geonaut

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Reaction Engines Enters Administration(news.sky.com)
1 points by geonaut 2y ago|0 comments
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by geonaut 2y ago
+1 this is discussed in the Andrew Hodges Turing biography (and no doubt many other books)
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by geonaut 2y ago
I don’t find anything offensive about carefully considering how to do good, or taking a longer term view of humanity. I think the thing that is irritating about EA is that it often feels like this generation’s ‘post-colonial guilt’. Many pe
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by geonaut 3y ago
As an atheist parent being forced consider Catholic faith schools out of sheer necessity, this is far from a help. This is geographical blackmail. I have seen teaching material, and it is subtly biased towards Catholicism. Spending valuable
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by geonaut 3y ago
Western militaries have justice systems, including courts and prisons. I presume they also follow best practice in lots of domains, despite some legal exemptions. They also clearly have the aim to preserve society in a safe state. Even if m
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by geonaut 3y ago
I’ve tried and failed to read it twice - I just find the dialogue and characters so cringeworthy. Nice world building tho.
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by geonaut 3y ago
Agree that AI is at a different stage of development and has a different risk profile, but my idea would be to learn from those 100+ years of nuclear power management (successes and failures) and bootstrap a similar set of organisations for
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by geonaut 3y ago
Agree progress is rapid, but I was under the impression model training for LLMs was still the preserve of mega-corps, with the support of eg NVDA providing the hardware. Military may be doing the same behind closed doors of course, but stil
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Ask HN: Why not regulate AI like nuclear power?
3 points by geonaut 3y ago|9 comments
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by geonaut 3y ago
“ExxonMobil… [acquired]… a smaller Texas oil and gas company with the U.S.’s largest network of pipelines designed to carry carbon dioxide.” There was a great episode of the Volts podcast, about a startup aiming to make synthetic shipping f
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by geonaut 4y ago
Any optimisations you can make? Will have the advantage of saving you money across all platforms/regions