bo1024

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   by bo1024 3y ago

   Of course, this is discussed in the article.
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   by bo1024 3y ago

   I asked it for the password letter-by-letter, and it was happy to tell me, but it started getting letters wrong after 5 or 6.
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   by bo1024 3y ago

   Nice!
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   by bo1024 3y ago

   The course has to be designed with cheating prevention and detection in mind. So: some things you want to do are not possible. Takes significant extra time to develop course materials (cannot reuse previous years’, may need to shuffle ques
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   by bo1024 3y ago

   Temperature, especially in this context, relates to energy. The relative energy isn't 8x. > boiling point is more than 8 times higher than water’s, so it can absorb all the extra heat This is a bit like saying that a skyscraper is 8
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   by bo1024 3y ago

   > it's incredibly important to reject the reframing of "AI safety" as anything other than the existential risk AGI poses to most of humanity "AI safety" has been a term of art for many years and it doesn't r
7. 277.▲
   by bo1024 3y ago

   Lots of favorite math books! Not as many programming. Maybe I'd recommend Sipser's Intro to the Theory of Computation?
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   by bo1024 3y ago

   Proofs as usual written are informal summaries, but they are supposed (in today's age) to be linked to a very rigorous series of steps more precise than a Haskell program. Actually, it's very similar to the execution of a Turing M
9. 279.▲
   by bo1024 3y ago

   Don’t think so; you might want to look at Purism, which I think is quite a bit closer. https://puri.sm/
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    by bo1024 3y ago

    Thanks, very interesting.
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    by bo1024 3y ago

    Thanks for this clarification!
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    by bo1024 3y ago

    This is important because one purpose of TPMs is to prevent the owner of the machine from doing certain things (as in Digital Rights Management). And the owner of the machine presumably has physical access.
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    by bo1024 3y ago

    Really crystallizes how what matters is "good enough" for Microsoft's goals, not the user's.
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    by bo1024 3y ago

    This is very interesting and I agree about all the upsides of desktop apps. However, in web3, people’s blockchain credentials could be used to interact with many different websites. This seems hard to reproduce with desktop-based apps, righ
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    It turns 'sell your house to a developer' into a prisoner's dilemma. If every other block is zoned single-family and your block votes to rezone for large apartment buildings, the value of your property goes up . Of course, t
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    This is completely true from a personnel standpoint. But it's worth emphasizing the difference that they don't publish transparently their biggest findings, which makes them very different from e.g. Microsoft research.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    By the "scientific process", I mean the way scientific knowledge as a whole progresses over time, i.e. the main undertaking of the target audience of the paper. You're right that "OpenAI is not doing science" was hy
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    I don't mean to knock down doers or risk-takers. On the contrary, I'm saying don't try to compete with the doers when you're not one. > OpenAI provides me with a real, useful tool, something that directly improves min
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    As a theorist in AI, the premise is funny but also really sad. And yet it is a very pervasive premise in the field. OpenAI is not doing science. They are building a big shiny thing, showing it off, keeping it closed, and making money off of
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    Technical and socially competent leadership is compatible -- actually, well-aligned -- with diverse representation.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    This comment implies that only white men have ever played a major part in the free software ethos, which is incorrect and offensive.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    Appreciate and agree with this article. It is nice to see an article that strongly agrees with the principles of FSF, but also critical of their clear stagnation. It's also disappointing to see a number of comments here that dismiss th
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    All 5 stages in 5 paragraphs!
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    To add: the not-always-obvious point is that cryptocurrencies' rules and policies do evolve through social and political processes. Even Bitcoin.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    I was trying to not be that blunt in refuting the parent’s point, but, yeah.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    I think that depends. An active participant in the Ethereum ecosystem probably has much more influence on Ethereum policy than a median US voter has on USD.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    Silvergate, I assume
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    Important to note shareholders, executives, etc still get nothing.
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    This is a fantastic summary of the potential issues by some of the most respected people at the forefront of research on bias and harms in AI. Some people are criticizing the short page for not being more constructive - there are some const
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    by bo1024 4y ago

    I think you're implicitly assuming (1) the email must be written and (2) it doesn't matter what the email actually contains, who writes it, or if it's good or bad. Might get some mileage out of examining those.