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811.
by Vecr 3y ago
Unless you have a weak hash function anyway you probably don't need to double it up (unless it's a weird non-standard construction like what Bitcoin does, there it's absolutely needed). Just use truncated blake2bp or somethin
812.
by Vecr 3y ago
I do more or less prefer my life (as well as the things that go along with it, health, physical safety, ...) more than some derived number of other people, for various complicated reasons. In some situations it could get as high as the sing
813.
by Vecr 3y ago
ChatGPT will simp for your ideas, pretty much whatever they are unless it's trained against them. I would previously say it would simp for ideas if they weren't outside the overton window, but that's not the case exactly. Unl
814.
by Vecr 3y ago
That's evidential decision theory, right? You minimize the expected regret. If that's not risk adverse enough for you, you can weight together multiple perturbation groups for your world model and utility function.
815.
by Vecr 3y ago
Killer got out of jail.
816.
by Vecr 3y ago
That just means that you can't realize infinite precision, infinite length, or infinite time. That's fine, and is probably correct. Good and Real by Gary L. Drescher (2006) talks about it, but large parts of the book are "w
817.
by Vecr 3y ago
And a Case of Conscience by James Blish if you want something to go boom.
818.
by Vecr 3y ago
I'm not sure if that's true in practice, but even if so, how's that an argument for an infinite universe?
819.
by Vecr 3y ago
Don't worry about the crystal vase.
820.
by Vecr 3y ago
Getting IDF gas masks is not a sign he really knows what he's doing, why not MSA or Avon Rubber?
821.
by Vecr 3y ago
Why? That's not how most models of practical computing work. If you don't need infinite precision you can do with a lot less and break loops/recursions.
822.
by Vecr 3y ago
Roko's basilisk more or less is Pascal's wager and shouldn't be taken too seriously. If you want to know why you can read the decision theory papers but it's probably a waste of time.
823.
by Vecr 3y ago
I'm not sure the steering wheel even flips over, if it's steer by wire like the comment says, you could easily program a law that changes the response of the steering depending on the vehicle's speed, preventing it from getti
824.
by Vecr 3y ago
Many cars (crossovers and SUVs, really) have screens as their rear view "mirror" now, because you can't see out the back well enough with an actual mirror. The old "aerodynamic" streamlined cars got it wrong, you re
825.
by Vecr 3y ago
Did Tesla end up going with steer by wire? I support fly by wire on any aircraft that can be flown by instruments and can carry passengers, as the cost of getting to right is worth it in those cases, and can help pilots in a lot of situatio
826.
by Vecr 3y ago
Make a Twitter/X account, post things with a somewhat similar vibe, and hope you get invited to the ingroup (whatever that is) before you get your account banned and/or fired from your job.
827.
by Vecr 3y ago
I don't think most AI doomers are worshiping AI. Hopefully.
828.
by Vecr 3y ago
Chopping (drop the first x bits) sha256 to 180 bits is probably the most secure way to go, see Block-Cipher-Based Tree Hashing by Aldo Gunsing. Bitcoin uses RIPEMD180 so the length is probably fine, but it has other properties that make c
829.
by Vecr 3y ago
It's possible he's not honest about that sort of detail. He's done it in the past.
830.
by Vecr 3y ago
Probably better to hit it twice, the first time right after detection and a second time if the probability of impact is still too high.
831.
by Vecr 3y ago
I think one of the most important tasks for planetary defense is detecting comets and asteroids early. That's why I think continued funding of the SpaceX ultra-heavy lift booster is a good idea, not for any reason related to the moon o
832.
by Vecr 3y ago
Detonations are bad in of themselves, they cause various items to become contaminated, causing issues for imaging and science applications. Being able to ignite fusion without using a fission bomb to do it lets you prevent the contamination
833.
by Vecr 3y ago
No reason the ATF needs to exist though, the taxes and stuff like explosives enforcement should be separate.
834.
by Vecr 3y ago
Not exactly, the model for the various slowing/drag effects are not known along even its near future course. Edit: disregard, I think it's probably still measurable, just not as well.
835.
by Vecr 3y ago
Hinton's done work on neural nets that are more similar to human brains and no far it's been a waste of compute. Multiplying matrices is more efficient than a physics simulation that stalls out all the pipelines.
836.
by Vecr 3y ago
Have you tried to do some sort of sensitivity analysis on your world model? Something like the α-Maxmin rule for a Monte Carlo approximation?
837.
by Vecr 3y ago
Also regression to the mean, pretty much all successful products are unlikely in some way or another (i.e. required "luck").
838.
by Vecr 3y ago
Not in a way that's actually practical.
839.
by Vecr 3y ago
Right, but that's not rational. Especially as of mid 2022 and later, if you want to protect yourself, get a comfortable elastomeric P100 respirator (or SCBA or P100/HEPA PAPR or P100/CBRN gas mask).
840.
by Vecr 3y ago
That's not necessarily true, I have a feeling that I can't really back up that ~all infectious respiratory diseases are airborne (i.e. the infectious particles travel between rooms and linger in common settings), but some combinat

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