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by api 5mo ago
Tangent but: this is also why reducing greenhouse gas emissions is hard. As long as fossil fuels remain one of the cheapest easiest to scale ways to make power, there’s a similar incentive to cheat. If everyone else cuts emissions and you d
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by api 5mo ago
Most of what you describe here is overfitting: https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart....
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by api 5mo ago
They are missing the point though. The point is not even to be faster but to show that the QC is QCing. It can be slower than random search, and in fact might be expected to be. It’s kind of like early fusion plasma experiments that require
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by api 5mo ago
Sure, I know that, but even a small down payment on crazy home prices is insane let alone the monthly payment. I suspect these stats are nationwide. There are places you can still actually buy a home without an exit event. Maybe genZ has wi
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by api 5mo ago
I’ve had a hypothesis ever since studying biology and things like complexity and emergence years ago: We will find life almost everywhere there is an energy gradient, a sufficiently rich substrate, and phase transition boundaries. Life is j
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by api 5mo ago
I can’t grasp the math. How are young people buying homes? Is the average income now over $100k? Or are they taking out mortgages they can never pay off, meaning they are almost renting not on a path to actually buying or owning and most of
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by api 5mo ago
This assumes two things: that AI will not asymptote due to limits in things like training data or compute, and that a superintelligence would necessarily cause our extinction. The latter is based on examining evolutionary history, but that
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by api 5mo ago
Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an
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by api 5mo ago
I’ve always thought if we met super advanced aliens they would be… no more advanced than needed. In each domain they would use only the most complex thing needed to accomplish a task and no more. 100 years ago I might cook in a cast iron pa
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by api 5mo ago
You probably see that because many are low effort Reddit level comments. I’ve seen lots of long AI skeptic threads and people talking about the likely negatives of AI.
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by api 5mo ago
They might be converging somewhat. The ultimate limiting factor is training data. Eventually I think they will converge and then the competition will be on memory and compute efficiency, with the best being the smallest maximally capable mo
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by api 5mo ago
Cocaine bear, cocaine shark, cocaine… salmon?
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by api 5mo ago
The anti-AI discourse is almost identical to anti-photography diatribes from more than a century ago. Artists will also learn to use AI to make art. I don’t mean slop, which is low effort stuff and I tend to use that term regardless of whet
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by api 6mo ago
The point is being able to write it once with web developers instead of writing it a minimum of twice (Windows and macOS) with much harder to hire native UI developers.
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by api 6mo ago
Here’s my understanding. The people involved in core Internet protocol design were used to the net being a largely walled garden of governments, corporations, universities, and a small number of BBSes and niche ISPs. Major protocol upgrades
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by api 6mo ago
In retrospect I think just adding another 16 or 32 bits to V4 would have been fine, but I don’t disagree with you. V6 is fine and it works great. All the complaints I hear are pretty much all ignorance except one: long addresses. That is a
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by api 6mo ago
The last point is very interesting and might keep universities relevant.
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by api 6mo ago
Now consider that DO is reasonably priced compared to the big three cloud providers. Cloud is ludicrously marked up.
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by api 6mo ago
It’s not binary. Before modern times there was enough mixing to keep speciation from occurring but not enough to fully homogenize. If our modern world continues for thousands of years eventually our differences will start to dissolve.
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by api 6mo ago
Not many. Part of why we are like this is extreme mobility. Even before modern times we were always good at getting around and seem to have a desire to roam. Or at least enough of us do to mix up those gene pools.
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by api 6mo ago
One of the worst things Musk did is link himself in peoples’ minds to things like space exploration and then linked these ideas to… other ideas I’m not going into on here. All these ideas about space pre-date him by many decades.
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by api 6mo ago
This is on my reading list. I've read synopses of it, and I don't think it's going to change my mind a lot. I'm still long-term pro-space-exploration, but even before this book I'd come to the conclusion that this i
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by api 6mo ago
As I said in another comment, eugenics is state authoritarian control of reproduction and fertility (with the extreme version being genocide). There are very few people with a disability who wouldn’t want it to have been prevented or cured.
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by api 6mo ago
The best thing to do with the term eugenics is to define it specifically as authoritarian control of reproduction. Voluntary acts aren’t eugenics, otherwise you get absurd things like free choice of mates being eugenics because you are ch
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by api 6mo ago
That sounds more like magic mushrooms bear, in which the bear realizes all life is one and to maul other beings is to maul yourself.
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by api 6mo ago
So much potential in that franchise. Cocaine moose, cocaine snake (or Snakes on Cocaine, which could have the line “I want these mother f’ing snakes off mother f’ing cocaine!”), cocaine lion, cocaine hippo, cocaine alligator…
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by api 6mo ago
Network effects are stronger than we are. People are there because people are there.
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by api 6mo ago
When you zoom this far out, anything can look possible… or impossible. This is the same fallacy, but taken toward rather than away from infinite possibility, that underlies things like the Club of Rome’s world models and their limits to gro
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by api 6mo ago
Ultimately we don’t know. We have not been looking far or long. SETI BTW is kind of a joke. The only way we would hear anything is if someone was very close or was intentionally blasting a signal at us at incredible transmit power (like ter
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by api 6mo ago
As opposed to? What makes the ego and base desires of an aristocracy superior? It’s hard for humans not to get bogged down in base desires, period, because of the dopamine system.

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