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by Vecr 2y ago
Yes, but the program was cut down some from the original design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program
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by Vecr 2y ago
Voyager uses a RTG. The USSR used some full-on nuclear reactors in space, but as far as I know no one else publicly did. Edit: Yep, not sure how I forgot about that.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yeah? But that's an argument against seeing any aliens up close (if you believe in that kind of thing), because presumably they're extremely unlikely too. They're not there, or they're far away in time and space, with a
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by Vecr 2y ago
Next time someone sees Eliezer on here, tell him someone must have taken inspiration from his methods. Edit: Godric Gryffindor and the Methods of Google Translate , by the way.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I didn't know he wrote novels. Is there a list somewhere? I know he wrote an "autobiography" (before he did anything) and his various fan fictions (including the infamous one), but I thought everything else was either compend
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by Vecr 2y ago
I'm not sure it's as obvious as you think it is to know what you're Overman would do, but in theory I think you've got it right.
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by Vecr 2y ago
They aren't, he doesn't even live in Maine.
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by Vecr 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Decision_Theory#Dea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra
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by Vecr 2y ago
It's a real voice. Probably with some splicing, but I don't know how much. Gwern admits he isn't that good at speaking, and I believe him. He also says he isn't all that smart. Presumably that's highly relative.
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by Vecr 2y ago
You're a "wordcel" if you can't program and you can't do math. E.g. Scott Alexander. I don't care what roon says.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I actually either didn't know about that pressure thing [0], or I forgot. I suspect I read about it at some point because at some level I knew ascending could have bad effects even if you don't need decompression stops. But I didn
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by Vecr 2y ago
He's Gwern, he knows that wouldn't provide what he wants.
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by Vecr 2y ago
It's not. I don't know if you think we're all Gwern, but he's provided a useful enough service for enough people that a discussion with more than 13 comments is worthwhile.
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by Vecr 2y ago
What I don't know how to do is bounded rationality. Iterating over all the programs weighted by length (with dovetailing if you're a stickler) is "easy", but won't ever get anywhere. And you can't get away with
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by Vecr 2y ago
How do you do intelligence without computation though? Brains are semi-distributed analog computers with terrible interconnect speeds and latencies. Unless you think they're magic, any infinite language is still just a limit to them. E
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by Vecr 2y ago
A lot of things have always been pretty boring. People wanting to be seen were less likely to look boring though, so there's a selection effect there.
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by Vecr 2y ago
"Wordcel" is roon terminology, right? I highly doubt Aschenbrenner is an EA, and if he's a "wordcel" he somehow managed to do mathematical economics without too much problem. Gwern's probably not a "wordce
168.
by Vecr 2y ago
It's fine. I don't know how Gwern actually talks, but unless Patel was going to get an experienced voice actor I'm not sure how much better it could be.
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by Vecr 2y ago
What do you mean by downvote? Has Reddit become real life? Given what people get away with for art a simple warning at the start is probably all that you need.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Technically he's pseudonymous. I don't know if he always had the (fictional) last name "Branwen", but I have records of "gwern" (all lowercase) going way back. And yes I'm pretty sure it was the same perso
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by Vecr 2y ago
I didn't watch it (I read a plot summery) but I did watch what I think was Captain America or Captain America: The Winter Soldier and they had a guy uploaded into a computer. That's earlier in the timeline, right? So it's
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by Vecr 2y ago
What's your position on intentionality[0]? I don't put stock into anything too fancy there. Being simple about things in general, you can define a physical or mathematical system that uses optimization of some sort to drive the wo
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by Vecr 2y ago
I don't think it's babble, they're reasonably good heuristics if you have little information or time. What part is confusing? The point of "POSIWID" is that you can look at e.g. a government office that's never
174.
by Vecr 2y ago
Eh, it's a heuristic. When you put time and effort in, you can usually do better. Superforcasters can beat "nothing ever happens", and even regular people can in particular areas, but if you don't know about a subject it
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by Vecr 2y ago
Thanos had a horrible policy. In many cases it wouldn't help (either it would cause societal collapse or things would go back to being a problem), and even when it does it would usually not be worth it. If he has to get rid of 50% of t
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by Vecr 2y ago
He said the thief returned the original. The copies would have (supposedly) sold to people who wouldn't be able to complain without incriminating themselves.
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by Vecr 2y ago
The map is not the territory. Unless you can convincingly explain how your map would have been better in the situation, and together with his apparent dislike of dying would still have had you stick with the aircraft, he shouldn't be
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by Vecr 2y ago
I don't think saying past-life memories are incredibly suspicious is unscientific. Things start breaking down at probabilities that low. In theory you shouldn't disregard that stuff (and for good reasons), but practically I'm
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by Vecr 2y ago
Maybe? Yes you can take No Free Lunch at face value, or... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...
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by Vecr 2y ago
Opt for cremation then, no one's bringing you back after that. Depending on where you live, brain-only cryonics might be a similar price or cheaper. In case you want to try the other way. In that case you have a somewhat better chance

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