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Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
5 points by goolulusaurs 7mo ago|1 comments
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by goolulusaurs 2y ago
The reality is that o1 is a step away from general intelligence and back towards narrow ai. It is great for solving the kinds of math, coding and logic puzzles it has been designed for, but for many kinds of tasks, including chat and creati
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
In my younger years, particularly during my schooling, I held a deep resentment towards the educational system. It felt overtly clear to me, as a student, that schools failed to effectively foster learning and growth. However, my perspectiv
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
It depends on what you mean by "this discussion", but I don't think that follows. If for example, we were in scenario 2 and it was still the case that a large number of people thought AI doomsday was a serious risk, then that
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
>It was clear that nukes were a risk before they were used; that is why there was a race to create them. Yes, because there were other kinds of bombs before then that could already kill many people, just at a smaller scale. There was a l
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
> So far, 100% of those which are as intelligent as humans have dominated the planet. This is a much more subjective claim than whether or not the world has ended. By count and biomass there are far more insects and bacteria than there a
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
Consider two different scenarios: 1) Throughout history many people have predicted the world would soon end, and the world did not in fact end. 2) Throughout history no one predicted the world would soon end, and the world did not in fact e
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
Well, for example I believe that nukes represent an existential risk, because they have already been used to kill thousands of people in a short period of time. What you are saying doesn't really counter my point at all though, it is a
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by goolulusaurs 3y ago
Throughout history there have been hundreds, if not thousands of examples of people and groups who thought the end of the world was imminent. So far, 100% of those people have been wrong. The prior should be that the people who believe in A
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
Sure, but don't they have a vast network of contact tracing? Presumably if a bunch of cases showed up that weren't connected to any other cases because of the lockdowns then that would be a really good indication of where the anim
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
Well its been years, why haven't they found the reservoir yet then? They would obviously want to since it would prove that it wasn't a lab leak, yet as far as I know they haven't claimed to have found it yet.
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
IMO, it seems obvious from the behavior of China's government that they know it is a lab leak. If it wasn't a lab leak, then presumably there is an animal reservoir of the virus somewhere in China, but as far as I know they haven&
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
There is a lot of negativity towards the idea of AI in this thread, and I feel like someone has to say it: it is quite likely that in the near future computers will be better than almost all humans at almost all cognitive tasks. If you have
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
"assuming the conclusion" is a much better way to refer to the original concept, IMO.
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
I don't get why everyone assumes that Havana syndrome is fake. I mean it could be fake but it doesn't seem implausible that it is real either. I seems like everyone jumps to the conclusion it isn't real though.
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
It's a cybernetic feedback system. Dalle is used to create new images, the images that people find most interesting and noteworthy get shared online, and reincorporated into the training data, but now filtered through human desire.
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
Sure, maybe it is possible if the residents are okay with the CCP taking over, but on the margin everyone being armed makes them taking action much more costly. Guerrillas were able win against the US in Vietnam, and Mao used guerrilla warf
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
Yes, I think if literally every single person in Hong Kong had a gun that would be enough to stop the CCP. The entire active military of China is about 2 million people, less than a third of the approx. 7.5 million people in HK. Maybe the C
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The thing that could have saved HK was legalization and widespread private gun ownership. Yes, there would have been more gun crime, but the victims of all of the random gun crim
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I am a big fan of Weber, not familiar with Deming but his work sounds very relevant. In general I tend to agree that beyond a certain size organization these problems seem unavoidable. I've read Systemant
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
When I was younger I was aware of the idea of perverse and misaligned incentives, but I never would have expected the extent to which they pervade practically every human institution.
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by goolulusaurs 4y ago
Today everyone is like "remember when we didn't spend all of our time looking at our smartphones?" 15 years from now everyone will say "remember when we didn't have these computers literally strapped to our face all
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by goolulusaurs 5y ago
I read recently for the first time about what happened to the Maya at the hands of the Spanish and I was shocked at how bad it was. Even just in the context of the destruction of knowledge it was terrible. There were thousands of books reco
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Eyes Do More Than See – Isaac Asimov(www-graphics.stanford.edu)
5 points by goolulusaurs 5y ago|0 comments
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by goolulusaurs 5y ago
Even if the price is the lives of millions and the whole world in lockdown? We might be better off if you don't take the job then. Also you ignored the rest of the sentence you are quoting and my examples of highly skilled scientist wh
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by goolulusaurs 5y ago
Sure that makes sense, but you could crank their pay way up to compensate, build places for their family to stay if they desired like the families of the scientist working on the Manhattan project, present at conferences through teleconfere
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by goolulusaurs 5y ago
Why the hell would you put a virology lab in the middle of a huge city with millions of people? I am not a virologist, but to me it seems like if covid was a lab-leak then it could have been avoided very easily just by having the lab in the
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by goolulusaurs 5y ago
Without knowing much about the topic, when I hear about code being proven to be correct it makes me think of the Curry-Howard correspondence, which states that proofs and programs are isomorphic to each other. Is this related at all? If pro
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by goolulusaurs 6y ago
Frankly, I don't give a shit about the national interest of the US or the national interest of China. As a user of tiktok, I enjoy the content and I will be saddened if it shuts down. We like to think of our country as our team, and to
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by goolulusaurs 6y ago
For some time I have been thinking about why it seems like scientific progress has slowed down compared to a century ago, and then one day I came across a clip of an interview with Professor Russell where he was saying that if technological

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