rojobuffalo

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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
The question I wanted to raise is: are state-of-the-art artificial intelligences gaining the ability to create control loops, i.e. systems with goals and sensors.
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Control loops(ryanblakeley.net)
1 points by rojobuffalo 4y ago|1 comments
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
The problem is that performance and reliability are issues that creep up and by the time they're a problem, they are much more expensive to fix than if they had been first class priorities from the outset. Everyone who didn't care
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Do you mean dog astronaut as an example of a lie? Because there have been dog astronauts.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
That's my impression as well. It's an interesting question. If you want to read more, the two researchers quoted in the book that I was summarizing are Justin Marshal and Mike Land. Each has a handful of papers that are cited in t
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Ya, that's a lovely comic, but it appears to be a misconception. That comic is actually specifically called out in the book on page 107. It's more like a 12 color lookup table. > Every kind of red stimulates the bottom receptor
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
If you frame it as ignorance, the next step is to enlighten the other side with the factual arguments you want to make. "The threat landscape isn't as bad as you claim it is." "Mass surveillance has downsides that are wo
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I think hide implies intent to deceive. It's often more like conscious and sub-conscious reasoning. We constantly tell a story to ourselves about our motives. We're impulsive and wrong a lot of the time. And nobody is the ba
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
How about mouthwash first thing in the morning to nuke the bacteria without coating your mouth in fluoride?
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
https://ryanblakeley.net/dogs - I train dogs part-time. I specialize in fixing extreme behavior problems, but I also do advanced training for dogs that are already well-behaved. I account it as less than breakeven because I
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Oh man I love that description! It makes me think how exercise is like a contest against physical limits, which are knowable. Hard work leads to heavier lifts or longer runs. But when you kick your own ass in meditation, the limits are more
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
It's remarkable that I so often lapse in my meditation practice when it's such a short time commitment and so consistently improves my mood. I tell myself that morning yoga is enough or a walking meditation while taking the dog ou
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Reminds of the running joke in Land of the Lost where Will Ferrel's character, Dr. Marshall, keeps slagging off the T. rex for it's small brain.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Agreed. If you, as the interviewer, can't ascertain an applicant's ability to do the job, after chatting with them for an hour or two, you aren't qualified to hire for that position. The idea that you can pinpoint someone&#x2
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
"condone" means accept, allow, approve. I think you intended the opposite.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
It's also a reflection of history. Powerful people and groups time and time again have used power to pursue selfish goals while inflicting suffering on others. Power corrupts.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
That's interesting. Prior to July I did get replies, but they never fixed anything. "Thanks we'll pass this on to the dev team" but then nothing. I think that's normal but not great. Since July I've sent emails
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Have any writers migrated from Substack to Ghost? Substack support has been nonexistent for the past 6 months. I've reached out about a handful of broken features and get no response, except in one case months ago where they dismissed
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Recursion in Language vs. Math(ryanblakeley.net)
2 points by rojobuffalo 4y ago|0 comments
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Animal Vision(ryanblakeley.net)
2 points by rojobuffalo 4y ago|0 comments
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
That's a lesson I wish more software engineers would internalize. Novelty is a reliable way introduce failure modes. That was my main takeaway from a book that was mostly about bridge failures: Case Histories of Error and Judgement in
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I like the idea that aliens are here but they reveal just enough of themselves to be at the top of our hierarchy without getting close enough to hurt us or make us hate them. They're here to passively observe, but they also want to mak
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Maybe there is an imbalance of risk taken or value added among founders and early employees. I think that's debatable, but assume it's true. It's never reasonably accounted for in the equity distribution. It would be one thin
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
Having to formalize rules in plain language for security seems unsafe. There's a short sci-fi story called The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams, which has an AI and (spoiler) characters try to use indirections in lang
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
This fee structure creates a malignant incentive to bring more public land into the reservation system. Having to deal with reservations sucks and should only be a requirement when absolutely necessary. Most of the places I've been tha
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I've been using recreation.gov for years and had no idea. I assumed the money went directly to trail maintenance, fences, restrooms, hiring rangers, etc..
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I'd wager that most people who jumped to tailwind and sing its praises never wrote good css to begin with (or never worked on a project that handled css well). Frontend culture is like that: there's a lot of novelty and fads that
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
There are two wild species of sheep in North America, Dall and Bighorn. Hunting is usually restricted to adult males that have horns which make a full curl, i.e. 360 degrees. It takes approximately 8 years for them to mature to that point.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
what's the difference between a valid criticism and negativity? it would be hard enough to identify "hate", but "negative"...that leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
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by rojobuffalo 4y ago
I hope this isn't off-topic but I really like this text-only version of npr.org. I use Brave Browser and it has "reader mode" which does something similar, but it looks better when a site is designed with text-only in mind.

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