Nevermark

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by Nevermark 2mo ago
> Biological computationalism disagrees with substrate independence. Don't leave me hanging, post citations! I welcome fringe theories when confident statements are followed by the conclusive evidence they imply. If that isn't
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by Nevermark 2mo ago
The stochastic text generator perspective is ... bunk. Not saying that harshly, but it confuses the form of a problem with a form of solution. There is no inhibition of "understanding" because of a form of a problem. If solving a
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by Nevermark 2mo ago
Five years from now you won't. Ten years from now, robotics will upset another capability/economic apple cart. I am not expressing any opinion of what I think should happen. Just what is already happening. Which you didn't of
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by Nevermark 2mo ago
I am completely calm and serious. This should be mundane, obvious by now. I find it unfathomable that anyone doesn't recognize that the move from an evolutionary substrate, to engineered mass produced substrates, by beings capable of s
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by Nevermark 2mo ago
It is amazing how the scales of time we consider are shrinking even as change is accelerating. We are concerned about individual changes, that will quickly be followed by cascades of more change. > Something fundamental to the experience
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
That isn't correct. Obviously, you can handicap any model with an indiscriminate dataset. Are you training on slop? Why? More data is not automatically better data. Just three (of many) advantages of quality data selection: (1) It give
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
I don't think we would have AI slop, if they were just trained on high quality media. Less relatable AI, maybe, but not sloppy AI. AI trained on other AI (i.e. distilling), can be better than the AI they were trained on, likely because
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
How would you feel with a procedure in which your brain was scooped out like ice cream from a bowl, and replaced with circuits that would do a better job of your life for you? > So it does not, in fact, appear to usurp, subvert or replac
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
The wall is the way. Things move faster once you discover/can see your next problem(s) clearly. Is another way to put it.
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
> a linear association between happiness and Log(income) implies that the marginal utility of additional dollars diminishes exponentially, though never mathematically plateaus And income (or wealth increase) can go up exponentially with
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
If a system is distributed enough, with complex financial and legal dependencies, a great deal of indirection becomes stable, because to violate the indirection would put so many direct relationships in peril. And when there is reliability,
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
Exactomundo.
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
My guess is human learning requires some major differences in training. For instance, we learn to process a firehose of visual, sound, tactile and motor information, before we start thinking in well-defined concepts. That is a major foundat
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
> Furthermore, light-speed lag and distance mean that child civilizations must be functionally independent of parent cultures. Makes me wonder if a solar system wide civilization, with trillions of beings, wouldn't invest in ships t
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
A couple examples. They are both common viewpoints that came up in low-key conversation. Other cases are similar. Self-described conservatives vs. liberals I know, seem to adopt a different set of highly correlated views. Self-described con
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
This is a gross oversimplification of my experience with conservative vs. liberal friends. But there is enough truth in it to at least be worth the humor. My conservative friends respond to a problem by mashing all its symptoms, and often o
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
When you buy an option, you don't deserve a refund for not exercising the option. On the other side, a user that watched a movie 1000 times should not get less compensation. All users are being impacted exactly the same way (loss of fu
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
The interest and inflation are the time value of money, which you pay, for the time value of access. Original-price refund is both simple, and (by linking the time-value of money for both parties) fair.
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
Revocation should come with full refunds. That would: 1. Balance the revocation economically, for both parties, while leaving the decision to the "seller". 2. The trade becomes the time-value of money vs. the time value of access.
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
I am someone completely unable to fake appearances, and would never want to. But I can vouch that being completely convinced of a solution path to an ambitious problem, is a shockingly helpful condition to get long term, long shot help, wit
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
There appears to be a silent "immediate" in this version of "useful". Against "only immediate/certain usefulness".
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
> Though no one cares, I feel compelled to put down my 2 cents. I am not sure if you are insulting everyone who reads your point, or your own ability to communicate. But maybe interpret the ideas less as a dichotomy you can't untang
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
How could less correlated reading, no matter how high the quality, possibly compare to a solid book - in use of time or depth of impact? The second chapter of every book has the advantage of being written, taking for granted that the previo
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
Actually: > its output can be novel or good, but rarely both at the same time. > rarely That is not a viewpoint they can't do something useful and new. With that criteria, he could be talking about anyone. I find it rare that peo
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
Any flattening of discovery due to AI, but will be temporary. We tend to think that obvious potential is the same as realized potential, for new technology. For any specific context, there are generally innumerable smaller adaptations and c
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
Why does this company still exist? It is continually pushing the boundaries of social harm for dollars. The entire many-dimensional disaster, that the surveillance + manipulation monster economy presents, was not a technological inevitabili
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
> It is more probable than not that, within the twentieth century Ouch! Well ok then! Zoom out in time, and the explosion started in the 20th century. But the pop, while near, has yet to come. Mea culpa.
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
>> It is more probable than not that, within the twentieth century, an ultraintelligent machine will be built and that it will be the last invention that man need make, since it will lead to an “intelligence explosion.” > Well, tha
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
We are talking about the big cultural/organizational decisions that allocate where creative freedom lives or the lack of it. To not recognize the decisions, weigh their tradeoffs and their implications, is to make the decisions blindly
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by Nevermark 3mo ago
You understood the notation. So "nat64" cleared up two notation deficiencies: correct base type, and explicit declaration of modularity. A plain natural (unbounded/big) would be "nat" or "natural".

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