falcor84

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by falcor84 4mo ago
Honest question: why is it terrible? I would assume that if someone is capable enough to struggle for 2 years, they stand a real chance to struggle for 4 years and graduate. And seeing how the job market rewards a mediocre diploma from a go
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I remember a first lecture when I started my CS studies, where the professor said something like "look at the people to your left and to your right, it's likely that at least one of you will drop out by the end of this year; it&#x
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I personally strongly disagree. I think it's much better to be given the opportunity to do the actual work, rather than to be required to do the pre-assessment song and dance. And if there are actual prerequisites that a person hasn&#x
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by falcor84 4mo ago
> I mean I don't have $100 million but I'd give it to the arts I might be naive, but rather than giving money "to the arts", I would much prefer to give money "to the people" en masse, and then leave it up t
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Fighting fire with fire, what's to stop me from using GenAI "create new versions of all of these assets but with a Norse twist" and publish these under my GPL+CC BY-SA 4.0 fork?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Well, while every group of people is definitionally "a community", you can absolutely have your friend group not be part of "the community" of the game. Just like you can have a LAN and not be "on the net", wat
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by falcor84 4mo ago
A lot harder than Beyond All Reason? How so?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Keep on keeping on.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
> because there’s no concept of self. Funnily enough, going over their paper, the first example scenario that they mention as potentially leading to sabotage is exactly about the concept of self: > • Alignment eval sabotage (instrumen
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by falcor84 4mo ago
> It is important to note that our data shows the majority of flagged events do not stem from adversarial intent I didn't find this to be sufficiently reassuring. They then link to this paper [0], which I haven't yet read, but
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Securing the Future of AI Agents(deepmind.google)
14 points by falcor84 4mo ago|4 comments
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by falcor84 4mo ago
> Jobs also said death would take care of the problem of people not knowing how to type. I often think he should have taken the similar approach I was all set for this dark humor, and actually had to double back to then understand the fu
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I don't remember when I first encountered it (maybe before ios7), but their cardinal sin for me was my struggling for 10 minutes to make the calculator app go into scientific mode, seeing absolutely no setting for that, before eventual
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I've been getting them for years now and have enjoyed many of them (though not a large percentage), and would love to use the Epic store more, if only they would implement some version of reviews/scores. Without that, I feel that
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I'm not the parent, but I suppose it was a joke reference to Star Trek where Data (an android character) discovers he has a brother named Lore [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_Star_Trek:_The_N..
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by falcor84 4mo ago
But that's circular - assuming that large investors are rational, and I do think they generally are, why wouldn't they strategically invest in anti-AI businesses?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
My experience and intuition beg to differ. As I see it, much of our civilization progress is based on this redefinition of processes as entities, with some examples being: a sports team, a mathematical function, a loan, a company, a compute
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by falcor84 4mo ago
> The thing is, no one has anything to gain from defending my position Why? If someone running a company really believes that the line will soon stop going up and AI won't be replacing anyone, they could make the bet of strategicall
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by falcor84 4mo ago
What does a glider have that a continuously running claw lacks?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I'm not anthropomorphizing them, I'm animifying.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
The "Yesterday's weather" argument works perfectly just up to the point when it doesn't.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
> ... they cost more to run than all you and your fellow farmers have ... But the financial situation is that running a single AI agent costs significantly less than you'd have to pay a human to do the same task. And I don't se
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Not as far as I know, but I have personally seen my coding agents take on a prompt like "See if you can port this project to typescript", and work for hours, defining a myriad of subgoals and continuously summoning and managing su
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I don't get the argument; how do you decide between using 'a' or 'an'?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Then according to your argument, the moral consideration only depends on the moral agent, right? So if tomorrow AIs decide that they are alive, it would be morally incumbent upon them to adapt the world to support themselves, correct?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Being a process doesn't preclude something from being an entity. In particular, all of us living organisms have our constituent atoms constantly replaced, and we don't typically consider that a risk to our sense of self.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
I'll use this opportunity to recommend The Selfish Gene, which puts forward a strong argument for how the actual competitive battlefield on Earth is between genes, while us humans and everything else we call "life" are their
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by falcor84 4mo ago
The syntax? I got 99 problems with js, but syntax ain't one of them. It's just C-style syntax, no?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
And hotels.com
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by falcor84 4mo ago
What we're seeing now reminds me of that pub dialogue about running in Back to the Future 3, paraphrased: > Jeb: "If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, does anybody code anymore?" > Doc Brown: "Of cou

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