JohnPrine

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by JohnPrine 1y ago
Seems like this article had a large impact on your understanding of the housing system. Could you post it so that others can read it too?
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by JohnPrine 1y ago
oil is a commodity, and yet the oil industry is massive and has multiple major players
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by JohnPrine 1y ago
not sure what this sort of naval gazing accomplishes. software companies are designing their products around user preferences. you or anyone else are welcome to create the kind of software you think we "should" have, but if it doe
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by JohnPrine 1y ago
giving a single counter example does not mean "most of the world" is not true here
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by JohnPrine 1y ago
do you really think that if I said "he is american" that 96% of the world isn't going to think I mean the USA?
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by JohnPrine 1y ago
Thanks for the insight. Very cool to get your perspective on this
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by JohnPrine 1y ago
Agreed, blind people and sighted people are able to experience different kinds of beauty that are inaccessible to each other. As a sighted person, if there was a technology that could describe the beauty that a blind person experiences in a
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
The thesis is simple: these programs are smart now, but unreliable when executing complex, multi-step tasks. If that improves (whether because the models get so smart that they never make a mistake in the first place, or because they get go
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
I don't think this is true
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
lol you got me
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
I'm starting to think there's no difference between this website and reddit
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
there are ways to support yourself without supporting a corporation
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
you'd rather everyone die than to see experience requirements for certain jobs go up?
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
if y'all think that being in the dark about market wages is going to result in employers offering higher salaries then I don't know what to tell you
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
it wouldn't surprise me if what we think of as intelligence is nothing more than brute force attempts at prediction with educated guesses
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by JohnPrine 2y ago
Are you saying that companies lose the ability to secure financing once they go public?
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
Thanks for the comments, that was really enlightening. Not sure why people on a tech forum seem so eager to dismiss an emerging technology rather than using their imaginations a little
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
> But second, it's easy to say, 'it's probably fine' from the outside, when your neck and your future isn't at risk. Yeah this was basically going to be my response to the first part of your response. Israel want
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
Israel is surrounded by nations which want to see Israel destroyed, and which have banded together in the past to attempt exactly that (e.g. the Yom Kippur War in 1973). If Israel fails to retaliate against aggression forcefully enough it c
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
Could you give a clear mechanistic model of how the US would handle such a danger?
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
He means the article is saying they will need $3 million in today's dollars to retire
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
I lean libertarian but I'm very much in favor of AI regulation
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
It takes energy to produce food and various goods
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
OpenAI is clear about the fact that ChatGPT can hallucinate, where have they ever said otherwise?
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
if they can make me feel like I'm having a face to face conversation with someone who lives hours away then that would be fundamentally different
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by JohnPrine 3y ago
Can you explain your understanding of the orthogonality thesis? I don't think the ability of intelligent agents to plan conflicts with it
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by JohnPrine 4y ago
Why are you bothered by a simple line of follow up questions about a belief you expressed publicly?
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by JohnPrine 4y ago
I'm not trying to bother you. I'm genuinely curious about what makes people oppose AI safety research. What makes you sure it's not going to be a problem?
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by JohnPrine 4y ago
You seem to agree that if at some point in the next few decades AI will be something we need to worry about, so I'm trying to figure out exactly what it is you oppose. Would you have opposed research into renewable energy in the 1970s
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by JohnPrine 4y ago
Interesting. In your opinion, how should we decide when we're close enough that we're talking about something concrete?

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