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by bnralt 3y ago
> Aligning a super intelligence with our desires is a problem that no one has solved yet. It's a problem that we haven't seen the existence of yet. It's like saying no one has solved the problem of alien invasions.
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by bnralt 3y ago
There's a financial incentive. And there will be more opportunity for funding if you jump ship as well (it seems like OpenAI will have difficulty with investors after this). But also, if you're a cutting edge researcher, do you wa
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by bnralt 3y ago
> Obviously Sam wasn’t the best fit for OpenAI It's quite possible that he wasn't the best fit, and that the board is an even worse fit. Judging by the behavior of the board, it's hard to see them being a good fit for the
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by bnralt 3y ago
That's what it's looking like to me. It's going to be as beneficial to society as putting Green Peace in charge of the development of nuclear power. The singularity folks have been continuously wrong about their predictions.
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by bnralt 3y ago
Not only that, but go back a decade ago and look at what the singularity people (which the AI alignment crowd comes out of) were saying that. When employment was struggling to recover after the great recession, the singularity folks said th
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by bnralt 3y ago
> You heard it was good.. you didn't believe it and then an article came from somewhere saying the opposite and you believed it. I heard it was good and red articles saying as such and naively supported it. Then the results in my o
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by bnralt 3y ago
Right. The line we were being fed for a long time was that ending the drug war and decriminalizing possession was a good thing in its own right. Not that decriminalizing would make things worse if it wasn’t also met by other policies. Sure,
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by bnralt 3y ago
> how much of that is based on sensational news reporting? (The same news reporting that has half of America convinced that you’ll be cut down by gunfire five minutes after arriving in any American city.) You’re even less likely to die i
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by bnralt 3y ago
Soda fountains exist, are common, and predate plastic bottles. Even if they didn’t, I’m not sure the logic here. Drinking soda from a bottle is just as much an unnecessary luxury as drinking water from a bottle, in both situations a person
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by bnralt 3y ago
I always felt focusing the hate against bottled water was bizarre. Bottled soda is worse for you, and likely hurts the environment much more (since you need the water and the extra ingredients). But people usually single out water; schools
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by bnralt 3y ago
> If somebody reads your script and they're like, well the protagonist clearly FELL but then the only KINDA ROSE but KINDA STAYED THERE and I don't get what the point is? Are you trying to say their efforts were worthwhile or f
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by bnralt 3y ago
One of the fundamental problems with most things on the internet is that there’s unlimited output. A socially dysfunctional shut-in living on the internet is simply going to have a much larger output than someone with a healthy social life
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by bnralt 3y ago
College kids are constantly spending a good deal of time trying to meet people to date. I’m not sure why getting dressed up and spending an entire night at a dance/mixer/bar trying to meet someone is understandable, but spending 5
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by bnralt 3y ago
Crossan always seems to be well respected whenever I’ve heard him mentioned by other academics that study historical Christianity. That’s not to say that he doesn’t have some heterodox views, but they at least seem to exist within the broad
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by bnralt 3y ago
Every time I see Yudkowsky’s writing I wonder why people take him seriously. Just a couple of months back he was duped by a fake story about an airforce AI deciding to kill it’s operators in a simulation. It turned out the whole thing was t
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by bnralt 3y ago
One thing I’ve found that really helps is actually not worrying too much about sleep. Try to follow good basic habits, but you can become neurotic trying to follow every suggestion that people make or thinking that a few nights of horrible
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by bnralt 3y ago
I’ve found the opposite to be the case myself. When I was only posting substantive Tweets with new info, they wouldn’t be seen 99% of the time. But every so often a Tweet would get seen, gain some traction, be retweeted, people would say it
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by bnralt 3y ago
One thing I’ve noticed is that the culture on Twitter now is quite different than it was a decade ago, and the platform has calcified. A decade ago the common adivce for how to connect with people - Tweet often, comment often, follow accoun
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by bnralt 3y ago
Could be, there were massive ratings drops[1]. Hard to know how factually correct the anonymous sources blaming other reasons are. [1] https://www.thewrap.com/the-problem-with-jon-stewart-ratings...
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by bnralt 3y ago
He's not wrong, but there seems to be an issue of the Gell-Mann amnesia going on here. The mass media has consistently been terrible about reporting unverified claims, and this is nothing new. And numerous cases were even worse than th
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by bnralt 3y ago
Most people learn languages for a reason. English is the global language now, so a lot of people learn it, native English speakers already speak the global language. The U.S. has a sizeable amount of native Spanish speakers, so it also has
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by bnralt 3y ago
At the time of the attack, Russia had spent months giving multiple fake excuses as to why they weren’t sending gas through the pipeline[1]. Interesting bit: > Russian officials and Gazprom representatives continue to insist that Germany
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by bnralt 3y ago
> The Prime Minister ran the government like a modern western government, the Shah was a figurehead. This is simply false. If you want an example, look at the 1949 Iranian constitutional assembly where the Shah was able to successfully c
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by bnralt 3y ago
> The two anti-western dissidents that come to mind are Nelson Mandela and (arguably) Martin Luther King. Again, they received the prize after achieving global fame and recognition. Seems like a “no true Scotsman” argument. Naturally, th
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by bnralt 3y ago
> Also Iran in 1953 had a prime Minister Mosaddegh, who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. Iranian oil was nationalized; in 1951 the National Iranian Oil Company took control, and retained it even after Mossadegh’s ouster (even up to
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by bnralt 3y ago
ElBaradei won in 2005, when he was a vocal opponent of Bush's military interventions (Obama's prize in 2009 was likewise mainly a rebuke of Bush). Tawakkol Karman (2011) has been a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia. Willy Brandt receiv
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by bnralt 3y ago
Not only that, but you're also left with the issue of parsing what someone else has written. Even when using answers I find from web searches, I often drop results into ChatGPT so I can get a rough idea of what the person is trying to
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by bnralt 3y ago
“The cost is X” isn’t the same as “The projected cost through 2050 is X.” There are multiple comments in this very discussion that mistakenly thinking that the total is the money that has been spent rather than the money that will be spent
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by bnralt 3y ago
The title seems a bit misleading, since this includes things such as estimates for increased veterans costs until 2050 and homeland security counterterrorism efforts.
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by bnralt 3y ago
Same, in my experience it’s the opposite. The downvoting and moderation creates an echo chamber where there are certain things get accepted as obvious facts that don’t have much (or any) basis. Once that happens, almost everyone seems to un

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