computerphage

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by computerphage 3y ago
> borderline offensive to question them I would be happy to politely discuss any proposition regarding AI Risk. I don't think any claim should go unquestioned. I can also point you to much longer-form discussions. For example, this
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by computerphage 3y ago
Neither ChatGPT nor GPT-4 pose an existential risk nor are they superintelligent in the sense that Eliezer or Bostrom mean. I say this as a "doomer" who buys the whole argument about AI X-risk.
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by computerphage 3y ago
I mean there's https://meaningness.com/ which is pretty central in post-rationalist thought if you ask me, but maybe it's less central these days.
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by computerphage 3y ago
How can you tell whether something is a better reasoning framework for big ideas? Seems like that's the step that does all the work.
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by computerphage 3y ago
It's possible that all of our big ideas are just us being along for the ride with broad historical and social trends. -me, a rationalist Great. So how does this help me reason better?
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by computerphage 3y ago
I wouldn't travel far, but if you're near SF anyway, then it's a nice stop. It's pretty small, just two rooms, so it's not a big thing. I found it interesting to see Audrey Kim (the curator)'s perspective throu
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by computerphage 3y ago
Yes. AMA
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by computerphage 3y ago
That's just wrong? 6 sigma would be IQ 100 + 6 * 15 = 190. 6 sigma is 1 in 506,797,346. So there should be 16 people with IQs that extreme if intelligence is normally distributed. (There's a factor of two somewhere in here for th
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by computerphage 4y ago
It was required for me, but that didn't mean anything real. We "learned" it for like two weeks then I never used it again.
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by computerphage 4y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted. I think it's not unusual given the field. Certainly some fields have much larger average number of authors than others
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by computerphage 4y ago
Like what?
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by computerphage 4y ago
I downvoted because your comment struck me as not caring at all about the facts.
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by computerphage 4y ago
Just because something is dismissed today as a promising candidate doesn't prove it'll never be used for something else in the far future. Many toxic drugs later found use in chemotherapy for cancer; it was suddenly good they we
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by computerphage 4y ago
I'll take the bet. I pay you when it "never" does, and you pay me if it ever does. How does $1 and $100 sound?
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by computerphage 4y ago
And it should therefore be pointed out every time.
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by computerphage 4y ago
Sounds like it comes in the first half of the paragraph then
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by computerphage 4y ago
Genius! VPNs would get a lot more useful
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by computerphage 4y ago
I couldn't load any *.google.com sites for a solid 10 min window, basically trying constantly, while able to load facebook, amazon, bing, twitter, etc in less than 1 sec each. Problem resolved for me at 2:07 pm Pacific time.
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by computerphage 5y ago
(the author is a woman: https://acesounderglass.com/about-me-2/ )
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by computerphage 5y ago
Selection bias?
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by computerphage 5y ago
"not only [not] growing"
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by computerphage 5y ago
Can I have it please? I feel like I could put it to good use
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by computerphage 5y ago
There have always been 80 and 90 year olds in society.
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by computerphage 5y ago
It would be bad.
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by computerphage 5y ago
Why is Yale unique here?
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by computerphage 5y ago
Well, I'm actually fascinated and wish to hear more. How did you figure out that the cops were funneling people?
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by computerphage 5y ago
Why do you think they're immoral?
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by computerphage 5y ago
(2019)
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by computerphage 5y ago
My "by definition" detector has fired. It says: that's not true by definition. Ads could instead also be things that users want. I do actually think you have a good point.
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by computerphage 5y ago
And what exactly is the difference in your mind between "moderating" and "censoring" here? They seem exactly the same to me: both involve some other party deciding what is and is not acceptable to be published.

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