someguyorother

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by someguyorother 1mo ago
> It's unfortunate and surprising that there's still no effective drug, though lidocaine does, in fact, work. (Very temporarily, sadly.) There's some research, but yeah, I'm surprised that something that affects so ma
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by someguyorother 4mo ago
> Why do LLMs use these phrases so much if humans rarely use them in written form? As far as I understand, it's due to RLHF. The reviewers the AI companies use don't necessarily know what kind of question is a good one, so when
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by someguyorother 6mo ago
The mental transaction cost is the hard part. The effort required to decide whether to pay at all is significant enough that payments don't scale down to the micro- level.
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by someguyorother 11mo ago
It's only mathematics-adjacent, but Stephen Hawking was known for making quite a few bets. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.359.6382.1317
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by someguyorother 1y ago
I don't think that's people who refer to Tyranny of Structurelessness mean. At least I read it more as that you can't just declare 'there be no hierarchy here' and be done. Unless you carefully engineer the system,
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by someguyorother 1y ago
Sure thing, here's your neural VR interface and extremely high fidelity artificial world with as many paperclips as you want. It even has a hyperbolic space mode if you think there are too few paperclips in your field of view.
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by someguyorother 1y ago
Users of practical software would probably not accept the program taking forever, so you could implement a runtime constraint. With a runtime constraint, every TM effectively halts, so making nontrivial observations about them should at lea
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by someguyorother 1y ago
The dark humor in this is that any such technologically advanced future where humans have a meaningful say will eventually look like one of abundant luxury communism: it's just that the oligarchs' version will have a lot of people
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by someguyorother 4y ago
I think you could do most of it as a point and click. Perhaps with the exception of that one command (if you know what I mean) because the mere possibility of it would be revealing in a point-and-click. But you could do that in a Sierra A
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by someguyorother 4y ago
Perhaps you could do a hierarchical approach somehow, first generating a "zoomed out" structure, then copying parts of it into an otherwise unspecified picture to fill in the details. But perhaps plain stable diffusion wouldn&#x27
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by someguyorother 4y ago
>You can do MCMC like AlphaGO and see ten moves ahead. The existence of adversarial attacks shows that most neural networks have pretty bad worst-case performance. Thus sticking GPT-3 into alpha-beta or MCTS could just as easily give you
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by someguyorother 5y ago
In the same way. Most proposed fusion systems use deuterium-tritium fusion where a significant amount of the energy is carried away as neutrons, so direct energy conversion wouldn't be possible anyway. From the article you referenced:
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> What you call "american ideas" is the only thing that works in the anonymous environment. What about BitTorrent or its various file-sharing predecessors? It has no cash, they had no cash. Or Tor? Exit nodes don't demand
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by someguyorother 5y ago
The current crowning achievement of formal methods is, as I understand it, seL4. It is a formally proven microkernel of about 8500 LOC. There's still a while to go until they can scale to 100kLOCs, unfortunately.
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by someguyorother 5y ago
There are ways to keep an AI in sealed hardware and making sure it can't affect the world, for instance by using an objective function that only deals with mathematics, and doesn't deal with the real world at all. E.g. the AI is g
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by someguyorother 5y ago
That seems to be a DRM problem. Let's say that you want the camera to track all modifications of the picture. Then, analogous to DRM, there's nothing stopping the forger from just replacing the CCD array on the camera with a wire
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Just make it zero-knowledge. You use the ID server to prove that you're not a sock puppet of someone already registered, but that's all the site needs to know.
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by someguyorother 5y ago
That's for reinforcement learning, right? What is the adversarial learning problem in say, classification based on Solomonoff? If hypercomputation is possible, then anything based on Kolmogorov complexity would be SOL, but if not... is
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> E.g., their ability to survive high levels of radiation or vacuum. If I recall correctly, the tardigrades (and extremophiles like D. radiodurans) have evolved to handle damage brought on by desiccation. As a fortunate side-effect, this
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> That's interesting that you're familiar with how it scales to different cores; I've never played around with the core parameters that much. It's simply the combinatorial explosion: it's easier to find a surpris
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> Later I discovered CoreWar [2] and enjoyed that until I learned all of the main classes of algorithms/bots had been identified. The evolvers sometimes break the bomber-scanner-paper stereotype. They just don't scale well to n
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by someguyorother 5y ago
It's not really immutable as you can change the parameters of an entangled pair. You just can't communicate any information by doing so, because you need a classical signal to make sure you don't read one of the particles the
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> If there's an infinite number of civilisations out there, and one of them is so advanced that we are insects to them, why wouldn't they just exterminate us, or use us as food? We want to exterminate mosquitoes because they&#x
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> quantum communication system that would allow instantaneous information transfer over large distances. However do they intend to accomplish that? Quantum entanglement can't be used to accelerate classical communications!
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Calculus captchas do exist, which I guess proves the point! https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/09/a-complicated-ca...
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by someguyorother 5y ago
That sounds right. A zero-knowledge password proof is a way for one party to prove to another the knowledge of a password, without revealing anything else about the password. Such a protocol prevents an attacker (eavesdropper or man in the
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Looks like a relative of the Gosper curve! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Perhaps a more general observation is that a measure that faces pressure by intelligent agents needs to be monitored and adjusted by equally intelligent agents to patch the exploits. So you can either use a simple measure that doesn't
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by someguyorother 5y ago
You would need to use zero knowledge crypto on both sides so the state doesn't know what platforms you're subscribed to, and the platform doesn't know your real identity (or what other users you have, only that you're be

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