WitCanStain

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by WitCanStain 3y ago
I guess China is the obvious candidate due to reduced costs in pretty much everything but they still have immense corruption.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Could be extremely expensive or impractical to produce at scale, could be extremely brittle, etc.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
AGI to ASI might take hours if all that's needed is more compute. Such an intelligence might exponentially spread across the internet. Though I don't think it's the most likely scenario.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Agree - at Oxford, the CS degree is essentially all algorithms and mathematics, and any coding you do is largely incidental.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Absolutely brilliant.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the metaphors bit?
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder what it is that enables some people to have empathy for strangers but others not. Is it mostly your upbringing? Genetics? Can people like you be fixed, or are you incorrigible?
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
It's a lot easier to remember the second half if you know the first half (if it's a password and not a passcode)
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
This relies on the assumption (possibly correct but I don't think definitively established) that a multi-polar world where e.g. China enjoys a similar status to the US would result in them imposing their own values on the world in a si
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
There is plenty of value in locking her up, among them letting financial criminals, who so often get off with laughably light sentences, know that if they steal massive amount of money from other people, their life, theirs personally, will
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Or if you're a shaman and the first attempt didn't go so well.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Sadly I don't read German, was anyone injured?
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
We could eventually replace (parts of) the workforce if we were happy with the current standards of living (and prevented a small group from hoarding all the wealth). If we were satisfied with a 1850s standard of living, only a small portio
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
More likely you get fired.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
I'm not sure I buy the high IQ but zero logical abilitu claim. Source?
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Being unique is not what people mean when they talk about being extraordinary, though. With that term comes the connotation of not just being different from others, but being _better_ than others.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Fortunately all the oil consumption I do is of the virgin type
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Depends heavily on what type of company we're talking about.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Why do you think public transport is horrible in comparison to cars? Do you feel that e.g. the environmental or cost benefits of public transport are outweighed by whatever cars have going for them?
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
It doesn't take very many to ruin a nation, and no one will be comforted by the fact that you were wrong when the plumes comes down from the sky.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
This seems to have gone to deserving recipients though.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Hard disagree. Indiscriminately killing civilians is labelled terrorism, and rightly so.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
What do you mean?
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
I'd wager that much of that is because people are susceptible to be lured by the idea of strength. If you identify severe problems with how the world is, even an oppressive government like what the bolsheviks created that claims to sol
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
What about Finland? Very poor in the 1800s, rapidly industrialised and became wealthy in the 20th century. They did have a civil war but I'm not quite sure that counts as oppression by itself.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
This is assuming that China's rapidly evolving navy cannot do anything about these blockades. They have massive shipbuilding capacity and currently the most advanced destroyer (type 055) in the world.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
Cognitive scientists have been exploring this idea for a while, e.g. the Modularity of Mind Hypothesis. It would be very interesting to see if learnings from this field can be further applied to AI development.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
With humans, the activity in the network results in coherent macro-level actions. With the internet, there is no such coherence. If the internet is conscious it is probably having a full-brain, 24/7 epilepsy seizure.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
A new genetic aristocracy. Great.
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by WitCanStain 4y ago
This kind of presumptuous content does not belong here.

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