DennisP

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by DennisP 6d ago
Do you have a source? Because it seems unlikely to me that charitable foundations with even more capital are not deploying it at similar scale.
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by DennisP 7d ago
Since the BMGF is only the fifth largest, how do you justify that statement?
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by DennisP 8d ago
That's a good point but the Gates Foundation isn't alone; there are a fair number of other foundations in the $10-100 billion range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_charitable_...
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by DennisP 8d ago
One giant exception was Chuck Feeney, who made $8 billion on duty free shops and gave almost all of it away, much of it anonymously. By the end of his life he and his wife had a couple million and lived in a rented apartment.
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by DennisP 8d ago
Plenty of other charities in the world. Just because he stopped giving to the Gates Foundation over Epstein ties doesn't mean he won't send the money somewhere else.
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by DennisP 9d ago
At the same time, it's not just Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander and the Rationalist movement who are raising concerns. I've not seen any indication that Hinton or Bengio are part of that crowd. Instead of espousing rationalism and h
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by DennisP 10d ago
Have you tried Fable? I've been having fun running various science-fictional scenarios by it, like building a Dyson swarm. It comes up with much more detailed analyses than Opus, and avoids the howling mistakes that Opus occasionally
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by DennisP 13d ago
Also arms control agreements, which reduced the world's nuclear stockpiles by 90%. In principle we could do something similar for GPU farms, since they're not exactly easy to hide.
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by DennisP 14d ago
If you want an AI that follows your instructions, that's still alignment, just with different instructions. An unaligned AI won't necessarily follow your instructions, or anyone else's.
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by DennisP 15d ago
As I type this comment, 18 out of 30 links on the front page appear to be about things other than AI. I would not call this "almost exclusively AI talk."
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by DennisP 24d ago
Since these are massive neural networks trained to imitate human behavior, I'm not convinced anthropomorphic descriptions of their behavior are inappropriate. And that's even though I don't think they internally experience &q
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by DennisP 24d ago
It was a team of robots. One has battery for three or four hours. I don't think it really addresses the article's concerns about long-horizon tasks or complex object manipulation. The objects were just bags and boxes, the manipula
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by DennisP 24d ago
OpenAI has started doing ads, but for Anthropic the free tier is still just a loss leader. It's basically an ad for their pay tiers.
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by DennisP 26d ago
Oh good. All we have to do to survive is always bother with the most basic duty of care. I'm sure that from now on, humans will take care to do that every time.
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by DennisP 27d ago
Well that's a relief. All we have to do is make sure to avoid human failures and we're safe from superintelligent AI.
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by DennisP 29d ago
That's why I said in my comment that China is "rolling out wind/solar/battery as fast as possible."
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by DennisP 29d ago
But coal is still 49%. The whole point of nuclear in a carbon-free, mostly-renewable grid is to avoid needing enormous amounts of storage and overproduction. That's a need that doesn't come up when you're still half fossil. I
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by DennisP 29d ago
I agree that the utopian tendencies of various groups are irrelevant. So I'm not sure why you brought it up.
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by DennisP 29d ago
Sure, and none of solar's advocates are utopian at all .
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Only if we require the knowledge to be built into the weights. Give it access to a search engine and a big library of ebooks, and it might do better.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
They say you can cluster up to four with a shared memory pool, and get three times the inference performance of a single machine.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
I grew up sailing on the Chesapeake, and we used it for seasickness.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
What I find tiring: the same. writing. style. everywhere. Various youtubers I subscribe to are using apparently AI-written scripts now. They all wrote and spoke just fine before, each with their own particular style. Now they just sound lik
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Good point, we should probably do the same thing with our carbon emissions that we did with the chemicals that deplete ozone. The Montreal Protocol of 1987 successfully phased out over 99% of them.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
You can concoct your own meanings for things all day, but that doesn't mean Irvick was making things up as you clearly implied.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
I'm saying it's false that: > Calling stagex a "niche Linux OS" suggests that hardly anyone uses it.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Niche: (2d) a specialized market https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche In this case the market is "security critical operations."
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by DennisP 2mo ago
Discussing what the law is necessarily means discussing its effect on people. Logically I don't know what else it could possibly mean. Glad you're done at last.
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by DennisP 2mo ago
"You" sometimes means you in particular, but other times it means people in general. That's how the English language works. I think my comment makes clear that I don't even know what district the guy lives in. It simply
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by DennisP 2mo ago
HN != all of internet. "Don't give legal advice" != "never discuss the law." We live in a democracy. Every citizen is ultimately responsible for deciding what the law should be. It follows that we should talk about

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