fusionadvocate

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by fusionadvocate 1y ago
It doesn't need to be permanent. If humans could escape from their embodiment temporarily they would certainly do so. Being permanently bounded to a physical interface is definitely a disadvantage.
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by fusionadvocate 1y ago
I believe we already have the technology required for AGI. It perhaps is analogous to a lunar manned station or a 2 mile tall skyscrapper. We have the technology required to build it, but we don't for various reasons.
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by fusionadvocate 1y ago
AI will face the same limitations we face: availability of information and the non deterministic nature of the world.
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by fusionadvocate 1y ago
Natural intelligence is too expensive. Takes too long for it to grow. If things go wrong then we have to jail it. With computers we just change the software.
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by fusionadvocate 1y ago
Can someone throw some light on this Dwarkesh character? He landed a Zucc podcast pretty early on... how connected is he? Is he an industry plant?
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by fusionadvocate 1y ago
They envy the USB committee.
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
Good were the days when you only could get robbed by what you had in your pockets. Nowadays one goes around with a direct link to his or her entire bank account. And criminals know this in Brazil. They will rob your phone, but what they rea
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
But it is possible to discover by holding down the button and realizing the block is getting progressively more "scratched".
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
I think this is correct, to an extent. But consider handling an egg while your arm is numb. It would be difficult. But perhaps a great benefit of tactile input is its simplicity. Instead of processing thousands of pixels, which are passive
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
Robotics has been trying the same ideas for the last who knows how many years. They still believe it will work now, somehow. Perhaps it goes beyond the brightest minds at Google that people can grasp things with their eyes closed. That we d
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
The system stops the motors once it reaches focus. Therefore is a closed loop system.
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
Every cent counts. "An estimated 63,600 deaths were attributable to air pollution in the United States in 2021." 0.3% means 190 lives were lost because we prioritize moon toys over cleaning our own environment.
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
The technical arguments are strong and on point. But marriage is not about technical details.
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by fusionadvocate 2y ago
That is incorrect. Recent advances using attosecond lasers enable new tricks and fusion conditions to be realized tabletop. Search also for plasmonics. Using nano antennas and intense lasers to accelerate protons and electrons in a tabletop