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by gonehome 3y ago
I'd guess 10% at most, but probably less (on a semi-regular basis, number for those that have ever tried it is higher). There's strong selection bias with drug use because drug users tend to cluster together, I suspect it's a
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by gonehome 3y ago
I've read articles like this since I started working in silicon valley in 2012, but I haven't seen it in person. Maybe some selection bias at play, but I'm generally pretty open. Stuff I have seen: - LSD usage is pretty commo
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by gonehome 3y ago
Also pretty common with authors iirc - a spouse with an income that provides stability. That said, also easy for people to use this as an excuse.
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by gonehome 3y ago
It's not clear humans will even put the AI in 'a box' in the first place given we do gain of function research on deadly viruses right next to major population centers, but assuming for the sake of argument that we do: The AG
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by gonehome 3y ago
Low probability events do happen sometimes though and a heuristic that says it never happens can let you down, especially when the outcome is very bad. Most of the time a new virus is not a pandemic, but sometimes it is . Nothing in our (h
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by gonehome 3y ago
At the limit sure there’s variance, but our shared selected history has a lot in common, something a non-human intelligence would not get for free: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden... I
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by gonehome 3y ago
It’s worth reading about the orthogonality thesis and the underlying arguments about it. It’s not an anti-goal that’s intentionally set, it’s that complex goal setting is hard and you may end up with something dumb that maximizes the reward
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by gonehome 3y ago
Ignoring the provocative framing of humanity as a “cancer”, earth has had at least five historical extinction level events from environmental changes and life on earth has adapted and changed during that time (and likely will continue to at
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by gonehome 3y ago
People are bad at imagining something a lot smarter than themselves. They think of some smart person they know, they don’t think of themselves compared to a chimp or even bacteria. An unaligned superintelligent AGI in pursuit of some goal t
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by gonehome 3y ago
Some types of alarm yeah, if within the window of things it's statusy to be alarmed about. Most of the AI concern that's high status to believe has been the bias, misinformation, safety, stuff. Until very recently talk about e-r
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by gonehome 3y ago
The recent paper about using gpt-4 to give more insight into its actual internals was interesting, but yeah the risks seem really high at the moment that we'd accidentally develop unaligned AGI before figuring out alignment. Out of the
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by gonehome 3y ago
The extinction risk from unaligned supterintelligent AGI is real, it's just often dismissed (imo) because it's outside the window of risks that are acceptable and high status to take seriously. People often have an initial knee-je
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by gonehome 3y ago
It's more akin to an adult lecturing you about the harms of junk food and controlling everything you eat while they themselves eat nothing but cheetos. It creates an adversarial relationship. You can rule as a tyrant, but it's not
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by gonehome 3y ago
Lots of respect for this - I’d guess your kids have it too. I often felt frustrated as a kid that adults took power and control over you and didn’t adhere to the same demands themselves.
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by gonehome 3y ago
The ultra’s battery life is substantially longer if that’s important to you.
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by gonehome 3y ago
How they’re driving will break down the tires at different rates. A driver may hold back to protect their tires to keep them in better shape in order to have more traction later when other people’s tires are shot. If you know the state of e
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by gonehome 3y ago
Ben Thompson of Stratechery has been writing about this for a while - a big part of it is Microsoft is attempting to shift their product into a subscription model for content with Xbox game pass which is likely a lot better for consumers (a
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by gonehome 3y ago
+1 I switched from Google to Apple maps a few years back, I think it's easily the better product now.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Getting rid of mods like the one linked in this post is a net positive for Reddit imo. His plan was to disable the subreddit for 6 weeks while working on a bot? What? Reddit can just take over. Mods like this are awful - way too much power
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by gonehome 3y ago
This matches my experience with it so far. Extremely complicated and hard to understand, projects that use it have builds fail anyway except now with very hard to debug errors.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Reasonable, his intelligence also comes across in his tech talks too - similar to Andrej Karpathy in clarity and bandwidth for talks. There’s also a lot of other commentary on his capabilities outside of that one account, so it seems likely
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by gonehome 3y ago
He's pretty fit - I think he's just way smarter than average and able to pair that with extreme focus (rare). It comes across in Masters of Doom.
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by gonehome 3y ago
In a one time game it’s a 50% known bet vs. an unknown bet. 50% is not bad odds?
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by gonehome 3y ago
Tapping fingers to click is enabled on the current quest fwiw, it's just not the default since typically the default is to use controllers. The thing the quest is missing is eye tracking, I'd guess because of the cost - but that e
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by gonehome 3y ago
In addition to the login bit, reddit/hn style threaded comments for conversation is way better UI (imo) than pages of slow loading quoting forum posts.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I don't think federated systems without something like urbit underneath will work outside of a hyper technical niche. You end up back at a handful of even crappier centralized servers with a worse experience and even more capricious
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah the obvious move from them imo. Probably best for reddit just entirely kill 3rd party API access and restrict the power of mods. Arguably they should have done that anyway like Twitter did rather than just set prices high to sort of ge
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by gonehome 3y ago
The incentives are more aligned with apple so this is less of a problem, they also have a lot more support and help available when there are problems.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah there definitely was no public pivot - it was never available as a device for the general public or even advertised that way.
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by gonehome 3y ago
It feels like iPod and iPhone to me. At the time mp3 players were a niche with crappy hardware and low capacity. The iPod was a lot more expensive and a lot better - it caused general adoption. Similar for the iPhone - smartphones were a bu

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