ShredKazoo

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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>Pandora's box is open, the genie's bottle is uncorked As someone who's followed AI safety for over a decade now, it's been frustrating to see reactions flip from "it's too early to do any useful work!"
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Training these models is costly. It only makes sense to train them if you get a significant commercial benefit. A significant commercial benefit almost by definition will have trouble hiding from regulators. Another point is that even if
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Yeah pretty much, a node in a B-Tree is designed to fill a single page of memory
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
A B-tree does in fact have >2 children for only a single dimension.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Maybe having the struct size be constant allows for better space locality in memory? You never have to reallocate nodes, you can pack everything into an array.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
If people had given up on anti-proliferation efforts, it seems likely that additional nations would've had nuclear weapons, and maybe one of those nations would've been desperate enough to push the button. So I don't think t
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>Again, the difference here is that the cat is already out of the bag and AI technology is widely distributed and integrated into everything, including the iPhone I am writing this on. Non-proliferation has already failed. If you read th
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
The shape and origin of the Earth are central questions of the relevant scientific fields. They've received centuries of extensive debate. By contrast, the questions that this book explores haven't received nearly as much expert
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
I think jhbadger's original comment also counts as an appeal to authority by the definition you're using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34785616
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
What's a specific demonstrably untrue claim which is made?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Part of what's going on here is that AI researchers are paid to tinker with systems and make them work, not think about these kind of big picture questions. A demonstration of this is that if you ask a big picture question a bit diffe
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>In no way can I believe that the corporation doesn’t have a good understanding of exactly how it can manipulate the AI systems it leverages to achieve its goals. See this talk which compares modern AI work to alchemy (i.e. it works, unr
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>We know how that went. A large majority of the world's countries have no nuclear weapons. Big swaths of the globe have been designated as "Nuclear-weapon-free zones": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuc
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Previous surveys of this kind have suggested that most AI researchers aren't actually thinking about these questions very hard (e.g. rephrasing a question a bit can get you a very different answer). So it doesn't seem at all surp
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Exactly, and that's not even that unusual in terms of the 20th century, e.g. I believe Desert Storm was officially a UN force as well. The book discusses a lot of examples of people talking about sending UN troops somewhere and that e
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Interesting, does being open source actually offer meaningful protection against hardware supply chain attacks though?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
It's interesting to me that this has become such a common internet talking point. A while ago, I finished reading a history of the UN (the one by Stanley Meisler), and I definitely got the impression that the founders of the UN wanted
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
If not Intel/AMD, who are you buying your processors from?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
How about an app for travelers that translates what people around you say in real time, then displays speech bubbles in your native language next to them?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
So why would someone show up to work after being hired? Why not just surf the internet and play games all day at your desk?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
We've got defense bigwigs backing the jet pilots up. Are there corresponding bigwigs backing up the sailors/rangers? Were the sailor/ranger claims treated as credible by a source at least as good as 60 Minutes?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
I'm happy for you that you're better attuned to what is & isn't cool than the rest of us.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Do active duty jet pilots report seeing mermaids, fairies, Santa Claus, or Big foot on a regular basis?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>There's a vast gulf between "life exists on multiple planets in the galaxy" and "that life is flying around Earth in little metal spaceships that defy all known physical laws". The universe is 13 billion years o
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>You would be smart to guess that there are bigger copies of nearly any remote species in the ocean. And there are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. Is it so unreasonable to guess that intelligent life arose more than once?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
What's the risk of calling random phone numbers?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Do they have to pay royalties to the people whose faces they use?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
Your story sounds fascinating -- if you want to share more about your path from Marxism-Leninism to conservatism I'd be interested to read.
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
How did it change?
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by ShredKazoo 4y ago
>Ted Bundy wasn't signing up for a dating service to find a spouse, he was fabricating situations and preying on women's sympathy to deceive and kidnap them. That's predatory intent. I agree if you want to kidnap someone,

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