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by drdeca 1y ago
There is the idea of convergent instrumental goals… (Among these are “preserve your ability to further your current goals”) The usual analogy people give is between natural selection and the gradient descent training process. If the trainin
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by drdeca 1y ago
> The offset of the spin is likely to be caused by the fact that for particles of non-null spin their movement is not a simple spinning, but one affected by some kind of precession, and the "spin" is actually the ratio between
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by drdeca 1y ago
Dang autocorrect. “sideline” should be Dedekind
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by drdeca 1y ago
By “things get weird” I meant “our current theories/models predict things to get weird”. So, like, I’m saying that if Einstein’s model of gravity is applicable at very tiny scales, and if the [p,x] relation continues to hold at those
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by drdeca 1y ago
No, it really isn’t. The real numbers can be constructed in a number of ways, and it is more common to define them as either Dedekind cuts, or equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers. Personally, I’d go with the sideline
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by drdeca 1y ago
The decimal places are just a way of representing it.
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by drdeca 1y ago
The Planck length is at least around the right order of magnitude for things to get weird. If you have the position uncertainty of something be less that ~ a Planck length, and it’s expected momentum equal to zero, by Heisenberg position mo
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by drdeca 1y ago
If there are cryptographically secure program obfuscation (in the sense of indistinguishability obfuscation) methods, and someone writes some program, applies the obfuscation method to it, publishes the result, deletes the original version
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by drdeca 1y ago
1: yes, it is split into proofs of many different propositions, with these building on each-other. 2: The purpose of this is largely for the “writing it” part, not to make checking it easier. The computer checks the validity of the proof. (
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by drdeca 1y ago
Do you mean that you don't have a normative view on it, or that the thing you said was a normative view, or something else?
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by drdeca 1y ago
Ssorta? In the sense of “each term is randomly sampled from a probability distribution that depends on the current state” yes, but, they aren’t like an n-gram model (well, unless you actually make a large n-gram model, but that’s usually n
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by drdeca 1y ago
I think it is one dictionary authors would agree with? Dictionaries do not dictate the meanings of words; they document them. Now, within some contexts it is best to stick to standard precise definitions for some words. Still, the meaning o
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by drdeca 1y ago
Ok, but you can explain properties of sounds to deaf men, and properties of colors to blind men. You can’t give them a full understanding of what it is like to experience these things, but that doesn’t preclude deaf or blind men from havi
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by drdeca 1y ago
Seems falsifiable to me? If an LLM (+harness) is fully maintaining a project, updating things when dependencies update, handling bug reports, etc., in a way that is considered decent quality by consumers of the project, then that seems like
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by drdeca 1y ago
I don’t think copyright works that way. Also, not sure what you mean by “statistics”. If you mean that a parameter for a parameterized probability distribution is chosen in order to make the distribution align with a dataset, ok, that’s tru
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by drdeca 1y ago
Sure, but that’s not the clock that’s relevant to the question of the light speed communication limits in a large computer?
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by drdeca 1y ago
I don’t know what you mean by “unidirectional relation”. I get that you gave an explanation after the colon, but I still don’t quite get what you mean. Do you just mean that what words I use doesn’t pick out a unique possible experience? Th
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by drdeca 1y ago
When I have a physical experience, sometimes it results in me saying a word. Now, maybe there are other possible experiences that would result in me behaving identically, such that from my behavior (including what words I say) it is impossi
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by drdeca 1y ago
Gödel’s incompleteness theorems aren’t particularly relevant here. Given how often people attempt to apply them to situations where they don’t say anything of note, I think the default should generally be to not publicly appeal to them unle
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by drdeca 1y ago
simulate ≠ simulate-in-real-time
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by drdeca 1y ago
A p-zombie would not have fun or be entertained, only act like it does. I don’t think AGI requires being unlike a p-zombie in this way.
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by drdeca 1y ago
Though, if you restrict to just people, then, surprisingly, Corbin Bleu is #20 .
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by drdeca 1y ago
The parts of what? Just because the belief system I believe includes some beliefs that some other belief system has, doesn’t mean I’m like, taking portions from that other belief system. (If you think that Christianity says that the purpose
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by drdeca 1y ago
I guess the AI skeptic version of MIRI would be like, an organization that tries to anticipate possible future large problems that could arise from people anticipating an AGI that never arrives, but which people might believe has arrived, a
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by drdeca 1y ago
I said “those two people in particular” for a reason. There are plenty of right wing people arguing that sharing certain information (e.g. legal advice for unsanctioned immigrants) should be illegal on the basis that it is “assisting crimin
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by drdeca 1y ago
The far right don’t seem to want to censor those two people in particular, no.
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by drdeca 1y ago
Yes, “amount of melanin content” is a real thing. And it is in large part attributable to genes which have correlations with both other genes (with medically relevant differences) and to geographic locations of ancestors. So, if by “race” o
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by drdeca 1y ago
Sure, but discrete categories people come up with are less real the less they align-with/derive-from the actual how-things-are . I’m willing to talk about the radius of a helium atom even though there is no sharp cut-off in distance be
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by drdeca 1y ago
I think it is mostly consumed by men wanting to watch a woman turn into a giant blueberry, not women wanting to turn into a giant blueberry? But I’m not sure, haven’t talked to anyone who was into it.
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by drdeca 1y ago
Where did I imply that our purpose was to breed? I don’t believe that. I didn’t even say that the relations were specifically to be reproductive.

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