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What's the Least Impressive Thing GPT-4 Won't Be Able to Do(lesswrong.com)
18 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|21 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think what many societies have discovered in the past few years is, if a proposed authoritarian policy only (or just disproportionately) hurts "the other side", then half the country will abandon any principles they used to have
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I suppose someone could have the philosophical position that women have a moral duty to turn all their egg cells into human lives, but just because we can imagine such a biologically impossible position doesn't mean that you can declar
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a class of "elite thinkers" who go on loafing about So you agree we need a wealth tax that applies to billionaires?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Depending on your philosophical leanings, banning abortion actually grants bodily autonomy to the entirety of the not-yet-born population. I'm not expecting you to accept that philosophical position, but I hope it explains how the go
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Intellectual property So-called "intellectual property" is neither intellectual nor property. If I randomly mash the keyboard for a few minutes, the resulting jumble of letters can have its redistribution restricted by copyr
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
* was formerly banned.[0] (You may have been using the "historical present tense"[1], in which case what you said is technically correct, but potentially misleading to some readers.) [0] https://www.makeuseof.com/t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
* the two big (to fail) political parties
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Interesting, thank you. "Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United State
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Could you explain exactly which statute makes "stealing ... information" a crime?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
In fact, the original description doesn't say that these are the only ducks, so there could any odd number (>1) of ducks. We rule out even numbers since then the "middle" duck would be undefined.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The EU generally delegates enforcement of directives to national governments, since governments like Hungary's would not vote to give the EU the powers and budget necessary to hold such governments to account.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Even if you believe that the votes in Crimea and Donbass were as free and fair as Ukraine's national elections (which I don't), there is still the small matter that those votes were illegal under Ukrainian law, and thus their outc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> irrespective of how clearly untrustworthy that company is. Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration? Surely what the EU is proposing is that browsers have to accept just those companies which pay the necessary fee and which some EU bo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned GPT-4 and the wild speculation about what capabilities it will have. The blog post we're discussing says things like: > We are excited to carry the lessons from this release into the deployme
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It would have been better to ask "What is the smallest number of ducks there could be that fits this description?"
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It was merely explaining that it takes comfort from the healthy vegetable-based diet it is being fed. That seems perfectly cromulent to me, and I'm sure other statistical language models would do a lot blurse.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> It’s not about fixing problems at a holistic level. It’s about creating means to “get” specific companies and organisations and individuals. It always has been. Governments may complain about "Big Tech" having too much power,
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A hypothetical situation, or, your crash introduction to the Online Safety Bill(webdevlaw.uk)
2 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Finally, this compelling hypothesis is getting the attention it deserves. > It need only happen once for the results of this scenario to become the equilibrium conditions in the Galaxy. The only logical step missing is realising that any
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I suppose the conspiracy theory answer is that the Democrats only became motivated (or petty) enough to illegally(?) attack the WikiLeaks website after Assange caused Hillary to lose. For most of the period between her losing the election
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
nonameiguess used Vise Grip. It's super effective!
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Which really entrenches a specific philosophy of what the relationship should be between the state and the citizen. A mandatory ID card says that every citizen has to prove their validity to the state, and it is the state which can grant or
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
But no one chose to be presented with that choice. Ideally we would be able to have both biometric privacy and international travel. Well, to be fair, a lot of people probably do support the idea that their own country checks the doc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Maybe Mastodon/Fediverse instances need to start giving out blue checkmarks to accounts that pay them $8 per month to fund development/design work. Then if enough brands and celebrities move away from Twitter, their followers cou
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think it's premature to say it would be a step in the right direction, unless Mauritius publicly promises that they would immediately evict the US base (turning down the rent payments and weakening the presence of a strategic ally in
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Unlike a country, though, the island would not have been able to support itself economically once the plantation work had ended. It's a bit like a country supporting a whaling station on an island[0] and then later evacuating the islan
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Positive for Mauritius, maybe. It's not clear that the Mauritian government would be any more likely to remove the US base there, and will instead be happy to just receive the rent that the US is currently paying the UK for it. One mi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If we're digging up weird etymological trivia, I will contribute the fact that the old Celtic word Īweriū (from which we get the name Éire) was interpreted by the ancient Greeks as Iouerníā, leading to Tacitus calling the island Hibern
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> My scenario doesn't abolish the United Kingdom, it abolishes it as a country But surely a kingdom has to have a defined territory over which the monarch is sovereign? Of course there is precedent for having a government in exile (

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