johnaspden

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by johnaspden 1y ago
Programmers will be replaced by whatever the superintelligence makes out of their atoms.
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by johnaspden 2y ago
Fancy a fuck? Fancy a fight? My tree! My tree!
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by johnaspden 2y ago
JPI Modula-2 was my first proper compiler on my childhood PC! I loved it, it was nicer to use than either Turbo Pascal or C. I actually bought my first ever hard disk (a mighty 10MB as I remember, more storage than I'd ever be able to
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by johnaspden 2y ago
Who cares? And how would we tell?
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by johnaspden 2y ago
Apparently not. And I am slightly surprised by that.
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How to Escape Gmail
5 points by johnaspden 3y ago|3 comments
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Oh God, yes! I'm old enough to remember when people thought it was important to have quiet and privacy to think. I used to love my job. All my life I've loved programming, and I used to love being able to solve other people's
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Christ, this is supposed to be for people with no spoons, and yet one of the recipes is: "Peanut Butter On A Spoon". Could they not be bothered to get someone to proof read it?
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Presumably he doesn't care. How's his poetry?
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by johnaspden 3y ago
He gets a standing ovation at the end, which is nice to see. Apparently this was released by accident and the youtube copy has been set to 'private', but luckily some quick-witted person downloaded it and has put a copy where it c
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Eliezer Yudkowsky's six-minute TED talk on AI(files.catbox.moe)
6 points by johnaspden 3y ago|6 comments
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by johnaspden 3y ago
> To learn CNNs at the deep-dive level you need calculus, at least differentiation and integration. Oh the poor dears, imagine needing schoolboy maths to do science.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Am Eliezer disciple, can confirm.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Back in the day when Eliezer was optimistic about AI (there's a reason why the SIAI/MIRI logo looks like an angel), I wrote him a very silly e-mail warning him that, despite being Jewish, he was falling for the Christian rapture n
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by johnaspden 3y ago
I want to say that I completely endorse this. The whole thing in all its details. I don't have any reputation to sacrifice, and I don't expect my endorsement to convince anyone, but I want to set a precedent that it's ok to b
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by johnaspden 3y ago
It doesn't need any reason to hate humanity. It just needs to not care about us.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
No one has an interest in playing this game at all. It is a bad game. Like the First, Second, and Third World Wars, the winning move is not to play.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Amazing how people who would never hurt a child seem to have no problem with building things that kill all the children.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not keen. But I'm old, and it wouldn't be so bad. I'm mainly about not killing all the children.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Almost no one thinks they will. The worry is that they're the last piece of the puzzle, and that we're very close to having all the parts for the real thing.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Not unless they managed to solve their own alignment problem, and they're friendly. Otherwise we'd already be dead.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
And about 8000 science fiction novels. And the fact that an idea is obvious to a child does not mean that it is not true!
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by johnaspden 3y ago
As a long term Yudkowsky-fan, I confirm that this tallies roughly with my recollections of his serious work. I don't know how much of a hand he had in 'Logical Induction'. It's definitely his style and his research progr
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by johnaspden 3y ago
I think it's fair to say that he is not an Orthodox Jew.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
We want to change everyone's gender, as often as possible; and will devote superhuman resources to spreading this philosophy over as much of the available future lightcone as physics permits.
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by johnaspden 3y ago
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
In legend, Paul Morphy learned in this way.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
It'll keep until tomorrow.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
I was just thinking, I wonder where I can get me a Toblerone.
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by johnaspden 4y ago
Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes 237g 40% sawdust 20% water 20% mechanically recovered abbatoir floor meat 19% rapeseed oil 1% unpronounceable chemicals

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