airgapstopgap

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by airgapstopgap 3y ago
That's what you believe but it's not necessarily correct. You assume asymmetry in favor of attacker, but this patently does not apply to e.g. cryptography; the way it's going, we would get more, not less security out of AIs,
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by airgapstopgap 3y ago
There is enough research on it, but it often looks at the problem through the lens of incest rather than whole community health and trajectory. E.g. for the UK Biobank sample [1]: > We thus identified 125 unrelated participants (65 males
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by airgapstopgap 3y ago
The "idea of purebred dogs" is maximization of desirable phenotypic traits, and is identical to the idea of artificial selection throughout agriculture and animal husbandry, which has underpinned the sustenance of our civilization
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by airgapstopgap 3y ago
It is interesting that you don't even hide having strong personal emotional preference at stake. Now, does this not suggest that your predictions are a priori less credible, by your logic? No, I don't think "orthogonal"
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by airgapstopgap 3y ago
We won't hit the wall. Somewhat counterintuitively, scaling datasets is the lazy and economical approach. If you have the compute already, might as well dig an OOM more text tokens. But there are other sources of data, and slightly dif
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by airgapstopgap 3y ago
We don't know that in any way that is relevant. A biological neuron is complex and made of lots of elements where very fine interactions can plausibly have effect, so in a sense, there is a combinatorially infinite space of neuron-stat
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
> How many died so we can have this computer, these clothes? The lives of how many exploited africans, asians and latinos it costed to make these things (computers, cellphones, clothes, but also grains, vegetables, food, oil, minerals)?
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
The answer is that, bluntly, environment matters vastly less than we are led to believe by people invested (even for morally noble reasons!) in maintaining the prestige of education and redistributionist policies. It is not only impossible
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Xerox is cool but I'd have proposed another analogy. Suppose you need to transfer your valuable knowledge to the next generation, but you don't have any durable medium, nor widespread literacy, for this matter. On the other hand,
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
They talk specifically of scaling laws investigated in papers like OpenAI's "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models" (2020)[1] and Deepmind's "An empirical analysis of compute-optimal large language model training&
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Not necessarily faster, but you definitely have way more leg power. Various hypotheses on how a larger brain is actually used to control a larger body and thus doesn't translate into specific "brain power" usable for intellig
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
It's a solved question. Of course brain size relates to intelligence, albeit noisily. What, why do people assume that the increase in brain volume in the evolutionary record, concurrent with the increase in sophistication of material c
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Does it not concern you at all that you have, like, zero ability to assess the merit of HBD claims, and therefore are in no position to reason so glibly and confidently about Alexander's motives? If arguments for population differences
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
This is a matter of one's priors. One could just as easily say that it's one thing to find a clearly environmentally mediated difference in some extreme situation (i.e. between North and South Koreans), another to pretend that suc
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
I agree that a more fine-grained classification is more useful. However, the fact that all the greatest long-distance endurance runners are of Kalenjin descent (Nilotic race) tells us next to nothing about any other trait. All the best s
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Are you referring to some specific study on uneducated subsistence farmers? > or descendants of historically-recent enslavement, in the African diaspora I posit that there is a perfect absence of evidence for "historically-recent en
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Race is a social construct in the context of American racial history and politics, where categories were invented long before the concept of genomic ancestry and "Hispanic" counts as a race. In the rest of the world and within the
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
This "Black people as a whole have more genetic diversity" is a technically correct but entirely irrelevant fact, a staple of popular disinformation on this topic. It is trotted out to lead laymen to a number of incorrect assumpti
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
What about the swap use? I gather that high-resolution images with your limited RAM must produce a devastating amount of writes.
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
To begin with, genes that I inherit are a product of chromosomal crossingover, which is a random process. What, do you think that a child is a deterministic average of his/hers parents' diploid genomes? How do you explain the exis
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Did linear regression begin to work differently in the twenty first century?
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
Do you have some principled definition of what AI is or what it means to "understand"? GPT-3 outputs certainly show enough high-level non-scripted information processing to qualify as "understanding" in my book – not hum
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by airgapstopgap 4y ago
This is such a brazen deflection I had to create an account to point it out. Racism, seriously? No, papers that advance the SOTA, and more importantly introduce powerful novel concepts and techniques, have plenty of ethnic Chinese authors.