GPerson

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by GPerson 2mo ago
Living my life is just everything I do? If I did all those things I’d live an extremely rich life, a lot better than what I’m currently doing, which is some mix of being addicted to the internet and watching all the interesting things get t
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Unless you have access to the same compute limits as the guy at Anthropic, and the internal model they use, you probably would just have spent a lot of tokens without success. So you can take solace in that.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Surprisingly the (a, since multiple things have this name) Hopf conjecture was solved by human mathematicians around the same time. It’s the statement that S^2 x S^2 admits a positive sectional curvature Riemannian metric.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I cared. Deleting that constantly was pretty annoying. And why would I have pride in whatever device I’m using?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
What’s wrong with aspiring to do any or even all of those things? Those sound like nice things.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
And when they do dominate that we’re going extinct within 10 years so it’s a good bet to work on those.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Good. I want open source projects which serve infrastructure to be gate kept so that only responsible people are involved. Responsible people can use AI too. Get all of those people on board, and keep out irresponsible people!
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Why would a secondary cultural goal take precedence over an apparently accurate description of what’s happening in the system? For one, you’re fighting some irrelevant battle.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
No sir your take is the naive one. You’ve affirmed my position by pretending to deny it.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
A well ordering on a set is a total order such that all non empty subsets have a minimum element with respect to this order. The standard ordering of the reals is not a well ordering, but the axiom of choice is equivalent to the statement t
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by GPerson 2mo ago
If we assume the real numbers exist, then perhaps the paradox resolves because there are uncountably many reals and only countably many nameable things, but then perhaps the paradox does not resolve because we assume ZFC is true and we can
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Our models of reality are incomplete. See this very nice Stephen Hawking lecture where he says as such https://www.hawking.org.uk/in-words/lectures/godel-and-the-e... People have thought they were nearly complete
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Our trash heaps and empty buildings will outlive humans, and they probably have the same internal experience as the machines, so I don’t mourn or celebrate a new phase of evolution. Actually humans and other animals are the only things in t
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“you will also hold that when you have digitally modeled a brain such that the model responds to its inputs as a brain does, then you have built a brain.” What is this then?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It doesn’t take massive intelligence to sit on all the capital and charge rents. The owning class isn’t going to just give up control because the AI could run things better than them.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“digitally modeled a brain such that the model responds to its inputs as a brain does” If in responding to its inputs it experiences consciousness (=lights are on, experiences senses, perceives qualia), then you’ve built a brain. If your mo
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“ This is also what i believe is wrong with Searle's Chinese Room argument - the algorithm is the intelligence.” “ and even what we call consciousness!” This misunderstands the point of the so-called Chinese room thought experiment. Yo
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by GPerson 2mo ago
There’s no conspiracy theory. Jimmy Carter spent the last decade of his life talking about this. Bernie Sanders talks about this all the time. Noam Chomsky talks about this. Ralph Nader was talking about this forever. Go listen to Ian Shapi
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It could be that the ratio of the amount of context required for a good decision to happen to the amount of context an entity is willing or able to provide is not high enough. E.g. the AI might dictate my life better than me if I upload eve
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Is it really that far-fetched? Computer viruses came about in 1971, just a few years after the invention of arpanet. It’s probably happening right now.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I don’t think you do either, but that doesn’t mean these people aren’t going to build a ton of data centers on that narrative. Actually I think the AI revolution is going to have a worse outcome. It will kill off the ladder to a better life
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by GPerson 2mo ago
If by neuron based you mean the biological neuron, then I agree. If you mean an arbitrary substrate which models every aspect of a neuron we are aware of, I’m not sure. I think it would be more surprising if it’s impossible to do processing
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I purchased 712 books and I read each of them 357 times.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
My phone can’t even open most of the apps since it’s so old. Reddit does not load (this actually helped me a lot).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Okay I can understand that. I thought credit cards had fees. What’s the point of the free money credit card?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m juggling a few hundred dollars in my checking account all the time. Is that well off? I don’t think so.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
If you posit that we cannot know if an LLM based ai system is or is not conscious, then what is our ethical duty? I believe it is clearly not to make the system at all.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I have separate directories for human only files and ai files. I’m not doing anything that matters but it works for me.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I agreed with you earlier that there’s no empirical test against solipsism. So the escape is just to accept not all beliefs worth holding are empirically verifiable. I deny solipsism because I believe there is a universe and things in it ob
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Denying that consciousness exists is pretty bold. It’s obviously completely wrong since it’s the only thing we can actually know exists, but I’ll give you that it’s bold.

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