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by postultimate 3y ago
Journalists have been on the grievance-grifter gravy-train for a long long time, so we can expect unrelenting hostility to anything that redirects attention away from the lucrative "bias" narrative to any other issue. > AI ethi
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by postultimate 3y ago
Doesn't "everything Plato said was stupid" count as philosophical progress since Plato ?
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by postultimate 3y ago
This is a decent exploration of the third-worst possible outcome of AI, but it's a bizarre dismissal of the second-worst, even though he explains the mechanism himself: > The doomsday scenario is not a manufacturing A.I. transformin
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by postultimate 3y ago
> when a straightforwardly “I’m a Nazi” Nazi showed up in the beta, people used the report function, and the Bluesky team labeled the account and banned it from the Bluesky app "Don't like the feudalism of Mastodon ? Come enjoy
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by postultimate 4y ago
Among all the fuss about typography, the authors have overlooked the most important detail about the PHD thesis, which was that Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of Brainfuck.
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by postultimate 4y ago
No, this is just question-begging by treating GPT's access to the world as being external to it, but your own as being part of you. If we fix this by treating your senses as external, then we can imagine a copy of you with its senses r
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by postultimate 4y ago
When GPT mentions ice-cream, it does so because it was in the corpus. When it occurred in the corpus, it was as a reference to actual ice-cream. So GPT has just as much intentionality as you do. You might claim that you've eaten ice-cr
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by postultimate 4y ago
1 GPa is less than half the yield strength of the best steels. All you would need to maintain the superconducting state is to put the material in a steel pipe.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Good for him. Nobody's racism should be unscientific.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Welp, HN has nerdsniped me again : After some unpaid pondering, here's my suggestion for a middle ground on downvoting: 1) Reduce issue-related downvoting by only allowing some random subset of the current active users to downvote, a
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by postultimate 4y ago
Yes, tell everyone how much you hate white people too. Your act of piety is surely guaranteed to keep the inquisition from your door.
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by postultimate 4y ago
'Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be white.' ...and indeed, it proved exactly that.
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by postultimate 4y ago
No, that's not what |I'm supposing. The 80386 got used in vending machines because technology moves on, the new stuff gets cheap, and because it's more generally useful, it gains in popularity while the old stuff loses it, ev
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by postultimate 4y ago
1974: "No-one would put an AGI in a bomb, that's just ridiculous" 1986: "No-one is going to put an 80386 in a vending machine, that's just ridiculous"
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by postultimate 4y ago
"The Yellowstone magma chamber is sitting there like an enormous angry zit. What's our plan ?" "We're going to stick a very big pin in it"
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by postultimate 4y ago
But the lack of a positive refcount means that it is, so this solves the problem the article was complaining about.
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by postultimate 4y ago
> task groups (nurseries from trio) can't arrive soon enough in the stdlib Please, no. Asyncio is horrible, and bodging it to make it less horrible just means we will be forced to live with the remaining horror. Far better to replac
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by postultimate 4y ago
This one seems quite easy to fix - just have the scheduler check that task objects have a positive refcount before running them, including the first time.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Did they change their minds about the waste in the pools at Fukushima ? If those had collapsed (and at one point it looked as if they might), it would have fatally irradiated over 10,000 people.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Copyright offences on an industrial scale.
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by postultimate 4y ago
https://youtu.be/_VfSl0iGAus?t=25
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by postultimate 4y ago
That one and much more here: https://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
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by postultimate 4y ago
A larger corpus.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Just on the offchance that anyone cares, the PLUCHINO/BIONDO/RAPISARDA paper quoted in the article is a complete fraud. They use a model where, in each step, wealth is halved with p=0.5, and doubled with p=0.5*talent, where no ind
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by postultimate 4y ago
It's a radioluminescent paint company, so about six and a half thousand years.
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by postultimate 4y ago
These findings — from [..], the Anti-Defamation League An organization that was created to help a Jewish rapist/murderer escape justice said so ? Well that's an unimpeachable source !
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by postultimate 4y ago
Yes, Google CEO Jeff Weiner's Quest to Turn the AI Resource Engine Into an Effective Leader is a very worrying development.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Hurricane Florence will likely “peel off” the US Atlantic Coast, US Coast Guard spokesman says Getting the right amount of memories right – the culture of memory buffing in bats The art of lithium-ion dynamite (1995) We built the game that
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by postultimate 4y ago
Microsoft considered killing the startup community, says CEO Tesla’s strange new CEO: ‘This is not the right place for me to be successful’ Puerto Rico is receiving $6 Earth’s largest cloud is the remains of a comet (2019) A deep dive into
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by postultimate 4y ago
If the company bans you, they are publicly claiming you have performed a disreputable action of some kind. If you have not, why not sue them for defamation ?

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