climatologist

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by climatologist 3y ago
What happened to "sparks of AGI"?
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by climatologist 3y ago
Doesn't law enforcement have access to cell towers and the phones that connect to them along with their GPS coordinates? Obviously paranoid schizophrenics are probably not tracked but it is in theory possible and that's probably w
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Understand (1991)(ktxr.rs)
118 points by climatologist 3y ago|39 comments
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by climatologist 3y ago
The current model is already destructive and most of the market is managed by artificial agents. Schwab will give you a roboadvisor to manage your retirement account so AI is already managing large chunks of the financial markets. Letting A
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by climatologist 3y ago
Then I don't know what you're arguing about. If you think LLMs are useful continue using them.
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by climatologist 3y ago
The fact is that no neural network can solve sudoku puzzles. I think it's hilarious that AI proponents/detractors keep worrying about existential risk when not a single one of these systems can solve logic puzzles.
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by climatologist 3y ago
Does anyone know if 1B tokens is enough to solve sudoku puzzles?
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by climatologist 3y ago
Ask it to solve sudoku and report back. Not generate code but actually solve a puzzle in the prompt.
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by climatologist 3y ago
You will merge with the machine and live forever in a technological Eden.
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by climatologist 3y ago
The comparison is in terms of energy use since at the end of the day that is the fundamental currency of all techno-industrial activity. The point is that the global machinery that is currently guiding civilizational progress is fundamental
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by climatologist 3y ago
I get what you're saying but people don't really care. The typical/average person does not know anything about derivatives, backpropagation, or probabilities so to them it all seems like magic and they anthropomorphize what t
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by climatologist 3y ago
Math seems correct but US military also includes conglomerates and companies like Palantir and Anduril (main reason it is described as an industrial complex is because there is no clear distinction between corporations and how their activit
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by climatologist 3y ago
Seeking profit and constant population growth are already extremely dumb goals on their own. You can continue worrying about AGI if you want but nothing I've said is either cynical or anti-human. It is simply a description of the globa
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by climatologist 3y ago
Every cancer eventually kills the host so either people figure out how to be less cancerous or we die out from drowning in the byproducts of our metabolic processes just like yeast drown in alcohol. The AI doomers can continue worrying abou
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by climatologist 3y ago
> According to the 2005 CIA World Factbook, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 34th in the world in average daily oil use, coming in just behind Iraq and just ahead of Sweden. Sure, the phrasing could be debated but the fact that i
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by climatologist 3y ago
There are no enemies. The biosphere is a singular organism and right now people are doing their best to basically destroy all of it. The only way to prevent further damage is to reduce the human population but that's another non-starte
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by climatologist 3y ago
Have you personally seen those construction sites? Just go and observe, the stagnation narrative is overblown.
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by climatologist 3y ago
They're aligned with the military-industrial complex. The US military is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels[1] and it's the same with other nations and their energy use. So profitable is not the same as aligned with huma
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by climatologist 3y ago
Just speaking from personal experience. The methods that I observed are very modern and very efficient. The parts for the entire building are pre-fabricated and then assembled at the construction site. So the stagnation narrative is more th
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by climatologist 3y ago
What does it mean to address the risk of superintelligence? There is no way to stop technological progress and AI development is just part of the same process. Moreover, the alarmism doesn't make much sense because we already have misa
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by climatologist 3y ago
The reality is more complicated than it appears but I've observed a bunch of construction projects near Millbrae CalTrain station and they finish the buildings extremely fast. A bunch of metal frames go up, then some pipes, then some w
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by climatologist 3y ago
Doesn't everyone think they're the good guy?
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by climatologist 3y ago
Chomsky? No, but I also like Chomsky's perspective on most matters. He's more often correct than not.
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by climatologist 3y ago
Corporations like Saudi Aramco are already doing that. You don't need a superintelligent AI, corporations that maximize profit are already sufficient as misaligned superhuman agents.
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by climatologist 3y ago
I like Zizek's take on this, being happy is overrated and most people are actually pretty happy with not doing anything other than watching YouTube and playing video games. Plus, I don't see any way to prevent technological progre
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by climatologist 3y ago
Birth rates don't have much to do with the superiority of technology over biology. The most technologically advanced nations will determine the course of history just like they have in the past and right now that's the US and Chin
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by climatologist 3y ago
You can't really avoid religion and politics if you are trying to figure out modernity. But if you want to know where the world is heading then there are lots of transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil who have written about what they foresee
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by climatologist 3y ago
Presumably at some point one of them will achieve singularity and have a self-sufficient superintelligence that will recursively self-improve. I recommend contributing your inputs to the team which you believe is most likely to reach this m
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by climatologist 3y ago
So they are going to use 20% of their computational budget to make an alignment AI that presumably can monitor and provide feedback for the other AIs they plan to develop which will use 80% of their budget. I'm not great at math but 80
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by climatologist 3y ago
> Other lawmakers had similarly complimentary things to say about Wang, whose company spent over $1 million on federal lobbying last year That is a lot of money for a startup to spend on political lobbying but given that AI is already ti

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