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by breuleux 9y ago
My general impression about PhDs voicing opinions in a different field than the one they have expertise in is that they are able to apply a veneer of eloquence and complexity to the uninformed nonsense they spout, whereas celebrities are mo
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It depends on the rate of improvement of AI and what the intrinsic strength of defence is against attack. Arguably, security will start incorporating AI techniques, and by the time AI attackers surpass human capability, AI defenders would l
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Straight copying is not a robust way to scale: any vulnerability found in a single copy will be found in all of them, so you end up with a very brittle system. As far as copying goes, you want a smarter scheme than that, where e.g. only tru
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> What it could do is experiment. It could rewire the network, add or take away nodes, change functions, etc. This could potentially be done and evaluated by it at an incredibly fast rate compared to humans. "Potentially," but
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> We can not simply look in our brains/minds and read our source code, nor easily tweak it to see what would happen without great risks to our lives. A computer could. That is not a given. The neural network type of AI, which is so
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> If we have a computer program that is able to design better hardware, it can be improved by simply moving it to better hardware. This adds a constraint that the new hardware has to be able to run that program, which is an important sou
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For what it's worth, Earl Grey has a more lightweight syntax to build HTML, advanced pattern matching, and looks more like Python: http://www.earl-grey.io/ (Disclaimer: I made this).
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I think part of the problem is that there is no easy way to tell apart the two possibilities you describe, and corrective measures are not uniquely warranted when the "correct" ratio is 50/50. In fact (perhaps counter-intuiti
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That works fine for software, but mathematics are a different use case. If you want to simplify or rearrange an equation, what matters most is the structure, not the precise meanings you assign to the variables. If you want to understand ho
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I don't like mathematical notation's ambiguity and opaqueness much either, but it is fairly important for the notation to be terse. It's more important than in software because so many proofs are about this being equivalent t
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by breuleux 10y ago
I don't mind weapon durability too much, it forces you to manage your weapons a bit instead of always using the strongest one you have. I do wish it'd auto-switch in the heat of battle. For cooking, pick an ingredient and select H
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I made a programming language called Earl Grey a couple years ago: http://www.earl-grey.io/ It compiles to JavaScript, but it has a Pythony syntax, macros and fairly advanced pattern matching. I wrote an essay about the why
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I'm not certain what you mean by "fleeing", but we sure as hell aren't going to move seven billion people. A bunch of engineers and rich people may be able to get out, but that's about it. To save the rest, we'
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> why math is so successful in the real world Well, math is a universal approximator -- if there are patterns in what we observe of reality, math can fit them, but that's a far cry from them "being" math. Other formal syst
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Quaint – An extensible markup language(breuleux.github.io)
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Sure, if they can get past the aristocrats' killer robot army.
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> In this scenario, they only need enough factories to meet the needs of themselves and the other aristocrats. That could still end up taking all of the planet's resources, if enough aristocrats try to maximize their military capaci
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> Picking a color with your fat finger having to look over your fingers and down to see it, why not just a color selector on the screen next to your work? Usually droppers are used as well, messes up flow. You don't have to look at
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There is no disaster that has ever happened to Earth that could wipe out a species that can survive on Mars . A giant asteroid colliding with Earth would probably leave more humans here than the whole of Mars could even support.
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Earth's oceans span twice Mars's entire surface, too. Lots of room!
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1. I find that one fairly easy to explain (easier than qualia, even). When we weigh decisions, we can use an internal model of ourselves to support our thought process. We can imagine ourselves doing X, evaluate the consequences a bit, asse
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I never brought up inputs and outputs, though, you did, and ultimately I feel it's kind of a strawman of my position. A brain is made out of billions of neurons, each of which has its own inputs and outputs, and so does each part of ea
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> I'm referring to something that is completely independent of its outputs. Is it not conceivable that a man who is missing both his arms and legs, mute, blind, and deaf, can still have a conscious ego? The brain has many internal i
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> My high level knowledge of how atoms move provide sufficient assurance and understanding of how a Macbook Pro experience is created. I don't think it does per se . In a world where computers didn't exist you would probably n
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The thing is, though, that even if "physics" did have an answer to this, it's not a given that we would understand it. Our incapability to wrap our head around reductionist explanations of qualia does not entail that they are
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It means is that our experience isn't what we think it is, but if the discrepancy is large enough, that's more or less the same thing as saying it doesn't exist. Basically, if none of the aspects of consciousness that make it
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I wouldn't say that's really a problem, because there's a perfectly fine scientific explanation of why it doesn't (couldn't) "capture" this. The experience of color or taste is triggered when information i
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Well, the basic idea is that some inhabitants of colony A may figure that if they remain on A, they can only expect to get 100 resource units, but if they move to B, which is weaker, they may be able to acquire 1,000 resources units instead
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Possibly. On the other hand, the delays in research and coordination may be so large that they basically negate the advantages of being united. An expanding orb of viciously competitive societies would probably make them pretty damn efficie
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A hive mind would face tremendous costs and very small returns. If you think of a human brain as a hive mind made out of neurons, which isn't an unfair way to describe it, a hive mind split on two planets would be like two brain hemisp

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