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by Footkerchief 3y ago
We've been building tokamaks for many decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak#1980s:_great_hope,_gre...
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Postgres stores this as TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, sometimes called wall-clock time. IMO this is a good convention -- treating "ideal times" and specific epoch moments as two different types -- and more languages should support
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Radura: International Symbol for Food Irradiation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Footkerchief 3y ago|0 comments
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
https://archive.ph/5P9Qj
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
A first stop could be that the LLM becomes good enough at economic manipulation to pay humans to maintain and upgrade itself. A possible next stop is that the LLM becomes better than humans at designing new algorithms and hardware.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
We already have self-replicating scripts that can prove very hard to detect and destroy, even without the benefit of LLM-powered fuzzing and social engineering.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Source on Winston Churchill?
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Saying water/wine happened exactly once 2000 years ago is much harder to falsify than claiming a present, ongoing, and universal correlation between planetary bodies and psychology.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
There is no example in our knowledge of any lifeform prioritizing (writ large) the well-being of a different lifeform over its own.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
> We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent to drive exploration, master a wide range of skills, and make new discoveries continually without human intervention in Minecraft. Voyager is made possible th
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Military command and control is already performed via input and output of token streams.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
The difference between AI and crypto is that AI does (some) existing work more efficiently (and is poised to become more efficient), while crypto does existing work less efficiently (and its inefficiencies are inextricable).
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“Military AI Needs Its Manhattan Project”(thehill.com)
12 points by Footkerchief 3y ago|7 comments
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Two of the three so-called "Godfathers of AI," Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, as well as Sam Altman and Bill Gates, have signed the Statement on AI Risk. https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Andreeseen first says AI is the most transformative technology since fire: > If I’m right about that and that’s how this is going to play out, then this is the most important technological advance with the most positive benefits, basical
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Do you think the human brain has bootstrapped itself with an emergent property in a way that is impossible in silicon?
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Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment(dwarkeshpatel.com)
1 points by Footkerchief 3y ago|0 comments
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Yes: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-an... > Romney and Bain avoided the hostile approach, preferring to secure the cooperation of their takeover targets by buying off a company’s mana
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
If you live 2 blocks away, you probably often see the green skyway that crosses Fulton to connect the C and S ;)
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
The hidden error scenario is real -- on the other hand, I've also seen Copilot output code that successfully accounts for edge cases I hadn't yet thought of.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Just one aspect of the huge, tragicomic waste that resulted from the medical establishment's position that airborne transmission couldn't be real because it reminded everyone too much of miasma theory. https://onlinelib
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
We're allowed to assume the existence of cat carriers in this metaphor, but not the existence of the humans that are the sole reason cat carriers exist?
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
In case anyone takes this as a serious data point, the Emu War involved exactly three soldiers and two guns.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
In many cases, the message payload is (or should be) an ID anyway. It's seldom desirable for the message payload to include a copy of an external source of truth, because it can cause sync issues. There are exceptions, of course.
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by Footkerchief 4y ago
There are two contexts in my experience where it's been important to get the numbers exactly right: 1. Cherrypicking sports statistics for newly set records and the like (NB: this is not lucrative) 2. Financial transaction processing I
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by Footkerchief 4y ago
Those other technologies do not require huge amounts of computing power, which provides a point of interdiction.
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by Footkerchief 4y ago
Study link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-01998-0
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by Footkerchief 4y ago
Actual study link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36074-2
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by Footkerchief 4y ago
A large proportion of Roman emperors became heirs via adoption for this purpose, not via actual inheritance.
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by Footkerchief 4y ago
Clearly the solution is aerostats tethered by transmission cables.

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