SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
AGI slightly exceeds humans, but they are actually kind of shitty in all sorts of annoying and hard to predict ways. They turn out to be fantastic slackers and liars. Your voters, to put it mildly, don't like them. It's hard to mo
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don't want be too human-centric, but to be completely honest we haven't seen the slightest proof that human intelligence is not something special. I know lots of animals are pretty clever, none approach us in any practical sen
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You don't sound like a great friend either. Doesn't make you a bad person. We don't need to be surrounded by people all the time. Maybe you are introverted like me. Just one or two people in the background is enough. Any more
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don't think you appreciate the meaning of "expensive". You know what's expensive? Marriage, kids, mortgages, illness.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I find it very interesting how awareness of climate change (and let’s not forget: the price of energy) has had so much impact on my and others’ judgement in a relatively short time. 5-10 years ago I would think this is perfectly fine. I bel
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by SanderNL 3y ago
We know for certain it is limited. Do brains not adhere to physics?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
170k over.. five years? I’m not getting it.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Pinky swear, right?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This minor issue that also is not Firefox’s fault is not enough to sacrifice anything let alone privacy.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I transgressed and take full responsibility. Couldn’t resist.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Incidentally, how do you handle such a situation? I'm a bad business man and would probably let them off the hook for a while so they can recover. In my dreamworld this will build significant amounts of longterm goodwill.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Except this is not a review. The “other side” is not reviewing, they are just pointing out it’s probably nothing and calling happy people naive, which is the easy and lazy way out. This is a spectator sport. We aren’t specialists, are we?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think you would be hard pressed to find any Euro seriously and non-ironically proclaiming their country the best in the world. Then again, it's not unheard of. It just sounds stupid here, because even when all of us combine we only e
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree, but I just think that doesn't preclude some healthy gratitude for the luxery and freedom we are enjoying these days. A freedom many, many people gave - and continue to give - their lives for and not just in war. Can't we
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That happened indeed and I don't think it was pretty. Although you get some exceptions, like maybe a few of the Antonines. (That didn't end well with Commodus.)
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think that vastly underestimates the complete and total mental, religious and cultural control wielded by elites of the past and overestimates the impact and importance of superficial bureaucratic oversight indeed made possible by today&#
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> in today's world, where almost every aspect of life is subject to top-down control A bit of history would do you wonders. Top-down control was the norm*. If it has changed, it’s less now. * For 95% of the peasant/slave popula
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by SanderNL 3y ago
We cannot have them though? The leaders die and the resulting fights over succession is what keeps us out of eternal territory. These maniacs didn’t have enough time to accrue enough mass to become power black holes, but give them a century
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think this deserves attention. Well done.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I have swung both ways and I think I now settle somewhere near "boring is good" and "repetition is harmless (compared to the astronomic costs of wrong abstraction)". Especially repetition seems to be hated with the might
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Thank god for the skeptics. I might have gotten enthused about something. Can you imagine the implications of that? My god, please tell me someone is going to stop me from being mildly entertained before it gets out of hand. Agents of rea
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You're being negged into oblivion, but you have a point. There is "I'm OK with my pedestrian job but I still try to do my best and actually like the people there" and "my job sucks all joy out of my life and provide
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Now that I'm older this sort of comment actually makes me laugh. Thanks for that. Good code.. oh, sweet sweet summer child.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It's good to keep an open mind both ways, but "skepticism" without either interesting or convincing arguments is IMO just as useless. We all know there is a good chance it turns out to be a dud. We all know cold fusion/e
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This is exciting, but I try to maintain my composure. Good luck to all involved. I didn’t know science could be such a thrilling spectator sport.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Ah, I see. You mean we need some (implicit) theory to even detect what is interesting about a result. Let’s say you measure a particle going c*2. Without theory you wouldn’t even notice this. Is that your point?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It sounds I/O heavy, but you mention it being CPU-heavy in which case I’d say Python is just not the right tool for the job although you may be able to cope with multiprocessing.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Hey.. don’t diss SpaceX. Even their exploding rockets are leagues ahead of anything Meta scratches of the bottom of their barrel.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This new piece of information can impact all previous information in unknown ways. To give a dramatic and superficial example, let's say you just found out you have been living inside the Truman Show. This impacts, if not everything,
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You basically can't. We haven't developed that kind of AI. Some of us hope that just-in-time retrieval of data from an external source (usually a vector db) is going to work. Like, say, "retrieve chapter 3 of Dostoyevsky&#x27

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