fasterik

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by fasterik 4y ago
Sometimes satire is the most effective way to make a serious point.
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by fasterik 4y ago
That would be a nonsense argument. Sentience is the ability to have sensory experiences. It's orthogonal to intelligence.
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by fasterik 4y ago
One of the constants of human nature is the ability to adapt to new environments. It could very well turn out that the 20th-21st century idea of a job is less well suited to human nature than whatever comes after jobs are made obsolete. Eve
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by fasterik 4y ago
We have to take unintended consequences into account. It's unlikely that we will be able to get all corporations and governments to agree to a pause and be able to enforce it. The question then is what are the consequences of some peop
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by fasterik 4y ago
Sounds like a perfect time to revive the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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by fasterik 4y ago
Sounds like your issue isn't with automation, it's with the human condition. It reminds me of this passage from Schopenhauer: If every desire were satisfied as soon as it arose how would men occupy their lives, how would they pas
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by fasterik 4y ago
There seems to be a contradiction in the picture of the world you're drawing. Humans deeply need to be needed by others, yet when all our problems are solved we will sit around alone consuming media? If we were truly in that situation,
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by fasterik 4y ago
Yeah but in this case, the impact is the same whether you die from human error or automation error. I would rather reduce the overall probability of death by 50% even if probability death by malfunctioning equipment goes up by 1%.
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by fasterik 4y ago
It's an empirical question what the ratio of false positives to true positives is. If the ratio is 1 to 10000, for example, I think that's tolerable and a net positive. You also have to account for humans making similar mistakes.
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by fasterik 4y ago
>Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable This statement by itself sounds reasonable. But for me an interesting thought experiment is to t
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by fasterik 4y ago
It's an open question the extent to which language models can learn the underlying meanings of words. There was a recent podcast with Sean Carroll interviewing Raphaël Millière where they go into this topic and some of the research on
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by fasterik 4y ago
Isn't this just the AI effect? Whenever there is a breakthrough in AI research, it's no longer considered AI. This happened with search algorithms, game playing, speech recognition, computer vision, etc. etc. https://en
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by fasterik 4y ago
>or that can choose for itself to slam the breaks on Given the possibility that this feature could save your life or another driver/pedestrian's life, I don't see a strong objection to this. Driving is one of the deadlie
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by fasterik 4y ago
>Burger King Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Y333JkwXQ
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by fasterik 4y ago
Maybe, but my point is that if it's this bad at understanding chess, which a fairly simple and objective domain, why should we have confidence it has understanding in other domains where it's harder to prove wrong answers wrong? W
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by fasterik 4y ago
Sorry, maybe my post sounded more serious than I intended it to. I wasn't trying to be combative, I was merely pointing out the irony of lecturing someone about insulting people on a professional forum, when your first post could easil
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by fasterik 4y ago
I agree that we don't know what is possible in hypothetical future models, but claims about understanding in the current models are overblown (at least by people like the article author). For example, I gave GPT-4 some chess games and
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by fasterik 4y ago
By that logic, I hope your coworkers don't see you bragging about how much more productive you are than them.
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by fasterik 4y ago
I don't think that contradicts what I said. The key here is how we define productivity. I agree that focusing on maximizing productivity in the short term can be a bad strategy. What you're suggesting is still what I would call pr
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by fasterik 4y ago
I haven't read the book, but the article gave me that impression. Maybe I define productivity differently than they do.
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by fasterik 4y ago
It's not clear to me there would be less child trafficking, drug crime, etc. if crypto didn't exist. Also, if online drug markets didn't exist, more people would put themselves in risky situations in real life to buy drugs fo
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by fasterik 4y ago
>If you must work hard and be efficient, consciously pick that work With this one sentence, the whole dichotomy proposed by the article falls apart. It all depends on what gives your life meaning and what your goals are. If you primari
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by fasterik 4y ago
>FWIW, even though I'd probably disagree with your assessment of crypto overall, I love that your comment tries to take a reasonable position: not just blind hate or love. Thanks, I appreciate that. I don't have any financial
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by fasterik 4y ago
I think a more defensible phrase would be "net negative to society". Crypto has its positive uses, but you have to balance those against the negatives of slow transfer speeds, speculative bubbles, scams, energy consumption, and ca
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by fasterik 4y ago
I wasn't making a claim about the historical importance of PGN. My issue is that it's become the de facto standard for distributing large collections of games, which is inefficient and no longer necessary given the ubiquity of fre
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by fasterik 4y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this. Their blog post on this is a good read. PGN uses 47.5 bits/move, while their move ordering/Huffman coding implementation uses 4.4 bits/move. https://lichess.org/blog&#
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by fasterik 4y ago
You can still read the notation on screen in ChessBase. It also makes navigating through the games and searching for specific players and opening lines much easier.
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by fasterik 4y ago
I'm not convinced. Why would you read the file in a text editor instead of loading it into ChessBase or a similar program?
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by fasterik 4y ago
PGN and especially the use of standard algebraic notation (SAN) is one of my pet peeves in chess programming. SAN is great for humans to read but is annoyingly tricky and less efficient for a computer to parse. PGN files are also huge relat
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by fasterik 4y ago
At some point in our education we have to memorize the rules for manipulating algebraic formulas, trigonometric identities, etc. It would be hard to learn calculus without being able to do these things unconsciously. On the other hand, what

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