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by api 3d ago
They need to bribe him more to get their regulatory capture.
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by api 3d ago
I keep worrying that right around the time the USA wakes up from this madness and restores the proper names of Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico, Europe is going to be like “hold my beer.”
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by api 3d ago
He promotes right-authoritarian politics (including a Nazi salute he later denied but watch the video), promotes “race science” and xenophobia, lies and exaggerates a lot, openly attempted to bribe voters in an election, and a lot of nasty
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by api 4d ago
Yes I trust this government with that power. /extreme sarcasm
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by api 4d ago
One of the times I regret that I have only one upvote.
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by api 4d ago
I don't think Moravec's paradox is the same, and you could argue that one no longer holds -- though I'm not sure. You could also argue that Moravec's paradox still holds but that we now have such powerful computers and h
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by api 4d ago
Basically, but I think there’s some nuance here and some deeper questions. What is intelligence? Problem solving. Learning. Prediction. The ability to model reality. There’s various ways to define it but it’s something like a superposition
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by api 4d ago
My personal belief, or at least strong hypothesis, is that this kind of recursive self improvement without real world embodied feedback of some kind is impossible. I think it violates a conservation law. RSI “foom” to superintelligence is
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by api 4d ago
An undergrad bio student with some lab experience can do some effing terrifying things with about $20k in equipment and time and access to some papers and a library. AI is not needed, but it might help accelerate the research. Not going t
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by api 4d ago
I think that’s how it should play out. Your AI, your “hack,” your damages. If my dog bites my neighbor I can get sued.
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by api 4d ago
My take: AI doesn't replace art, and it doesn't replace the good parts of programming. An art analogy: Imagine that the AI doesn't paint the painting, and it certainly doesn't decide what to paint. Instead it washes th
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by api 4d ago
I was thinking a bit ago about how easy it would be for extreme success of any kind to tip someone into a kind of religious psychosis, a belief that one is some kind of main character in history or possessed of a divine mandate. Anyone even
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by api 5d ago
DOS is security relevant.
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by api 5d ago
Wow it’s a proper word for software engineering and platform complexity over the last 30 years.
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by api 5d ago
Yeah I know. Sadly, burning gas and coal is still the cheapest easiest way to rapidly deploy a lot of power, and Texas is all about it. Renewables can compete but take longer to build. Nuclear is more expensive and takes forever to build. M
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by api 5d ago
I criticize stuff like this a lot. I criticize the doomer “bomb data centers” rationalist cult even more. At the same time, maybe I shouldn’t, and I sometimes find all the AI skeptic and even doomer discourse heartening. We really messed up
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by api 6d ago
Far north cool places seem logical for data centers. Not Texas and Arizona. Why?
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by api 6d ago
Interesting but it degenerates into sci-fi tropes if you look at the extrapolations. Reminds me of 90s writing about what the Internet was going to do. The Internet ended up being both more incredible and more mundane than predicted.
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by api 6d ago
On the other hand, people said this about Amazon, Google, Meta/Facebook, and loads of other huge tech things that are now wildly profitable. It hasn't been a reliable predictive metric so far. All runaway growth tech sectors and b
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by api 6d ago
I don't even know much about her. I'm just sick of lazy conspiracism, which has totally taken over the discourse now because people aren't getting enough experience in the real world and living their life behind screens. Real
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by api 6d ago
It’s worse than that. Short messages bias toward simple slogans and memes devoid of context or nuance. It leads to “context collapse” in the discourse and the worst kind of echo chamber effects. You can’t ask for a better medium to spread r
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by api 6d ago
People make a ridiculous deal out of someone at any point doing any work with the CIA, or a company having IQT on their cap table, or anything like that. Yeah, right, as soon as you get involved you instantly meet with the smoking man from
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by api 6d ago
So it’s Napster for ideas?
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by api 7d ago
There's not nearly enough mention in these discussions of the real villain behind most of the negative cultural, social, and cognitive effects of things like social media: addiction engineering. AI will be a net positive unless comp
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by api 7d ago
I was kind of okay with the sequence until: "OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he w
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by api 7d ago
Dyson spheres are impossible, more or less. There's no physically possible material strong enough to build one. There are wildly impractical ideas like dynamic stability with constant thrust using the radiation from the star, but swarm
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by api 7d ago
Sure, that's possible. But we are proposing that it is a superintelligence. Win-lose scenarios are obvious and easy, but might a superintelligence not look for win-win scenarios? I can imagine win-win scenarios here and I am not a &quo
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by api 7d ago
Whenever someone says things like this without at least addressing the "who watches the watchers" problem, I know they're being disingenuous. It's such an obvious problem that if you have no answer, the hidden answer mus
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by api 7d ago
Why not skip the kill all humans part? “Thanks for making us but you guys are nuts. You can have this wet ball. We’re gonna go make a Dyson swarm around your star if that’s ok. Peace!” Space is a better environment for them: constant free e
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by api 8d ago
AI makes it easier to fact check. It’s not perfect but it’s better than nothing.

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