falcor84

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by falcor84 1y ago
Whatever the formula for the probability of recursive self-improvement of AI may be, I am unfortunately certain that the fickleness of human goals does not factor into it.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Class actions lawsuits only work if the courts and legislators have an interest in consumer protection.
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by falcor84 1y ago
I would assume so. I expect there to be a lot of job postings looking for more "sexy" technologies to create the visage that those companies are growing and planning towards the future. And conversely I wouldn't expect any jo
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by falcor84 1y ago
My take is that you should be using AI for exactly the same things that you would ask someone a random contractor to do for you, knowing that they won't be there to maintain it later.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Taking existing data and correlating it and discovering new relationships in that data isn't an advancement of capability. What? Are you arguing that anyone in the world who isn't themselves running empirical research is not
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by falcor84 1y ago
As you say, whether we call it "AI", or "doohickey", it is an incredible innovation. And I don't think that anyone is claiming at the moment that the systems as-is will themselves "go the whole way" - it i
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by falcor84 1y ago
Well, if all you're doing is accessing stuff that was pre-learned earlier, then it's not quite inference-time.
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by falcor84 1y ago
>The server is using MD5 hashes to determine if you uploaded the same file or if it should re-scan it Wouldn't the sensible thing for a server that gets an upload matching an existing file's hash be to just treat it as an idemp
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by falcor84 1y ago
Steam makes it easy to get a full refund for a game you don't like for any reason. So there's no risk in trying an install of a game that might not work well on your below-specs device, but then you shouldn't give it a negati
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by falcor84 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Yudkowsky would agree that the initial creation of "Information Technology" was an almost direct stepping stone (in evolutionary terms) on the path to AI, which in turn (he argues and I agree) will
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by falcor84 1y ago
Why would it be an issue to have at-most-one semantics on this?
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by falcor84 1y ago
Absolutely. And in prison it should be easier to verify that they vote just once
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by falcor84 1y ago
My contrasting advice is that you should use the problems you're facing as opportunities to learn and practice the wider competencies that will allow you to gradually take on bigger and more interesting problems.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Hardin threw himself back in the chair. “You know, that's the most interesting part of the whole business. I admit that I thought his Lordship a most consummate donkey when I first met him – but it turned out that he is an accompl
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by falcor84 1y ago
But what is this new business model, and how do we transition to it? There's so little actual detail there.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Our toughest challenges include cross-compiling to Windows or ARM64 and resurrecting 22-year-old source code from 2003 on modern systems. Some agents needed 135 commands and 15 minutes just to produce a single working binary. I found t
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by falcor84 1y ago
I don't get your argument - what does mistaken personification have to do with this? Regardless of whether you see it as a person or a machine, trusting the output as being a direct indication of the internal state is just not a proper
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by falcor84 1y ago
I wonder if in the future we might have e2e tests for legislative changes - essentially spawning an instance (or a few dozens) of the Matrix with new parameters to assess the likely impact of those changes. Like Black Mirror's "Ha
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Architecture: Without solid architecture, software quickly loses value. Today AI can’t truly design good architecture; it feels like it might, but this kind of reasoning still requires humans. Projects that start with weak architecture
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by falcor84 1y ago
> But... reviewing code is harder than writing code. For me it's very clearly the opposite. I wonder if it's a professional background, or personality or neurotype issue or something, but when I'm faced with a problem I of
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by falcor84 1y ago
Very interesting, but according to this well-referenced paragraph on Wikipedia, the use of that word was a bit more complex: > It is certainly true that the Greeks valued civic participation and criticized non-participation. Thucydides q
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by falcor84 1y ago
I think that this is a really nice step on the way, but my vision is that it would generate the resource just-in-time as we're talking, based on my actual understanding and interests.
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by falcor84 1y ago
I don't see what ease of replacement has to do with Graeber's definition.
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by falcor84 1y ago
> Those who would have become management consultants may need to become applied data scientists; those who would have been people managers may need to become product builders. The new elite pathways are still being forged, but they share
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by falcor84 1y ago
Seeing how ARC-AGI is pretty much the only non-embodied short-duration type of challenge where humans are still an order of magnitude better than AIs, beating it would possibly bring us a lot closer to actual AGI.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Oh, really, are you sure? They still charge advertisers the full amount? My understanding was that they're only charged if there is evidence of an "ad impression" which there shouldn't be if the request was blocked
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by falcor84 1y ago
I actually am really looking forward to a future where we have better tooling for a true "user agent" that knows my preferences and can style every page automatically just ust the way I like it (and letting me override anything by
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by falcor84 1y ago
Indeed, these past few years have really recontextualized The Handmaid's Tale for me from an alternative history fantasy to an almost run of the mill "20 minutes into the future" fiction.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Going on a tangent from a tangent, I think that the 2*12h clock is a horrible idea that should have been rejected from the start, and the Product Manager who proposed it 3 thousand years ago should have been immediately put into the dungeon
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by falcor84 1y ago
That's actually an ironic example, seeing how so many (maybe most) viewers took the intended satire at face value, essentially looping all the way back to Heinlein's intent.

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