voidmain

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by voidmain 11d ago
The most likely path I see for human survival and flourishing is for AI to do something in the near future so destructive and terrifying that it unites humanity behind permanently banning it at any cost. It therefore seems like "AI saf
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by voidmain 22d ago
Sort of like how the human economy is limited by the fact that ants can't afford our products and services?
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by voidmain 25d ago
The first thing I do when I see an interesting article title is click on the comments to see if people have noticed that it's AI generated. If I didn't have this option because of the policy you desire, I would probably just stop
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by voidmain 29d ago
I'll defend i^4x since I like it better. (cost x, sint x) is a point on the unit circle x turns counterclockwise from (1,0). cost x + i sint x is a point in the complex plane x turns counterclockwise from 1. Now look at integer powers
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by voidmain 29d ago
How about i^4x? It makes it clearer which direction we are rotating (vs -1 which is a 0.5 turn rotation in either direction) and avoids the garden path confusion that could arise from it not being obvious from the left side of the equation
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by voidmain 1mo ago
> AI writes copy like this because that's how copywriters did it in the training set I don't think this is true. Someone probably had to write like this, but a base model has to be able to write like anyone. The specific mann
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by voidmain 1mo ago
The visualization is of the power set, which is uncountable.
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by voidmain 1mo ago
> Q: Do you think KVM vulnerabilities will keep appearing? > A: Yes. I recommend establishing a sustainable patching process for host hypervisors. Winter is coming.
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by voidmain 2mo ago
Vibe coding is doing its part to keep linguistic diversity alive: My wife went to sign up for a doctors appointment, and the form offered choices for "preferred language" that included Old English, ancient Egyptian and Elamite.
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by voidmain 2mo ago
I think you have slightly misunderstood the halting problem. There is no computer program H that, for every program P, determines whether P halts. This does not imply that for some particular program Q there is no proof that it halts. In fa
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by voidmain 2mo ago
Again, my concern is about things that humans will order robots to do, for fear other humans will do unto them first, and does not depend on a loss of control. I think loss of control is not too unlikely in the process of such an arms race,
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by voidmain 2mo ago
You don't need superintelligence to get this problem, but you do need human level intelligence across all domains. I don't know how far we are from this, and neither does anyone else.
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by voidmain 2mo ago
Governments, initially made of humans, will deliberately create military and industrial robots and assign them to create and scale production chains that go from natural resources to finished war machines. Maybe your government will not do
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by voidmain 2mo ago
Let's ignore all the unnecessary cruelty throughout all history and the present and assume that you are right. It doesn't matter, because people will be forced into these choices by competitive pressures even if their intentions a
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by voidmain 2mo ago
Nukes are not magic wands, they are mostly only worth it for targeting cities and other very dense concentrations of value and production. An enemy state going down this path will probably start out with cities full of humans (and will prob
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by voidmain 2mo ago
I already live off my wealth, and I expect AI development to destroy my life. Once humans can be robustly replaced by machines, the military-industrial "meta build" will be a state with no humans, no cities, and 100% of all produc
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by voidmain 2mo ago
The safety of safe rust is created by extremely strong and subtle invariants that unsafe rust must maintain perfectly (or all bets are off). The idea that a program with tens of thousands of lines of vibe coded unsafe Rust is memory safe is
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by voidmain 2mo ago
Nuclear weapons are mostly a threat to cities, and a zerg rush build would just not build any. I think that if all we get is skill cloning for formally verifiable tasks, that is not "AGI" and does not doom us. It probably won&#x27
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by voidmain 2mo ago
There is no doubt that compressing a whole industrial supply network into a little probe is incredibly hard. But I can't see microgravity specifically as a huge challenge. If you can get a probe to another star system, you can probably
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by voidmain 2mo ago
If AGI means that AI+robotics can robustly substitute for human labor, and robots are cheaper and faster to build than humans, then (a) anyone ruthless enough can zerg rush and defeat any nations that don't discard humans, (b) no one w
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by voidmain 2mo ago
We are really getting to the point where the tech industry must be stopped if humanity is to continue at all, let alone thrive.
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by voidmain 3mo ago
> In The Argument’s newest poll, fielded nationally among 3,008 registered voters between May 29 and June 3, 2026, over a quarter, 27%, of voters said it’s likely humanity would go extinct because of AI. At the same time, just 6% listed
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by voidmain 3mo ago
Providing access to the public is presumably just a temporary stopgap for these companies until they have robot armies to replace their customers and employees.
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by voidmain 4mo ago
I think the tiny size of a nuclear weapon and very short interval of nuclear reaction before "disassembly" mean that even though the energy release is small compared to an asteroid impact the temperatures are probably much higher.
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by voidmain 4mo ago
Democracy is also doomed by sufficiently capable AI. When the "meta" military unit was a knight in shining armor, most societies were under feudalism, ie rule by knights. When guns became cheap enough that whoever had the most guy
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by voidmain 4mo ago
Follow this reasoning to its conclusion: once humans are no longer part of the most efficient military-industrial "meta build", states that keep them alive will be outcompeted and eventually destroyed by those that do not.
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by voidmain 4mo ago
But you sacrificed some of your 33 bits of anonymity to have this setting work as intended. And that isn't strictly necessary: the web could have been engineered so that the selection of light or dark styles takes effect in a way undet
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by voidmain 5mo ago
Making me talk to a fucking robot leaves me with a deep and abiding hatred for your company. I will prefer almost any alternative to doing business with you and hope fervently to read about your bankruptcy. What percentage of interactions h
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by voidmain 5mo ago
FoundationDB used this (detection of read-write conflicts in optimistic transactions) as its default isolation level since we started building it around 2009. Doing it at the kv store level has the advantage of providing serializability eve
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by voidmain 5mo ago
When on the road to hell, it's OK to be left behind.

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