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by endtime 2y ago
It's not correct. IIRC, Eliezer was mad that someone who thought they'd discovered a memetic hazard would be foolish enough to share it, and then his response to this unintentionally invoked the Streisand Effect. He didn't
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by endtime 2y ago
Online applications are a black hole. I was a staff SWE at Google at the end of 2021 and my online applications ever got a response. I networked a bit and ended up with two strong offers.
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by endtime 2y ago
I moved to Dallas from NY last year and am really enjoying it.
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by endtime 2y ago
It sounds kind of like something Scott Alexander would write.
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by endtime 2y ago
I think it's because Tesla's approach seems unsafe and/or misleading (to the people reacting negatively to it).
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by endtime 2y ago
FTA: > The company in November began testing the video ads — that will be served to users who are 13 years and older Maybe by kids you meant 13-17...but I feel like teenagers are not exactly a demographic that never sees targeted ads (e.
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by endtime 2y ago
You're missing the fundamental problem, which is that people have different opinions about what is evil. There may well be more Googlers who think it would be evil to _stop_ working with Israel. And it's not just counterproductive
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by endtime 2y ago
I have a strong preference for non-activist workplaces. If I'm not values-aligned with an employer I can always leave. So I'm glad to see Google take a firm stance here. I'd expect the same reaction if the protesters were
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by endtime 3y ago
Yes, just read through this thread.
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by endtime 3y ago
Kids dancing, kids talking about how Osama bin Laden was right, propaganda about ongoing wars, ...
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by endtime 3y ago
9. And never include LIDAR in the first place...
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by endtime 3y ago
I was working on Google Assistant at the time; the dialogue manager was written in Dart. I was mostly writing libraries and platform code...so APIs in a sense. The ecosystem isn't huge outside of Flutter, of course.
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by endtime 3y ago
Anathem really picks up after the first 400-500 pages.
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by endtime 3y ago
I got to spend a couple years writing Dart (not Flutter) and found it to be the best of both worlds. Such an underappreciated language.
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by endtime 3y ago
> that the purpose of building a business is just the exit The majority of those affected negatively by this are not the founders, but the employees. Many of them may have turned down FAANG positions that come with predictable liquid RSU
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by endtime 3y ago
We need a catalog of simple refutations of bad arguments and common misconceptions about AGI risk, with a short domain like agi.lol, so we can respond to comments like "I bet the guy who has spent 20 years worrying about AGI didn'
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by endtime 3y ago
I lived in the Munger building at Stanford for a year and it was amazing. Maybe the other buildings aren't like that? But it was the best dorm I ever lived in, by far.
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by endtime 3y ago
I wrote Dart full time for a couple years at Google (working on Assistant). I really enjoyed it! It's a really nice language, and pretty easy to pick up.
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by endtime 3y ago
> anyone who works at OpenAI besides the board seems to be morally bankrupt. People concerned about AI safety were probably not going to join in the first place...
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by endtime 3y ago
I agree it's probably not something new. But I will observe that OpenAI rank and file employees, presumably mostly working on making AI more effective, are very strongly selected against people who are sympathetic to safety/x-risk
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by endtime 3y ago
> You read, or learn from other people's experiences...Ilya was doing something unprecedented in corporate history So whose experiences was he supposed to read about?
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by endtime 3y ago
It's contempt for the Yudkowskyans ("AI doomers"), not contempt for the builders. I find these threads deeply frustrating, as a long-time Yudkowskyan, because approximately zero of the critics show any understanding at all of
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by endtime 3y ago
He misspells his name ("Nessim") while talking about how he misordered his first and middle names.
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by endtime 3y ago
I'm not who you were originally replying to so I definitely didn't think you were implying thing about me (I also didn't think you were implying anything about the person you were replying to). I was just qualifying my opi
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by endtime 3y ago
I'm not in the industry, though I did briefly work on a self-driving car in grad school back in 2009. One simple and obvious reason for this standard is that it optimizes for human safety.
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by endtime 3y ago
At at least some FAANG companies (Google and Meta), EM1 is parallel to L6/Staff.
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by endtime 3y ago
Depends how you define "emotion", but I imagine the grandparent is assuming a definition along the lines of "neurochemical reaction to stimulus that affects mammalian consciousness in a way that affects heart rate, perception
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by endtime 3y ago
How is that an example of standardized testing?
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by endtime 3y ago
April 2022, after 10.5 years there.
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by endtime 3y ago
Part of why I left Google was poor leadership at the VP level. The org wasn't set up for success and - as far as I could tell - the vision was myopic and incoherent. VP performance was more or less opaque to me for most of my career th

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