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by fwlr 11d ago
“If you aren't using it for this, you are doing a disservice to yourself and the quality of your code” I bow reluctantly to this device I consider unscrupulous.
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by fwlr 11d ago
The passage banning “unfair competition” is utterly marvellous: A trader may not, by pursuing a dishonest practice, force his competitors to choose between its adoption or the loss of their trade. A method of competition [is ‘unfair’
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by fwlr 11d ago
Your words are not unclear! You are doing a fantastic job of using words that work very easily with mental imagery, and but not at all without. I said I didn’t understand horizontal because without mental imagery I have no “floor” for the r
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by fwlr 11d ago
There are exactly 64 flags excluded for having custom glyphs/seals/symbols/icons, which is crying out for an “appendix” lookup table to complete the encoding. The positions look very regular too, you could probably fit the po
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by fwlr 12d ago
This is a bit more stream of thought, hopefully that is helpful. The pyramid can’t take up all the space inside the cube, only another cube could do that. So there must be some points that are “inside cube, outside pyramid” and other points
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by fwlr 12d ago
Perhaps another way to look at it is to say that “every past apocalyptic prediction was false” is tautologically true? A statement can be a trivial tautology, as in “P or not-P”. Or it can be a more complicated form of tautology, such as a
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by fwlr 12d ago
“History is a guide to apocalyptic predictions in only one way: all previous apocalyptic predictions have been wrong” “History is a guide to state abuses of power in many ways, and most of them point in the same direction, that it is a very
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by fwlr 12d ago
A quick demonstration I sometimes use to tease out this distinction: “imagine a six-sided die. Are you imagining it? Good. How many dots are on the side closest to you?” If the phenomenal experience was the same and the difference is in the
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by fwlr 12d ago
(Also aphantasic) I think about the axis on which the fold is performed. Because of “square” and “diagonal”, for the two corners to touch, the fold axis must lie on both of the “other two corners”. A reflection about an axis does not change
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by fwlr 12d ago
Aphantasiacs seem to be able to describe visual qualia as adequately as anyone else when the visual stimuli are currently present. But we do see descriptions differ between aphantasia and baseline in two cases: when the visual stimuli is re
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by fwlr 12d ago
I’m not sure what logic you have imputed to my comment, but I’m having trouble connecting what you wrote to anything I was saying. I am criticising the argument “every past apocalyptic prediction was wrong, therefore this future apocalyptic
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by fwlr 12d ago
It started in 2006, although it didn’t have its own site until 2010-ish. I’m not sure it will ever be given its dues for its prescience. The whole rationality project was started with the explicit aim of upgrading participants’ reasoning ab
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by fwlr 12d ago
> Nobody knows the answer and history is no guide, save that apocalyptic predictions about new technologies have, to date, all been wrong. If any past apocalyptic prediction had been true, you would not have been around to write this sen
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by fwlr 13d ago
If you’re willing to consider the sequels part of the canon, Smith’s copying/cloning technique does kind of look like OpenAI’s approach to intellectual property.
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by fwlr 13d ago
I assume he’s referring to videos like this? https://youtu.be/gEDaCIDvj6I If so… Very poor choice of metaphor. Nothing resembles AI coding quite so much as the mystical master waving his hands in karate-style movements, see
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by fwlr 13d ago
It’s not circular because we put a little bit of money in, and a lot of money comes back Ah yes, it’s not circular, because it’s a pyramid.
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by fwlr 13d ago
Conversely, I think mathematics should retain this aspect of “number-poetry”. Consider a mathematical pursuit that lacks number-poetry but retains other features such as attribution, calculation, and puzzle-solving: I think of competitions
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by fwlr 13d ago
Your simpler model of the mechanism would seem to suggest the very same action that the article’s more complicated model suggests, viz. find a better training method than reinforcement learning.
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by fwlr 14d ago
“A race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives, can make [AI] risks more acute. … We have sought […] to create a race to the top .” And then he sketches out a plan for slowing the pace of the race, without changing its destination
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by fwlr 14d ago
A more accurate title would be “Farmers Aren’t Bought”, as in “bought by John Deere”, like this author is.
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by fwlr 14d ago
Man, it would be awesome if I could tell my boss “No, I don’t want to go to prison for 20 years” when they ask me if some magical AI thing can be done.
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by fwlr 14d ago
Nick Bostrom: We could imagine, as an extreme case, a technologically highly advanced society, containing many complex structures, some of them far more intricate and intelligent than anything that exists on the planet today – a societ
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by fwlr 15d ago
In internet culture there’s this phrase “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby”, meant to highlight the absurd power difference between two combatants. In almost any scenario even tangentially involving mathematics, twenty-five Fields medallists u
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by fwlr 15d ago
The relentless progress towards saturation of benchmarks is, I suspect, at least partly a similar story. Whatever holdout questions are used to evaluate GPT-x will be in the GPT-x conversation logs, and therefore in the training set for GPT
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by fwlr 15d ago
This makes sense. “Don’t try to penny-pinch your employees” is a lesson most managers learn eventually, and I guess agent-orchestrators will have to learn it too.
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by fwlr 15d ago
I said “very quickly find enough certainty” to suggest hypothetical situations like “someone searches the conversation logs, confirms for themselves the solution is present, then shares the confidence gained from this knowledge without expl
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by fwlr 16d ago
I think you’re overlooking what I’m implying here. It’s not that they knew contamination was possible but they went ahead anyway. To spell it out just a little bit more: learning the answer might be in model X’s training data made them beli
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by fwlr 16d ago
It is suspicious that OpenAI decided to generate 300 billion output tokens from a model still in training, right after learning there was a credible chance that a major math proof was in that model’s training data. Obviously there are reaso
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by fwlr 17d ago
For my money, the most “AI does my research” mistake I’ve seen in this whole mess is someone saying “the original researchers did not solve Navier-Stokes, while OpenAI did”. It has all the hallmarks of a classic AI blunder - partially eli
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by fwlr 17d ago
You might be interested in this paper, rigorously tackling the sorts of questions you raise: https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_d...

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