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by didericis 4y ago
I’m assuming the infinite sequence of segments along a straight vertical line at each “x-coordinate” (not sure how to say this, but you can see vertical lines made of blocks, mean those) were proved to be unique and non repeating
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by didericis 4y ago
Relevant: https://kframework.org/faq/
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by didericis 4y ago
They’ll all be forced to pump the breaks when subtle errors compound through self reference and fill the internet/destroy the resource they’re extracting from through automation. It’s the same problem that caused the replication crisis
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by didericis 4y ago
Fair enough. According to his thesis, the metaphysics/philosophy aspect of this stuff is in a right hemisphere bucket. While there may be reason to meditate on that if you’re a researcher wanting to gain better intuition, if you want t
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by didericis 4y ago
This comment will probably give you hives, but the inability to interpret things like QM literally and the inability of the left brain to process things holistically seems relevant to the interpretability problem. See Iain McGilchrist'
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by didericis 4y ago
There’s a great BBC documentary on this called “To Mars by a Bomb”, highly recommend it. Was one of my first introductions to Freeman Dyson, ended up reading his autobiography as well. Was a remarkable man, and one of my favorite people to
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by didericis 4y ago
Project Orion is the most tragic (but probably wisest) stopped technology, was in both the space weapon and nuclear proliferation bucket. But it also could have enabled luxuriously spacious trips to Saturn in the 70s had it been realized. I
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by didericis 4y ago
Yeah, we disagree pretty fundamentally. Our perception of the physical world is itself an evolved construct. The wider thing that perception is fitting is something I don’t think we can fit a machine to. I think we can only fit it to the co
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by didericis 4y ago
It’d take a while to justify this argument to the extent I think it’s justified, but I think we’re in an inescapable frame set by evolution, and our adaptation to our environment probably goes a lot deeper than what we can see. I don’t thin
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by didericis 4y ago
It’s still propositional and logic based. Every instruction a computer can interpret is propositional and logic based. AI models are chaotic, but deterministic. All computers are deterministic. The distinction I’m making between proposition
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by didericis 4y ago
You could create an insurance company, do your own analysis, and correct for bad ratings by offering insurance to those you think are more solid than their ratings suggest and refuse it from those who you think are rated too highly. (My Dad
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by didericis 4y ago
I think it’s impossible because I don’t think you can leapfrog evolution, and there’s almost definitely hidden context essential to our intelligence and perception that you can only get through a very very long history. However I do think i
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by didericis 4y ago
I don’t think true intelligence is propositional/logic based. I also think the observable universe is inherently limited by our perceptual framework, and there will always be something outside it. Imagine an amoeba that can only detect
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by didericis 4y ago
He’s an excellent writer and has spent a long time trying to come up with high level easily understandable ways to try to measure alignment abstractly through pure logic/outside of any given system. Essentially him and his crowd have b
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by didericis 4y ago
I understand the basics of gradient descent and was a math major, and while applications of that idea are very cool, I don’t think the weird shapes you can make are genuinely generative. I think that generative capability is illusory, it’s
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by didericis 4y ago
Supervision requires knowing the results you want. Most of these ML projects are essentially just creating a best fit line/shape connecting a huge number of points in multiple dimensions and giving you output coordinates on that line&#
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by didericis 4y ago
The current AI revolution is a devolution of the web. The thesis of the web revolution was “the world is too big to be understood by any one person”. The response was “let us all contribute to a shared map to compensate” The thesis of the A
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by didericis 4y ago
ChatGPT is human content on the internet. It's just indexed and compressed and was made "generative" in a mind boggling way.
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by didericis 4y ago
> a one-stop quick way to find something in there, organization be damned. I understand the desire, and clever search indexing allegedly solves this, but it's fundamentally an impossible tradeoff. Organization is essential to findin
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by didericis 4y ago
It's not just speculative. It's a retrospective on the early mainframe era. The nitty gritty punch card programming was something stereotypically done by middle aged/older women. Many early computers were massive and housed i
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by didericis 4y ago
I did a two week backpacking/rock climbing trip in Wyoming years ago, and we camped at an area just a bit below the snowline. The water there was completely clear and far enough upstream that we didn't bother using iodine. It was
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by didericis 4y ago
Secret speakeasies were easily revealed by speaking about them. I'm also joking, but only partially. It could be a fun gimmick. Check all your electronics in at the door, go through the doorway with an EMP zapper, and then enjoy a dist
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by didericis 4y ago
Speakeasy bars in faraday cages that pulse you with an EMP at the door would be cool too. We could also just stop non consensual surveillance of everyone and everything . I prefer that option.
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by didericis 4y ago
I am not talking about people wanting to be rich. I am talking about people who want a stable paycheck and a middle class life. A lot of performative outrage seems to be propping up a very large white collar industry of sensitivity training
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by didericis 4y ago
The cases of actual litigation with a big payout are rare, but the cases of people in paid positions meant to prevent big payouts and to make sure employees are speaking to each other and hiring people in the least risky way possible are no
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by didericis 4y ago
If we’re going to be blunt, let’s be blunt about the dark side of reality. Consider the population of rapists. Who are you more likely feeling safe complaining about: 1) A professor 2) A cop 3) A powerful politician 4) A gangbanger 5) An un
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by didericis 4y ago
> Where’s my check? That right there is the real problem. I’m convinced a huge motivation for a lot of the current performative outrage is a combination of conscious and unconscious anxiety about having very little to no real skill bas
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by didericis 4y ago
The type of person that becomes a professor isn’t known for slamming kids against the wall. It’s the other way around. You see that frequently in those that go on to teach in troubled districts. Academic types and teachers are some of the m
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by didericis 4y ago
This particular cycle seems likely to be really destructive. Software is way more prevalent in nearly every aspect of our lives than it used to be, and all of the large organizations that don't really understand the problems that are g
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by didericis 4y ago
> Its not time to throw in the towel yet! Of course not! Regardless of whether the core phenomenon is fundamentally impossible to explain (which I think it has to be for philosophical reasons), it’s an incredibly productive question to a

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