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by djokkataja 16d ago
"The author declares no conflicts of interest."
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by djokkataja 23d ago
The first part of the sentence is important: > Importantly it was admitted that internal Anthropic models had been used in their proof of Euler blowup; I therefore felt I could not consider Levent to be an independent academic. If an Ant
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by djokkataja 5mo ago
> get so much done Compared to what??
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by djokkataja 5mo ago
This reminds me of a gem of a comment from about a month back, about a dead simple Russian guidance system from a Cold War-era missile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389285 Actually, someone even commented in that
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by djokkataja 1y ago
What's the benefit to an "edgelord", though? Why bother?
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by djokkataja 1y ago
It doesn't explicitly mention a license, but it has this right underneath "Overview of the Insights" near the top: > A quick note: All of the data visualizations in this roundup are free to use as common content. You are w
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by djokkataja 2y ago
It looks like it's supposed to be a general purpose robot servant, although "Follows you around" from the list of skills on the pre-order page is hilariously disturbing. There would be a market for people willing to pay for a
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by djokkataja 2y ago
The space race was to the death. Both sides thought that losing meant they'd get nuked or taken over by the other. A narrative like that for Mars is harder. "We'll take over the red planet and come back and take over the eart
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by djokkataja 2y ago
There's a lot of psychological factors in markets swinging up and down, and there are always people saying that there's going to be a recession. Also, if you think about HN specifically: if the market is doing well, great. If th
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by djokkataja 2y ago
Are there any companies that are hybrids of this, where they have some fixed structure in terms of voting power that's, say, 60% employee-owned, and 40% which is publicly traded and has a board? So the employee-owned side of things mai
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by djokkataja 2y ago
It's called a population pyramid because the shape of that graph for a growing population is a pyramid. If you look at some of the African countries on that site (like, say, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, if you're st
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by djokkataja 2y ago
> The alternative is dying a natural death of old age. This is apart of the human experience. This seems almost comically lemming-like. Fear of missing out . . . on dying? > Getting frozen and brought back in the distant future, even
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by djokkataja 2y ago
(a) doesn't hold up because the details of the claim necessitate that it is a property of brains that they can always perceive the truth of statements which "regular computers" cannot. However, brains frequently err. Penros
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by djokkataja 2y ago
There are lots of different flavors of anarchy, and anarchists can't agree on them. Or--and I think this might be quoting or paraphrasing someone: there are as many different kinds of anarchy as there are anarchists. And sometimes thei
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by djokkataja 2y ago
I agree with Moravec. As he points out a bit later on: > Only on the outside, where they can be appreciated as a whole, will the impression of intelligence emerge. A human brain, too, does not exhibit the intelligence under a neurobiolog
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by djokkataja 3y ago
> But all landlords would pay the tax, and none of them would want to lower prices below their own costs. This is true ... > If it becomes impossible to rent properties profitably, then eventually there would just be fewer rentals ava
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by djokkataja 3y ago
> We already have a test for this. Parrots, octopus, whales and many other creatures are also diverse. But our problems are beyond their experience. Do we value their diversity as thinkers in our economy? > We don't. I don't
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by djokkataja 3y ago
Given that there's no well-defined "unit of intelligence", I see no reason to believe that all AGI (or GAI, to use your acronym) entities will be identical. I also don't think it's plausible to assume that any GAI e
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by djokkataja 3y ago
> Nature gives us a world in which "he who does not work, does not eat" is a rule of law. Which is why no child has ever survived until adulthood. And TBH I find this an appropriate metaphor because the promise of AGI is that e
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by djokkataja 3y ago
> I have watched him speak, and he doesn't seem charismatic at all. Consider the relative charisma of the people around him, though.
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by djokkataja 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430395
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by djokkataja 3y ago
I agree that intuitively it seems to not make sense, but with regard to your specific points, and assuming that there's actually more than a nothingburger behind this whole story: 1. I wouldn't necessarily assume FTL. But even if
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by djokkataja 3y ago
> in order to understand GPT4 then we need GPT5? I also found this amusing. But you are loosely correct, AFAIK. GPT-4 cannot reliably explain itself in any context: say the total number of possible distinct states of GPT-4 is N; then the
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by djokkataja 3y ago
Yes, it's down. githubstatus.com is showing degraded performance for almost everything at the moment.
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by djokkataja 3y ago
There's a paper about that, "The Myth of Intelligence" by Henry Schlinger. Abstract: > Since the beginning of the 20th century, intelligence has been conceptualized as a qualitatively unique faculty (or faculties) with a r
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by djokkataja 3y ago
If a person's identity is a property, is it measurable?
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by djokkataja 3y ago
These directions don't work, though: > Download the tinyLM.hpp file from the tinyLM GitHub repository and include it in your project. "tinyLM GitHub repository" links to https://github.com/sksg/tinyLM&
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by djokkataja 3y ago
This is the actual vibe I get when I load the "Our Approach to AI Safety" webpage on my desktop and see a huge red background and Dall-E image: https://getwallpapers.com/wallpaper/full/8/5/a&#x2
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by djokkataja 4y ago
If we consider an actually aligned AGI rather than merely generative AI, I would expect that this would be accounted for. And AGI could help to open up possibilities for intelligence amplification, which has gone by the wayside compared wit
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by djokkataja 4y ago
It's already been done with Mount & Blade II, though I don't know if that was the first. https://www.techspot.com/news/97572-mount-blade-ii-mod-uses-...

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