evanevan

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by evanevan 5mo ago
I was thinking through all of the different possible AI futures people have forecasted (technology plateaus, job loss, economy automation, AI alignment failure and AI causes causes civilizational harm, ....) and thought it would be interest
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Show HN: A choose-your-own-adventure through 28 possible AI futures(es92.github.io)
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by evanevan 7mo ago
I really like this model for individual services. The challenge I've always felt, is shared services -- if I'm running infra myself, I can depend upon it, but if someone else is running it, I'm never really sure if I can, whi
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by evanevan 2y ago
The important bit (which seems unclear from this article), is the exact relationship between the for-profit and the not for profit? Before, profits were capped, with remainder going to the non-profit to distribute benefits equally across th
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by evanevan 4y ago
Thanks - yeah I think CEV hits the mark. Would be awesome if OpenAI (and others) committed to CEV then (with I'd add the qualification, equal weighting on each person). Would be curious how this would play out for LLMs too. What do peo
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by evanevan 4y ago
Not yet... but one day soon, no? Seems good to be starting to plan
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by evanevan 4y ago
Who should decide seems important. All of this is at the end of the day controlled by OpenAI right? I wonder is there a way the AGI could be instructed to weight all of our preferences equally? Seems vital so we end up with something in the
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by evanevan 6y ago
One thing you could do is have the camera hardware sign the raw image, then make a zero knowledge proof that says original photo was signed by real hardware, and then the only edits applied to it were simple things like cropping, changing c
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by evanevan 8y ago
Biggest difference is Coda's constant 20kb vs still at least a few hundred megabytes for Vault. This matters because it helps in making cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency apps usable by people from their phones and browsers, at 20kb wit
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by evanevan 8y ago
Hi, I'm one of the founders of Coda - In Coda we use zero knowledge proofs to stand in for downloading / checking the blockchain. This means you get the identical computation to normal blockchain syncing, but in only the size of t