pandoro

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by pandoro 4d ago
I cannot fathom how you can intensely work on a problem that you genuinely believe has a "10 to 25%" probability of causing immense harm or even present an extinction-level risk to humanity. How can you truly believe this and be o
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by pandoro 2mo ago
I understand it as sunlight so bright that your eyes are half-closed, obscuring the landscape
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by pandoro 2mo ago
If you are not familiar with Camus' work, I highly recommend reading the essay collection Nuptials ( Nuptials at Tipasa , The Wind at Djémila , Summer in Algiers and The Desert ). It was written in 1936, when Camus was in his ear
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by pandoro 2mo ago
I use this: https://gist.github.com/KMJ-007/0979814968722051620461ab2aa0... Simple and works great but requires one alias per account
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by pandoro 2mo ago
Depends on your point of view. Has the web been a net positive overall? If your criteria is "instant access to any information" or "catalyze more technological progress" then positive, if your criteria is "young peo
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by pandoro 2mo ago
The general idea is to deliberately shape the geometry of spacetime to allow for effects such as faster-than-light travel (relative to another region of spacetime). Einstein's field equations link geometry to matter and energy: G_μν =
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by pandoro 2mo ago
Could you give an example of the value that only training a model can create but none of the rights-holder could? I feel like if you got a direct, instant communication channel to any of the rights-holder that created the content in the tra
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by pandoro 2mo ago
All frontier models have been trained without any regards for IP protection laws. I don't see how anyone can argue in good faith that distillation is not fair game and does not ultimately "benefit humanity™"
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by pandoro 2mo ago
Exactly. Imagine what would be possible after a billion year of technological evolution, heck even just 100'000 years. We already know that space time metric engineering is theoretically possible within our current understanding of phy
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by pandoro 2mo ago
Neo4j is a great DB but their license price is egregious for enterprise customers. A few years ago I was involved in negotiating a contract for a small/medium size kubernetes deployment (think around 25 cores) and the annual price was
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The future of cognitive security and the new sixth battleground(iai.tv)
3 points by pandoro 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Even more so considering that most, if not all countries already have age-verification infrastructure in-place for selling alcohol and tobacco (and other goods). Why not piggy-back on this? Go to a kiosk/shop selling controlled goods,
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Continue building useful models, tooling and products, market them to the people who could benefit and be realistic about their strength and weaknesses. Drop the messaging about job displacement, "transformative/dangerous AI"
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by pandoro 3mo ago
I was not criticizing the technology in itself but the messaging and marketing around it. I agree with most of your points except perhaps the general sentiment outside of tech about AI. Most people I've talked to admire the technology
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Bingo!
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by pandoro 3mo ago
I see your point, but in this case we are not talking about disruption at the scale of a product category, vertical, or even an entire industry. AI companies are trying to disrupt entire sectors of the economy at the same time: knowledge wo
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Interesting examples, thanks for the nice discussion! I believe it goes deeper than the "logical proof" sense. It's a category mistake. Consciousness can never be "objectified". About the readiness potential I'
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Taken verbatim from Anthropic’s Economic Policy Framework ( https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential/epf ): > We are not seeking job displacement. We are working to prevent or minimize it. Some amount of
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Segment starts at 12:46: https://youtu.be/IxqrSXiRja4?si=g59eoE3yzaVn62yX&t=766
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IBM and Norway's sovereign fund CEO: Is AI a bubble?(youtube.com)
2 points by pandoro 3mo ago|1 comments
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by pandoro 3mo ago
That might be too much of an assumption to make because of the binding problem. Imaging knowing absolutely everything there is to know - measurably, quantifiably, down to atomic/quantum states - about what happens when a human sees red
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by pandoro 3mo ago
You are right that I should have said "That means 0.000003% of humans own 20% of the value globally created" instead of capture . However, getting relatively accurate and meaningful numbers for billionaires income is probably v
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by pandoro 3mo ago
> What she meant was that it's impossible to get that rich without doing something bad — without cheating in some way. > But startups are the most common way to become really rich, and if you want to start a successful startup, t
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by pandoro 3mo ago
You're right that's my mistake, I misread OP's comment
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by pandoro 3mo ago
This public-private drama will only get worse once the AI companies are public and most of the economy depend on their continued performance through their presence in everyone's retirement funds
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Switzerland is not part of the European union (nor a member of the European Economic Area) but your point still stands
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by pandoro 3mo ago
The depravity of using a fun, uplifting game that targets kids and teenagers to train military drones boggles my mind. "The end justifies the means" continues to reign supreme
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by pandoro 3mo ago
At this point is there really a difference between death and destruction and "legitimate" military target? It's a slippery slope
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by pandoro 3mo ago
This raises an interesting question: is experience possible without a "point of view" as you call it; without any subject, only sensing and reacting? I don't think so. A purely reactive system cannot experience the world. Sub
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by pandoro 3mo ago
Do the hardest thing or do the easiest thing cheaply

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