Max_Limelihood

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by Max_Limelihood 10mo ago
Android is open source; MacOS and Windows aren’t. This gives me more control over my computer, especially since this means LineageOS and GrapheneOS for the desktop soon.
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by Max_Limelihood 10mo ago
GNU/GNU
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by Max_Limelihood 10mo ago
Ubuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.
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by Max_Limelihood 10mo ago
Not jmp?
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by Max_Limelihood 3y ago
This is a really good explanation of why I find Julia (effectively a Lisp in terms of these features) to be indispensable. The ability to generate code on the fly makes life so much easier that I just can't live without it.
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by Max_Limelihood 3y ago
Never have I seen a title so perfectly encapsulate the very problem it's trying to solve. If you keep trying to "protect" your research from any kind of competition, you're doomed from the start.
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Answer: they don’t (Seriously, I’ve gotten so fed up with Python package management that I just use CondaPkg.jl, which uses Julia’s package manager to take care of Python packages. It is just so much cleaner and easier to use than anything
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
You’re 100% correct, I think. But it’s notable that in that case, an extra functional programming language would make things worse by dividing effort, not better.
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Because 14 wasn’t enough. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Actual AI researchers have wildly different opinions on this; IME, going off all the AI researchers I’ve talked to, they tend to split about 50/50.
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Self-appointed by the boards of directors at major companies and universities? https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-r... And no peer-reviewed research, apart from the dozens of widely-c
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
I feel like you’re misunderstanding how Julia syntax works. Julia syntax is Python syntax, for the most part. They’re not identical, but the differences are very small, and typically favor Julia—for example, compare: x*(y.^2) To the Pytho
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Julia already is a very high-level mathematics-oriented programming language, though. The reason Mathematica is so much faster here is it’s using a different algorithm. When you compare using the same algorithm, Julia is 10-100x faster th
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
This is a perfectly reasonable concern/criticism and one that plenty of EAs make. Going off funding, which is overwhelmingly directed towards global health and development, it’s probably one that most of them agree with. It also aligns
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Yeah, and there’s also GiveWell. Probably 80% of EA money goes to development, with the rest evenly split between the other three cause areas. I’d be very shocked if AI research got more than 5% of EA funding.
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
The main benefit is that they’re probably more likely to actually read it. I dunno about you, but if someone gave me a book I’d probably actually read it. I definitely wouldn’t read a PDF someone emailed to me.
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
It’s not; they’re pretty much completely unrelated fields. AI ethics focuses very little on AI alignment issues, which tends to worry about much bigger and more general problems. The fact that you’re grouping AI alignment with is kind of an
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
AI alignment research is still extremely neglected. There’s a handful of researches looking at it and that’s about it. There’s plenty of coverage/criticism about AI, but it tends to be very different than the kinds of things EAs worry
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Why? I think it’s perfectly reasonable to think that distributing books about effective altruism would be a very effective use for $30,000 of donations. Most EAs give 10% of their income; if you assume the average EA will make $100,000 a ye
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by Max_Limelihood 4y ago
Yep, exactly — and the average EA donates way more than $30,000 over their lifetime. This is just a creative way to advertise, and I don’t see what’s wrong with charities trying to get their message out there.