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by pontus 12d ago
I find the distinction between AGI and ASI to be a red herring. In my mind, we humans already have enough intelligence to basically solve any problem given enough time and a 'scratch pad'. It's sort of like Turing-completenes
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by pontus 2mo ago
So I'll have to park my car in a garage first, then take a bus to the terminal just so that a robot can move my car from the place where I parked it to a different place? I was hoping it'd be something where I'd pull up to th
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by pontus 4mo ago
Also consider the possibility that the people who argue against the hard problem of consciousness may, in fact, not be conscious. How could they ever understand the nuance of conscious experience and how it is fundamentally different from &
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by pontus 9mo ago
I would buy this in a heartbeat. I am profoundly bothered by the slop software that is on every TV these days. I keep joking that as tech invades more and more corners of our lives, we will at some point in the future be helping our parents
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by pontus 10mo ago
Somewhat related question: Any suggestions for a scanner meant for bulk scans of old family photos (think a few thousand images)? I bought, what I thought, was a reasonably solid scanner, the Pacific Image Powerfilm scanner but the softwa
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by pontus 1y ago
I'm curious what you mean when you say that this clearly is not intelligence because it's just Markov chains on steroids. My interpretation of what you're saying is that since the next token is simply a function of the procee
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by pontus 1y ago
Just to pile on here, there's also ambiguity around how the observed girl is selected. Consider the following framing: I go to a random house on a random street and knock on the door. A young girl opens the door. I ask how many sibling
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by pontus 1y ago
I'm not making a value judgement on how much I would or other people should consume in the first scenario. I'm simply saying that you could have profound effects due to AI without it being evident in the top-level metrics like eco
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by pontus 1y ago
I think two possible effects of AI are often conflated. On the one hand you can imagine that work gets supercharged, allowing companies to produce 10x the number of widgets at 1/10th the cost. The economy would grow rapidly, wealth ine
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by pontus 1y ago
Even if AI can't replace an entire worker, they may still be able to help one worker do the work of two which by itself could lead to massive unemployment (at least in the short term.)
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by pontus 1y ago
I think the OP was pointing out that the reason Strasssen's algorithm works is that it somehow uncovered a kind of repeated work that's not evident in a simple divide and conquer approach. It's by the clever definition of the
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by pontus 1y ago
Isn't it just that the IP router happens to use IPs in Russia as part of the rotation? If they're trying to exfiltrate data, they might want to rotate through IP addresses in order to obfuscate what's going on or otherwise ci
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by pontus 1y ago
Is this just a data play? Need more data. Start a social network. Own said data.
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by pontus 2y ago
Here's how I think about it: For any dome-like shape, you can start a marble at the bottom and roll it up with some initial speed. If you roll it with insufficient initial speed it'll turn around and come back down. If you roll it
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by pontus 2y ago
I agree. I think it comes down to the motivation behind why one does mathematics (or any other field for that matter). If it's a means to an end, then sure have the AI do the work and get rid of the researchers. However, that's no
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by pontus 2y ago
Another way to get to the same result is to use "Feynman's Trick" of differentiating inside a sum: Consider the function f(x) = Sum_{n=1}^\infty c^(-xn) Then differentiate this k times. Each time you pull down a factor of n (
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by pontus 3y ago
I mean, you could jump into the black hole to see what's inside so it's not unfalsifiable. The only issue is that you can't convey it to someone on the outside of the black hole.
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by pontus 3y ago
Here's a good video on this topic from a few years ago where they illustrate the difference between a pure 5/8 and what's actually on the album. https://youtu.be/dRBmavn6Wk0
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by pontus 3y ago
Here's a fun thought experiment / apparent paradox. In high school physics we learn that a 1kg mass accelerates as quickly as a 2kg mass when only subjected to the force of gravity. When I used to teach physics, the intuitive expl
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by pontus 3y ago
It is generally believed that the perturbation expansion that we see in realistic quantum field theories are what are known as asymptomatic expansions. These are series that have a radius of convergence of zero (i.e. they only converge when
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by pontus 3y ago
Yeah, from a philosophical perspective these are interesting questions to ponder, but my impression of these comments is less that people are pondering the depth of consciousness and more that they're trying to be contrarian / nay
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by pontus 3y ago
While everyone is debating whether this is impressive or dumb, if it's a leap forward in technology or just a rehashing of old ideas with more data, if we should really care that much about it passing the bar exam or if it's all j
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by pontus 3y ago
No I'm just it as an analogy. Not all Turing machines are universal. What were going through now could maybe be likened to what it would be like for a Turing machine to encounter a universal Turing machine for the first time. For all i
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by pontus 3y ago
One (perhaps silly) way I like to frame this stuff is by imagining that I'm some special purpose Turing machine designed specifically for some task. Sure, sometimes other Turing machines come along that appear to infringe upon my skill
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Balaji: The Banks Are Insolvent(twitter.com)
2 points by pontus 4y ago|0 comments
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by pontus 4y ago
The point I was making is that the problem (MH) is a lot more subtle than people give it credit for. Many of the arguments people make for how the MH problem is "obvious" seem to work for this modified game too unless you're
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by pontus 4y ago
No. The fact that they happened to not open the door with the car tells you something. Take it to the extreme of 100 doors. If the spectator randomly opens 98 doors and doesn't randomly stumble upon the car you should take that as evid
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by pontus 4y ago
No, if the spectator happens to open an empty door, the probability collapses to 50/50. That's the point I'm making for how counterintuitive this is. Here's the full set of cases. Let's say that you select door 1 an
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by pontus 4y ago
This is a great explanation I think! Never heard of it before.
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by pontus 4y ago
There's another version of the Monte Hall problem that highlights why this is such a counterintuitive problem. Imagine that after you pick your box, Monte Hall invites an audience member up on stage and instructs them to choose one of

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