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by archon1410 2y ago
> And that message is likely to far outlive any message in any dead tree or electronic book. Berkeley News: Bottlenecks that reduced genetic diversity were common throughout human history ( https://news.berkeley.edu/2022&#
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by archon1410 3y ago
Apparently it doesn't happen anymore. > The system has been undergoing change for the past few years: Lambda Istanbul's lawyer Fırat Söyle stated in 2012 that the rectal examinations, and the photographic evidence of anal inter
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by archon1410 3y ago
That's also not really true. It included large parts of south India, including present day states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh etc. It only did not include the southern tip.
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by archon1410 3y ago
That's not true? Maurya and Gupta empires spanned nearly all of the Indian subcontinent.
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by archon1410 3y ago
Something interesting about the owner of OnlyFans, Leonid Radvinsky: > OnlyFans is not his first foray into the world of adult content. After emigrating with his family from Ukraine to Chicago, he set up a company called Cybertania at th
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by archon1410 3y ago
> The Pile is old news, check out more recent datasets like; https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2 — https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile/readme.txt
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by archon1410 3y ago
> Better by what metric? Better for whom? From Derek Parfit's On What Matters, chapter 126 (Has It All Been Worth It?): > If someone dies a slow and painful death, it would have been both better for this person, and impersonally
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by archon1410 3y ago
You'll have an eternity of nothingness regardless of how many years of life you get. Perhaps you don't want only an eternity of nothingness. As for the pathos, I've a hard time believing it compensates for even a billionth
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by archon1410 3y ago
> lethal extremists > wipe these types off the map yeah... I agree with some of the sentiment but some self -awareness is also good. perhaps we should learn to love the lethal extremist inside us.
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by archon1410 3y ago
The code links this tweet as the source of the idea: https://twitter.com/nicolasdnl/status/1749715070928433161 [nitter: https://nitter.net/nicolasdnl/status/1749715070928433161 ] Quote: &
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by archon1410 3y ago
> overrepresented I don't think LLMs can reason about the prevalence of ideas in their training set like that—ChatGPT probably said neo-feudalism isn't common because some text in the training data made the claim, not because i
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by archon1410 3y ago
Nitter: https://nitter.net/WhatLayoff/status/1745429342551777406
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by archon1410 3y ago
Obviously they must have done something very bad in their previous life as an animal with free will! Maybe they tortured someone as a human. I don't believe this explanation, but reincarnation usually comes along with karma in a packag
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by archon1410 3y ago
No? The problem of evil is applicable to any religion that claims that an omnipotent and omniscient creator of the world exists, which many strands of Hinduism do. The doctrine of karma is a good attempt but it still doesn't solve it.
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by archon1410 3y ago
> In later traditions (most notably in the Acts of Thomas, Book of Thomas the Contender, etc.), Thomas is regarded as the twin brother of Jesus. Wikipedia cites a primary source, a translation of the Gospel of Thomas by John D. Turner, f
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by archon1410 3y ago
I wonder how much of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is the result of everyone browsing the same few social media sites. The latest microtrend of one small area of a site spreads to other sites or similar areas of other sites. Once you see it
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by archon1410 3y ago
Has the narrative moved on? The historian and blogger Bret Devereaux presents a view on a 2022 blog post that seems to back up what the Deepmind CEO is saying. > The specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required
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by archon1410 3y ago
That there are deaths during crop harvesting does not mean that one should then feed those crops to other animals and then kill them for flesh too—instead of growing and eating something human edible. The vast majority of animals killed for
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by archon1410 3y ago
Perhaps such a system did exist somewhere in some bygone era—maybe in ancient India where milk was common but where cows or calves were never intentionally killed, and skin and carrion was sometimes taken from the corpse. I think most peopl
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by archon1410 3y ago
Every time there's an article posted somewhere stating the obvious (as the original post does), there's always someone in the comments referring to non-humans as if they are objects, insisting that of course it is okay to breed va
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by archon1410 3y ago
I know it's a theme, MacAskill discusess it in his book. In practice, this is the direction all the "AI safety" departments and organisations seem to be going into. A world where everyone is paperclipped is probably better th
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by archon1410 3y ago
The idea of "alignment" is pretty troubling to me. Do these people think that they, or those in power have achieved moral perfection, such that it would be good to have extremely powerful AI systems under their control, aligned wi
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by archon1410 3y ago
Googling it brings up a pretty interesting (and accessible) journal article on this subject by one Peter C. Hains, apparently the guy who "laid out the plans" for the canal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/251053
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by archon1410 3y ago
It seems the video is making rounds yet again—it was also recommended to me by the algorithm a few days ago.
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by archon1410 3y ago
Tangential: the lead picture in the article linked in this comment immediately came across as AI generated, whereas the one in OP's article did not: I had to go back and look at it again to realise that it too is AI generated. It is qu
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by archon1410 3y ago
I feel the Nobel prize was less for fighting for women's rights, and more for fighting against an anti-American, anti-Western government. For some reason, I don't see the award ever going to a rights activist fighting against the
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by archon1410 3y ago
Male pronouns are assumed in most such cases, but that is not necessary in the example you provided—the instruction would be the same for both genders, in Hindi at least. "आपको विशेष छूट के लिए आवेदन देने के लिए इस काउंटर पर आना होगा।&
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by archon1410 3y ago
> To claim it is biased implies OpenAI did this on purpose They did do it on the purpose—the RLHF. The RLHF process was definitely biased, deliberately or unconsciously, in favour of certain political, social and philosophical positions
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by archon1410 3y ago
Reads like a substance-less ChatGPT comment. Probably is one.
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by archon1410 3y ago
> zero on the Rankine scale is absolute zero, but a temperature difference of one Rankine degree (°R or °Ra) is defined as equal to one Fahrenheit degree But Rankine is an absolute scale. "By analogy with the SI unit, the kelvin, so

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