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by scj 7d ago
Wouldn't the three rules of Meeseeks robotics make certain tasks impossible? For example, an occupied self-driving car better be closer to its destination than a large fire / volcano / etc.
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by scj 11d ago
I'm cool with cleanup costs up front... Can Alberta apply it to oil and gas companies too?
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by scj 1mo ago
Don't blame me, I voted for Jia Tan!
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by scj 1mo ago
To be fair, there isn't a good method of measuring software development productivity in general. Maybe they should ask an AI to create one!
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by scj 1mo ago
Not a Brit, not a lawyer... The promise could be re-interpreted in some funny ways. For example, Count Binface didn't specify when nationalizing Adele would occur. They could create another[0] special case in UK copyright law with a m
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by scj 1mo ago
The older I get, the more I feel that #3 should be "make it work well". Where the definition of "well" can be situationally interpreted.
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by scj 2mo ago
> "because C is such a small and simple language (and one which, as you suggested, often feels like a bunch of syntactic sugar over PDP-7 assembly)." I didn't describe such qualities of C in my previous post. At all. And
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by scj 2mo ago
I'd phrase it differently, C++ was a set of power-to-performance trade-offs that were optimal in the 1990s. Time has moved on. More importantly, a typical 1990s C++ dev was likely someone who learned assembly, then C or C++. Meaning t
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by scj 2mo ago
Using an ASI to subjugate humans in any capacity is a terrible idea. without sharing tech to make the ASI, you'd hope humanity could work together to determine how to align an AI for our common benefit.
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by scj 4mo ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw Not 100% apt, but close enough.
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by scj 4mo ago
A thought experiment: When all practical software is only written by AIs, will the AIs use goto? What will the programming language of AIs look like? My bet is something _like_ assembly, but not assembly. That being said, I think humans wi
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by scj 6mo ago
"For example, the current cities Waymo operates in do not have appreciable snow fall, and as a result neither the Waymo nor the human benchmark data include this type of inclement weather." I'm happy to see this acknowledged,
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by scj 6mo ago
One of my favourite little details in Jeeves and Wooster is that British cops are shown as bumbling fools who fit right in with the cast. Meanwhile American police are consistently depicted as trigger happy, shooting at any minor provocatio
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by scj 6mo ago
> "At a societal level, cars that can automatically fix a "recall" with an over-the-air update..." If an over-the-air patch can have that kind of impact, then what happens if security is compromised and that power is
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by scj 6mo ago
Could you elaborate (hopefully with real examples) of what it's like to be in the out group with few connections (or perhaps no connections) in regards to a particular good / service?
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by scj 6mo ago
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was established in 1982. We're still in the process of figuring out what it means (and as a living document, the interpretation will change over time). It's messy. But I'd much ra
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by scj 6mo ago
The "bre" in "libre" is pronounced similarly to "zebra". Kinda. It'll get you in the ballpark, which is good enough for an Anglo. "This Hour has 22 Minutes" had a great sketch where both a Fran
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by scj 10mo ago
It'll likely be used to mine bitcoin instead.
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by scj 10mo ago
Insane question, asked for the purposes of discussion: Would it make sense if those GPUs were top-of-the-line for years? Like if TSMC were destroyed? Even then, I don't understand why being a landlord to the place were AI is trained
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by scj 11mo ago
> I'm sure there's alien civilisations that are more aggressive than us, but also ones that are less so. What is the minimum amount of aggression necessary to evolve sentience? What is the maximum amount of aggression in an in
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by scj 1y ago
Is it going to translate C into good Rust code, or just C with a Rust accent? Think transpiled C in Javascript. Soon LLMs will be able to write Fortran in any language!
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by scj 1y ago
"you can write perfectly fine code without ever needing to worry about the more complex features of the language. You can write simple, readable, and maintainable code in C++ without ever needing to use templates, operator overloading,
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by scj 1y ago
Could Commodore have made a financially successful low-cost Amiga laptop circa 1991 - 1993?
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by scj 1y ago
Consider a spoon-fed spectrum for AIs working in large codebases, where is state-of-the-art AI? "Here's a bug report, fix it." "Here's a bug report, an explanation of what's triggering it, fix it." "H
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by scj 1y ago
AI can draw blueprints of a house. The house may look aesthetically pleasing, but if it can't hold it's own weight, the design is flawed. There's a difference between an executed image and a display-only image. At a certain
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by scj 1y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if popular libraries could export to .so files so the best language for a task could use the bits & pieces it needed without a programmer needing to know python (and possibly C)? Were I to write a scripting la
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by scj 1y ago
And how many factories capable of casting steel cannons were in the south?
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by scj 1y ago
Same if the King can say "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" then pardon the soldiers that do.
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by scj 1y ago
I'm Canadian and remember repurposing AOL floppy disks that came in the mail circa 1996. Never used the service though.
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by scj 1y ago
If annexed and somehow given democratic rights, I suspect Canadians would form a protest party with the goal of budgetary shutdowns in the House of Representatives... Zero support for any legislation other than Canadian Separation. Be a po

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