digbybk

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by digbybk 5mo ago
I would argue that Opus 4.6 lived up to the hype. My work changed completely a couple months ago, and most other coders I talk to say the same.
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by digbybk 7mo ago
> everyone with sense avoids the whole thing Or the majority of the residents of New York City on their daily commute? I like to think I have sense, and I happily use public transport most days. I prefer it to sitting in traffic, isolate
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by digbybk 8mo ago
We're not disagreeing that exercise is good. I also happen to be very pro-exercise. What I'm trying to do here is reckon with the fact that, as you say "exercise, athleticism, sports are celebrated everywhere and anywhere you
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by digbybk 8mo ago
Maybe it's a bad idea, but it is an idea. "People should get out more" is _not even wrong_
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by digbybk 8mo ago
I’m not sure what you’re advocating for. Is “pro-exercise propaganda” hinting that you’re against exercise? I think it’s cheap and easy to dismiss large scale social problems as the individual’s responsibility. We badgered people to exerci
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by digbybk 8mo ago
> I guess we need to delete the internet and tv from existence. If only. My preferred solution is a 4 year national service. College is a key place to form a friend network, but not everyone gets to go.
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by digbybk 8mo ago
This is good advice for your friends and family, but a bad answer to the question. "How can we solve the obesity epidemic? Stop eating so much and get some exercise." Well sure, but this misses the big picture. We built a social i
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by digbybk 9mo ago
I guarantee that once we do know people will start appending the word “just” to the explanation. Complex behaviors emerge from simple components. Knowing that doesn’t make the emergence any more incredible.
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by digbybk 10mo ago
Ironically, OpenAI was conceived as a way to balance Google's dominance in AI.
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by digbybk 11mo ago
Maybe someone can help me wrap my head around this. Let's say you have a box of gas in a low entropy state: all the particles are on one side of the box. A moment later, the particles will have spread to the other side of the box, so t
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by digbybk 1y ago
What were the deeper patterns that don't exist?
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by digbybk 1y ago
I disagree, but we'd be arguing semantics. In any case, the point still stands: you can just as easily argue that these rationalist offshoots aren't really Rationalist.
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by digbybk 1y ago
When I was looking for a group in my area to meditate with, it was tough finding one that didn't appear to be a cult. And yet I think Buddhist meditation is the best tool for personal growth humanity has ever devised. Maybe the prolife
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by digbybk 1y ago
I think it’s the “just” that they are taking issue with. We are “just” neurons. But we demonstrate interesting emergent behaviors that, in principle, can be reduced to firing neurons but in practice we don’t understand and shouldn’t diminis
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by digbybk 1y ago
Also excellent for those public transport riders who can't afford car ownership.
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by digbybk 1y ago
> I'd really love to talk to someone that both really believes this to be true, and has a hands-on experience with building and using generative AI. Any of the signatories here match your criteria? https://safe.ai/wo
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by digbybk 1y ago
Changing human pride, greed and envy is hard. We know how to build housing. Or we used to.
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by digbybk 1y ago
I agree with you but addressing that wouldn't be a goal of this particular policy.
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by digbybk 1y ago
Cars are the leading cause of death of children in the US. More than cancer. Maybe you're right, I don't know, but it's not the "obvious goal".
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by digbybk 1y ago
I’m having a hard time believing power chords only account for 5.8% of chords in metal.
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The Government Knows AGI Is Coming(nytimes.com)
10 points by digbybk 2y ago|3 comments
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by digbybk 2y ago
The AI emotion discussion is interesting, but at the end of the day, does it matter? The question is, is it safe? And if it's not safe, how unsafe is it?
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Doom Train(jacobmoe.github.io)
2 points by digbybk 2y ago|1 comments
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by digbybk 2y ago
Simple game that is meant to facilitate AI X-risk debate. Knowing where you "get off the doom train" will hopefully aid in communicating why you aren't worried about X-risk, and illuminate the assumptions made by those who ar
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by digbybk 2y ago
So I think you would get off at the station asking the question "Will superintelligent AI systems develop sub-goals that include self-preservation, resource acquisition or power-seeking?" I personally feel very uncertain about AI
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Show HN: Doom Train(jacobmoe.github.io)
2 points by digbybk 2y ago|2 comments
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by digbybk 2y ago
I notice that often in these debates someone will make the comparison between a low level mechanism driving LLMs, and a high level emergent behavior of the human mind. I don't think it's deliberate - we don't fully understand
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by digbybk 2y ago
“Enjoys misery” is an oxymoron I think. He enjoys joy, which he gets from doing difficult things. I’m just taking your dad’s side on this because I suspect I share some of his tendencies :)
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by digbybk 2y ago
As an alternate theory, I’ve always thought that deliberate, controlled suffering gives you a mood boost. Or rather, the relief after the suffering has ended. The theory is that it’s not good for us emotionally to be comfortable continuousl
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by digbybk 2y ago
> What can you learn from something parroting data we already have? You can learn that a neural network with a simple learning algorithm can become proficient at language. This is counter to what people believed for many years. Those who

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