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by dinfinity 9d ago
I made and supported my initial claim. The burden of proof here is on the person who claimed that the etymology of "nobility" somehow disproves my initial claim.
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by dinfinity 9d ago
> It seems that "ASI" ("Artificial Super Intelligence") is in use, maybe it will get further traction. It should imply AGI. That's why I suggested AEI. > Very bad definition. AGI has to implement Intelligence.
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by dinfinity 9d ago
From the 10 tasks of Gary Marcus' list: "With little or no human involvement, come up with paradigm-shifting, Nobel-caliber scientific discoveries." Indeed far above the capabilities of almost all humans. I agree we should ha
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by dinfinity 9d ago
How is it an example of European governments preventing American weapons from being sold? Are you saying the Finns unilaterally decided that Turkey can't have F-35s, even if the USA wants to sell F-35s to them?
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by dinfinity 10d ago
> This task is intentionally designed to ensure a human cannot do it. It is one of a vast array of things the hypothetical kidnapper could come up with, some of which humans I agree will do better at (currently) and some of which AI wi
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by dinfinity 10d ago
Nonsense. The logic based on etymology doesn't show that at all. Most people alive right have never even used the word "nobility", let alone do they let their worldview be defined by it. They may have used the word "nobl
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by dinfinity 10d ago
> If you're in a race and the person who's in the lead by a large margin says "this is getting out of hand, how about we take a break?" isn't it obviously in the interest of the disadvantaged party to agree? Only
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by dinfinity 10d ago
Same partial answer as I gave your sibling commenter: "OK, so the task ends up being to write a 40-page analysis of the result of a specific experiment in quantum chromodynamics, to be finished within 2 minutes. Does your choice for a
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by dinfinity 10d ago
You missed the point. The example asked for was this: "I'm not aware of any sale of a US weapons system containing European parts being blocked by any European government ." That would be something like "Belgium says th
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by dinfinity 10d ago
Do you think China considers it an arms race? Do you think they are not trying to protect their digital infrastructure with and from AI? Trying to gain an offensive AI advantage? In a geopolitical sense OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively
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by dinfinity 10d ago
> We can't even formally define what "aligned" means. Good point. When it comes to imbuing AI with values that aren't selfish, misanthropic, and civilization-destroying, us humans aren't exactly giving the best e
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by dinfinity 10d ago
Your link is about limiting the sales of Belgian weapons on the basis of Belgian legislation.
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by dinfinity 11d ago
You're countering logic rooted in psychology and economics with etymology and linguistics? How does "ancient people consider the wealthy virtuous" cancel out "selfish people tend to make more money"?
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by dinfinity 11d ago
It's not really a surprise that less ethical people on average are richer than ethical people. Sad, but logical: they more often choose selfishly and thus amass more money. This is the correct direction of causation in this case, imho.
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by dinfinity 11d ago
Protest. Insistently try to convince people around you to join you. Initiate and organize these things. The have been many, many protests throughout history. Some did nothing, some changed history. Many of them were done under much, much mo
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by dinfinity 11d ago
The aggregate number also sounds more sensational than reality is: This comes out to roughly 1 parking ticket per vehicle every 2 months. Not something to do nothing about, but also not especially surprising for a taxi service in SF, imho.
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by dinfinity 12d ago
> Why are you giving the AI a harness and a plethora of tools and not the human in this comparison? I am not. Multimodal models generate that output directly, without tools. Which 'tools' does AI use to generate all those image
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by dinfinity 12d ago
Non-paywalled source [0] confirming this: "NBIM plans to increase its holdings of nongovernment U.S. fixed income, such as corporate bonds, to 27.6% from 16.2%. CEO Nicolai Tangen and Norway’s central bank chief, Ida Wolden Bache, said
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by dinfinity 12d ago
> Do you have a source on the speed limit of biological computation. Potential gradients should behave just like electricity. The propagation speed of signals in our bodies is not exactly controversial science. Just see Wikipedia for thi
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by dinfinity 12d ago
> All of humanity became a giant "lightspeed-intelligent" brain when radio was first invented. That is a good example of another very very probable pattern. If an alien civilization at the other end of this universe exists, it
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by dinfinity 12d ago
> I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold. In a way, but I'd say that it is more like eyes, bilateral symmetry, electricity, or solar panels: patterns that will emerge and become (at least temporaril
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by dinfinity 13d ago
Whether AI is AGI does not depend on the speed at which it operates/thinks. Clearly all the theoretical work done by AGI will be done orders of magnitude quicker than humans can do it. It is an open question to what extent practical ex
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by dinfinity 13d ago
Current AI is arguably much more capable of multimodal output than humans. It can produce an incredibly vast variety of audio, images, and video. Humans are limited to producing the sounds we can make with meatflaps in our throats, and cont
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by dinfinity 15d ago
The list in the appendix is pretty telling: Yes, the moments are off by a lot, but many of the predictions describe reality well. I'd say that 7% accuracy is on the low side and 86% on the high side. Looking through the list I'd p
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by dinfinity 15d ago
> He gives the example of Ray Kurzweil, who is similarly catastrophically wrong about everything Is he, though? It seems to me that a lot of his predictions were surprisingly close to the mark, especially given how long ago they were mad
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by dinfinity 15d ago
> Maybe I'm being unfair to the film because of the fanbase as well. I've always seen it as a mild red flag when someone says it's their favourite comedy, but it's hardly the film's fault it got popular on places
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by dinfinity 15d ago
I propose we change it to "Trumpistan". The orange narcissist will probably see it as a win and the sane people in the country may finally be embarrassed enough to actually do something about him and his cronies.
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by dinfinity 16d ago
> To a point you just have to trust me, or not trust me on this. I don't expect you to. It's fine! Not every thread can have a conclusion. It's clear how you got to your opinions. I see no reason why anyone that did not al
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by dinfinity 16d ago
Well, the title here at HN implies something else than the study shows. If blue light actually impaired vision, that would be very notable. It would mean that removing the blue 'channel' for an RGB image would improve acuity
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by dinfinity 16d ago
> Error: Violation of the Church-Turing thesis detected. Many tasks completability is not known until we attempt to complete the task. Yes, but for some tasks we know that they are impossible. I do agree that this is quite a fragile an

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