uplifter

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by uplifter 7mo ago
There is a distribution of optimism, some people in 2023 were predicting AGI by 2025. No such thing as trajectory when it comes to mass behavior because it can turn on a dime if people find reason to. Thats what makes civilization so fun.
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by uplifter 7mo ago
Has someone turned this into an agent benchmark? Most tokens emitted until the system rm -rf /s
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by uplifter 8mo ago
The ISS’s solar arrays each weigh a metric ton and generate 35 KW a piece[0], and that’s just for the power collection. They’d need incredible leaps in efficiency for an orbiting ton collecting and performing 100 KW of compute. [0] https
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by uplifter 9mo ago
This may be more a problem with how "fit" is defined and used than with natural selection theory itself. Fitness can be hard to define beyond the trivial "these organisms which survived the selection event must be the fit one
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Its conceivable that the universe could encode a goal somehow, after all its so vast, but that conceivability alone is not evidence for the existence of an encoded goal any more than the conceivability of extra-terrestrial intelligence, or
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by uplifter 9mo ago
> What is the algorithm implementation when it comes to the physical world? It is the physical world, nature is the implementation of the natural selection algorithm. Yes, the strong force is part of the implementation, because the stron
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by uplifter 9mo ago
What part of it don’t you agree with? That an algorithm implementation must encode the goal that it pursues? How can something pursue a goal it has no access to a definition of? If you have an alternative way it could work, please propose i
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by uplifter 9mo ago
That's fine, all I'm saying is that if genes don't actually have intention, then the utility of modeling them as though they do must be strictly limited, if not an outright liability in some contexts. Use the heuristic at you
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Yeah, that's not really good enough, by the author's own admission: From wikipedia: 'In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he "can readily see that [the book's title] might give a
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by uplifter 9mo ago
This relates to why you will often see multiple mushrooms of the same type blooming at the same time in a ring pattern: the edge of the ring is the periphery of the linearly, radially expanding mat of subterranean fungal fiber weave, which
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by uplifter 9mo ago
>Thus, one may guess, that first distinctive poisonous mushrooms like the fly agaric developed, then most animals large enough to eat them developed an instinct to avoid all mushrooms, and then the non-poisonous freeloading mushrooms dev
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by uplifter 9mo ago
In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins emphasized that the primary unit of evolution was the individual gene, not whole genomes. The genes were replicators and the genomes were just collections of replicators, and the way the selection pressure math
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by uplifter 9mo ago
> An observer says "the infection wants to be resistant" I can confidently claim that literally nobody says this because a google search for this exact phrase has only one result, and its this thread.[0] Really though, I have n
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by uplifter 9mo ago
You're choice of samples is rather skewed towards ones sharing a relatively recent common ancestor. Octopus and Sea Squirts are also animals, and they don't have legs or torsos or, in the later case, heads or eyes. Octopus brains
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Of course there is bias, the bias is provided by the natural environment where the organisms coded by the genome must thrive or die. The bias is applied after the mutation occurs, but the mutations themselves are random, or nearly so. Proba
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by uplifter 9mo ago
> If you calculate the pure combinatorial distance between the DNA of 2 species, you must find that you can't just brute force your way from one to the other before the heat-death of the universe. Can you expand on this? I'm no
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by uplifter 9mo ago
> how to square the idea that evolution produces knowledge with the idea that it doesn't optimize even for reproductive fitness Its really fairly simply: natural selection requires two things: heritable genetics and a source of vari
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by uplifter 9mo ago
There is no broader context wherein natural selection can be considered to be an optimization process, that is a pernicious misconception of evolutionary theory. Fortunately, people with a computer science background have a distinct advanta
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Makes sense, thanks. I guess it would only feel like a slant if the "force" causing the odd shape, the gravity of the pulsar, was removed. Then all the extended gas would fall back towards the center, while a solid planet might be
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by uplifter 9mo ago
If I'm standing near (but not directly on) the pointy part of the lemon shaped planet, do I feel like I'm standing on level ground, or am I on a slant?
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by uplifter 9mo ago
The background temp at Earth's orbit is due to the incidence of solar flux, which I took account of. I'm assuming the radiators are shaded from that flux by the rest of the satellite, for efficiency reasons, so we don't need
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by uplifter 9mo ago
>Depending on what percentage of time we spend in sunlight (depends on orbit, but the number's between 50%-100%, with a 66% a good estimate for LEO), we can reduce the radiator surface area by that amount. You need enough radiators
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Here's some math on how affordable that abundant LEO solar energy is: First you have to pay energy to get to LEO A Starship Launch costs[0] 51.75 TJ of energy in terms of its methane fuel. It will be able to take a payload of 150 tonne
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by uplifter 9mo ago
These data centers are solar powered, right? So if they are absorbing 100% of the energy on their sun side, by default they'll be able to heat up as much as an object left in the sun, which I assume isn't very hot compared to what
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by uplifter 9mo ago
It's actually only about 3x. As you intimated, the radiated heat Energy output of an object is described by the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, which is E = [Object Temp ]^4 * [Stefan-Boltzmann Constant] However, Temp must be in units of an abs
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by uplifter 9mo ago
You're absolutely right. The obvious solution would have been to create a boolean table containing all the pre-computed answers, and then simply use the integer you are testing as the index of the correct answer in memory. Now your isE
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by uplifter 9mo ago
I stand corrected! Thank you for the info. The four essential freedoms[0] are good reading for the first principles of software freedom concept. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Edit: I'm wrong on my first reply, as pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226602 LLVM is free software, and it is a confusion to equate copyleft and free software, though I still maintain that free
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by uplifter 9mo ago
Is this really an attempt to regulate children's speech or association any more than denying kids entry to a pub?. I don't think the framers of this law are even worried about what kids are saying or who they associate with, as lo
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by uplifter 9mo ago
At least concerning Richard M. Stallman's take on this subject, this characterization is completely wrong. RMS certainly does not consider the difference between open source and free software to be merely one of 'emphasis.' A

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