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by gjm11 3y ago
The post is long and complicated and I haven't read most of it, so whether it's actually any good I shan't try to decide. But the above seems like a very weird argument. Sure, the code is doing what it's doing. But tryin
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> the most menial tech jobs How do you know what job moffkalast has, and why does it matter? This reads like pure snobbery to me. (Also: moffkalast did not in fact suggest that anything is a solution to a centuries-old problem. "Som
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by gjm11 3y ago
It was informally called that from the very beginning; see e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2008/11/05/firefox_market_share_... (I think the usual term among the people developing the feature was actually &qu
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I was not arguing for making anything illegal. "But that's what the argument was about!" No, it's what the OP was about, but this subthread was about the statement that AI x-risk arguments are "pretty hypothetical&q
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You made an analogy between AI x-risk and e.g. cold fusion . I pointed out that there's an important disanalogy here: no one is claiming or has claimed that cold fusion poses an existential threat. Hence, the nearest cold-fusion cla
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I doubt it. At any rate, I wasn't claiming to offer "the strongest argument that AI existential risk is a big problem". I wasn't claiming to offer any argument that AI existential risk is a big problem. I was pointing
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I didn't make any argument -- at least, not any argument for or against AI x-risk. I am not, and was not, arguing (1) that AI does or doesn't in fact pose substantial existential risk, or (2) that we should or shouldn't put
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Consider a world in which AI existential risk is real: where at some point AI systems become dramatically more capable than human minds, in a way that has catastrophic consequences for humanity. What would you expect this world to look like
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This is better than most "periodic tables" in that the periodicity in it actually represents something real: there actually are (conveniently!) 18 infinite families of finite simple groups (corresponding to the 18 columns in a sta
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Aside from the matter of whether the article's criticisms of the paper in question are valid[1], I think there's some equivocation going on here between two kinds of thing that can both be called failures of "replicability&qu
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Stockfish isn't convinced that f4 Be7; f5 Bd7 does give W a comfortable advantage; it reckons +0.2, same as if B plays ... Be7 after Nb3 as you recommend. Again, I'm a patzer so if your intuition/calculation says W is much be
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In that last "very concrete" line, the 'fish seems to think 8 ... Qc7 is a mistake, and after e.g. 8 ... Be7 instead it puts W at just +0.2, which is perfectly respectable but not obviously better for W than after 7 ... Be7.
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"For many readers, intuition from astrophysics will suggest that a star that captures a PBH will be short lived and look nothing like a star dur- ing that life. However, we will show that stars with very low mass PBHs could be very lon
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by gjm11 3y ago
Nigel Tufnel, chief scientist at TSMC, explains the merits of the latest hardware from ASML: "This is a fab, but it's very special because if you can see, the numbers all go down to 2nm. Look, right across the board. 2nm, 2nm, 2nm
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The baby, unlike the LLM, isn't learning just from a stream of text. Anything the LLM knows about the world that a lot of that text describes has been inferred from the structure of the text, but a baby learning (say) English learns wh
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by gjm11 3y ago
I wonder whether you're thinking of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien... which is very explicitly meant as an analogy for AI, but it's not at all a novel.
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HN title at present is "StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven Labs quality Text To Speech". Actual title at the far end doesn't name any particular other product; arXiv paper linked from there doesn't mention Eleven Labs either
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by gjm11 3y ago
I see a number of responses along the lines of "why would you think cyclists are victims here?" so I took a look at the data. (I'm not sure that what I'm looking at is the exact same files as used by this map.) https:&#
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I asked ChatGPT-3.5 (I'm not a ChatGPT-Plus subscriber so don't have access to ChatGPT-4) and it said: "Mary is the only sister mentioned in the question. Susan and her 7 brothers each have one sister, which is Mary. So Mary
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by gjm11 3y ago
There's less to the "constant time method" thing than meets the eye. If you work modulo M for some fixed M, then the Fibonacci sequence is periodic with period at most M^2 (because if two consecutive numbers are known, so is
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In fairness, humans have much the same problem.
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Well, then it wouldn't be easily demonstrably false, but it would still be crying out for some actual evidence which doesn't seem obviously forthcoming. "Actions speak louder than words". "History shows us".
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by gjm11 3y ago
It seems to me that this is flatly untrue; most "effective altruists"[1] are not obscenely wealthy, the founders of the movement are not obscenely wealthy, and I'm not sure I know of any examples of what you say "the m
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by gjm11 3y ago
This feels to me like you're introducing the same unnecessary extra layer into your text as in the original code. I mean, why not "You are probably interested in whether it's true that the 'need_free' flag is set to
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Since the title is less than perfectly perspicuous: It's about "bump allocators", where you allocate memory just by incrementing/decrementing a pointer (and don't free it until you're ready to free up all the
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Is there any reason to think that she had even ever heard of him when choosing that pen name? It's not as if "Robert" and "Galbraith" are unusual names. For that matter, Rowling has said where she took the names fro
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by gjm11 3y ago
It seems like you're responding to something that isn't there -- an accusation along the lines of "... and therefore C is a bad language" or "... and therefore sizeof is poorly designed" or "... and it&#x2
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What are you taking "it" to be here? The transformer architecture on which (I think) all recent LLMs are based dates from 2017. That's only "multiple decades after" if you count x0.6 as "multiple". Neural
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I suspect that for most people who would consider selling their kidneys at such a price it is life-changing.
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What does that scenario look like in practice? Suppose I'm the evil coercing person. I have an artificial kidney and $X, you have (still in your body) a real kidney, and you're short of money so you prefer (artificial kidney + $X)

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