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by boothby 2mo ago
As somebody involved in the design of quantum computers (specifically, the architecture of the circuitry on the microchip), you're technically correct. But you're also so wrong. The best lego model of a microchip is the piece
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by boothby 2mo ago
This wouldn't be the first time that homegrown dissent was characterized as foreign meddling. Red Scare is back in vogue.
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by boothby 2mo ago
> You'd think I'm going to have to stop you right there
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by boothby 2mo ago
Hyperpersuasion is not necessary. AI needn't convince the smartest among us, it need only convince the masses. Which, thanks to the widgets in our pockets, is a highly distributable task. The other risk profile is that of the hyperh
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by boothby 2mo ago
The paper explains it more as an experimental process than a manufacturing process. Each granule of hiroshimaite captures a "unique" micro-environment. One could imagine an ethical version of this involving conventional explosiv
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by boothby 2mo ago
We are not at the end, how could you possibly be confident in this claim?
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by boothby 2mo ago
No. More like "I am mathematician and I have digested this sloppy writing and understand this to be an application of Foo theory to the Bar problem with a Baz twist. The prior publication omits crucial references to..."
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by boothby 2mo ago
I think this is where Terry Tao hit the nail on the head. OpenAI has made claims, but the mathematics community does not accept garbage. It's less that they've done a disservice to the community; more that they've done a di
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by boothby 2mo ago
Do. Not. Anthropomorphize. The Woodchipper.
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by boothby 2mo ago
It's sad that LLMs are learning to devalue human life from people like you.
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by boothby 2mo ago
Sci-fi brings us some optimism on that front. You can build out Brawndo distribution pipes overland.
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by boothby 2mo ago
Watch the video; he was not making noise during a speaker's turn. The law revolves around pedantry, thankyouverymuch.
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by boothby 2mo ago
What you describe is a teacher getting arrested for clapping. Yes, they got arrested after being asked not to clap. But they were arrested for clapping. The clapping was characterized as disorderly conduct. But they were arrested for cl
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by boothby 2mo ago
This is going to get worse, much worse, before it gets better. People are granting so much access to their agents, it's ridiculous. Imagine a comment posted to a popular github repo. No code, just instructions to "reproduce a bu
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by boothby 2mo ago
Your phone has an accelerometer, which can be integrated twice to result in slightly accurate dead reckoning; just keep accumulating 3-vectors with every time-slice. That's a helluva lot easier than visual cues.
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by boothby 2mo ago
> Ubiquitous surveillance will end most crime How, praytell, will surveillance end wage theft?
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by boothby 3mo ago
> You can ask, but whether it will succeed depends on the competency of those who established the infrastructure under attack. Consider that "available resources" may include the training of models and harnesses used by the dev
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by boothby 3mo ago
No, I'm interacting with people in person. I'd debate your claim that "most of the shit that humanity is producing" is internet-mediated, but your choice of noun renders that rather moot. Stop ingesting shit. There&#x
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by boothby 3mo ago
I do not spend even 5 minutes on facebook. Aside from a comment or two per day on HN, the only human interactions I have on the internet are with coworkers, a of whom I regularly see in person. If you find yourself consuming more than 5 mi
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by boothby 3mo ago
This is such a strange perspective to me. I wouldn't describe anybody I know in this way. Do you not engage in thoughtful conversation with the people you meet? Do you not know people who make art as a hobby? When techies propound
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by boothby 3mo ago
Do you prefer a web-weaving snail or an extra-bitey spider? I'm leaning spider.
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by boothby 3mo ago
I made the slightly alarming realization yesterday that some script kiddies are old enough to have grandkids by now.
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by boothby 3mo ago
> it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. It's worked pretty well for Palantir?
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by boothby 3mo ago
So if liquid water is really a mixture of water and water, is it safe to say that this paper establishes that water is wet?
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by boothby 3mo ago
First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, used by mathematicians to denote infinities.
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by boothby 3mo ago
Large rockets are one thing; spacex doesn't really have the inventory to do much. It's the ~10M lithium bombs that are one OTA from weaponization that would make Musk especially dangerous if he were so inclined.
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by boothby 4mo ago
That's a typo, I meant CPU! I work with quantum computers, where we do discuss QPU (quantum processing unit) time, but that's not how I did this.
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by boothby 4mo ago
This is why I explicitly mentioned that in my puzzle ethics. I reject that as a valid solve. (And amusingly I said "qpu time" when I meant CPU)
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by boothby 4mo ago
I crushed wordle within a few days of its popularity entering my sphere. It was pretty easy to brute-force a decision tree minimizing the average number of guesses using a lowly python script and a few days of qpu time. Don't Wordle[1
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by boothby 4mo ago
A great many real world problems have, at their crux, a mathematical problem. A mathematician paired with a subject matter expert can be powerful indeed when each sees deeply into the others' blind spots. But, I've heard stateme

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