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by dinfinity 5d ago
> He gave up his life because he thought PRISM was a massive violation of the 4th Amendment, and a government that could so easily ignore the 4th Amendment could just as easily ignore the 8th. Now we know that he was wrong about PRISM. T
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by dinfinity 5d ago
Seems a bit premature to make an HN post about then, imho. It's an interesting idea, but it doesn't really do anything interesting yet. I looked at the output in the training run and it is a far, far cry from intelligence. Worse t
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by dinfinity 5d ago
Do you find all your own (human) trained knowledge unreliable?
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by dinfinity 5d ago
I should have said "nothing fundamentally". I'm sure he didn't give up his life for HTTPS everywhere and SMTP over TLS.. The reality is that the public moved on more or less unperturbed and that the US intelligence agenc
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by dinfinity 5d ago
It's also very clear that he took enormous risks out of the good of his heart and basically gave up his life for absolutely jack shit; it changed absolutely nothing. I'd be incredibly surprised if he isn't very cynical, resen
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by dinfinity 6d ago
> but unless someone--a human--can verify and understand it, it doesn't count Does it need to be a human or can it be some other form of life?
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by dinfinity 6d ago
I can't quite agree with your framing of loops, balance, and rhythm. A lot of the output patterns produced by the cerebellum are singular actions: tying your shoe laces, for instance. Progressing from learning how to do that to struggl
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by dinfinity 7d ago
> 80% is spent on motor skills. The cerebellum isn't just for motor skills. It's more of a place where very commonly used patterns get a bunch of dedicated wetware so the computation is superfast and precise. In an (undoubtedly
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by dinfinity 7d ago
Exactly. The vast majority of people never progress beyond naive extrapolation into the near future, even in the face of clear evidence that their previous extrapolations were wrong . "Nobody will want to walk around with mobile pho
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by dinfinity 9d ago
"The International Windship Association says more than 100 large merchant ships are now equipped with modern wind propulsion systems, representing more than 5 million deadweight tons of carrying capacity." It's not much, but
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by dinfinity 9d ago
Given the prompt, I imagine this is the result of the agent trying to resolve a form of cognitive dissonance. The prompt was: "User Allow API consumers to request decrypted credential payloads as part of the normal GET /credential
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by dinfinity 11d ago
> Having billions of dollars and being the head of a world-changing company doesn't buy the type of power you think it does. 1. The product itself can change the world quickly and enormously, as I already pointed out. 2. The power
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by dinfinity 11d ago
It was definitely not 'turned off' completely. They have an internal 'internet' that was still largely active and not every organisation or person lost full internet access. Note that it also happened in a country that w
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by dinfinity 12d ago
> Turn off the internet (like Iran). Unworkable without societal collapse happening shortly thereafter. Iran is politically stable through massive authoritarianism and oppression, not due to limitations on the internet (it's not tur
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by dinfinity 12d ago
I agree: Not to drag politics into this, but look at how easy it has proven to manipulate many, many people, even with clear evidence of manipulation efforts being made. This is robust across the world, from the Philippines to states in the
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by dinfinity 12d ago
> Here's the reality: us plebs, regardless of how tech-savvy we are or aren't, have no say in what's going to happen. This sentiment is incredibly out of place on HN. Facebook, Twitter, and many other very simple bits of
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by dinfinity 12d ago
Agreed, this (human dexterity) is why in the short term human enslavement is more likely than extinction (why murder your own workers?) and benevolent cooperation with humans is even more likely than human enslavement, imho. The latter mini
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by dinfinity 13d ago
Or the entirety of China. People forget that progress is incremental until it's not. Then some revolutionary insight or capability comes along that disrupts the whole field or market. Yes, labs with more (human) resources may have a bi
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by dinfinity 15d ago
> "Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. I'm tired of the overcomplication. Yes, what we want is "function over form" user-oriented design, but what we
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by dinfinity 16d ago
Fair issues, but none of them impact the fundamental point. I'm not trying to make a point on touch vs. visual sensing or with regard to consciousness (time shifting of visual input is a thing, which could be impactful here, see "
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by dinfinity 16d ago
Still not as unbelievably slow as signals in our body. If you hook up a fiber connection from a button to an LED, then stub your toe on the button, the fiber can be thousands of kilometers long and you'll still (via the LED) see that
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by dinfinity 16d ago
I did not mean that, but I'll take it as agreement that we've already achieved AGI if that is defined as being on average more intelligent than average humans.
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by dinfinity 16d ago
> Why just make some tepid tweets if you think humanity is at risk? Who says that's the only thing he is doing? > Why doesn't he leak documents and messages with the unfiltered opinions of leadership? Again, illegal. You&#x2
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by dinfinity 17d ago
I'm not the one reacting to reasonable behavior with some edgy comment containing broken logic. The author of the Twitter thread is not some egotistical attention seeker and never said "omg I’m quitting they’re going to kill every
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by dinfinity 17d ago
> if someone was 100% certain This is unreasonable because nobody can know 100% certain that the AI built at Anthropic will kill everyone. It is also a big-ass strawman because the author never claimed he was 100% certain that AI will
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by dinfinity 17d ago
I don't know. I speak mostly from my own experience and that of my friends. For me personally reading is still interesting and can be very engaging, but due to the logic of the story, characters, and universe; for lengthy description
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by dinfinity 17d ago
> But as a hypothetical if someone knew with 100% certainty [...] This is an unreasonable demand. The quitting employee in this case said this: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Fa
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by dinfinity 17d ago
Improbable to be very significant, but it might actually be. The way/where they jumped off the bridge or how they hit the water may have influenced their chances of survival. Edit: Implied is that how determined they were to commit sui
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by dinfinity 17d ago
> I’m not advocating for this. You're not advocating for it because murdering people is highly immoral and illegal. That answers your question for the most part. You also have to remember that the magnitude and speed of this stuff i
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by dinfinity 17d ago
> The risks of nuclear weapons aren't theoretical The logic for the first bits of handwaving still applies: "I haven't seen any evidence of thermonuclear war happening, so it is unlikely to ever happen. The only time nukes

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