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by edanm 2y ago
I have no idea about this, but, how hard would it be in theory to test? Just remove a spider from any other spiders and see if they develop that behavior. I don't know if the parent comment represented the expert consensus correctly, b
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by edanm 2y ago
> I suspect a lot of people are no longer being taught these fundamental protocols by manual interaction with a terminal, I'd be surprised if any significant portion of software developers learned anything like that in the last 30 y
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by edanm 2y ago
> when did the definition of 'mistake' change to encompass actions done on purpose? It didn't change, it's always been that way. From Google search: > an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong. > Example:
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by edanm 2y ago
> Yes. That is both the letter of the law and the intent of the law. That was the specific case with the Germans for whom this law was introduced, and that is how it has been applied in other areas as well. Do you know of a good place t
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by edanm 2y ago
This is by far the worst way to think about this conflict. It comes from a good place, but it's advocating for something that is: 1. Not even remotely likely to happen. 2. Not what almost any of the parties on the ground want to happ
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by edanm 2y ago
> Except when they can't, as in the case of senior government figures. It is a principle of democracy that senior government figures can be held accountable. E.g. in the US, Trump, a former president and a potential future preside
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by edanm 2y ago
Wait, you're saying that because Israel isn't moving citizens into the WB, and it's being done voluntarily, then that makes it legal? First I've heard of this interpretation of international law, interesting. How does
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by edanm 2y ago
> Then I guess the question is: what constitutes combat. There are international laws that define these things. Sure, some of it is a judgement call, like all laws, but those laws do exist. I'm not a lawyer or very knowledgable abou
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by edanm 2y ago
> Does compulsory military service and being a reserve make you a valid military target? No. > People can justify killing in all sorts of ways. Which is why we have international laws, in which smart people sat down and codified how t
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by edanm 2y ago
> Despite the international hatred of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, there is no international rule or law forbidding it. This flies in the face of most of what I've heard/read on the subject. Israel is considered an occ
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by edanm 2y ago
> I'd also be very curious at the ICCs classification of a civilian (dressed) mob cheering for the murderers and rapists of 22 year old girls like Shani Louk paraded through Gaza. Still civilians, obviously. Cheering something does
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by edanm 2y ago
> and in fact there is a new port in the strip being built (maybe done already). I think yesterday or the day before the first aid came in via the port, actually.
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by edanm 2y ago
It's not about being held accountable at all - it's about who is holding them accountable. The belief is that as sovereign nations, they can hold their own people accountable, and no one else should have the right to hold them a
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by edanm 2y ago
> It's in that whole collection of tweets, but essentially the contract which you sign on joining says that if you leave and you don't sign the exit paperwork then you lose your equity. You aren't told what is in the exit
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by edanm 2y ago
> While there has been some regulatory action it also feels there is some "moving on" from the more apocalyptic risk views towards more mundane risks and their management I don't think this is correct. It's more accu
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by edanm 2y ago
That's true, but I long ago got convinced that this particular worry isn't the most important one (the recursive-self-improvement one). I'm fairly sure that Yudkowsky and others are also pushing that less, because there is a
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by edanm 2y ago
That tweet thread confirms what I said, at least in a roundabout way. Per the next tweets: > Equity is part of negotiated compensation; this is shares (worth a lot of $$) that the employees already earned over their tenure at OpenAI. &gt
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by edanm 2y ago
That can't actually be the way it works. You can't say "sign this or we *take away something you're already legally entitled to". It has to have been something people agreed to beforehand, to at least some extent. I
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by edanm 2y ago
> * If "AI" is actually intelligent, then it's no worse a threat than any living being known to man. That's not true, because you don't address the degree of intelligence or the scale that computers can achi
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by edanm 2y ago
> Or, rather, its been actively marketed by Altman as doing so, as part of his effort to buy influence with government to restrict competition. I mean, maybe sama is also doing so. But you're ignoring the many people who have been
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by edanm 2y ago
> 1. If he didn't turn down the money, you wouldn't have heard of him at all; I think this is probably not true. > 2. You're not the intended audience of Grigory's message, nor are you in position to influence, cha
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by edanm 2y ago
I have no inside info on this, but I doubt this is what is happening. They could just say no and not sign a new contract. I assume this was something agreed to before they started working.
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by edanm 2y ago
I think, when making a gesture, you need to consider its practical impact, which includes whether and how it will be understood (or not). In the OpenAI case, the gesture of "forgoing millions of dollars" directly makes you able to
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by edanm 2y ago
> As someone who reads a lot, it's actually hard to find interesting things to read. I cannot relate to this at all. The more I read, the more topics I get interested in, and the more I'm part of various communities of book rea
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by edanm 2y ago
And yet Siri is super slow because it does the processing off-device, and is far less useful than it could be because it is cobbled with restrictions. I can't even find a way to resume playing whatever Audible book I was last playing.
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by edanm 2y ago
You don't need to convince me that there's been a lot of awful reactions to October 7th. I'm only pushing back that saying something like this: > You might begin to see why I honestly think anti-Zionism is at best genocida
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by edanm 2y ago
Yes I don't disagree with any of those.
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by edanm 2y ago
Well, I can nitpick some of what you said but I largely agree. I think it's not crazy to call Israel's policies in the WB apartheid, effectively, or at least there's a real case to be made there, though I think you're ri
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by edanm 2y ago
The tech nerd in me insists I complain that this isn't a database. It's just a document. I've read this site multiple times. While some statements there are horrible (and I never said there weren't), many are really take
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by edanm 2y ago
> They need a carrot and and stick, not just a stick. [...] They need the people of Gaza to see Hamas as the source of their troubles and Israel as a source of aid. Oh, I absolutely think Israel should've done this, both for strat

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