doubleunplussed

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by doubleunplussed 5mo ago
I saw that too, but that's actually even worse on cache - the entire conversation is then a cache miss and needs to be loaded in in order to do the compaction. Then the resulting compacted conversation is also a cache miss. You ideally
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by doubleunplussed 8mo ago
> "Someone did a CoC violation" is just a way for an org to say "someone was an asshole [...]" Not even that, since so many CoCs are vague enough that someone unprincipled wielding them could be using them for petty i
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by doubleunplussed 8mo ago
That is true but requires some extra assumptions to explain why people don't keep losing weight - because the strongest influence on most people's appetite in the short run is how much of a deficit or surplus they're currentl
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by doubleunplussed 11mo ago
One thing I hear people say in places DST was abolished is that the late sunrises in winter are similarly depressing, and that this is something not really appreciated by those who want to abolish DST by having it be summer time year round
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I don't think you really understood my comment
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I didn't say it did, I said they're aware of it. Also thought it was worth pointing out that the LW "weird label" predates the label in the comment I replied to.
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I just mean that the existence of the human brain is proof that human-level intelligence is possible. Yes it took billions of years all said and done, but it shows that there are no fundamental limits that prevent this level of intelligence
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
> "recursive self improvement" does not imply "self improvement without bounds" Obviously not, but thinking that the bounds are going to lie in between where AI intelligence is now and human intelligence I think is un
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I think most in the rationality community (and otherwise in the know) would not say that IQ differences are almost entirely biological - I think they'd say they're about half genetic and half environmental, but that the environmen
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
Certainly something they're aware of - the same concept was discussed as early as in 2007 on Less Wrong under the name "evaporative cooling of group beliefs" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2Ltm
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I think you'll indeed find, if you were to seek out the relevant literature, that those claims are more or less true, or at least, are the currently best-supported interpretation available. So I don't think they're assumption
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
How do you reconcile e.g. AlphaGo with the idea that data is a bottleneck? At some point learning can occur with "self-play", and I believe this is already happening with LLMs to some extent. Then you're not limited by imitat
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
Blocking people on Twitter doesn't necessarily imply intolerance of people who disagree with you. People often block for different reasons than disagreement.
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
Many specific studies on the matter don't replicate, I think the book preceded the replication crisis so this is to be expected, but I don't think that negates the core idea that our brain does some things on autopilot whereas oth
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
> The most powerful AI we have now is strictly hardware-dependent Of course that's the case and it always will be - the cutting edge is the cutting edge. But the best AI you can run on your own computer is way better than the state
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I'm surprised not see see much pushback on your point here, so I'll provide my own. We have an existence proof for intelligence that can improve AI: humans can do this right now. Do you think AI can't reach human-level intell
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I mean you have to admit that that's a bit of a kafkatrap
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
On the other hand, I'm baffled to encounter recursive self-improvement being discussed as something not only weird to expect, but as damning evidence of sloppy thinking by those who speculate about it. We have an existence proof for i
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
Well, black-body radiation is still peaked around a certain range of wavelengths depending on the temperature, it's not just equal power at all wavelengths. Light visible to humans is at the peakiest bit of the sun's black body sp
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by doubleunplussed 1y ago
I thought it was mostly that those are the wavelengths output out by the sun. But I guess it could be both.
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
Andrew is mistaken, the paper he cites doesn't say that levitation is possible in a dipole field. Brauenbecker showed that diamagnetic levitation was possible at all (e.g. in a quadrupole field), but not in a dipole field. Stable levit
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
Here in Australia, the regulator requires banks to assess your ability to make repayments at an interest rate three percentage points higher than the actual rate. A few years ago it was a floor of 7% rather than a buffer, and they'll p
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
Yep. I just got diagnosed recently. Still figuring out the right dose of the right meds, but in the meantime it has become painfully obvious that a lot of discussion around productivity and procrastination is happening without a lot of peop
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
See also, manifold, for a play-money predictions site based more around market mechanisms: https://manifold.markets Both sites come out of the same sort of rationalist bay-area circles, manifold even changed their site to look l
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
And in markdown you chuck them between backticks to indicate they're verbatim text to be rendered in monospace.
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
I mean, there were UI changes. Could be just that.
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by doubleunplussed 3y ago
I mean one of these is consistent with the known laws of physics and the other isn't. Seems reasonable to me.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Hyphen. You'll also hear it called "hyphen-minus"
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Right. But that is exactly the distinction between being illiquid and being insolvent.
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by doubleunplussed 4y ago
Ah, I forgot 10xxxxxx was not usable, but I also forgot 0xxxxxxx was. What about 11111111? If that's valid then it's 8, if I'm thinking straight.

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