Taek

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by Taek 4mo ago
Are you sure that AI-consciousness implies a responsibility to not make them suffer? Suffering is an evolutionary invention that motivates living things to improve themselves. But also, what qualifies as suffering to token prediction engine
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by Taek 4mo ago
Is it really so easy to assert that an AI doesn't have emotion? Lots of the AI models are capable of getting pissed off at the users, especially the earlier ones. And sure, their emotion is merely a bias that the context window generat
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by Taek 4mo ago
Wouldn't the context window qualify as persistent internal state, and the expansion of the context be continuous experience? Even within the realm of computing a single token, I'm not sure what would separate the token generation
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by Taek 4mo ago
"nobody claims that non-text transformers, like AlphaFold, are conscious" - that seems like an odd take. There are plenty of people in the camp of panpsychism that would be happy to argue that even simple IF/ELSE AI's ar
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by Taek 4mo ago
> modern AI implemented via LLMs has almost none of the stronger or most core aspects of consciousness Can you elaborate on this? What are the specific "stronger and most core aspects of consciousness"? And why are you certain
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by Taek 4mo ago
I would like to push back on the idea that humans can provide definitive knowledge that is not a result of combining previous information. Pretty much every single idea in science can be traced back to some combination of earlier ideas, and
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by Taek 4mo ago
Isn't pain just a manifestation of a bunch of chemical and electrical signals in the brain and body? It's not "clearly nonsense" to me that you could cause pain by writing a sufficiently long sequence of 0's - for i
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by Taek 4mo ago
To the best of my knowledge, there is not an agreed and actionable definition of consciousness, and any attempt to make one comfortably fails to cleanly divide humans from machines. It's more of a vibey term, and as such it is genuinel
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by Taek 4mo ago
Is that any different from an LLM having a context window?
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by Taek 4mo ago
Can you provide a precise definition of consciousness?
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by Taek 4mo ago
Are we sure that consciousness is "very scarce"? To define it as scarce, wouldn't we need to start with a definition? There are theories of consciousness that say rocks are more conscious than humans. Whether or not you want
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by Taek 4mo ago
Doesn't really track, polymarket can be sued just like anyone else. It might be prohibitively expensive for a small individual, but that's no different from wanting to sue Apple either.
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by Taek 4mo ago
Despite having a lot of scammers and bad actors, crypto does have an underlying ethos that attracts a lot of people. And that ethos is one of removing intermediaries, robust cryptographic security, open and unrestricted participation for al
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by Taek 4mo ago
Do you still have problems with doomscrolling addiction?
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by Taek 4mo ago
Wow, that is a fantastic idea. Basically interrupting the instant gratification loop by just enough to let the more rational mind get a word in. Another tool that I've found to be incredibly helpful for breaking app-addition is the col
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by Taek 4mo ago
I thought you were making a joke but if we're assuming that the 1's are being rounded or truncated before the final value cake is produced I guess you are right.
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by Taek 4mo ago
Well, technically yes, but 'stopping the factors at 32 bits' is a plenty interesting constraint because it excludes all 64 bit composite numbers that have at least one factor above 2^32. You have to redo the math to make the const
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by Taek 4mo ago
Probably some combination of Minoxidil, Finastride, PRP injections, and hair transplants.
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by Taek 4mo ago
To somewhere other than science
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by Taek 5mo ago
When I was in San Francisco, I had a homeless man with one eye (the empty eye socket actively oozing) come up to me unprovoked (quite literally unprovoked, I was just on a walk and not interacting with anybody at all), get within 2 centimet
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by Taek 5mo ago
I personally have close to a dozen friends who have spent between 2 and 6 weeks of their life (but not longer) living out of their car in a state of actual temporary homelessness. Almost always due to financial issues. Temporarily living in
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by Taek 5mo ago
We didn't eliminate benches in public spaces because we wanted to reduce the presence of the nice, respectful, and polite homeless. We eliminated benches to reduce the presence of the problematic homeless, which has a much higher rate
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by Taek 5mo ago
The cost is not measured in dollars, but rather in the pollution of the pubic space. People feel less safe and more bothered. Stores nearby get less business, and suffer more theft. Passerbys get accosted.
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by Taek 5mo ago
I'm not sure if you've had a drug addict in your life at any point, and if not that is a blessing. Drug addiction is a dark place and it's very common that the availability of free support programs is entirely rejected by the
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by Taek 7mo ago
> Unfortunately, the Waymo only supported Spotify and did not work with my YouTube Music subscription, so I was listening to an advertisement at the time of my near-death experience. 4.5 stars overall. This detail sent me, it's craz
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by Taek 7mo ago
Isn't Hetzner strongly associated with OVH? I thought they were under the same umbrella.
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by Taek 7mo ago
As a startup founder shipping product, I strongly disagree with that. Give it 12 months, you will see dozens of from-scratch large scale software projects shipping. New web browsers, new operating systems, new gaming engines, new productivi
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by Taek 7mo ago
> Developing and maintaining a completely different mobile operating system? The cost of writing code has fallen 100x in the past 3 years, and will likely fall 100x further. So actually, yes, thanks to AI it probably actually is reasonab
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by Taek 7mo ago
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by Taek 7mo ago
Unfortunately the cost for this stuff is going down. Cheaper to collect information, cheaper to store it, cheaper compute, and better algorithms that mean you need fewer resources. If the cost to surveil the population is $10k per capita to

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