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by api 10d ago
Unless I misread it, are they saying local GPUs use less energy? That’s surprising, almost unbelievable, due to batching. Local is usually not batched.
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by api 11d ago
Yes I’ve seen this. The hatred is easily as unhinged as some of the stuff from the “AI will soon learn to fold space and access infinite energy from the zero point after it recursively becomes god” delusional AI utopia crowd, or the “nuke d
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by api 11d ago
Busted? I’d think that AI would be a godsend for retro computing, a field always starved for programmer support especially in emulating obscure stuff.
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by api 11d ago
What if it's due to neither environmental nor genetic factors but ideas. Europe was backward until it re-absorbed classical learning and absorbed newer ideas from the Orient, which led to the renaissance and everything that followed. D
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by api 11d ago
From the open use of the FCC to threaten television networks for saying things the president doesn't like? Among many other examples? That's just a particularly overt one. I'm just saying overall behavior -- outside this spec
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by api 11d ago
Yet there's incentive structures that push it forward. It's a classic example of us being dragged along by incentives and emergent patterns against our individual wills and better judgement. People think it's a conspiracy of
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by api 11d ago
Is that a first amendment violation though if they voluntarily complied? It’s a private company. Free speech doesn’t mean I’m entitled to use your property to post and amplify my speech. I also find the context of the whole thing suspect si
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by api 11d ago
I’ve had some luck prompting them to be concise, both in writing and in code, and with code doing an approach where they get it working, write tons of tests, and then refactor for conciseness and readability. All the tests prevent regressio
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by api 12d ago
What is an "effective altruist firm" and why does it exist? I feel slightly vindicated by this. Those hacks and the stuff around them had a certain smell to them. Hard to explain, but I've gotten so I can "smell" on
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by api 12d ago
So do some current US Republicans.
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by api 12d ago
A core assumption everyone makes that I question is that a race, fight, or competition is a preordained outcome. This is a cornerstone of the doomer thesis and its variations. Evolution has no preference. There are cooperators, both direct
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by api 12d ago
My 2021 Nissan Leaf checks everything, though the manual charge port release is hard to get to and under the hood so it only kind of counts. You can use it in a pinch. Utterly maintenance free. Utterly reliable. Drives great. 220 miles rang
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by api 12d ago
Low cost and low maintenance is why they hate cars like this. They're not as profitable. The ideal is a big overpriced car that depreciates rapidly and requires a lot of maintenance.
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by api 13d ago
I am always more worried about human actors. I’m more afraid of people with AI than autonomous or even sentient AI. It’s a “random guy or bear?” question. Would you rather wake up to an alien in your room or a random dude? I’ll take the ali
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by api 13d ago
I realized that this is another function of the doom mongering and hand waving: if people buy it then they can get out of liability for what their stuff does. If I build a machine on my property and it harms someone else or their property,
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by api 13d ago
They need to bribe him more to get their regulatory capture.
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by api 13d ago
I keep worrying that right around the time the USA wakes up from this madness and restores the proper names of Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico, Europe is going to be like “hold my beer.”
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by api 13d ago
He promotes right-authoritarian politics (including a Nazi salute he later denied but watch the video), promotes “race science” and xenophobia, lies and exaggerates a lot, openly attempted to bribe voters in an election, and a lot of nasty
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by api 14d ago
Yes I trust this government with that power. /extreme sarcasm
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by api 14d ago
One of the times I regret that I have only one upvote.
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by api 14d ago
I don't think Moravec's paradox is the same, and you could argue that one no longer holds -- though I'm not sure. You could also argue that Moravec's paradox still holds but that we now have such powerful computers and h
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by api 14d ago
Basically, but I think there’s some nuance here and some deeper questions. What is intelligence? Problem solving. Learning. Prediction. The ability to model reality. There’s various ways to define it but it’s something like a superposition
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by api 14d ago
My personal belief, or at least strong hypothesis, is that this kind of recursive self improvement without real world embodied feedback of some kind is impossible. I think it violates a conservation law. RSI “foom” to superintelligence is
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by api 14d ago
An undergrad bio student with some lab experience can do some effing terrifying things with about $20k in equipment and time and access to some papers and a library. AI is not needed, but it might help accelerate the research. Not going t
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by api 14d ago
I think that’s how it should play out. Your AI, your “hack,” your damages. If my dog bites my neighbor I can get sued.
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by api 14d ago
My take: AI doesn't replace art, and it doesn't replace the good parts of programming. An art analogy: Imagine that the AI doesn't paint the painting, and it certainly doesn't decide what to paint. Instead it washes th
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by api 14d ago
I was thinking a bit ago about how easy it would be for extreme success of any kind to tip someone into a kind of religious psychosis, a belief that one is some kind of main character in history or possessed of a divine mandate. Anyone even
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by api 15d ago
DOS is security relevant.
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by api 15d ago
Wow it’s a proper word for software engineering and platform complexity over the last 30 years.
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by api 15d ago
Yeah I know. Sadly, burning gas and coal is still the cheapest easiest way to rapidly deploy a lot of power, and Texas is all about it. Renewables can compete but take longer to build. Nuclear is more expensive and takes forever to build. M

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