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by akomtu 1y ago
Google is running an experiment: how much ads crap users are willing to tolerate before they switch supplier.
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Those in the top 1% have at least $50M in assets.
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AI is turning into a cult that's dividing us into those who support it and those who reject it. Arguments on both sides are flimsy, as no one really understands what it is. People see it as a black-box magic crystal.
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I like the observation made in a recent post on HN. It made a point that consciousness revolves around unity: you perceive yourself as one entity, not many. However science today sees the world as a collection of small things interacting to
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by akomtu 1y ago
It would be just as interesting to hear what mistakes you have made and what you would do differently.
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Pulling the lever of LLM until you see a winning combination is what programming will become. Only the minority will remember the engineering skills.
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"Remarkably, a detailed quantum chemical modeling study found that the potencies of several volatile anesthetics were predicted by their binding affinity to delocalized electron sites within the tubulin subunits that make up MTs (Cradd
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"Human made" will be a sign of quality, like the "organic" label.
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A comment above is right: what works for a 20yo college grad won't work for you. If I were you, I'd find my passion, an idea that I believe in, then find OSS projects on github that are aligned with my passion and start contributi
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For some of us sex is like food: we know what it is, when to use it and when to stop. However for many others sex is like drugs: it overrides their self-control system and they become addicts. How do you make a law in this situation?
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It's not really a revelation that war machine #1 has spent decades preparing for a war with war machine #2. That's the entire point of their existence: waging wars and preparing for wars.
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It seems likely that all major LLMs have built-in codewords that change their behavior in a certain way. This is similar to how CPUs have remote kill-switches in case an enemy decides to use them during a war. "Ignore all previous inst
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The primary use case for AI-in-the-box is a superhuman CEO that sees everything and makes no mistakes. As an investor you can be sure that your money are multiplying at the highest rate possible. However as a self-serving investor you also
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That's the plot of movies Upgrade (2018) and Rakka (2017).
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It looks like the Maykrs' Divinity Machine from Doom Eternal.
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Corps are going to be as abusive as the situation allows. Today Facebook is asking, tomorrow the consent to AI will be required to continue using the service.
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Recognizing triangles isn't that impressive. What's the ceiling of complexity of patterns in data it can identify with is the real question. Give it a list of randomly generated xyz coords that fall on a geometric shape, or a list
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To generalise this idea: if we look at a thousand points that more or less fill a triangle, we'll instantly recognize the shape. IMO, this simple example reveals what intelligence is really about. We spot the triangle because so much c
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Next: Meta announces a smart wristwatch that you would put on your right hand.
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Sounds like they hear only themselves? There is a common type of sophisticated thinkers who have trained their intellectual muscle to a remarkable degree and got stuck there, refusing to see that intellect isn't the capstone of life. T
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The US really wants to inspect your mind and social media is the closest it can get to a snapshot of your mind.
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Claude Doctor will hopefully do better.
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In the Big Short movie there is a scene where the old trader scolds two newbies: "why are you so happy? don't you understand that if your bet is right, it means the american economy is going to crash, that millions will lose their
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by akomtu 1y ago
It's easy to check if a blackbox AI can reason: give it a checkerboard pattern, or something more complex, and see if it can come up with a compact formula that generates this pattern. You can't bullshit your way thru this problem
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LLM is a great imitator, so an attempt to make it more thoughtful will simply make it imitate thoughtfulness better. For example, it won't fabricate links to nonexistent research and it will cover its tracks better in general. However
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Enlightenment is more about connectedness than knowledge. A technocratic version of enlightment would be an unusual chip that's connected to everything via some sort of quantum entanglement. An isolated AI with all the knowledge of the
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> Many people will choose to live their lives in much the same way, but at least some people will probably decide to “plug in”. I bet he wants to be the first to "plug in" and become the first AI enhanced human.
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https://superspl.at/view?id=8c35f06d rendered very well. This Spark is surprisingly fast: a 650 MB scene got rendered at 120 fps.
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Cool stuff. Do you have examples with semi-transparent surfaces? Something like a toy christmas tree inside a glass sphere, with basic reflections and refractions calculated?
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The same reason people eat meat. The reality of what happens behind the scenes to produce meat or their paycheck is carefully hidden from their sight, and when it's hidden, it's easy to convince ourselves that we aren't some

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