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by Vecr 2y ago
> The "mechanics" that Newtonian theory (and its predecessors, Galilean mechanics and Kepler's model of the solar system) replaced were indeed replaced--nobody uses Aristotelian physics or Ptolemaic cosmology any more, not
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by Vecr 2y ago
Eeeeeyeahhh. I've got to go re-read the papers, but the idea is that an AI would figure out how to approximate out the infinities, short-circuit the infinite regress, and figure out a theory of algorithmic similarity. The bargaining pr
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by Vecr 2y ago
If it was a device I was actually making I'd put in really itchy micro-tendrils that pierce the skin, but in Dune there's plot reasons it has to be dramatic, and anyway "I survived the itchy box" is way less cool than &q
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yudkowsky's not a vegetarian though, is he? Not ideologically at least, unless he changed since 2015.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yeah, "time traveling" somehow got prepended to Basilisk in the common perception, even though that makes pretty much zero sense. Also, technically, the bidirectionality does not need to be causal, it "just" needs to be
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by Vecr 2y ago
I don't know if the trials were technically phase 3, but the 2008 Canarypox attempt was pretty big and failed.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I think of Slavoj Zizek similarly to a comedian. If you judge him on those terms someone like Norm McDonald had better and more influential lines, but he's okay.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I don't think Nietzche is useless, but I'd trade a #251 on the list, Judea Pearl for him every time. And he's probably the most useful in your "continental" list, thinking a bit about replaceability.
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by Vecr 2y ago
There's a few others, but people here already spotted them. Alfred Tarski on there but he was a mathematician.
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by Vecr 2y ago
The main issue is you can't have them literally touching or it'll be really hard to read. Maybe it would work, but most of these "pixel art" fonts really benefit from some faking enabled by running on what's actuall
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by Vecr 2y ago
16. Or an integer multiple of that like 32 or 64. It's in the Step 5: Exporting section Edit: that's the height, the width is not fixed/I think it varies with the exact font and the kerning. It's probably too big for y
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by Vecr 2y ago
Interesting how easy it is to make an operation like this run on multiple cores in Rust. Inserting a single call into a chain of functions can be enough.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Why would you want more people to run Apache? If you're running it you should cover it up with some sort of carefully configured reverse proxy.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Not really, if the converter's switching it should be fine either way. Generally you would want to tune it for the input voltage but in many cases the input range is large.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I know, for all of Boeing's problems not doing that is a big plus. At least on the 777. I hope they haven't changed that since.
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by Vecr 2y ago
From what I read "the stick all the way back" is correct, because it's telling the computer your intent, "raise the nose of the plane". Airbus aircraft use flight laws to control the actual control surfaces, so ther
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by Vecr 2y ago
The Luminiferous Ether was supposedly the carrier for light waves, the same way air (and other substances) is the carrier for sound waves. It's not really the space. Kind of pedantic though.
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by Vecr 2y ago
If that's right that's very good to know, eigenvectors were just procedure following for me.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Being able to say the word "should" is something I don't want to give up. You can say it's just a problem of semantics and I should admit to being a nihilist, but I think the use of language is important, because it&#x27
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by Vecr 2y ago
You're exactly right, sorry. I meant that even with tests it's probably too subtle to do the standard test driven design method of programming, you have to be way more careful.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I can hardly remember what happens in the episode, but I don't think anyone says all agents would try to live forever. What I am saying, it that generally, an agent should try to live forever unless the motivation is otherwise outweig
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by Vecr 2y ago
"Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white -- Alfred Tarski I don't know, is it? If under some conditions it's rational to try to live forever, it would be a major mistake to get yourself killed without really,
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by Vecr 2y ago
I don't know about US pilots, but it's still taught to ground people in various places.
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by Vecr 2y ago
How is it not to do with rational thought? Presumably you're an actor in an environment with goals, goals that would presumably benefit, at least to some microscopic degree, to having someone monitor them for all eternity. That means a
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by Vecr 2y ago
I'm kind of confused about this, can't you just get yourself fired (without doing anything illegal) instead of quitting? Are people concerned with the civil law risk?
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by Vecr 2y ago
Have you read AI Drives by S. M. Omohundro? I think it's quite commonly known. The theories that came from it are called "instrumental convergence".
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by Vecr 2y ago
Maybe. Most C code of non-trivial length is UB or at least implementation defined, you really don't want to "tickle" something in a low-level highly used macro.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Can someone explain what I said incorrectly? Assuming you can either be killed by someone else, be killed in an accident, or commit suicide, the rationality of living forever appears correct. Avoiding being killed by someone else is general
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by Vecr 2y ago
You could try asking a virologist if they think it's possible for the HIV-1 provirus to ever be in a state where it could theoretically be infectious given the right DNA fragmentation.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Under rational thought it's generally considered that the operator of said rational thought should, all things equal, try to live forever. It does not say anything else about other people.

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