JoshCole

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by JoshCole 4y ago
AI research, much like evolution, is strongly in the camp that anthropomorphizing is rational; that human culture often fails to recognize this has more to do with a common intellectual pit that pop psychology and philosophy fall into: when
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I think we do overestimate short term things and underestimate long term things. However, I think it is important to clarify that it would be a mistake to think of this tendency in a pejorative way. It is, best as I can tell, more correct
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by JoshCole 4y ago
You claimed: we must have it one way or the other. This is false. Game theory says you are wrong and has proofs that you are wrong in the form of proofs of mixed strategies being optimal equilibrium strategies. In these strategies we hav
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph wrote a script. Therefore, Jared is wrong about what he is capable of doing and what is he capable of learning. However, Jared is based on a real person - Gregg Lippman. Despite this, after a brief search
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> We've had GPT3 for ages, it's not like most of us only tried it since Chat GPT3 came out, right? For myself, I tried GPT models and read the Attention Is All You Need paper before ChatGPT. I also read analysis, for example,
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> Anyone who's played around with it knows that it's fun but it's not a search engine replacement and it doesn't know nor understand things. I've noticed that some people have been talking as if the view is nonse
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> It's nothing like described in the article and I don't understand why people who should know better don't call out the bullshit media reporting more. I'm kind of assuming you didn't read the article, but if you
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It can, you just need to point out in what ways a thing is not adequately explained by stupidity.
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Quality is a function of effort. Effort has a cost. The typical cost for high quality is high effort. A content creator producing quality content has spent a lot of money in order to produce the high quality content. How much? Estimates
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> And a counting stick is good at counting numbers, is it also alive? Sticks are a bad example to use, because they come from living objects. So, yes, they can indeed be alive. In this case, alive, but probably rapidly dying or having
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by JoshCole 4y ago
He claimed that a "latent schizophrenic impulse" to "impart consciousness" where it isn't present is exploitable through virtue of claiming that it is "being exploited" and not just that but that it was so
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In your next post, please exploit me. Extract $1,000 from me using this cognitive weakness you are defending the existence of. Notice that if I gave this same sort of request to a magician, they could fool me because they are talking abou
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Game theory states that exploitability(s) is expected_utility(s, best_response(s)). I think you are perhaps confusing this with whether or not a conditional probability distribution is correctly estimated. Your point would be valid if he s
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by JoshCole 4y ago
By the way, as someone who cares a lot about epistemics, I can't help but notice you seem to have misunderstood the meaning of the word counterexample. The word counterexample does not mean to counter an example with another example.
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Okay. How confident are you that I'm wrong? Would you be willing to construct a wager with me? I ask, for the purpose of the wager, that you generalize the claim that overestimation of intelligence is exploitable. The bet will be a
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> The latent schizophrenic impulse to impart consciousness to any-old-object in the world is here being exploited by peddlers of technology. He is talking about the concept of exploitability. I'm addressing that context by expandin
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Including the dataset of lives lived under slavery or cut short by genocide makes me come to radically different conclusions with regard to how prone to over-imparting consciousness humans tend to be. Adjusting exploited entities by probabi
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by JoshCole 4y ago
There are superior visual representations of math as soon as you add specificity such that you can measure the difference between representations in terms of their impact or other property. Equation coloring according to semantics stands o
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by JoshCole 4y ago
The acronym is large language model (LLM) because the existing models are language models with millions or billions of weights.
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I could understand saying something like the totality of the evidence doesn't support the conclusion that there is more free speech after Elon's takeover. So that is probably what you mean. What you actually said though is factu
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The more general someone is, the more cost specificity has, because there is more to be specific about. So people reach for words that describe generality. The problem is that a word like tall, though general, isn't specific enough to
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Your post would also get a failing grade in an English essay. This says little about your post, because you didn't write it to get a grade in an English class. You are setting up a false evaluation context - it is like watching a compe
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by JoshCole 4y ago
If you replaced their entire post with "PG dumb dumb because prideful especially blub" it has the same intellectual content. Even if you agree that the blub thesis is wrong that doesn't mean the post itself is well laid out
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It must be really hard to play when you can't swipe. I suggest playing determinism; it should completely eradicate your control issues.
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Socrates in Plato's dialogues is one of the most influential teachers on this topic. The conclusion was that it is a stupid goal to have: outright self-destructive. His student Aristotle would under the influence of Plato's teachi
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Is this really a dismissal? You say "it is like asking what is P(A|A)" but that is just another notation for the logical proposition A. Saying something is like someone asking questions about logical propositions generally isn&#x2
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Since he mentioned that he is done talking to you and you ask: > Would it be possible for you to tell me exactly what was/was not said on my end that would have helped in this matter? The issue is the word argument. You have the tec
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Your posts were killed when you talked to me because of your rudeness but no one told you why. I tell you why; you'll hate me for it, but I'll tell you why. Let me be clear: I make my evaluation not on that single letter, but beca
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by JoshCole 4y ago
It isn't canvassing for me to engage with you in the sub-thread. Do not forget - originally you were talking to me. Now you might be thinking, well, that doesn't mean you should talk to me in another thread, but recall: You were
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You insulted them in many ways in that post. For example, you implied they were a fool - you said they would be surprised to discover that cards in a deck have a random order. That you thought them a fool is obvious from the way you engag

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