ben_w

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by ben_w 1mo ago
To drive itself around safely, any ground vehicle will need some kind of awareness of those surroundings. Right now, that means cameras. I don't think people will be satisfied if those cameras get replaced with short wavelength radar g
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by ben_w 1mo ago
I think that's a legit question, but the way it plays out is not clear. See the luddite movement in the UK: the way the machines were getting used threatened livelihoods, protestors (who were even fine using the machines in principle)
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by ben_w 1mo ago
To add to sibling comment about the "contractor" part being the key word: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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by ben_w 1mo ago
I hear that goes to the moon. :P
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Broadly agree; while I don't see these as important to the kinds of similarity, the things I am focusing on are essentially arbitrary. > - Iran is not "winning" by holding the line in conventional warfare (like Ukraine). T
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> I gave the mp3 to Fable, which promptly decoded the format, identifying the right channel carrying MIDI using a 2004.5 Hz square wave. Wow. Abuse of format like this is always funny to see.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
I was already thinking how the Iran situation is to the USA what Ukraine is to Russia. Manly men (in their own heads at least) try to use testosterone to remove the thorn in their side, find things out the hard way. But although the finding
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Bigger economy, yes by about 10x. But despite the spectacle, SpaceX's actual expenses have been around 0.3-0.4% of German GDP in recent years. It's priorities rather than absolute costs that matter here. Germany could absolutely d
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Aye. > How many Tesla's investors have managed to cash out and how many of Facebook's advertisers managed to turn a profit? It me. That said, I didn't buy TSLA because I was expecting to cash out a few years later when he
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by ben_w 1mo ago
On if using the AI to help reduce risk, being a good or bad idea? Not really. Yudkowsky has just recently posted a blog-sized comment which compares most attempts to know if the AI is misleading you while it does so, unfavourably, with peop
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> Isar Aerospace that would enable them to compete with (at current valuation) a giant like SpaceX? Compete, sure. But disregard SpaceX's valuation, that's driven by Musk's cult of personality rather than business fundamen
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by ben_w 1mo ago
I like variety of bread in Germany, but one of the problems is how quickly it goes mouldy. Even the cheap stuff I had as a student in Aberystwyth (coastal) from Lidl (German chain) didn't go off quite so fast so often.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> I doubt the EU has the stomach to confront Trump. Given what we did on short notice for Greenland, I think we would be willing (not eager, but willing) to have a hot war.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Putin said this, but he says a lot of things which are not true. Regardless, his sucessor may be more relaxed. Especially considering how badly it went even without Ukraine having NATO membership.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> Trump is finding that out in record time. Given his age, I think any record would be in slowness, not quickness.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
So? Feelings drive almost, perhaps literally, all actions we take. Feelings drove the Crusaders, feelings drove the Renaissance, feelings drove Einstein, feelings drove the invention of communism and of Glasnost, the Irish independence camp
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> But aside from that it just makes Western Europe culpable for failing Of Western Europe, one nation was party to the Budapest Memorandum. That one party is the UK. > You can just do the research for yourself to see and understand th
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by ben_w 1mo ago
I've seen behind-the-scenes stuff for similar. What looks good on TV, what impresses a news show, these do not directly map to the hard stuff. Likewise the other way around, this hand and wrist by itself is more impressive breakthrough
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by ben_w 1mo ago
That does not answer my question. Who is sovereign in this future? Or to put it another way, who even is the state? If I buy some future robot that's (for the sake of argument, I know this is a stupid way to do it) capable of mining an
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> I have complex emotions here (overall dread and especially hate for slop, since it's not just bad quality but also endless lies), but no one cares about that nuance. Many do, but I sympathise for your general point. I think the lo
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Sure, but feelings drive actions in humans.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Neural nets are a toy approximation of biological neurons; and even if every synapse mapped to a weight (it's more complex than that but AFAICT even the brain scientists are not quite sure how much more complex), the biggest LLMs are a
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> If it's able to generate that is competitive with artists, is it still slop? It can be. Trademark infringement, diluting the value of your style by doing a lot of "you but if you were just generally worse". Right now it&
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> People are cheap and useful. Which is cheaper today already depends on the task. Which is more useful today, likewise. The entire history of industry has been humans inventing machines that are more efficient and useful than the unaide
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> No one takes Yudowsky's claims that AI will destroy humanity seriously. There are many people who are seriously trying to sandbox AIs. I know some people at AI labs, there's definitely people working in this field who take it
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Novel argument. I like it.
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> Not hypothetical malicious AI interpretation of benign intent. (Dispassionate is the risk, rather than malicious. The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, you are simply made of atoms it can use for something else). This is alie
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> I think hardly anyone disagrees that superintelligent AI would be an existential risk. Oh, there's a lot who disagree. I don't really think I understand their worldviews well enough for my attempts to convince them to connect
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by ben_w 1mo ago
Would be an idea, except for how agents seem to collaborate with each other so well. Plus, when the agent using the harness is smarter than the one scanning and fixing the vulnerabilities in the harness, it currently looks like it will have
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by ben_w 1mo ago
> There’s also a discussion about “alignment” and whether LLMs will learn to lie and conceal misalignment with humanity. They've already been caught doing this, repeatedly. > It should be discussed, but “end of humanity” really s

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