MrScruff

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by MrScruff 3y ago
If AI gets to human levels of intelligence (ie. can do novel research in theoretical physics) then at the very least it’s likely that over time it will be able to do this reasoning faster than humans. I think it’s very hard to imagine a sce
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by MrScruff 3y ago
The argument would be that by the time we see the problem it will be too late. We didn’t really anticipate the unreasonable effectiveness of transformers until people started scaling them, which happened very quickly.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I think a good approach is mastering at least one discipline, but having a foundational knowledge of all the other disciplines in your field. I know a lot of people who have almost zero understanding of what their colleagues are doing and t
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Yeah, I know more about Hedy Lamarr than I do about Margot Robbie even though she was at the peak of her career 40 years before I was born.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
It's not quite that bad, the vast majority of people who work on a Marvel project at a vfx vendor will get a credit, though often in a huge bank of names. It's true that the ordering is driven by historical considerations which is
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by MrScruff 3y ago
That's probably part of it - also seems like if they're mostly doing a pressing rather than a plucking action it would result in this sound?
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by MrScruff 3y ago
This kind of has the sound of someone playing an acoustic guitar patch on a keyboard. It seems to lack the expressive dynamics you would expect with a guitar, almost like the velocity is clamped.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
As someone that bought a 603e based all in one around that time, I remember the introduction of the G3 being almost comparable to the intel->apple silicon transition.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
The atomic bomb is a good example, a massive endeavour (130,000 people and 2.2 Billion), and some of the initial insights came off the back of the work of the Maud committee in the UK who did some of the early running in this area. The US i
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Off the top of my head, if I was an AGI that had decided that the logical step to achieve whatever outcome I was seeking was to avoid being sandboxed, I would avoid producing results that were likely to result in being sandboxed. Until such
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Yes but for people working past a certain level the abstract problems usually involve people and technology, both of which you need to be able to rationalise about.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Well, you could argue about the definition of a cult but in many ways the influencer phenomenon is a modern incarnation of that (eg. Andrew Tate).
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by MrScruff 3y ago
If you’re British and of a certain age, then Alan Partridge the character encompasses a significant aspect of Britishness, and has a particular cultural resonance as a result.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
The problem with this is that in my organisation at least I see a reasonable anti-correlation between perceived value of team member and resistance to using the office. YMMV of course, but the point is it ain’t as simple as ‘the people the
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I agree that is a fundamental difference. That’s what I meant about reinforcement learning. Our ‘model weights’ are being updated with new data all the time. I was just referring to what happens at a specific instance in time when someone a
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Not the commenter you're replying to, and I'm sure you already realise this, but crime/punishment in a fully deterministic universe could be seen as a 'self correction' mechanism of the whole system. One could imagi
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by MrScruff 3y ago
We're able to do something analogous to reinforcement learning (take on new example data to update our 'weights'). Why do I spend time debating these ideas on Hacker News? Probably the underlying motivation is improving the r
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I'm sure that's true for certain jobs at certain levels, but in my industry most people need to closely collaborate with people from different disciplines on an almost daily basis.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I think this is it. I prefer in the office but I have a pleasant 20 minute cycle into the office. The commute is actually a highlight of the day. Then I have my own office, and a bunch of insightful conversations that I wouldn't otherw
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I think there is a general acceptance in the leadership of most established companies that fully remote isn't ideal. Obviously there will be companies that don't want to spend the money for an office space and there will be employ
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I don't think it's that unusual. I generally like my colleagues, and given that the work I do is highly collaborative I have a strong preference to reducing all barriers to communication. I don't know anyone that claims the q
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I’ve heard a lot of people saying ‘Why should I return to the office, I’m just as productive at home.’ at my work. And many people are, for the parts of their job which require little collaboration. But the company (via the leadership) see
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Even if Asahi Linux is a big hit, it will be a minuscule drop in the ocean for Apple. Plus they make money from selling Macs.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Agreed I would want to do something like drawing with the eye tracking. I would expect the hand tracking would be used for that.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Marques Brownlee picks out the quality of the eye tracking as a standout feature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFvXuyITwBI
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Probably more like an iPad replacement in terms of software though.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I'm not sure I see the religious aspect. It's more of an inevitable consequence (over an unknown timeline, granted) of the assumption that human intelligence is not some kind of absolute limit, and can be reproduced in a non-biolo
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Rotating your head will give some lateral motion (your eye moves in space since the centre of rotation is your neck). You can see this easily by turning your head while focusing on an object in the foreground, your perspective on it will sh
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Why would replacing 'superintelligence' with 'God' be insightful? Are you suggesting human intelligence is unique and the upper limit for intelligence? I mean we can argue about the difficulty and timeline for achieving
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I don't really have a notion of whether an actual AGI would have a desire to kill all humans. I do however think that one entity seeking to create another entity that it can control, yet is more intelligent than it, seems arbitrarily c

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