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571.
by Vecr 3y ago
Huh, the devs really weren't lying, Alacritty really got better on the latency front. I started using it for supposed better security than Xterm, but at the time I think it was quite a lot worse on latency, but the throughput was way b
572.
by Vecr 3y ago
You'd need way better clocks and synchronization circuits than exist now though, but I don't see any pure physical barriers.
573.
by Vecr 3y ago
A lot of the signal processioning/decoding gear is cryogenic. Maybe everything to the ADC?
574.
by Vecr 3y ago
Yeah, that's in the article. I should look at the emissions curve for various stages of red giant stars. Maybe it's a late phase red giant, and the planet was always far away? It would need increased emissions and then they would
575.
by Vecr 3y ago
How would it appear large in the sky though? Gravitational waves are out, maybe solar wind and light pressure were supposed to be keeping the planet orbiting higher? Or is the point that the planet was always close, but only cooled down eno
576.
by Vecr 3y ago
The The Magician's Nephew is about red giants, or at least the expanding phase of a star like the sun. It's from the 1950s, and C. S. Lewis wrote science fiction earlier.
577.
by Vecr 3y ago
Did you stagger the power-on times? Otherwise you could get tightly correlated failures.
578.
by Vecr 3y ago
> 1. This researcher has never been identified [okay, its China so maybe they suppressed this] > 2. This researcher did not infect anyone close to them [now you're talking about a lot more suppression] >3. This researcher infe
579.
by Vecr 3y ago
You've got it mostly right but in this case there would be no racoon dog in the chain. It would be a lab leak. I'm about 30% on that, but what I say is a worker from the lab infecting people at the wet market (or infecting someone
580.
by Vecr 3y ago
My argument is that infecting zero or one person is common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdispersion It's why you can get superspreaders without making the r0 a crazy high number. Most people don't transm
581.
by Vecr 3y ago
The debate this article addresses might be the best televised debate of all time. The best I've ever seen, at least. Most debates miss out obvious arguments on both sides. I've got an issue with the article. > "So the only
582.
by Vecr 3y ago
There's "secret methods" that have been in development at OpenAI for years, but who knows if they'd be much better. It's the old cryptographer line, it's easy to make a cipher you can't break.
583.
by Vecr 3y ago
I remember when Rust had a REPL, was that through MIRI? I can't really remember. Has anyone made something similar recently?
584.
by Vecr 3y ago
There's no way that's a good idea without a AZ-5 style wax+paper seal and flip cap on the steering wheel to turn it off. You want to be able to use your car in emergency situations.
585.
by Vecr 3y ago
At the end, it suggests this is a counterintelligence problem. I don't know what the author wants intelligence agencies to do, maybe they could catch some of the more obvious stuff? I worry about an even longer con, where the attacker
586.
by Vecr 3y ago
I really don't think so, getting the arrow of time to go a different way requires more than entropy locally decreasing, despite various popular descriptions. In most current theories of cosmology it should only go one way. Obviously th
587.
by Vecr 3y ago
That's not what an arrow of time is, are you sure you're not thinking more about counterfactuals?
588.
by Vecr 3y ago
Why does ethics need to be based on consciousness anyway? Can't you just stipulate your baseline requirements and then enforce them by any means necessary? Are the aesthetics not "cosmopolitan" enough?
589.
by Vecr 3y ago
There's various things, but one of the main problems these people probably have, as some of them are AI researchers/simulationists, is that the real goals of the AIs are very unclear. Simulations at a very high detail either work
590.
by Vecr 3y ago
Some people think that. I've heard description from multiple smart people along the lines of "empty and despairing" and "leaves me with an empty feeling at the end". I think they probably thought through the implica
591.
by Vecr 3y ago
I don't think that's valid reasoning, maybe the AI system has near-zero discounting but obviously when a human asks it to do something, the human cares about how long it takes. It's plausible that would get programmed in very
592.
by Vecr 3y ago
Well, yes, the genie knows but does not care. It's based on your standard Yudkowsky/Bostrom.
593.
by Vecr 3y ago
It's in "young adults", so that's still ~10 plus times more than from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Absolutely not zero.
594.
by Vecr 3y ago
The problem is, the AI needs to stop getting better (or only ever get slightly better) after a very specific point. It needs to be good enough to avoid getting tangled up in bureaucracy, but not be good enough to take over/wreck the cu
595.
by Vecr 3y ago
It's never happened before. All leap seconds before now have been positive.
596.
by Vecr 3y ago
> If there is any quantum effect either used directly or measured within our brains, it might provide a speed advantage. That's what I was getting at with the temp. comment, as I suppose an oracle machine could theoretically be clas
597.
by Vecr 3y ago
> class of ability higher than Turing machine Yes it does, it would mean that your brain can somehow exploit quantum gravity to turn itself into an oracle machine. How a wet blob significantly hotter than room temperature (in the superco
598.
by Vecr 3y ago
There's no way this is an argument that humans can do things AIs can't do. Weird quantum nonsense won't help, because quantum computers aren't oracle machines.
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by Vecr 3y ago
This is a "professionalized" version of Terry Davis' Temple OS.
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by Vecr 3y ago
If the US lets them. Is foreign agent infiltration bad enough that you think that's going to happen?

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