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by breuleux 2y ago
We could, in theory, pick a random sample of people and give them the time and money to actually think about the issues. Statistically, their interests should match those of the general population, but they will be better tooled to actually
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by breuleux 2y ago
The way it would likely work is that a cryptographically secure open source random algorithm is made known long in advance which takes, say, a full hour to run on top of the line computers. In the hour before it is run, anyone can send in a
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by breuleux 2y ago
What do you mean, who decides? Verifiably picking a random sample isn't technically difficult, you give everyone an ID, pick a known PRNG algorithm, publish a seed, let anyone send in a salt in public if they want to, and then anyone c
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by breuleux 2y ago
Voting is a deeply flawed decision making process compared to deliberation. If there are too many stakeholders for direct deliberation to scale, it is better to just pick a random sample of them and have them deliberate. You can have the sa
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by breuleux 2y ago
Yes, sorry, that was a bit vague. What I mean is that there are probably classes of systems that consume resources too efficiently for intelligent agents to compete. Because an intelligent agent aims to "achieve goals," the space
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by breuleux 2y ago
> "AI risk is a concern because less intelligent entities are not usually able to constrain the behavior of more intelligent entities" - A coarse and imperfect model indeed, but certainly a model based on observations of intera
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by breuleux 2y ago
Your car improves your quality of life. Every other car reduces your quality of life by a small delta: they reduce walkability and bikability, they are deadly, they cause traffic and slow down public transit, they reduce visibility, the
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by breuleux 2y ago
> I didn't enjoy having to go to the supermarket multiple times a week, but I had to when I could only carry maybe 4 bags (fewer if heavy) in one trip. I mean, if we're talking about convenience, I started ordering my groceries
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by breuleux 2y ago
> I think what OP meant to say is "a world without advertising." True, that's how I interpreted it.
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by breuleux 2y ago
A world without marketing would still allow for products to be registered, reviewed, rated, and for people to talk about it. It would still allow you to have a website and a newsletter that people can opt into. The only restriction would be
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by breuleux 2y ago
It's not that simple. Your car increases your freedom, but everybody else's cars decrease it. As a resident who does not have a car, cars impede my freedom to bike and jaywalk, they are unsightly and reduce visibility, they take
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by breuleux 2y ago
> If I don't vote, and if many others also stay home, both parties would scramble to gain support and third parties that previously had no chance at least have a potential market opportunity to break the two party system. That won&#
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by breuleux 2y ago
Fully open and uncensored platforms do not force bigots into bubbles, but they do not prevent them from creating them willingly. If it serves the bigots' interests to form bubbles in order to foster tribalism, then they will. Basically
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by breuleux 2y ago
I feel like this is very obviously what they are doing: they have a small margin on the entry config where people are a lot more price-aware, and jack up the upgrade costs to get a fat margin on configs bought by orgs and power users who ge
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by breuleux 2y ago
Succeeding at intelligence tests is not the same thing as succeeding at survival, though. We have to be careful not to ascribe magical powers to intelligence: like anything else, it has benefits and tradeoffs and it is unlikely that it is
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by breuleux 2y ago
Having more energy is intrinsically dangerous, though, because it's indiscriminate: more energy cannot enable bigger solutions without also enabling bigger problems. Energy is the limiting factor to how much damage we can do. If we h
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by breuleux 2y ago
> the average person would consider a valid replacement But what is that, exactly? If you look at all aspects of a laptop: CPU, RAM, SSD, battery life, screen quality, build quality, touchpad, OS, and put them in order of importance for
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by breuleux 2y ago
I'm not talking about the inner structure, I'm talking about the part where they unfold a proton in such a way that it envelops their entire planet and blocks all incoming light from their sun, meaning that it is continuously abso
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by breuleux 2y ago
It is unironically more plausible than etching a supercomputer inside a proton, yes. It's odd, but it's not broken.
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by breuleux 2y ago
To various extents, yes, but it is easier to suspend one's disbelief about certain things than others. The main issue with sophons is that they routinely have to interact with quantities of energy that should annihilate them: when they
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by breuleux 2y ago
Even the "neat" sci-fi ideas are often complete nonsense, such as the whole concept of sophons, which leverage a neat fringe idea of theoretical physics while running afoul of boring, well-established physics.
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by breuleux 2y ago
If you could store the state of the universe using less than 100% of the universe, then you could use the algorithm recursively on the result, over and over again, to compress it infinitely -- which suggests that it contains no information.
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by breuleux 2y ago
> You don't need to simulate reality, you only need to simulate the minds that perceive reality. Thus cuts computational costs by many orders of magnitude over a reality simulation. Ehhhhh... let's think about it. First, that d
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by breuleux 2y ago
We can't simply assert that this is valuable, we have to analyze it properly. Mass simulation will happen if the expected value of the simulation exceeds the opportunity cost of, well, everything else we could do with these resources i
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by breuleux 2y ago
Depending on capabilities within the simulation, that method scales unpredictably. If you can build supercomputers and run programs on them, these need to be simulated accurately at all times lest it becomes noticeable that they don't
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by breuleux 2y ago
I mean, sure, but the value proposition of a slow simulation containing slow minds is a little dubious, isn't it? It would be neither cheap nor useful, so why would it be made?
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by breuleux 2y ago
Depends on the application. If you're playing a video game, you want real time. If you're trying to predict something, the simulation needs to run faster than real time. If you're trying to model a new technology or a recurre
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by breuleux 2y ago
It depends on which aspects you're trying to simulate accurately. If you consider the physically optimal implementation of any function (e.g. the optimal NAND gate), that system cannot be simulated in real time: the simulation will alw
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by breuleux 3y ago
I might be missing something, but I don't think you even need Hashlife for this. The pattern is regular enough that you could just flat out store a static (x, y, t, state) map of a single cell and apply it fractally in order to compute
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by breuleux 3y ago
I agree that this is really cool, but this is a very contrived situation where the entire universe is arranged in such a way as to form a sort of fixed point. The vast majority of configurations of the Game of Life or of the real world are

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