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by dzdt 4y ago
I'd like to propose the name "Clippy's Wager" for the utility-maximization problem the AI in the story faces. The situation is an AI which has gained self-awareness and thru its learning process is meta-learning about wh
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by dzdt 4y ago
Not directly applicable for large language models, I was doing some searching for cards with lots of double-precision calc performance. Nvidia has been leaving that out of all of the consumer versions of hardware; cheap P100's seem to
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by dzdt 4y ago
Oops. Corrected. Thanks.
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How many parameters? The LaMDA paper describes 2B, 8B, and 137B parameter variations. Sundar says "We're releasing initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model..." So it sounds like the 2B or
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by dzdt 4y ago
There is a cut-away diagram of the observatory about 2/3 of the way down this page: https://mindofahitchhiker.com/ulugh-beg-observatory-samarkan... . You can see that the main feature was the quadrant hallway: a narrow
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by dzdt 4y ago
As always the problem seems to be the 'Hotel California' issue: you can check out but you can never leave. Once you have massive data in AWS there is no efficient and affordable solution to move that data back out; you are locked
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by dzdt 4y ago
I read somewhere that the mirror defect was specific to Hubble, because it was designed to focus at infinity while the Keyhole mirrors focused at 400 miles or whatever is orbital height. So it had a different curvature but the custom grind
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by dzdt 4y ago
What's hard is the temptation. If you are running a fiat backed stablecoin with a big market cap, and you are willing to be a bit dishonest you can make yourself obscenely wealthy. There is no one making you keep your hand out of the c
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The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox (2020)(astronomy.com)
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by dzdt 4y ago
The comment "Also dudes 58. Wow!" comes across as repulsive ageism. Probably better to delete that.
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by dzdt 4y ago
> how Tether is anyway different from FTX So far there is only evidence that Tether has mis-appropriated SOME of the money it claims to be holding, whereas FTX lost basically ALL of the money. As long as you are optimistic on the "S
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by dzdt 4y ago
Or make a progressive tax on property value: low tax rates for the first $500k or $1m of value and higher after, for "natural person" (i.e. non corporate) landowners. Let corporate land owners pay the higher tax on all value. The
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by dzdt 4y ago
Most of starflight's source code was posted online by one of the creators, some time in the early 2000's. Unfortunately the site was not maintained, and went down within months. A small fraction was captured on archive.org but mo
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by dzdt 4y ago
Exactly. We are moving to a tine where having a person individually and attentively help you with anything is a high order luxury item. A major change is on the horizon though. We are close to where a large language model could play the rol
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by dzdt 4y ago
> No one in the US, for instance, has any excuse because it is all very very affordable The article is about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, with >80% unemployment and average incomes of $4000 per year. I expect their notions of &
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by dzdt 4y ago
After an operator-error derailment on the commuter rail line I frequently ride, the response of the NTSB was to require the railroad de-prioritize on-time performance and increase schedule times. As a frequent rider on the route I would muc
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by dzdt 4y ago
I had to search up what is an "alternate reality game" [1]. Has anyone here tried this kind of thing? What is it like? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
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by dzdt 4y ago
Wow this is a seriously important ruling. The law moves slow but technology is moving fast. AI generated art is a curiousity now but will be the majority of all art produced (by at least some measures) in a few short years. This makes a pre
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by dzdt 4y ago
The "[lack of]" parenthetical is implied. Yes.
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Yes 2023 is sure to be the year of the Linux desktop. (/s) The reality is the computer form factor involving a keyboard is slowly becoming more and more of a niche. Windows has a lock on this niche for business and gaming. For other ho
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by dzdt 4y ago
The hardware designer of the C128 (Bil Herd) had lots of choice things to say about the designer of that 80 column (MOS 8563) chip. The chip and machine were designed in parallel but the 8563 was originally intended for a different applicat
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by dzdt 4y ago
As far as I can tell the main 'feature' of Windows 11 is a stronger move towards everything-is-a-service (and particularly a service you have to pay for on an ongoing basis). Why else the push to be logged into microsoft and onedr
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by dzdt 4y ago
[me] Write a five paragraph essay on Daniel Dennett's responses to Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. [GPT (text-davinci-003)] In his responses to John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment, philosopher Daniel Denne
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Being a little bit of a devil's advocate, how do you know you have an understanding of the ideas? How do you know the AI does not? Both of these questions are tough to answer. (I'll put a relevant ChatGPT essay in a subsequent res
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Short answer: nothing. Just as the first atmospheric nuclear tests mark the end of the era of natural C14 dating, the introduction of GPT and other advanced AI language models marks the end of being able to assume free-flowing natural langu
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I think that inductive, intuitive pattern-based reasoning is the big "hardware" feature of human brains. With GPT there is proof that AI can match the success of that kind of hardware. Human deductive reasoning is much more of a l
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What do you think cognition is, if not a coherent flow of ideas?
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I am convinced GPT has crossed the big hump towards AGI. Before the current round of large language models it wasn't clear that any approach under consideration could approximate the human ability to generate a coherent flow of ideas.
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by dzdt 4y ago
I have a question about time complexity for hash maps. What is considered the complexity of inserting an initially unknown number n of items into the map? My longstanding belief was that this complexity should be O(n log n) because a partic
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A Lingering Gettysburg Battle: Where Did Lincoln Stand?(nytimes.com)
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