N0b8ez

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by N0b8ez 2y ago
> demilitarization Can you explain what that term means in this context?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
I wouldn't have predicted that the inventor of modern CPUs would be so certain that computation is a bad model for consciousness. Is that a good way to characterize him and his position?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Maybe Pascal argued that way for the human soul, but I don't think the AI risk argument needs infinite value to be at stake. Would you say that preparing for the risk of a solar flare or an asteroid impact is also a Pascalian wager?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
I'd also like to know about anyone writing on this subject.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
What probability for extinction do you consider to be low enough that it effectively becomes a Pascalian wager? Pascal was also writing about a single person's fate (AFAICT), whereas this is about the fate of everyone.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Is inside an abandoned salt mine really the same as "under the carpet"? I don't see what scenario people have in mind when they're worried about nuclear waste storage.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Can you give some examples of experts saying we won't see it in our lifetime?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Is the quote you're thinking of the one at 19:11? > I don't think it's going to happen next year, it's still useful to have the conversation and maybe it's like two or three years instead. This doesn't seem
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
>To really stress this: OpenAI's still-present cofounder shared yesterday on a podcast that they expect AGI in ~2 years and ASI (superpassing human intelligence) by end of the decade. Link? Is the ~2 year timeline a common estimate
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Can you give some examples of this disillusionment? I see more, not less people talking about these things nowadays. I'd like to believe that AGI is impossible but I don't see any evidence.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
It's more obvious that it's real in the original video: https://www.unitree.com/images/Unitree%20G1%20EN%201080p%20%...
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Forgive me for only skimming over the intellectually demanding part of your post. >TL;DR: it was (technically) anywhere from 25-59% as powerful as the Carrington Event. This feels strange to me. If nobody had told me about the CME yester
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Anyone know of an estimate of the cost of hardening the US grid so that there wouldn't be an enormous death count, and likely societal collapse? The danger seems to be very real. See the paper discussed here: https://news.yc
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
I wonder how much it would cost to harden the US power grid against another Carrington Event, such that "only" thousands of people would die, instead of millions.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Thanks! This is the doc I found the "90 percent of our population is dead" quote from, which is asserted indirectly: https://irp.fas.org/congress/2008_hr/emp.pdf It's referring to a fictional story
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
It's an understatement to say that only "a few" famines have brought out a regrettable side of humanity. The situation is very similar to a war. Remember that the rate of violent death was much higher before agriculture and f
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Do you have a link to the study?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
I was under the impression that the US already had plenty of empty wasteland for this type of fantasy project.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Consider whether we should define electrons to be "positive" or "negative": there isn't any fact of the matter, it's merely a convention. But it doesn't seem like experiencing pain works this way: pain fee
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
I guess in that case if it were true, it would be unnecessary to give such humans anesthesia. Is that what you mean?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
El Salvador doesn't have the death penalty but their recent "tough on crime" measures have worked.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
The AI would be left, but there's no reason to expect it to have a human appreciation of the world. It might just be a brutally efficient self-replicator, basically a sociopath. It wouldn't need beauty, love, emotions or anything
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
> The people who care to make the world a better place and push back against those that cause harm. This is circular. It's fine to just say "I don't know" or "I don't have a good answer", but pretending
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
So captchas are obsolete now?
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
How will the LLMs be used for this? They can't solve captchas, and they're not smart enough to navigate the internet by themselves. All they do is generate text.
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by N0b8ez 2y ago
Hitler infamously condemned the IQ system for being "jewish". I don't think that sentiment has gone away.
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by N0b8ez 3y ago
I don't think it's the biggest part of building a high trust society. Rule of law and effective law-enforcement is always going to be number one. El Salvador and Ecuador are more homogeneous than the USA, but the USA is far more h
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by N0b8ez 3y ago
I feel like it's one of those social constructs like the value of money, which is socially constructed, but which gets amplified by human instincts like greed. It would be great if we could shuck the counterproductive belief of money h