KellhusSmellhus

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   by KellhusSmellhus 9y ago

   What I read from the article was that high-level models are more than just compression - a device for a La-Place-demon to cut on computation time. But I also have a strong suspicion that this is not what they meant; maybe someone can clarif
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   Ask HN: What does HN think of a intelligence agency DAO?

   1 points by KellhusSmellhus 9y ago|0 comments
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   by KellhusSmellhus 9y ago

   There is already brain-changing tech, drugs.
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   by KellhusSmellhus 9y ago

   But money spent on space interested experts could be spent on climate interested experts.
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   by KellhusSmellhus 9y ago

   I wonder whether those experts and resources used on space could do feasible climate engineering... The only environmental existential risk (apart from the human extended phenotype of course :) ) is climate-based, no?
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   by KellhusSmellhus 9y ago

   As long as the resources are not orthagonal the problems are not orthagonal. Meaning the money and effort shooting rockets could be put into fixing the environment, the "defense" problem, and all kinds of suffering and death. One
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   by KellhusSmellhus 10y ago

   AGI is a pretty hard to define term, but I never saw it defined as "self-conscious". Most definitions are along the lines of "do what a human does", i.e. walk into a random house and make coffee or get a college degree,
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   by KellhusSmellhus 10y ago

   Is this what they call anatta?
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   How does one get into AGI/ASI research as fresh graduate?

   2 points by KellhusSmellhus 10y ago|0 comments