falcor84

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by falcor84 5d ago
Exactly! What got me interested in memes as a kid is precisely the fact that mathematics is true in a way that is wholy independent of our understanding of it.
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by falcor84 5d ago
I love that as a goal! Perhaps indeed a better understanding of what intelligence really is would allow this sort of Uplift (as in Brin's books).
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by falcor84 9d ago
My understanding is that they already are, via Isomorphic Labs
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by falcor84 9d ago
Which part of that prompt is detail, and which the essence?
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by falcor84 9d ago
> Make as much money as you can, starting now. It's such an uninspired prompt. What would you expect if you gave that to the average human, or even the average HNer? What fraction of them would actually use it to set up a profitable
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by falcor84 10d ago
But the goal here is not to run 42km; to stay with the outdoors metaphor, it's more like deciding where and how to set up a bivouac - use whatever tools you have at your disposal to analyze the area you're in, and find the best si
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by falcor84 10d ago
But it's not "waiting on the output of an LLM for 40 hours" any more than a regular hackathon is "waiting for my damn teammates to finish their part for 40 hours". From my experience using agentic coding for hackath
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by falcor84 10d ago
Yes, but that sounds to me exactly the process vs. outcome distinction that the parent made, rather than a difference in the intent to communicate.
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by falcor84 10d ago
> droplets which travel back onto the floor and user I suppose this disproves Tufte's "There are only two industries that call their customers 'users': illegal drugs and software."
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by falcor84 10d ago
I think we are finally seeing the realization of https://xkcd.com/810/
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by falcor84 10d ago
> For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed. That's a very bold opening statement that they don't really come back to. What would that mean? Who would this demos include?
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by falcor84 10d ago
> somebody has an idea to express and they're trying to communicate it to me I don't see why that would exclude GenAI - you have an idea, you write a prompt, you get something that's sort of but not quite what you were goi
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by falcor84 11d ago
> If any nation in Europe that can start a new space frontier, that would be the Germans I apologise for the tactlessness, but it just made me think of Tom Lehrer's lyrics about Wernher von Braun: > "Once the rockets are up,
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by falcor84 11d ago
All of those charts seem to have a lot more noise than signal.
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by falcor84 13d ago
But what does it mean in practice? Obviously we humans also have a limited cognitive capacity. Let me offer a thought experiment: Let's say that tomorrow we discover Atlantis, with a treasure trove of books about their culture and scie
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by falcor84 14d ago
Yes, this, and we need to have this progressive tax be over the company's total assets, including subsidiaries.
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by falcor84 15d ago
Sorry, yes, I genuinely took a long time to understand, and this then took me on quite the rabbit hole, thanks, to you and the others on the thread.
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by falcor84 16d ago
Oh, I'm familiar with that; I thought that the parent meant that there are people who make money directly from the copyright on the patterns rather than the artifacts they sell. Are there?
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by falcor84 16d ago
Maybe not the strongest, but definitely a case. For example, it's my understanding that many scholars believe that The Odyssey is fan fiction by a separate author(s) to that/those of The Iliad.
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by falcor84 16d ago
> Knitters and crocheters who create patterns? Wow, is that a thing? If you're willing to share, I'd love to hear more about these vocations and how they make money.
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by falcor84 16d ago
I can assure you that people had original ideas before the invention of copyright 300 years ago.
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by falcor84 16d ago
From my perspective from reading and watching fan fiction, these unofficial derived works are typically significantly more distinct and interesting than the official sequels, and I'd be cool with these getting bigger budgets.
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by falcor84 16d ago
I'm not an artist and might be entirely wrong, but my understanding is that for 99% of artists, over 99% of their revenue is from concerts tickets, merch and other physical products, rather than digital/broadcast plays, so changin
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by falcor84 16d ago
> it is impossible to describe the universe and compress it into few terabytes Why? I'm not an expert, but from my understanding, there say species that function well in their ecological niches with significantly smaller cognitive c
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by falcor84 16d ago
If we're doing book recommendations, I quite recommend the essays in https://academic.oup.com/mit-press-scholarship-online/book/1... and particularly the philosophical discussion there of whether "robot
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by falcor84 16d ago
That's not obvious at all, particularly given the myriad movies trying to scare us about the dangers of robots taking over that.
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by falcor84 17d ago
Thinking about the primitive command verbs that they mention: > The MHS driver uses a simple set of primitives—commands like “read” (for example, “get temperature”) or “write” (for example, “set temperature”)—that any hardware device can
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by falcor84 20d ago
Direct Link to the open letter: https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense
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by falcor84 21d ago
To the best of my knowledge, that isn't true anymore, and nowadays you'd only get hired to do RLHF if you have particular skills beyond what can be achieved by just running other models against it.
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by falcor84 22d ago
What exactly are you questioning?

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