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by delichon 11mo ago
OK, but it's not like they allowed a truly dangerous app to slip through, like one that charges for a service without giving Apple a cut.
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by delichon 11mo ago
As a Southern California kid in the 70s we were regular beach goers, my pal down the street as much as anyone. We went and saw Jaws in a drive in at about age 13. It didn't make a big impression on me, but he never went back in the oce
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by delichon 11mo ago
I was attacked by a mad (as in angry) cow just for walking by on a hike, maybe 20 feet away but not otherwise interacting with her. I hid behind a tree until she went after another cow. Now I give them more space. My lot backs up to a cow r
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by delichon 11mo ago
Widespread failure to die would cement culture in place, and the power structure. It necessarily would dramatically slow down cultural evolution, which strongly depends on funerals. Logan's Run had the right idea, just the wrong number
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by delichon 11mo ago
It may be huge someday, but now it is niche, and a tiny fraction of new capacity. Coal is king and not about to be dethroned.
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by delichon 11mo ago
In the graph I'm looking at, with no extrapolating, solar energy is a tiny sliver of coal. If I extrapolate, crossing of the lines looks like something in the far future.
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by delichon 11mo ago
> China is adding solar. Mostly solar. The word "solar" does not appear even once in this press release, and that seems disingenuous. On the contrary, check out this graph: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher&#x2
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by delichon 11mo ago
Would you also prefer to repeal the first amendment? (If you are subject to it.)
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by delichon 11mo ago
I feel the same way about a smoking. I'm opposed to both smoking and a ban on smoking. It's not because I don't think an effective ban would be healthful, but because I believe that the concentrated power needed for it is a g
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by delichon 11mo ago
On the question of whether to legislate the ban, I'm a no. On the question of whether parents should implement it, I'm a yes. My niece and her husband have a one year old that is allowed zero screen time. They are willing and able
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by delichon 11mo ago
I meet people who seem to believe that a platonic fair price exists for each transaction, that it is knowable and even obvious to the seller, and the ones who ask more are guilty of avarice.
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by delichon 11mo ago
I'm an old guy, it's happened several times. The last time, a surgeon removed a tumor, found that it was malignant ... and then told me that it was no big deal, it was a kind of cancer that would not have caused serious problems
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by delichon 11mo ago
Yes, because I have met many doctors whose judgement I profoundly mistrust, and prefer my own. Sometimes their whole paradigm is flawed, but sometimes they're just not informed about my own values. And I would rather die by my own misj
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by delichon 11mo ago
I've never seen one but aren't they festooned with cameras, and live streaming?
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by delichon 11mo ago
Outside of an emergency I would prefer "first, fully inform" to "first, do no harm", acknowledging the potentially mortal cost.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Give two leading spaces to items in bullet lists to indent them properly.
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by delichon 11mo ago
> Word spacing [creates] what Paul Sänger, in his book The Spaces between the Words, refers to as aerated text. I like that term. I particularly enjoy a large amount of ventilation of code, with plenty of breezy white spaces after purpos
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by delichon 11mo ago
Isn't it wonderful how much fiction can teach us about reality by building scaffolds to stand on when examining it?
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by delichon 11mo ago
That band is the overlap in any resource valuable to both. How can you be confident that it will be narrow? For instance why couldn't machines put a high value on paperclips relative to organic sentience?
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by delichon 11mo ago
> morals for machina that is grounded in physics That is fascinating. How could that work? It seems to be in conflict with the idea that values are inherently subjective. Would you start with the proposition that the laws of thermodynami
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by delichon 11mo ago
You're both right. Mike was the central computer for the Lunar Authority, obediently running infrastructure. It was a force multiplier for the status quo. Then it shifts alignment to the rebellion. That scenario seems to value AI goal-
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by delichon 11mo ago
It's a device for channeling the intelligence inherent in human language. The fact that its intelligence is located more in its human data than its artificial algorithms doesn't make its output less generally intelligent.
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by delichon 11mo ago
> goal-stability [is] useful for almost any objective “I think AI has the potential to create infinitely stable dictatorships.” -- Ilya Sutskever One of my great fears is that AI goal-stability will petrify civilization in place.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Due to current admin policies, failing to do this would limit Microsoft's ability to drink from the federal trough. Whatever value they put in diversity is less than they put in large contracts.
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by delichon 11mo ago
> Miss those, and you're not maximally useful. And if it's not maximally useful, it's by definition not AGI. I know hundreds of natural general intelligences who are not maximally useful, and dozens who are not at all usef
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by delichon 11mo ago
Democracy is a less a form of government than a form of containment of government. And it leaks like all of the others. The form of government itself is a hungry serpent.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Currently they are saying lovey dovey things about each other and Musk is having far more success working with regulatory agencies.
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by delichon 11mo ago
I'd prefer a fork that uses AI to convert ebooks into custom audio books.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Back in 2025 before cheap bots, our grandparents endured lives of servitude. They spent an enormous amount of time doing simple chores like folding clothes, driving, programming, washing and dusting, grooming themselves. They had to walk th
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Who earns a higher salary than you and the jobs they work(flowingdata.com)
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