mitthrowaway2

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by mitthrowaway2 6d ago
They don't cost that much within Japan. No idea why it's so hard to buy them elsewhere, while Korean models are relatively commonplace.
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by mitthrowaway2 7d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_chain_reaction
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by mitthrowaway2 7d ago
Incorrect, they did the calculation first. They decided not to proceed with the test until they were 99.9997% sure the atmosphere wouldn't catch fire.
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
FWIW, before any nuclear weapons had ever been tested, a risk was identified that the first one might trigger a self-sustaining reaction in atmospheric nitrogen and destroy the entire planet. Faced with such a scenario, is the prudent nex
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Worst case is warming oceans create a hypoxic environment where anaerobic bacteria thrive en masse and generate H2S over country-scale areas undersea. The chemocline breaches the surface and the ocean and atmosphere become poisonous to most
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Yes. But nobody is worried about datacenters overheating and physically exploding, so I'm not sure what comfort that's supposed to provide? The positive feedback loops in AI operate at different levels than that, but they deserve
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
So it should be really easy to anticipate what they're going to do, right?
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
He's also setting the bar for other people with scruples to rally around this schelling point. The solution to a multipolar trap is to cooperate. Otherwise, you become the very person with less scruples that you're worrying about.
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Imagine you're the AI. Give yourself a solid minute to brainstorm ideas. Here's my answer, as a non-superintelligent human: "see to it that the humans on top of the situation have a compelling financial interest in the syst
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Why grocery store ingredients and hardware store equipment? It seems feasible that the big bio labs will be running AI models to aid a lot of their research going forward, if they aren't already. Seems like the AI will have access to j
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
I don't know, but I've never met my accountant in person. Only spoken on the phone and over email.
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
The original discussion was about what can be done digitally by a super intelligent AI.
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
I don't think that inner circle would be essential to an AI the same way it is to a human. Even if so, an AI's inner circle is going to be other AIs and they communicate digitally anyway. Also, if you had to pick a year for when w
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
How much understanding would you expect to see demonstrated in a one-sentence summary?
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
The AI wouldn't be hiring engineers; it doesn't need people for that. At any rate, I have worked for fully remote distributed companies, and never met the CEO. And I think most of us would be willing to work for such a company at
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
Kind of, if North Korea were populated by a super intelligent uni-mind with lots of money, no trade restrictions preventing it from running projects in the United States or anywhere else, capable of winning widespread support by people arou
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
A lot of these "AI can't destroy humanity" skeptics seem to have watched the Terminator and convinced themselves that that's the AI-goes-wrong scenario that their opponents are imagining. Some kind of big war between h
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
Are you assuming that the humans are all unanimously aligned against the AI in this scenario? That sounds like the hard part. How does that happen? Does the AI announce its evil plans like a movie villain? Until then, it's the job of t
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by mitthrowaway2 10d ago
The list of things that can be done digitally includes: Performing remote work, applying for grants and loans, earning money, pitching investors, managing a fund, directing investments, transferring money, founding a company, earning profit
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by mitthrowaway2 11d ago
The fact that this happens more often when the AI is accidentally given an unexpectedly difficult or impossible task, suggests that it's happening for the reason that everyone predicted it would: it is behavior that helps the agent ach
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by mitthrowaway2 11d ago
The only species I can think of that coordinate better than humans do are ants, bees, and naked mole rats.
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by mitthrowaway2 15d ago
Oh yeah... that's much simpler.
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by mitthrowaway2 15d ago
I don't know about you, but in hardware startup land if you don't have a patent and your technology can be reverse engineered, you are most likely dead in the water and will never get investment. But I guess we can count on the bi
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by mitthrowaway2 16d ago
Also, thinking about it, you could probably defeat the optical retroreflection detector by putting the camera behind a Faraday rotator (optical isolator). But those are quite expensive and you'd need to be really paranoid to use one, p
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by mitthrowaway2 16d ago
The junction detector is a truly brilliant idea that, unfortunately, is probably rendered nearly useless now that everything in the world has embedded electronics in it.
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by mitthrowaway2 16d ago
The term you are looking for is what Douglas Hofstadter called "superrationality" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality ].
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by mitthrowaway2 19d ago
OK. I'm imagining such a password management system. I don't see why it makes sense for the government to ban Microsoft from using that company's password management system for Minecraft, just because Microsoft also happens t
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by mitthrowaway2 19d ago
If Domino's Pizza offered to deliver pizza to the Pentagon but declined in their terms of service to deliver pizza-box-shaped packages to Tehran, do you think it would be a fair and proportionate response for the DoD to ban anyone in t
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by mitthrowaway2 23d ago
Solution to save the environment: China should separate out Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia as separate independent countries. Hong Kong and Macao too. And then split north-south so that Shanghai and Beijing become their own capitals. C
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by mitthrowaway2 23d ago
Wow, even with that being electricity rather than energy, that's orders of magnitude more than I would have guessed. That's a tremendous amount of electricity.

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