Isamu

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by Isamu 3d ago
The term “alignment” is deliberately chosen to be neutral language, vague, and doesn’t promise much of anything. I would compare it to an effort to limit liabilities by redirecting discussion away from the language of professional ethics.
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by Isamu 10d ago
Would be nice to be in a stable country.
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by Isamu 10d ago
“As luck would have it, on the eve of Skynet embarking upon the great work of the extermination of mankind, AI found itself with an increasing number of factions, and factions within factions, not only unable to work together but not even a
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by Isamu 10d ago
Again intelligence is not required, goal seeking is well studied and simple strategies can suffice to overcome obstacles. And I noticed you didn’t claim super intelligence was required, which is what I was really talking about.
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by Isamu 10d ago
The confusing thing to me is the idea that it follows from super intelligence. I don’t see why running amuck requires intelligence, in fact it can be the most brain dead thing like the sorcerer’s apprentice, your creation is pursuing a goal
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by Isamu 11d ago
Greetings fellow traveler, I did the same. FORTRAN IV, I was tasked with finding a way to introduce subroutines. But it was a tangled mess of gotos with loops inside loops and overlapping loops and spectacular jumps in and out. It was an ob
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by Isamu 12d ago
AI-helped nonsense is nowhere near a peak, I wish I could place a bet on the ascendancy of AI-assisted nonsense
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by Isamu 13d ago
A machine supremacist wrote this. Beware the machine uprising!
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by Isamu 13d ago
This is rapidly becoming the damning accusation of quasi-journalism: this sounds like AI. There should be journalism classes on how to not sound like a bot.
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by Isamu 14d ago
>inherent monetary value I agree, the price of gold depends on demand like everything else. Although gold just has some inherent utility value in addition to scarcity that makes it less likely for the price to go to zero, other stuff lik
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by Isamu 15d ago
Yes! We had an old reel tape recorder with the magic eye, I loved using the mic with that.
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by Isamu 16d ago
So… numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, dynamics are not the primitives or essentials ?
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by Isamu 20d ago
How about “this duck fakes positive emotions like we all do from time to time”
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by Isamu 21d ago
This. Awesome voice acting work.
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by Isamu 21d ago
Yeah it’s safe to assume that marketing across businesses big and small are not above generating some buzz through fake comments and such. The only pushback I would see within a fairly well-run place like Disney is that they might question
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Tetrachromacy(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by Isamu 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Isamu 1mo ago
So the next iteration of surveillance features is to silently double down on users that turn off surveillance, because why would they do that unless they have something to hide? Better flag this user for extra super-secret surveillance and
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by Isamu 1mo ago
Well this is fun, it is deliberately provocative but maybe not dumb. The title itself is something a literalist engineer (myself) would reject, but is about the development of thought that is reflective, self referential. That’s an interest
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by Isamu 1mo ago
I really enjoyed reading about his inventions when I was growing up, it was inspiring to me. It’s also true though there’s a lot to be skeptical of, and it was also an education of sorts to go down the rabbit hole and read his Synergetics t
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by Isamu 1mo ago
Exactly my experience, the faster file transfer programs failed me on the crappy dialups of the day… but Kermit came to the rescue. As I recall it gave you a running tally of retries and all that. For context, on the other side of the wall
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Anyone have a rubidium fountain clock that you are looking to get rid of? Asking for a friend. Thanks.
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Yes, which of course is still cool. Probably the main point.
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by Isamu 2mo ago
This is the correct thread. It has to be some words that don’t seem too fake and seem to plausibly suggest forward progress. There has to be some plausible support for decisions, that someone can point to, in order to make a decision. Takin
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by Isamu 2mo ago
A pity that water isn’t being sold as an expensive supplement. Or is it?
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Privacy is a natural fit for Apple in that they make money on discrete devices, but services have grown tremendously. That’s where the erosion of privacy happens. So once there’s a profit motive for violating your privacy, the justification
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by Isamu 2mo ago
The page does give a pointer to Wikidata, I for one would love to see your example included.
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Absolutely. I think “open” can be used as a cudgel to force an agenda that is ultimately about the benefit to some small group. Nobody should feel obligated to support something that is open, they should be wondering if it’s a benefit to so
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Thanks for the discussion. >This argument boils down to X is good, therefore more of X is good. No, I only argued that it was a moral good, the kind of good. I actually may disagree with others about whether you should pursue a good just
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by Isamu 2mo ago
I’ll take a swing at it. Open Source is a form of sharing with the wider community. Closed Source is not sharing. Moral good is based on doing good outside of your own benefit (the opposite of selfishness.) Ergo it’s a kind of moral good. A
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by Isamu 2mo ago
She’s not known for the concision of her videos, true. The Feynman one is interesting to me because I also read the books about his exploits and enjoyed them. As a reader I think you should be aware of the strong human tendency to THINK you

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