Sharlin

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by Sharlin 26d ago
Evolution and human intelligence are two entirely separate optimizers. Evolution improving intellence is not an example of self-improvement, recursive or not. Evolution improving evolution itself would be a self-improvement process. Human
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by Sharlin 26d ago
Doesn’t matter if there’s a rechable local maximum that happens to be comfortably beyond human level. Indeed it would be very surprising if a thing capable of RSI just happened to get stuck at human level or slightly above or below, even th
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by Sharlin 26d ago
Recursive self-improvement is not necessary for AGI. Humans are general intelligences even though we cannot RSI.
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by Sharlin 26d ago
> Should that be considered a crime Yes, of course! Negligent cause of injury or whatever it’s called in your particular jurisdiction. Wasn’t difficult to find examples of cases just like that. It would be astonishingly unjust if the pos
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by Sharlin 26d ago
> but it's hard to argue it's anywhere close to the latter. No it absolutely isn’t. These things did not learn hacking from thin air.
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by Sharlin 26d ago
No, there's most likely zero practical benefit of having found a pathological edge case in which the Navier-Stokes equations do not work. We're most assuredly not talking about "saving lives" here. Unless advanced aliens
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by Sharlin 27d ago
Environment Pollution Agency
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by Sharlin 27d ago
For the record, I consider that P(dangerously unaligned | AGI from current research) >> 0.01. A more reasonable estimate given, what we know, would be 0.99. With regard to the second probability, P(AGI | current LLM research), it woul
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by Sharlin 27d ago
I believe they reconstruct the paths simply based on the timing of detection events. Muons created by neutrino interactions travel more or less linearly and create a "bow shock" of Cherenkov radiation; it's not a single flash
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by Sharlin 27d ago
Yeah, let's risk extinction in order to avoid some made-up numbers going down! Not an insane take at all.
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by Sharlin 27d ago
There have been extremely smart people worried about this exact scenario for 20 years or more. Nothing about this is new. In any case, what's the probability at which a possible extinction event becomes a risk worth taking? Even if the
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by Sharlin 27d ago
It's a good thing there isn't a huge drive right now to build giant data centers everywhere with enough compute to run SOTA models.
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by Sharlin 27d ago
These agents run in a harness that basically runs them in a loop. It's just software.
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by Sharlin 27d ago
With local models it's always been easy to edit only a part of an image (inpainting), either by painting a mask or automatically using a small segmentation model. It's actually pretty strange that commercial models have resorted t
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by Sharlin 27d ago
I remember when in a past life we were allowed to bump the minimum supported IE version of our SPA framework from 6 to 8. It was a joyful day – but we soon realized that it didn’t really buy us that much because 8 was almost as quirky…
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by Sharlin 27d ago
Maybe the coolest (heh) application of Cherenkov radiation is neutrino telescopes like IceCube, detecting tiny flashes of light in cubic kilometers of ultra-clear Antarctic ice, caused by vanishingly rare interactions between neutrinos and
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by Sharlin 28d ago
"Gregarious" is a standard term in biology.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Share doesn't really make any sense. And other macOS applications have an Export menu all right.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
There's no File > Export?!
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Well, it’s a smart TV. I would assume with extreme prejudice that every single one of them is doing stuff like this and worse until proven innocent. Based on everything I’ve read about these things it seems the most reasonable stance. >
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
But that's an outlier. In normal countries you apply for a license, THEN after you get it, you're allowed to purchase a firearm.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Well, the Chinese surveillance state in the US took off 25 years ago, give or take a few days.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
And how large a percentage of those who identify with the umbrella term "antifa" do you think are actually members of violent terrorist cells?
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
And making nude statues wear clothes. Because freedom or something, I guess.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Webmail is perfectly possible, if clunky,without JS. That's how they used to work. IRC and IM require real-time updates of some sort, which is a reasonable use for JS. A Twitter clone shouldn't require JS just to render a page.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
The concept of AI breaking out of a box or doing something unintended trying to achieve a goal. OpenAI should be found guilty of gross negligence of some sort, because this was not something that could not have been anticipated, and because
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Hmm. I can't say it's ever been a problem for me. Especially it shouldn't matter much if it's a series or not. Depending on the author, the main characters may not even have a plot armor.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Yes. If someone tells an author to write a novel based on a vague stream-of-consciousness premise or rough plot idea, that doesn’t make them even a co-author.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
After a long period of reading very little fiction (and even less on deadtree), I’ve been rereading some SF in my bookshelf (the Culture series in particular) and I’ve been positively surprised how easy it has been to reach the "zone&q
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Fiction doesn’t age in the same way.

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