darawk

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by darawk 4y ago
Your links do not say that there is a designated class of slashers. They just say that it is resource intensive relative to its rewards, so not everyone will want to be one. Anyone who chooses to, however, can be one.
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I didn't make an argument that there are adversarial cases, you did. You brought up an adversarial example, and said the existence of that example proves these algorithms are not generally intelligent. If that follows, it follows that
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by darawk 4y ago
> The common current example? A text prompt of "A horse riding an astronaut" without prompt engineering. Though I don't think the successful production of this image will demonstrate intelligence/causal understanding
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by darawk 4y ago
So, what would be the observable, empirical consequences of the kind of causal understanding and generalization of inference you're describing?
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by darawk 4y ago
I think the burden of argumentation is on the person proposing the constraint. I can only think of one argument for why embodiment might be necessary, and that is our only existence proofs for AGI (humans, maybe some animals) are embodied.
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by darawk 4y ago
How are you defining "understands things"? Or more precisely, what are the observable consequences of understanding things that you are waiting to see?
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by darawk 4y ago
Why is this any worse than an art student learning to paint by looking at other painter's work?
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Nobody is saying they are incapable. I am incapable of running a nuclear power plant, or a modern pharmaceutical lab, even if you give me the manuals. I imagine you are too. Qualifying either of us to do those things would take years of edu
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by darawk 4y ago
Don't you have to teach people arithmetic before you can teach them to do complex manufacturing? It doesn't seem to me like most of Africa has the level of education necessary to sustain operations like these.
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You mean like this? https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-gro...
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What is the "real thing" and how would one give it away?
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by darawk 4y ago
Don't forget the electroshocks to stimulate your muscles.
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by darawk 4y ago
No, > After Hill’s paper was published in a second journal, the New York Journal of Mathematics (NYJM), University of Chicago mathematics professor Benson Farb, who is married to Wilkinson, partook in the editorial decision to retract th
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by darawk 4y ago
What I mean includes both a CBDC (or equivalent digital cash issued by federal government, agnostic of how its implemented) and cryptocurrencies. I don't believe private businesses should be able to cut off payments flow like that. I d
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Nobody is talking about preventing the government from shutting them down. I think the government should be able to shut them down. I think that Visa should not be able to shut them down.
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No, that neutral money puts control back where it belongs: politics, not arbitrary infrastructure providers. PornHub is a company. Its principals are known. It's the job of government to regulate them, not payment processors.
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Someone should. That someone should not be Visa and Mastercard.
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Remember this the next time someone asks what the point of politically neutral money could possibly be.
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> This mindset is where these issues come from in the first place. Housing as become more and more an investment, and groups of people (immigrants, disabled folks, poor people) are not as good of investments, so they're avoided by p
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by darawk 4y ago
> We shouldn't compromise on building quality so those regulations should stay in place Careful about the phrase "building quality" there. If by quality you mean safety, then yes, absolutely. But there are quite a few regu
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> Myers acknowledged in court that on almost every Election Day, Myers transported Beren to the polling station to open the polls. During the drive to the polling station, Myers would advise Beren which candidates he was supporting so th
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by darawk 4y ago
Firstly I don't think that's actually true in any meaningful sense. I mean, yes, literally we could have a completely trivial society without something resembling money, but at even the most rudimentary levels of social organizati
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It's certainly true that there's a line, but i've never heard a principled case for why they ought to be different. Money and speech are really not much different in terms of their power to organize problematic activity. Cert
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by darawk 4y ago
What would you have preferred they do here?
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Sure. But they do actually do very impressive things. Generally people we write off as "grifters" do not actually produce anything of value. And 10 years ago, the list of things they were merely purported to do includes many of th
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by darawk 4y ago
You know that Elon's companies actually build electric cars and rockets that go to space, right?
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Ya, it's certainly possible that we have too few elite universities given the population, or that there's a mismatch there for the absolute numbers. I don't mean to suggest the current arrangement is exactly right. I just mea
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They go because there is value in the stamp of approval. Harvard's role in the economy is to certify people as being in the top x% of quality. If you are in the top x% and qualify for their stamp, it's certainly worthwhile to go g
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This is what these discussions always miss. Harvard isn't conferring value, its recognizing it. It's not a value add, its a filter. People think you can create value by creating more elite universities, but it's exactly the o
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by darawk 4y ago
What farming actually is is companies using their equity directly as marketing incentives. In principle, there is nothing really wrong with this, although usually companies don't find that to be the most efficient way to use their equi

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