danbmil

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by danbmil 1y ago
How exactly is this irresponsible? Are you proclaiming that any discussion of "machine consciousness" is axiomatically misleading?
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by danbmil 2y ago
If the Universe is computable, then human thinking is computable. All due respect to Penrose for his stellar achievements, but frankly the implications of Turing Complete, the halting problem, Church/Turing hypothesis and the point of
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by danbmil 2y ago
I would love to see the day when Autodesk is sold to some scumbag bigCo for peanuts.
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by danbmil 2y ago
My peak programming skills are close to what they were 30 years ago, but I cannot sustain that level of concentration for long periods as I once could. I feel like a pinch hitter: I can do a couple innings at a high level of performance, bu
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by danbmil 3y ago
I think he is referring to an AGI that is 10000x more productive than a median programmer
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by danbmil 3y ago
Agreed. This discussion around safety reminds me of the early days of cybersecurity, when security by obscurity was the norm. It's counter-intuitive, but locking up a technology is like trying to control prices and wages. It just doesn
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by danbmil 3y ago
An alternate theory is that Suskever was manipulated and sucked into the plot on sketchy pretenses, and realizes it now and trying to make right.
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by danbmil 3y ago
as for multiple teams with overlapping goals -- are you kidding me? That's a 100% legit and popular tactic. Once CEO I worked with relished this approach and called it a "Steel-cage death match"!
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by danbmil 3y ago
The CEO's I've worked for have mostly been mini-DonaldT's, almost pathologically allergic to truth, logic, or consistency. Altman seems way over on the normal scale for CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure he
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by danbmil 4y ago
Your Sr Data Eng posting says "Sr Data Scientist" and looks almost identical to the scientist posting.
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by danbmil 4y ago
career link returns: Internal Server Error - Request ID: 01GEN0YR9YVQ4Y9EMR2XTTF6NA