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by afthonos 2y ago
He ran an average of 15 miles a day. That is absolutely within the normal levels of human endurance if you build up to it.
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by afthonos 2y ago
I like the idea that the government will show up without identifying themselves just so people can live out their fantasy of shooting someone without getting into trouble. They will absolutely identify themselves. The reason you should be w
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by afthonos 2y ago
I actually think the electoral college is a solution to a problem so obvious to anyone living then that no one really thought to name it: validating an election. It’s 1789, and you’re designing a voting-based system. You’ve decided each sta
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by afthonos 2y ago
My take that seems to never get cold: let kids skip grades . Anything I hear against this runs into the wall of the lived experience of several people I know including mine . It’s fine! And it doesn’t have to be permanent: if a kid doesn’
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by afthonos 2y ago
That…has nothing to do with my question. It was a procedural and legal question, not an abstract moral one.
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by afthonos 2y ago
This begs the question. If all science is now structured as big research teams, we'd expect the breakthroughs to come from such teams. That doesn’t necessarily imply that teams are needed.
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by afthonos 2y ago
Can they? I mean, in the sense that you can yolo anything, sure, but the prizes were designed in a time when it was (more) reasonable to award them to individuals, and they are defined in a will. There may not be a mechanism for updating th
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by afthonos 2y ago
Famously well attended courses, those, in the English-speaking world… ;-)
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by afthonos 2y ago
Maybe the Chinese wanted to smear the NSA by making it look like the NSA was trying to smear the Chinese when the NSA in fact were the ones implanting bugs in the hardware...
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by afthonos 2y ago
I think GP’s approach is optimized towards a smaller but closer-knit group of friends. Facebook does the opposite: it makes you feel like you have hundreds or thousands of friends when in reality you may not communicate with any of them at
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by afthonos 2y ago
Sure. And practically every one of these issues except for aging and death do have lots of people looking at them, and as someone with an autoimmune disorder that has multiplying available drugs, I can testify that things are getting better
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by afthonos 2y ago
The good news is that as far as I know, there is no plan to end death that doesn’t also involve ending aging. The bad news is that it might come too late for any of us talking here.
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by afthonos 2y ago
I believe my critique applies: if you don't want to be static, don't be static . You can choose to change yourself.
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by afthonos 2y ago
> I don't see how it would improve life overall, except for duration. I think we differ here because to me, if life is good, extending duration is enough; it doesn't need to be even better . > But your scenario implies that
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by afthonos 2y ago
> - The lack of control young people experience when it comes to their own lives (voting, etc) will worsen, if the median age is 80+ or older. This is a really strong status-quo bias shared by many people who are pro-death. Imagine a wor
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by afthonos 2y ago
No, you didn’t. I meant what I wrote. If it is only a tool, obviously our problems are human. The question is whether the AI is setting non-human-desired goals.
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by afthonos 2y ago
So you’re saying that the people who are yelling at the top of their lungs that we should stop AI because it will kill us all are doing so as a ruse to…kill people? That’s some seven-dimensional chess they’re playing.
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by afthonos 2y ago
There’s a lot of good stuff in this article, but it nevertheless misses the point (as did Yoshua Bengio as described, to be clear). When alarmists like myself take about danger, we rarely use the term “superhuman intelligence”. We tend to u
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by afthonos 2y ago
I’m not sure what definition of “criminal” you’re using to make that assessment. All the ones I know are based on laws, which are enacted by states. You have to accept the very framing you’re decrying to call anything criminal.
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by afthonos 2y ago
As far as I use the term, extremists are people who advocate for tearing the system down via revolution and rebuilding from scratch. They have no idea what it takes to build this modern world, but they love the idea of guillotines.
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by afthonos 2y ago
Welcome, visitor from the past! In our enlightened times, we understand that one truly opposed to something would not intimate that something is anything less than a baby-eating sect of demons who revel at suffering despite reason and self-
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by afthonos 3y ago
Best suggestion I ever saw for regulating autonomous software: make software usage in decision-making an aggravating factor in mistakes.
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by afthonos 3y ago
And how is that strategy working out? Because lots and lots of countries have more humane justice systems and are safer. But I guess throwing more people in jail than the Soviet Union had in gulags can’t fail, only we can fail at throwing
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by afthonos 3y ago
It is perfectly possible to see that we live in the best time humanity has ever lived in and be concerned that we’re are at risk of regressing. Especially with people claiming that any regression is simply not viewing things in a larger his
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by afthonos 3y ago
Ok, but like…that’s a bug, not a feature.
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by afthonos 3y ago
Not GP, but…to wear clothes? Most people don’t wear clothes for any other end.
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by afthonos 3y ago
> Why does the mainstream get invoked in these types of arguments when no one called them? Oh, I must have gotten lost. I thought I was in a forum dedicated to hacking where a post had been submitted to justify the importance of a compos
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by afthonos 3y ago
Yeah, but imagine you don’t know what “decoding”, “buffers”, and “display” mean in a software context.
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by afthonos 3y ago
Lovers of modern classical music have been trying to sell it to the mainstream for a century and failed. 100 years after Bach, Mozart, Beerhoven, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and others wrote their seminal works, the audienc
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by afthonos 3y ago
Think of it this way: looking at the neurons is like looking at the assembly and trying to understand how a video is played on YouTube. Yes, in theory it’s possible, but realistically no one would be able to do that. At least not in a reaso

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