James_Henry

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by James_Henry 4y ago
HTML will ignore extra whitespace, but when you input stuff into a text box, the way it's displayed will depend on choices made by the site. I don't know whether there are standard choices, and I'd bet that they use very bas
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Since when was "design and implement a practical self-improving AI architecture" on the same level as knowing "the requisite concepts for getting Transformers working"?
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Since when was AP Calculus BC on the same order of magnitude as "design and implement a practical self-improving AI architecture"?
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Which authors? Machine Learning research authors?
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by James_Henry 4y ago
I recently realized that Hackernews deletes double spaces.
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One or two spaces after a period? How about three?(widespacer.blogspot.com)
1 points by James_Henry 4y ago|3 comments
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Also note that image input isn't available to the public yet. >Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Hey, I don't think any real decision theorists would take something like this seriously. And if any would, then let's change the definition of a real decision theorist to exclude them.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Good rule of thumb: Yudkowsky is always trying to appear more knowledgeable than he is. He's also been larping an AI expert for a long time.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
I don't know what game #160 is supposed to teach me, lol. I do admit that my explanation isn't right. The game's measure of similarity is based on context in which words are used, not necessarily their meaning. Some people
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The Nonlinear Fund: A Microcosm of Dysfunction in Effective Altruism (Part 1)(old.reddit.com)
2 points by James_Henry 4y ago|0 comments
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Is it working for you today?
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Whatever x-risk-style Effective Altruists' goals, if they run their organizations like The Nonlinear Fund, I wonder how long they are going to last.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Thanks for typing out their tweet. I wouldn't have been able to have read it otherwise, seeing twitter is down.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
See also part 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/11fjmvr/the_nonl... I am all for being effectively altruistic, but it seems like you have to be careful around Effective Altruism to do it rig
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The Nonlinear Fund: A Microcosm of Dysfunction in Effective Altruism (Part 2)(old.reddit.com)
2 points by James_Henry 4y ago|4 comments
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by James_Henry 4y ago
It's because it's not based on a simple measure of the similarity of meaning of the words. It's based on how often the words are used next to each other, which means that since celsius is used more often with the word temper
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by James_Henry 4y ago
I missed the veil.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Not being outsourced is part of what's going on. There is more to it, and each of these different goods have their own particular factors going into the rise in their costs. A big factor leading to this graph is labor productivity. A
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by James_Henry 4y ago
It's because he stopped drinking recently. https://pmarca.substack.com/p/on-pausing-alcohol (In all seriousness, I'm very happy it's becoming more fashionable to not drink)
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Just whatever sells. Sometimes they pitch something we all want.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Some people probably agree with him. I think his reasoning isn't quite right and do think that there will be people fired and replaced at least in part by AI, but I think his insistence that AI is illegal and that's the reason he
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by James_Henry 4y ago
And I'm wondering what aspect of their bigness is causing the badness. Is it profits? revenues? Is it the number of employees? Is it percent of the market share in the business that they are active in? Or is it some measure of the
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by James_Henry 4y ago
What exactly about "big" is it that makes you say this? Is it the amount of money they can throw around? Is it the ability to integrate these bought companies in with the rest of their companies? Is it that there aren't eno
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Have you found that book to be helpful in actually cultivating creativity? I started reading it a week back because I saw it's been massively popular and wondered if it's actually going to be of much help to most of the readers.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
You said that, "People still had kids because they needed them to tend farms." If you started a farm, then you too could have the same excuse! Is this an act of cruelty? I don't think you can know unless you have the kid a
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by James_Henry 4y ago
It depends on the content and the page. I do like using space bar rather than the page down key.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Instead we give incentives for electric vehicles, presumably because they have fewer externalities. It truly is backwards.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
No, and the article links to a StackOverflow question about this.
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by James_Henry 4y ago
Do people not use invalid anymore? I thought it was still used for people bed-bound by illness.

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