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by nfc 9mo ago
It seems like an extremely coarse classification. Category 3 contains languages with very different degrees of difficulty, while Bulgarian and Russian are both Slavic they are nothing alike in terms of difficulty since Bulgarian is the mos
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by nfc 1y ago
Thank you for your reply, I may have misinterpreted what Weatherby was saying and I admit I did not spend enough time reading it. I've re-skimmed it and think you may be right. With respect to the use of LLMs for my original comment. I
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by nfc 1y ago
Something I ponder in the context of AI alignment is how we approach agents with potentially multiple objectives. Much of the discussion seems focused on ensuring an AI pursues a single goal. Which seems to be a great idea if we are trying
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by nfc 1y ago
I agree with your point about the validation bottleneck becoming dominant over raw compute and simple model scaling. However, I wonder if we're underestimating the potential headroom for sheer efficiency breakthroughs at our levels of
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by nfc 3y ago
The Turing test seems to be a product of an era where the nature and capabilities of artificial intelligence were still in the realms of the unknown. Because of that it was difficult to conceive a specific test that could measure its abilit
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by nfc 3y ago
Just thought about this scenario, there are probably more likely ones. If some AI had access to the missile launch system, the best course of action for it would probably not be to launch immediately. This is because nowadays it is very unl
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by nfc 4y ago
I enjoyed the article but have a very minor nitpick. I didn't understand why the author added this sentence. "However, the timescales involved in these calculation are so unreasonably large and abstract that one could wonder if th
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by nfc 4y ago
“If we define understanding as human understanding, then AI systems are very far off,” This took me into the following line of thought. If we wanted AGI we probably should give this neural networks an overarching goal, the same way our int
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by nfc 5y ago
I'm trying to help friends in Ukraine as much as possible and advice on secure communications would be a way to do it. I know messaging apps security have been discussed in HN before but I wanted to ask the community about it in the co
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Ukraine Warned over Danger of Russian Spying on Telegram(forbes.com)
9 points by nfc 5y ago|2 comments
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by nfc 5y ago
I was thinking something similar recently, and I also believe it's an idea worth exploring. Something else to add to this conversation. There's an obvious difference between two cases in which a trusted person trusts a url: 1) Sin
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by nfc 5y ago
Then you just stop trusting them for your search results, it's not like you are unfriending them.
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by nfc 5y ago
Couldn't we run experiments to discover whether they really have this role? Like for example choosing an island with mosquitoes (and far enough from other lands as to not be rapidly repopulated) eliminating them there and seeing what t
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by nfc 5y ago
So we should allow wolves population to increase until the proportion of flying to normal cars is?
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by nfc 5y ago
I'm gonna advocate Tenerife (my island) since it would be amazing to have more HNers around :) https://weatherspark.com/y/147639/Average-Weather-at-Tenerif... Doesn't seem to get much better according to
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Show HN: Transcriptor, an modal editor to correct speech-to-text transcripts
1 points by nfc 5y ago|0 comments
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by nfc 5y ago
This just made me think how much the influence on civilizations that act based on some "Dark Forest" type of hypothesis could change based on what these civilizations (believe to) know about physics
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by nfc 5y ago
Hi dang, thanks for the amazing work you do moderating HN. Reading your words "The weariness that arises at the thought of caring about commenter opinions" got me thinking about how the unique experience (even if perhaps not spec
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by nfc 6y ago
Yes, this is different from dark matter. This is baryonic "matter" that is predicted by our theories but that had not been previously detected. However the title is misleading, this is not the discovery of this matter even if the
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by nfc 6y ago
I also think there's a lot to be tried in the space of "how to build technology companies". I see many options available to technology companies that are not realistic for traditional companies. I think that we need to experi
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Ask HN: Fast way to find socially responsible investors?
8 points by nfc 6y ago|4 comments
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by nfc 6y ago
This is the only source I've found to easily compare those https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
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by nfc 6y ago
That's great, it's certainly something fascinating to explore, I'm happy you are working in this kind of ideas :). I'll have a look when I'll have a bit more time. Edit: Remove the question about contact info since
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by nfc 6y ago
Hi mimixco, I just wrote a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124707 about some thoughts I had about this kind of ideas, what do you think?, I'll try to read more about what you are doing as soon as I find
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by nfc 6y ago
I've given some thought to this and a related idea. Let's say that for a subset of scientific papers you have the possibility of specifying both the premises and results in a way that can be composed. Let's say for example th
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by nfc 6y ago
That's exactly the point I was trying to make
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by nfc 6y ago
> they generally don't evolve to become more deadly That's a very important point and one that makes me agree with you in that it'll probably won't happen. This is because in most cases a virus reduces its R0 when its
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by nfc 6y ago
This all depends on so many factors and there are still so many things that we don't know that I'm skeptical of people claiming they know how unlikely it is to happen. What is the degree of confidence of those virologists on their
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by nfc 6y ago
So from what you are saying the explanation for the paragraph from the article would be that a more severe infection would be more likely to have R0 < 1, so on aggregate viruses would "commonly" evolve this way. I understand th
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by nfc 6y ago
"This deletion likely hindered its ability to bind effectively, making it harder to produce severe infections. Such evolution by deletion is actually a common feature of these viruses." Is this really the case?, how would that be

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