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by bbor 2y ago
Hey, this is really impressive stuff, talk about a dream job! Two quick questions if you find the time+interest: 1. What does "safe" imply? Type safety, maybe? Or just a general synonym for "few bugs/well tested"? 2
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by bbor 2y ago
I'm very far from an expert, but: What part of this system understands 3 dimensional space of that kitchen? The visual model "understands" it most readily, I'd say -- like a traditional Waymo CNN "understands
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by bbor 2y ago
To focus on something other than the obviously-terrifying nature of this and the skepticism that rightfully entails on our part: A fast reactive visuomotor policy that translates the latent semantic representations produced by S2 into p
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by bbor 2y ago
Yes! If the venture capitalists that are already involved stick to their stated principles and don't demand eternal growth (which... fingers crossed?), I think bsky has an extremely feasible, promising future. They've intentionall
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by bbor 2y ago
I totally get/relate to your perspective, but to be the annoying leftie in your ear: A) Sustainable revenue is a requirement for any company, yes, but the unlimited (above-inflation) growth demanded by most large corporations is absolu
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by bbor 2y ago
Ok I'm not at all judging, or condemning. But this: 'I was just in a plane crash. Oh my God,' says one woman who filmed herself upside down in her airplane seat. Is a goddam surreal sign of the times. Absolutely surrea
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by bbor 2y ago
I am so confident that that is untrue, I don't even feel the need to link studies; questioning whether the American voting public supports SS and Medicare is like questioning if they oppose slavery or endorse family values & apple
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting thesis, hadn’t heard that! There’s lots of people on Twitter who admitted to losing tons of money unintentionally, but of course it’s hard to prove what the silent majority was thinking. I am still a little dubious tho, sorry: 1
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean... at a certain point, with memecoins, it's just about the scale of said pull, not the presence. There have been concerns of a pump and dump scheme and analysts have viewed it as a "disaster." A forensic analysis
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by bbor 2y ago
That's hilarious/interesting/terrifying, but my naive outsider understanding is that "risks impeachment" is just something opposition lawmaker Leandro Santoro said once, not, like, an impending problem. Anyone know
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by bbor 2y ago
Well, all I'll say is this then: you are a tiny minority.
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by bbor 2y ago
…youre saying that life was good from 1870-1910? Reconstruction and the gilded age?? I mean, there was technological and medical improvements, sure, and continued urbanization. But that’s… those are some of our nations most shameful, inequa
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m no expert, but on a theoretical level: trees—and, more importantly, algae—capture carbon on accident as part of their respiration, which even with risky genetic modification enhancements has a natural limit on volume/biomass-level
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by bbor 2y ago
I came in to drop a “glad the obvious is being confirmed!”, but after skimming the actual study I’m sadly a little dubious of its reasoning. It didn’t examine the two approaches (technically three: renewables, natural carbon capture, and sy
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification, the second point is really smart and something that didn't occur to me! You can slow down a scraper and add real mouse movements, but at the end of the day, if you don't have it collecting data for mo
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by bbor 2y ago
Well he is indeed discussing the early 20th century in that quote, but your point highlights exactly what he’s trying to say: he’s contrasting the previous zoological approach that treated humans as inert machines with inputs and outputs (~
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by bbor 2y ago
Sorry, was unclear, AI experts. Which are definitely a thing :)
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmmm. Well it’s software/IP, so as always I think we need to stay away from “would you download a car” talk. With that in mind, the proposition is basically just the honor system. Which maybe works a little sometimes, among professiona
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by bbor 2y ago
Great article, but the actual technical details of their current “browser fingerprinting” approach are linked at the bottom: https://stytch.com/docs/fraud/guides/device-fingerprinting/o... This seems sem
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by bbor 2y ago
Philosophy is Real Science :) Re:the final point, I think that's just provably false if you read any of his writing on AI. e.g. https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf https://intelligence.org/files
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmm, don't want to be elitist. More like "people who don't put any time into studying science shouldn't be listened to about science".
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by bbor 2y ago
How could you charge for a binary if people can just compile it on their own...? Honor system? I guess you could make it inconvenient to compile, but then is that really OSS?
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by bbor 2y ago
We now have discrimination down to a science. - Gattaca, 1997
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by bbor 2y ago
Ok, this one’s baffling, especially learning at the end that FLOSS is bad because it’s meant to de -emphasize the “libre” part. All OSS software is inherently without cost, that seems unquestioned here. So free only ever means one thing to
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by bbor 2y ago
Lol I was wondering if anyone would comment on that! To be fair Yudkowsky is a self-taught scholar, AFAIK Altman has never even half-heartedly attempted to engage with any academy, much less 5 at once. I'm not a huge fan of Yudkowsky&#
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by bbor 2y ago
Despite what Sam Altman (a high-school graduate) might want to be true, human cognition is not just a massive pile of intuition; there are critical deliberative and intentional aspects to cognition, which is something we've seen co
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by bbor 2y ago
I usually don't engage on A[GS]I on here, but I feel like this is a decent time for an exception -- you're certainly well spoken and clear, which helps! Three things: (I) All of the focus on AGI is a distraction. I strongly
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by bbor 2y ago
To be fair, you're writing a blog, not a textbook - despite my complaint I'd probably do a bit of the same for the sake of engagement! Looking forward to seeing your posts in the future. Wish you could follow people on HN!
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m not questioning whether Disney has discussed them, I’m questioning whether it’s worthy of a Wikipedia page. All companies that buy paint buy it for specific reasons.
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by bbor 2y ago
I don’t love the “me against the world” framing, but maybe I’ve just been blessed with good teachers — this is a great summation of what the HCI faculty at GaTech espouse! If it’s not a consensus yet, it should be. If the author pops by, I’

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