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Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink(apnews.com)
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by awb 3y ago
When I think of “blameless” I think of “without fault”: https://www.wordnik.com/words/blameless But when I think of “shared responsibility”, I think of everyone as sharing fault. When something goes wrong, I think some
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by awb 3y ago
Instead of a blameless culture, more desirable is a shared responsibility culture. There are always things the engineer all the way up to the CEO could have done prior and could do after to move the company in a positive direction.
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A few things emerged after WWII that probably helped keep the peace: * democracy * capitalism * US military presence * common European allies * a shared dislike of communism * a need to focus internally to rebuild destroyed infrastructure
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by awb 3y ago
Somewhere in between, but probably closer to bullet speed. There are numerous accounts of meteorites entering people’s houses. Here’s a recent one: https://abcnews.go.com/US/scientists-confirm-meteorite-crash... It pie
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by awb 3y ago
That would probably create a lot of hung juries which wouldn’t be ideal from a very time and cost perspective.
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by awb 3y ago
Detecting life would still be a small sample size. You’d need to detect life or rule it out on a variety of planet sizes, ages and compositions at a variety of distances around a variety of star types, ages and sizes at varying locations in
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by awb 3y ago
Right, but how could colonies over such great distances have any meaningful commonality or purpose? Homo Sapiens evolved ~300k years ago. The Milky Way is ~100k light years across. It’s possible you’d have different species colonizing diffe
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Cooperation and symbiotic relationships exist in nature as well. The trajectory of history suggests that it’s easier to trade than to steal and easier to ally than to fight.
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Communication is still a problem. A colony 5 light years away means 10 years before you get a response. For all intents and purposes most colonies will be independent and unable to act efficiently in unison with other colonies towards a str
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by awb 3y ago
If we look at human history through the lense of a Dark Forest hypothesis and resource scarcity, you’d expect to see a variety of behaviors: aggression, defensive isolation, cooperation, etc. And as on Earth, in Space, distance may help kee
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by awb 3y ago
Not saying the 99% stat is correct, but it doesn’t need to be 50%. Attacking and defending are different skills.
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by awb 3y ago
> increasing our chances to pass the filter Why would this be the case? I think OC's point is that if the universe is teeming with non-interstellar life, then the great filter will be life's ability to spread beyond its host st
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The trajectory is more of the issue rather than the speed. You’d probably need onboard AI navigation to course correct and make landing spot decisions.
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by awb 3y ago
There’s so much empty space, a random shotgun blast would be unlikely to hit anything. Here’s a video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdE-Q3yDYQ&pp=ygUvdHJhdmVsIGF... For example there is ~4 light years of empt
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It’s a cost / benefit analysis. If people are easily replaceable then they don’t hold nearly as much power, even en mass.
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by awb 3y ago
Link in tweet is throwing a 404
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The only thing akin to that would be an AI safety concern and the new CEO specifically said that wasn’t the issue. And if it was something concrete, Ilya would likely still be defending the firing, not regretting it. It seems like a simple
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by awb 3y ago
I think you should ask these questions before you say yes.
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by awb 3y ago
It doesn't seem to reconcile well with the earlier paragraph: > chief scientist and co-founder Sutskever, who helped vote Altman out and did the actual firing of him over Google Meet If you're voting and doing the firing, you s
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by awb 3y ago
Yeah, that narrative doesn't sync with the prior paragraph... > chief scientist and co-founder Sutskever, who helped vote Altman out and did the actual firing of him over Google Meet
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"You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way" - Bob Dylan
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by awb 3y ago
OpenAI is 6/30 news stories, or 20%. For a fast moving story about the future of the company behind of one of the biggest tech innovations in my lifetime it doesn’t seem outrageous. You still have 80% non-OpenAI news to browse.
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Much more likely that he was trying to read the tealeaves and be on the majority side in order to keep a leadership position at a company doing important work. He probably assumed the company would fall in line after the board decision and
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INAL, but I’ve executed contracts with these provisions. In my understanding, if such a clause exists, Microsoft employees should not solicit OpenAI employees. But, there’s nothing to stop an OpenAI employee from reaching out to Sam and say
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by awb 3y ago
> the board presumably called her and said, "hey Sam is out, you're the CEO for now, more details to come" I wouldn’t take over as CEO or interim-CEO unless I knew why the previous CEO was fired and was OK with the process
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by awb 3y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai... > Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to retur
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Quitting a potentially generation-defining tech company in all lower case has to be the ultimate humble brag.
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How does it handle mobile / responsive layouts?
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He recommends not rejecting the hypothesis outright, but putting judgement on hold in lieu of evidence. If evidence is presented then be prepared to re-evaluate. He talks about present day tools and measurements as well and the need to re-e

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