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by Vecr 2y ago
It might be worth spending at least 100 more years looking for a better solution. AI pause till then good with you?
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by Vecr 2y ago
That's not known for sure. The game theory simulations go one way or the other depending on what assumptions you use. I'm not sure you can say "probably" there.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I'm a human supremacist and I don't want to be an Em. Also, uhh, there's lot less than a trillion Minds (uppercase M, the massive AIs of the culture). In fun space they're probably blocked out to make the computation fea
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by Vecr 2y ago
Personal agency as long as you're fine with the mind control, the resources used are minimal, and you don't interfere with what the minds want. No personal agency to be found over the more broad course of the future, however.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Going by AI theory Banks failed that hard. I suspect he knew that, due to his tricks with language, but that doesn't mean he successfully predicted a plausible future, even in broad strokes. The singularity is called the singularity fo
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by Vecr 2y ago
How does he deal with the trillions of people tortured in infinite fun space? Wars don't tend to be suffering free, especially when they are the really nasty worst-case scenario ones you want to simulate. Did he reject the substrate in
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by Vecr 2y ago
1) Not humans, Banks just calls them that in the text of the books, and 2) Any mind derived from a "human like" (even to a very small degree, really human like civilization and evolved) is at a massive disadvantage to a very highl
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by Vecr 2y ago
Corporations aren't AIs, they aren't as powerful as AIs, and they don't think like AIs. I have mathematical proof. Show me a corporation that, as a whole, satisfies both invulnerability to dutch book attacks and has a fully t
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by Vecr 2y ago
Not in any meaningful way. Even if the culture doesn't intervene (and they do quite often), they're unsatisfyable expanders. They can wait you out, then assimilate what's left.
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by Vecr 2y ago
In "Against the Culture" it's stated that Banks knew what he was doing, and there's other evidence of that too. Like the aliens are called "humans" in the books even though they aren't. As far as I can tel
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yeah I've been told that, but you know what I mean. Unless humans are in charge of your proposed good ending/"win screen", it's not a good ending.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yes, well, even when taking that kind of weird stuff seriously we're not all that far from certainty that it won't work out like that in real life. For example, why would you want to keep around a creature that can Gödel attack yo
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yes, it has major, major problems. There's a post here that lists quite a few of the problems: "Against the Culture" https://archive.is/gv0lG https://www.gleech.org/culture The main sections
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by Vecr 2y ago
You were probably running out its context window somewhat too, due to how the attention works.
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by Vecr 2y ago
You got something like Empedocles' eye rays there, but only in one eye?
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by Vecr 2y ago
There are ways to detect that to an extent and abort in machine systems, and for humans you can see kind of analogous attacks against the immune system (it gets really, really crazy in there, real arms race stuff), but in general why do you
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by Vecr 2y ago
Nowhere near good enough for an actual One Time Pad, obviously.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Maybe be careful how much you post, there's been problems with people trying to professionally publish something they've posted on Internet forums before (Internet/Web fiction).
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by Vecr 2y ago
It makes it worse. Latency too quite often, depending on your metrics. The point is to avoid deadline misses. Not all the time, it's soft real time and not hard.
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by Vecr 2y ago
They're supposed to, between NASA, private US, and Russia. I was asking if that's currently being violated.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I forgot to reply to this, fully independent and in addition to what I said, updateless decision theory agents don't fear the torment nexus for themselves because 1) they are very powerful and would likely be able to avoid such a fate
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by Vecr 2y ago
What's their designated lifeboat now that the Boeing is gone?
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by Vecr 2y ago
You don't only need to think about literal p-hacking, think "If I was using Bayes would this still be a problem?" For a lot of the more subtle stuff, the answer is "Yes."
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by Vecr 2y ago
That's not good at all. There are absolutely rings that would cause a problem.
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by Vecr 2y ago
What's shown in the meme is actually an aileron roll, at least probably. Way too low poly to tell for sure.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Did the author ever admit he was confused about Russian cosmism or is he still going on about that?
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by Vecr 2y ago
It would be somewhat hard to tell if there's circularity somewhere, but you should be able to date it somewhat with the quantity of oxygen in the atmosphere at various times and general geological processes.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Also many people want to find libertarian free will somewhere in new physics.
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by Vecr 2y ago
What do you think AI is? On that one page there's simulated annealing with a logarithmic cooling schedule, Hutter search, and Solomonoff induction, all very much applicable to AI. If you want a fully complete galactic algorithm for AI,
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by Vecr 2y ago
It's kind of silly to take the perspective of light, because it doesn't experience time (obviously, but you know what I mean). Maybe there will be new physics on that like there was with neutrinos, but it can't be too much of

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