nmca

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1. 211.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   This will age badly.
2. 212.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   I wonder if the finite growth rate of the light-cone disarms the repugnant conclusion, by limiting the bound on population size that you can trade up to.
3. 213.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   I've pondered this for a while. One solution would be, imo: 1. Maintain a large set of questions that are mechanically markable (e.g. no room for bias/teacher choice in marking). You can expand this set by a small percentage each
4. 214.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   The meaning of "adaptive" in the sense of evolutionary theory, and the capacity of species to evolve to extinction. Reading the selfish gene as a youth I missed the point; "an alien god" [0] and some Hanson articles got
5. 215.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   Renters are yimby, owners are nimby. Supply side regulatory capture is the problem; it is run by democracy. Thus if you look at demographic trends in rent-vs-own and turn-out (by region to account for non-proportional representation) one sh
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   Enhancing human learning via spaced repetition optimization(pnas.org)

   5 points by nmca 4y ago|0 comments
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   by nmca 4y ago

   This looks like a very cool project! The docs include this description of the core algorithm: > The space repetition algorithm in Trane is fairly simple and relies on computing a score for a given exercise based on previous trials rather
8. 218.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   This seems to boil down to "it would be more complicated", mixed with "the trivial thing is a bad idea", both of which seem true. But I can imagine a more complicated scheme could be much better; done right.
9. 219.▲
   by nmca 4y ago

   I'm surprised that no spaced repetition systems seem to exploit relationships between facts/cards. One might imagine that capturing a graph of similar ideas would allow for better algorithms.
10. 220.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    Future notch-es will just ask chatGPT for a poem and avoid the drama.
11. 221.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    Here are some more recent generated images, more or less indistinguishable from real fashion photography. Can you not see the value? https://twitter.com/rainisto/status/1597206841813274626?t=7B...
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    by nmca 4y ago

    What's entertaining is that they were just too soon. Give it at the very most a couple more years and the state of the field will be very, very interesting.
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    HyperTree Proof Search for Neural Theorem Proving(arxiv.org)

    2 points by nmca 4y ago|0 comments
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    by nmca 4y ago

    When thinking about how this landscape will evolve, you should think: "A computer can understand the content as well as any person." As this will be true in ~3 years. In that light, things are both better and more scary.
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    by nmca 4y ago

    Money is definitely an intersubjective reality - valuable only because people believe it to be so. It might be a very stable concept in most instances, but various very real and extreme edge cases exist. (Regular inflation, Hyperinflation,
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    Building a safer dialogue agent: Sparrow(deepmind.com)

    2 points by nmca 4y ago|0 comments
17. 227.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-forecasting-one-year-in/
18. 228.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    I find it more illuminating to look at resolved prediction markets for concrete benchmarks; many of which have resolved faster and more positively than expected. https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-forecasting-one-year-in&#x2
19. 229.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    Yes. https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intellige...
20. 230.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    Take logs, then the effects add.
21. 231.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    The relevant metric here is cumulative excess mortality, not current infection rate.
22. 232.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    Deleted, ty for reaching out.
23. 233.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    - Would it contribute positively to our world if competent self driving existed? Yes, making things that people want (e.g. pay for) cheaper and better is good. - What are the various approaches to get from here to there, and what are their
24. 234.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    fwiw the Roman alphabet seems pretty suboptimal and the impossibility of switching is an example of a coordination problem, as opposed to an example of optimal design
25. 235.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    But this doesn't get you to "be vegetarian" or "stop torturing the kids in that ritual with the bullet ants", both of which are pretty obviously right in any framework that doesn't overweight the action and val
26. 236.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    +1, I would love to see a trace of smallvec killing performance due to branch prediction.
27. 237.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    Do you really, truly believe this problem is impossible to solve though? Even simple things make strides, eg: https://www.deepmind.com/publications/gophercite-teaching-la...
28. 238.▲
    by nmca 4y ago

    I wish someone could produce a cryptocurrency that actually worked (high throughput, anonymous, distributed account recovery, good ux). Tap-to-pay, but without enslaving the world to the whims of HSBC etc.
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    Teaching language models to support answers with verified quotes(deepmind.com)

    1 points by nmca 5y ago|0 comments
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    by nmca 5y ago

    No.