programjames

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by programjames 10mo ago
A common justification for group projects was, "you have to learn how to work with people, even people who will not work." Yeah no, that's not the case. People get filtered through a much finer sieve when they're older.
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by programjames 10mo ago
We could all learn from Hengshui. (This is kind of a joke, because while the Hengshui school system is much more meritocratic, including in teacher salaries, it's also infamous for a stressful school environment. It's not really a
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by programjames 10mo ago
> States are saying that schools have to post the 10 commandments Yeah that definitely seems against the First Amendment (and Texas' equivalent in their Bill of Rights). I feel like the world makes more sense if you read the First A
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by programjames 10mo ago
Why? How does this benefit the students, except in understanding allusions in books and poetry? Or is that the goal, in which case, sure, but I think Eastern mythologies should be included too.
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by programjames 10mo ago
There is, but lowering standards is a cheap trick to get a bonus/promotion.
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by programjames 10mo ago
My father has a PhD in physics and couldn't really teach me math past seventh grade. On the other hand, my father has a PhD in physics and ran out of math to teach me around seventh grade.
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by programjames 10mo ago
I think quality over quantity matters. There was no one at my academic level at the public school, but two lived at my house. If you're worried about social skills, why do you expect an open admissions school to be able to train your c
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by programjames 10mo ago
Yeah, I routinely took classes with students 3–8 years older than me before going to college. "Age peers" are an illusion. However: 1. I mostly only cared about school w.r.t learning. For most kids, school is primarily a place to
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by programjames 10mo ago
I think a solution to fix this moral hazard is to take children away from their parents when the subsidies become too much. But for lots of reasons, society really doesn't want that to happen.
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by programjames 10mo ago
Parents as a group have lobbied to pretty much own their children. It's hard to justify that ownership if the state is constantly intervening for basic things like healthcare, food, and education. I disagree with this ownership, as it&
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by programjames 10mo ago
My goal wasn't to have a discussion, it was to shut down the propagation of lies. This is one of those memetic viruses that people keep passing around, that most people passing around don't even bother to think about, and it has s
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by programjames 10mo ago
Huh? You asked, "why is there broad consensus today that intelligence is ill-defined?" That's what I answered. Did you mean to ask a different question, "why is there broad consensus among people who research intelligenc
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by programjames 10mo ago
What you need for conflict resolution is usually a willingness to try to resolve the conflict. In rare situations, where communication and time is limited, you can actually run into the issue where you have to be smart enough to figure out
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by programjames 10mo ago
1. Religious mysticism. The murkier people are on concepts like thinking, consciousness, and intelligence, the easier it is to claim they include some metaphysical aspect. Since you cannot actually pin down the metaphysical aspect, they mus
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by programjames 10mo ago
True. I expect most conflicts come from people preferring not to think, and I also expect most conflicts escalate from people preferring not to think. Those are separate statements, and I only said the former. > This seems to imply that
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by programjames 10mo ago
I literally gave you the criterion. You can measure, "I have this model that is supposed to compress data. I have this data. Does it compress the data into fewer bits than other models? Than humans?" Or, "I have this game and
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by programjames 10mo ago
> I don't appreciate your expletives in your original unedited post, by the way, but the fact that you lost your temper is once again proof of something . It was the first edit where I added them, since I could not reply to your po
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by programjames 10mo ago
I think Solomonoff beat me by about 70 years, and Wissner-Gross & Freer by about 10 years. Even if I had something novel to publish in this area, I think I would rather do something like solve ARC-AGI and make a lot of money.
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by programjames 10mo ago
Babbling in the mathematics sense: no information transmitted. I agree with you in the linguistic sense on the word 'intelligence'. Everyone has their own colloquial meaning. That doesn't make their definitions correct. If so
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by programjames 10mo ago
> And in those other cases? You have a rigorous definition of comedy? There's surely more to comedy than subverting expectations. Someone else who cares more about comedy in particular can figure that out for themself, but surely I
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by programjames 10mo ago
I purposefully do not give out methods to measure intelligence, because people can train on them. I knew you wanted that, but that does not mean you get what you want. I also find it strange how you expect me to be empathetic in a way that
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by programjames 10mo ago
> How do you measure the capacity for improvisational comedy? What makes something funny? Usually, it's by subverting someone's predictions. You have to be good at predicting other's predictions to do this well. > How d
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by programjames 10mo ago
You're quite literally babbling. If a word has no good definition, it ceases to be a word. All you really mean is you use the word "intelligence" very loosely, without really knowing what you mean when you use it. You just
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by programjames 10mo ago
> What I deeply believe is: We're never going to invent superintelligence, not because its impossible for computers to achieve, but because we don't even know what intelligence is. Speak for yourself, not all of humanity. There
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I think the issue with the irrationality is that it isn't random. If some people made a mistake 20% of the time, completely randomly, when deciding between two products, it doesn't matter too much, and the dollars flow to the pers
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by programjames 10mo ago
"I like to think I'm generally intelligent, but I am not robust to adversarial attacks. I'm trying arc-agi tests now and it's looking bad for me." One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens. &qu
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by programjames 10mo ago
(1) You don't see the problem with people who are better at manipulating and lying to others through deceptive advertising getting a bigger market share? That's just so obviously bad for society. (2) Suppose you need insulin to li
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by programjames 10mo ago
I see a problem with it. It (1) makes companies market (lie) more aggressively, because it ends up working out. (2) makes prices irrational, because if a bunch of stupid people will buy your shit product, why would you care about the 1% who
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by programjames 10mo ago
> if you purely use policy optimization, RLHF will be biased towards short horizons > most RL has some adversarial loss (how do you train your preference network?), which makes the loss landscape fractal which SGD smooths incorrectly
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by programjames 10mo ago
If there isn't a path humans know how to take with their current technology, it isn't a solved problem. It's much different than people training an image model for research purposes, and knowing that $100m in compute is proba

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