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by breuleux 3y ago
How many sets do you buy per year, out of curiosity? I got into Lego during the pandemic and bought around 50 sets in the past three years. Over that sample, the number of missing pieces was precisely zero.
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When I select text with the trackpad, which isn't all that often, I'll usually double-click on the first word and drag, so I don't need to be very precise. Or triple-click if I need the whole paragraph. When editing text or c
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"That than which no greater can be conceived" feels a little like "that number than which no greater can be conceived." No matter what number I conceive of, I can in fact conceive of a greater one, and if I couldn't
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I feel that it's the kind of argument you devise when you think language is the fundamental basis of reality rather than a (flawed) way to model it. There are many logical deductions you can make that only tell you things about languag
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At the same time, you have to consider that if the same crooked reporter reported these leaks without providing any audio at all, or said they were emails, or texts, a large number of people would believe them anyway. You have to check what
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by breuleux 3y ago
> People believe that stuff far more easily than they believe something they read. I'm not convinced it's "far" more. People believe things they read extremely easily when they say what they want to hear. Propaganda
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These toxic hellscapes also add up to less than a third of the Earth's total surface area, so even in the best case scenario they couldn't hold a whole lot of people. And regarding overpopulation, exponential population growth wil
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> the only thing removing category distinctions here will do for you is give license to treat any organism however you wish This is only true if what stops you from treating certain organisms in a certain way are these objective category
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Let's not see exponentials everywhere either. It's not because things seem to be progressing very fast that exponentials are involved. More often than not they are logistic curves.
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The parent was positing, at a minimum, a 30 million fold increase in clock speed. This entails a proportional increase in energy consumption, which would likely destroy any thermal envelope the size of a brain. The only reason current proce
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> Lack of independence implies low coordination costs Perhaps, but it's not obvious. Lack of independence implies more back-and-forth communication with the central coordinator, whereas independent agents could do more work before c
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by breuleux 3y ago
I would argue that intelligence, at the core, is about understanding and manipulating simple systems in order to achieve specific goals. This becomes exponentially difficult with complexity (or level of chaos), so past a certain threshold,
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> As a lower bound on what "superintelligence" means, consider something that 1) thinks much faster, years or centuries every second, and 2) thinks in parallel, as though millions of people are thinking centuries every second.
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I would say you are also overconfident in your own statements. > Individual humans are limited by biology, an AGI will not be similarly limited. On the other hand, individual humans are not limited by silicon and global supply chains, no
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I don't have a whole lot that are public. This section describes one of advanced features I use most: http://breuleux.github.io/quaint/syntax.html#rules I've used it to create operators for stuff like: * Lead
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by breuleux 3y ago
If you want another data point, I made my own markup language a while back that aims for markdown-like simplicity while making it easy to define simple macros and operators: http://breuleux.github.io/quaint/ It's
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The great organizing Moloch is really just natural selection, when you think about it. It doesn't particularly care about life or happiness, but at the same time life wouldn't exist without it. I wouldn't say it is afraid of
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I don’t know about that. I think AGI with 60 IQ may arrive before AGI that can walk, which rather limits its usefulness as an army.
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Another advantage is that if you pay random citizens full time to oversee the government, they will be able to talk and negotiate with each other directly, they will have the time to actually study and think about the issues, and they will
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by breuleux 3y ago
That's not exactly what I want to say. What I am saying is that voters do not know what they are doing. At a glance that might suggest that they are the problem, but only if you think "knowing what they are doing" is a low ba
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> If we had Condorcet voting, we would have elected much more reasonable candidates a long time ago. I don't think that's true. Candidates, even lunatics, adapt their strategy to whatever the voting system happens to be. If a l
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> But it is possible with artificial intelligence. Once consciousness has been digitized, you can beam it at the speed of light to a receiver. That may not remain true. The ability to serialize consciousness does not come for free, it re
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Technological pessimism underestimates the rate of progress, but technological optimism routinely overestimates it. In the 50s people thought we would have superintelligent robots, flying cars, moon colonies and cold fusion by year 2000.
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You enjoy the noise of cars rolling next to you when you are dining on a terrace? You like to listen to their sweet lullaby when you are reading on your balcony? That's... interesting, I guess? We are not talking about freedom, we are
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by breuleux 3y ago
You control the population through psychological isolation, not physical isolation. In general, people driving cars are no harder to control than people without cars. They are no harder to track. Like, at all. You also have to realize that
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As a cyclist, removing street parking would free up space for dedicated bike lanes and remove risks of being doored. It would also increase visibility a good deal, especially at a time when cars are getting so massive.
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> And when you stop limiting your experience of a thing to a low resolution description of it, it tends to inspire a sense of awe and wonder (at least for me). That's interesting, because to me awe and wonder are a low-resolution
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> I certainly do not assume that they're inside our universe at the time! I'm not sure what you mean by that, but if the simulating universe is not qualitatively identical to the simulated universe, you lose the mathematical pr
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> In other words: you don't need to simulate any physics to prevent a mind from differentiating. But if your simulator is not simulating physics... what is it simulating? The mind? If you are simulating a human brain, that IS a phys
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It's the kind of argument people conjure when they think, not consciously, but subconsciously, that computers are magic. I've been there. You view the world as simple and slow, and computers as this complex and magical technology

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