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by dinfinity 1mo ago
It's not really a surprise that less ethical people on average are richer than ethical people. Sad, but logical: they more often choose selfishly and thus amass more money. This is the correct direction of causation in this case, imho.
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Protest. Insistently try to convince people around you to join you. Initiate and organize these things. The have been many, many protests throughout history. Some did nothing, some changed history. Many of them were done under much, much mo
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
The aggregate number also sounds more sensational than reality is: This comes out to roughly 1 parking ticket per vehicle every 2 months. Not something to do nothing about, but also not especially surprising for a taxi service in SF, imho.
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> Why are you giving the AI a harness and a plethora of tools and not the human in this comparison? I am not. Multimodal models generate that output directly, without tools. Which 'tools' does AI use to generate all those image
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Non-paywalled source [0] confirming this: "NBIM plans to increase its holdings of nongovernment U.S. fixed income, such as corporate bonds, to 27.6% from 16.2%. CEO Nicolai Tangen and Norway’s central bank chief, Ida Wolden Bache, said
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> Do you have a source on the speed limit of biological computation. Potential gradients should behave just like electricity. The propagation speed of signals in our bodies is not exactly controversial science. Just see Wikipedia for thi
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> All of humanity became a giant "lightspeed-intelligent" brain when radio was first invented. That is a good example of another very very probable pattern. If an alien civilization at the other end of this universe exists, it
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold. In a way, but I'd say that it is more like eyes, bilateral symmetry, electricity, or solar panels: patterns that will emerge and become (at least temporaril
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Whether AI is AGI does not depend on the speed at which it operates/thinks. Clearly all the theoretical work done by AGI will be done orders of magnitude quicker than humans can do it. It is an open question to what extent practical ex
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Current AI is arguably much more capable of multimodal output than humans. It can produce an incredibly vast variety of audio, images, and video. Humans are limited to producing the sounds we can make with meatflaps in our throats, and cont
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
The list in the appendix is pretty telling: Yes, the moments are off by a lot, but many of the predictions describe reality well. I'd say that 7% accuracy is on the low side and 86% on the high side. Looking through the list I'd p
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> He gives the example of Ray Kurzweil, who is similarly catastrophically wrong about everything Is he, though? It seems to me that a lot of his predictions were surprisingly close to the mark, especially given how long ago they were mad
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> Maybe I'm being unfair to the film because of the fanbase as well. I've always seen it as a mild red flag when someone says it's their favourite comedy, but it's hardly the film's fault it got popular on places
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
I propose we change it to "Trumpistan". The orange narcissist will probably see it as a win and the sane people in the country may finally be embarrassed enough to actually do something about him and his cronies.
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> To a point you just have to trust me, or not trust me on this. I don't expect you to. It's fine! Not every thread can have a conclusion. It's clear how you got to your opinions. I see no reason why anyone that did not al
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Well, the title here at HN implies something else than the study shows. If blue light actually impaired vision, that would be very notable. It would mean that removing the blue 'channel' for an RGB image would improve acuity
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> Error: Violation of the Church-Turing thesis detected. Many tasks completability is not known until we attempt to complete the task. Yes, but for some tasks we know that they are impossible. I do agree that this is quite a fragile an
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> A lot of people fetishize cold, hard logic and would rather hold all emotion in contempt than do the work of understanding why it exists and what purpose it serves. In the rationalist community we're discussing? Is that what you&#
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> I feel that the main issue with the rationalist crowd is that they live too much in the space of rationality, intelligence and abstractions, but not enough in reality. This seems like your idea of what the rationalist crowd is rather t
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> The next step is when one of these systems discovers that they can buy their own compute with money and escape the controlling business entirely. I would say that more interestingly, the next step should be how to properly train these
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> As much as I like the cautionary tale and I’m sure we need to take it seriously, AI is not progressing as fast as projected by these experts. You provide no proof for this. The (very irrational) stock market side of this says very litt
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Well done proving how the USA is acting like an abusive asshole. Our previous deaths and support don't matter and you'll fuck over your own economy just to hurt us because we didn't want to help you in yet another retarded (u
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> When something needed killing--and sometimes when it didn't--your ex was always there to do the dirty work. You weren't always happy with what he got up to, but you were always happy to have a seat at the table and a free lun
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Isn't he just checking/waiting for the food to come out? If he's the first to it, he gets the best haul.
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> Interestingly, the NASDAQ over the same time has also grown 40%. There is an argument to be made that quantitative easing produces more asset-price inflation than consumer-price inflation in economies where wealth is concentrated at th
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
To be fair, governments might be much more receptive to the argument of not having to rely on (possibly foreign) megacorporations than a company like Paypal. I'd wager that if it doesn't really hurt their bottom line to not suppor
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
Has your ex "moved on" if they regularly threaten to steal your shit, harass you, vandalize your neighborhood and your car? Don't feign innocence. You're not fooling anybody. It is so very obviously not "just lil
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
It is being petty, reneging on previously made agreements and actively significantly hurting and threatening to hurt the other parties in their (ex-)relationships constantly.
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
The USA hasn't "moved on" and is not "flying solo". It is being petty, reneging on previously made agreements and actively significantly hurting and threatening to hurt the other parties in their (ex-)relationships
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by dinfinity 1mo ago
> Every accusation is a confession. That doesn't make sense. Are you accusing me of trolling? Based on what? > Well, then why are, idk what to call some folks, I guess anti-American pro-EU? still trying to convince us of anything

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