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by ben_w 4mo ago
Cue everyone in tech arguing about if this includes any ML component's model weights (if it doesn't fail), and if it includes the data those weights were trained on (if it doesn't fail). And if we did get that, then perhaps w
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Yeah, this is basically why I as a landlord have an agent who takes 10%+VAT just to know what the rules are and who to call when things go wrong, and then bills me on top for listing the property when empty, any works that need doing etc.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Unless you've also both massed the support structure (easy) and demonstrated that the support structure is sufficient in practice rather than theory (requires launching it), you're missing the point I was making by a mile.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Yes, but unevenly. One of the examples in the linked Wikipedia page is Dutch disease, in which the Netherlands found a lot of resources causing growth in that sector (because it could be exported) which drove up currency demand, which made
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> If you find a unique solution that no one else imagined, we congratulate you on your intelligence. If that's your definition, bad luck: that is exactly what the AI did. There are other definitions where AI fail, my example of whic
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I remember one thing that struck me when skim reading that the first time: it only "works" if the government actively does everything in its power to support the boom. No restrictions on new power sources, on pylons and transforme
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I didn't say "the next version of Stockfish". You have Stockfish version n, see board state s. I have Stockfish version n, see board state s. I want to know what you're about to do, so I put Stockfish into state s, ask i
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> I can't imagine staying 3 hours in a crowded room looking at a robot or a computer screen, even if it produces great music. May I introduce you to the runtime of The Lord of the Rings films? Also the American Federation of Musici
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing here? If it's indistinguishable, that could be because the user doesn't care to look closely, or it could be because it's just that well made now. For simple profile pictures, I genu
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Eventually, that becomes interesting. Before we get to that stage, I think we pass through (almost) everyone following almost the exact same advice as each other. Such people are extremely predictable. You may have already noticed, before L
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> as the alternative is made too costly / dangerous by the governors. There's nothing government (corporate or political) has made "costly" or "dangerous" about not having them, society did that all by itsel
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Oookay. Is this a Mythos problem? Or a lazy/greedy/uncaring people problem? ¿Porque no los dos? All AI risk can be described with a narrative that ends in "some human were lazy and didn't care enough", it'
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Well at least it seems pretty implausible to me that a machine learning model trained to reproduce human text can in principle generate something that is significantly above human text production ability. These are not the only current
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by ben_w 4mo ago
To show that RSI can, if bottlenecked like a human in quality, still represent a wild change from us for other reasons besides quality.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
The no cloning theorem applies to quantum states; when it comes to information processed by it, it's unlikely that a big wet messy hot thing like a cell is usefully treated as "a quantum state", let alone an entire brain. How
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Estimates on the count of close friendships, amount of acquaintances, dating, sexual activity, etc - all falling. Personally I would blame this on smartphones and/or apps, not the people. There's a lot of people who report fi
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Our intelligence was enough to turn some balding apes into atom-bomb wielders and astronauts over a few thousand generations. Consider a hypothetical: it is possible to make a semiconductor clone of a human brain, that runs at semiconductor
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Just as the popular "grey goo" nanomachine disaster can easily be shown to be impossible due to resource imbalances and energy shortages, Depends on specifics and how dramatic they're being, given that "mold infesta
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> So I'd imagine that if R&D can be automated, everything becomes better and cheaper but we'd all lose our jobs, as secretaries did to postgres. UBI season Perhaps, but there's a thing in economics, the "resource
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I would argue that 8% is absolutely negligible; however one thing that isn't is that airspace is a narrow band vertically (12 km? Not sure exactly), while LEO is about 800 km thick (from about 200 km, because the Kármán line isn't
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Meta claims itself to be beneficial because of all the ads it sells in support of small businesses. We had ads and small businesses before the internet, too. The question that both Meta and anyone opposed to infinite scroll has to answer is
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by ben_w 4mo ago
It does, it's just not the US constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_the_European_Union
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I think the whole business plan was made by Grok. It talks about the Terafab plan of 1 TW/year, compares against US electricity supply of 0.5 TW. There isn't currently 1 TW/year of new PV being made *worldwide*, and won'
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I remember first hearing this complaint in… sometime between end of 2011 and end of 2013. You'll have to be more specific to be able to claim this is actually about censorship and not notability and trustworthy sources. Even printed na
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by ben_w 4mo ago
UK is very flexible with names; see for example how former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's full name is "Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson", but his parliamentary profile just says "Boris Johnson" https:/&#x2F
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Mm. Well, all Americans should welcome it. *Waves from the 96% of the world that isn't in the US, but still originated quite a lot of the content AI is trained on*.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> increased risk of harm that he faces from deranged people who are reacting to the negative press they've generated Glass houses are not a recommended location for shot put practice, regardless of if it is as severe a topic as this
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Been in a similar place, though before Claude Code all those problems were spread over at least three different humans in three different years. So far it looks like the pumpkin seeds from the organic food section grow just fine, I didn&#x2
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> don't do anything new, god forbid you may actually learn something vs > vibe code your own wrapper around the OS API
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by ben_w 4mo ago
https://lunarregistry.com Given the difference between Musk's optimistic timelines (and share price) and what he actually delivers… would've been fun, perhaps, to be one of the first Martians. But even though I'm

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