It's incredibly common for different countries that share geographic features to have different names for the same geographic feature. The English channel / the sleeve (france) The Baltic sea / East Sea (Germany) / west
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by FloorEgg 9d ago
This is being positioned as evidence of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, but isn't it more likely an artifact of training models on the same/similar data sets?
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by FloorEgg 10d ago
That's the point. The topic of AI alignment cuts through all human values, morals and ethics in all frames of references.
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by FloorEgg 10d ago
I feel like all of the risk and unsettling feeling of what is to come can be compressed into the word "alignment". The AI is aligned with whose best interests? Which values are the AI aligned with? People have a broad diversity
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by FloorEgg 12d ago
Didn't the American Republicans just run and win on exactly that premise and then largely fail to follow through?
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by FloorEgg 14d ago
Solar panels are inanimate objects. If you see yourself as incapable of adapting when adapting is necessary then yes you are doomed, but doomed by your own choice to be doomed.
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by FloorEgg 14d ago
It doesn't replace it in a general sense, it replaces it in a specific sense. It doesn't replace your body or your mind. I'm not talking hypothetically about a generation from now... I'm taking about this person fretting
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by FloorEgg 14d ago
Most didn't. They went out of business. The companies that survived pivoted to installing panels and manufacturing the junction boxes.
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by FloorEgg 14d ago
Every time new technology / industrial scaling radically deflates the cost of something it wipes out the old/expensive ways while creating massive demand for the supporting/complimentary value. E.g. cheap Chinese solar panels
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
He and his son appointed three of the supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of citizens United, which seems like a massive tradeoff of us hegemonic power for corporate greed to me... When I said leadership, I didn't mean just the p
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
I'm just one person in another country (outside the us) who is exposed to the information I'm exposed to. I have the benefit of sitting back, relatively unattached, and being curious about what is going on. I'm well aware tha
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
As an outsider with no loyalty to any US political party it looks to me like both sides are weakening US hegemony in entirely different ways and have been for a while now. It's also clear there are two distinct incompatible realities p
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
> Since arguably the 1940s the people running the United States have been consistently trading power over the domains they consider illegible and confusing for power over the domains they consider tractable and familiar, under elite job
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
I re-read the comment you refer to as ggp and I agree with you completely. I must have gotten my wires crossed about which comment was being referred to.
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
Do you think it's reasonable to say that since at least around the 1970s, on net, the people running the United States have been consistently trading power for greed?
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by FloorEgg 17d ago
I've also been shocked at the abandonment of US soft power. While I see many possibilities for what is really going on (including the left and right narratives, and a few others) what seems most likely is that the previous hegemony po
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by FloorEgg 19d ago
I wish the people down voting you would take a moment to explain why. Not because I agree with you, but because I don't know about this and I am curious and would appreciate a calm rational person to explain why they disagree with you.
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by FloorEgg 19d ago
The whole point of hacker news is to converse curiously. It's stated clearly in the guidelines. Here is a person encouraging curiosity and getting down voted. Why is the dismissive non-curious comment not getting down voted? Am I in de
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by FloorEgg 20d ago
Consciousness and AGI are terms that people treat as binary when they are actually many spectrums.
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by FloorEgg 28d ago
Sometimes I monitor thinking traces for misunderstandings (missing context / bad assumptions). If it's going to go off on a ~20 min task and I can catch it's going in the wrong direction in the first minute I save a lot of to
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by FloorEgg 1mo ago
Sometimes in an effort to understand things I'll try and take them to their limit. One limit, framed as a path to a kind of dystopia is "wire heading". Another more tangible limit is opium addiction. These are basically colla
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by FloorEgg 1mo ago
That would imply they created their hacker news account when they were 3-8 years old. Seems unlikely. Its more likely that they simply value all the convenience they listed over having their own backyard, larger living space, living in a qu
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by FloorEgg 2mo ago
When certain people are convinced that all wealth and success are only achieved through exploitation, then it's easy to lack empathy and consideration for anyone more wealthy or successful than them.
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by FloorEgg 2mo ago
That is not at all what I meant. I mean that if you accept that the market demand for software development is evolving and you evolve with it you won't end up starving on the streets. If you assume it's inevitable that you will be
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by FloorEgg 2mo ago
Whether or not it's a shitty deal is ultimately up to you. For all of history the environment has put evolutionary pressure on living things. If you choose to make a deal with the universe that you get what you want without having to a
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by FloorEgg 2mo ago
I'm a decent full stack web developer, who knows almost nothing about kernel architecture or machine code. Before LLMs I could make a functional app, despite not understanding several layers the app ran on top of.
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by FloorEgg 2mo ago
As someone who cooks most of my own meals (and almost never eats out) I agree. I also know quite a few people who don't know how to cook at all and the thought of cooking stresses them out. So far it seems that we can't all be goo

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