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by danbmil99 3y ago
From a doomer/EA perspective, publicly saying that GPT5 is AGI or such would likely inspire & accelerate labs around the world to catch up. Thus it was more "Altruistic" / aligned with humanity's fate to stay mu
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by danbmil99 3y ago
This. There were no investors on the board -- as Jason @ all-in said "that's just crazy".
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by danbmil99 3y ago
The fact that special relativity is completely consistent with an underlying preferred absolute reference frame that simply is not accessible to experiment (unless things break down at the plank scale) seems obvious to me but I've had
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by danbmil99 3y ago
One word: parentheses
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by danbmil99 3y ago
Because the laws are BS and not even wrong for this market
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by danbmil99 3y ago
Assuming the company is in California, the laws are very pro-worker. Find a lawyer to give you advice but I suspect it's completely kosher to pay your employees before anyone else's claims on the cash. It's also the right thi
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by danbmil99 3y ago
Upvoted for your response to ghosting comment.
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by danbmil99 3y ago
That would explain the absurdly low cost for a crown. I just wish I could pay $500 for a decent crown but they're more like $1500 to $2,000
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by danbmil99 3y ago
Luckily, startup culture in Silicon Valley has none of these problems..
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by danbmil99 3y ago
Greg Egan is a true genius, and I don't use that word lightly. He's a true polymath. In another era, I suspect he could have been one of the leading scientist/mathematician/philosopher of his time. One comparison I reall
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by danbmil99 3y ago
We used to call that kind of code hemoglobin, or hemo for short. Hemoglobin is a molecule that's barely changed over hundreds of millions of years, is extremely complicated and does one thing really well -- bind to oxygen and carry it
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by danbmil99 3y ago
Personally I'm a bit tired of Yudkowsky's domination of this narrative. He's right about one thing, no one is a perfect predictor. There really is no way to know in advance how this is going to play out, no matter how many t
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by danbmil99 4y ago
I'll just put this here. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-art-of/978047050382...
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by danbmil99 4y ago
There are already several film versions of Philip glass, starting with koyaanisqatsi
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by danbmil99 4y ago
The guy like this at one place called himself "Total Slack" (You know who you are!) He had a great personality, and he sourced mj for those in need. He came on early and did quite well cash-wise when the company went public. He ju
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by danbmil99 4y ago
> John Searle, broadly, framed the issue correctly in the 80s and the standard critiques are wrong. The standard critiques are not wrong, IMNSHO. Searle's Chinese Room is facile mind-poison. It is an unfalsifiable hypothesis. What i
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by danbmil99 4y ago
This is a great issue to think about. Note the kinds of interactions we do not have (yet) with GPT and similar models: GPT (as a Bot on a Discord channel) "Hey all, I just had a revelation. I'm creating a new channel to discuss th
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by danbmil99 4y ago
There is chatter that they have a secondary model, probably a simple classifier, that interjects and stops inquiries on a number of subjects, including asking GPT if it has feelings, thinks it is conscious etc. Re-read some of the batshit S
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by danbmil99 4y ago
in the now infamous Lex interview, Sam Altman proposes a test for consciousness (he attributes it to Ilya Sutskever): Somehow, create an AI by training on everything we train on now, _except_ leave out any mention of consciousness, theory o
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Time to get serious about competitive open source models. Can't we do a seti at home sort of thing to distribute the training?
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by danbmil99 4y ago
This is actually a much better version of the techno-babble we see all the time in movies and TV. I assume they get it wrong because the story is more important, and tech ppl don't want to be associated with the bs that comes out of th
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by danbmil99 4y ago
How soon will we see articles on the emotional toll of bonding with chatbots?
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by danbmil99 4y ago
I think it might be humor.
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by danbmil99 4y ago
The site is still more responsive and readable than almost anything else on the web
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by danbmil99 4y ago
That sounds suspiciously like pimping
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by danbmil99 4y ago
that's a lot more than 288 characters
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Has anyone broached R O K O with it yet? (I'm not gonna do it, JIC)
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by danbmil99 4y ago
This horrible disease touched my extended family. Unfortunately, rare 'orphan' diseases are under-funded because there aren't enough patients to make them profitable. More Pharma shareholder value with yet another drug that a
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by danbmil99 4y ago
I took a shot at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045737 Hard to get traction; doesn't really fit with Mastodon culture; and Elon will shut it down as soon as it hits his radar. Having said all this, there
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by danbmil99 4y ago
The way I understand it, Substack is literally a platform, more like Wordpress than Medium. It is incumbent on those who publish to do all their marketing, outreach, discovery, virality etc. using their own resources. Substack takes a very

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