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by gooseus 3y ago
I say it's about time there was a sensible Lunar clock for the Loonies. Free Luna!
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by gooseus 3y ago
Was reading Stranger in a Strange Land recently and Heinlein describes a similar system developed for handling the volume of mail addressed to the Man from Mars. https://archive.org/details/StrangerInAStrangeLandRobertA
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by gooseus 3y ago
> Tong quickly admits that his claim to refute the simulation hypothesis is just “clickbait”—i.e., an excuse to talk about the fermion doubling problem—and that his “true” argument against the simulation hypothesis is simply that Elon Mu
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by gooseus 3y ago
"Cease quoting bylaws to those of us with yachts"
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by gooseus 3y ago
Really nice rocket launch on these long posts with large images.
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by gooseus 3y ago
Yeah, that too, probably what I'd have said if I was typing in Cyrillic.
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by gooseus 3y ago
If only Elon was actually advancing actual humanity, and not just his own narrow idea of what humanity should be. Also, trying to establish a self-sustaining base on Mars right now is short-sighted and a tremendous waste of energy and mater
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by gooseus 3y ago
Nice, great presentation! Curious what he has in mind for the "dynamic pipelines" and "scripting (Lua?)" he mentions in the "Future directions" section. I'm imagining something more powerful for animating
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by gooseus 3y ago
Yes, I do assume that any AGI that is "a lot smarter than us" such that it is "game over" will have to possess human-like reasoning that would also allow it to adjust its own goals, otherwise it's going to be restri
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by gooseus 3y ago
> Your latter point about AGI exploring the universe makes a lot of implicit assumptions about its reasoning. Absolutely, that's actually kind of my point... Anyone who tries to predict how some AGI will behave will be making a lot
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by gooseus 3y ago
Sounds like a total crank, from the abstract of the paper making the claim[1]: > ... We show that the equivalence of QC techniques (with IBM, Google and others compared with our version of QC) has been hidden for about 2,500 years – sinc
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by gooseus 3y ago
I can't disagree that there is an upside to watching people expose themselves as unserious, naive, and/or sociopathic.
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by gooseus 3y ago
Oh man, this podcast, I still remember walking down the street and having to take a break multiple times because I would just start exclaiming out loud (JFC!) like a lunatic listening to Eliezer talk about the AI Box Experiment as evidence
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by gooseus 3y ago
Yeah, can't disagree that the piece has a healthy dose of mean-spirited ad-hominems. Though I don't think it's "age-ism" to make fun of a 50-something year old established billionaire talking like a 20-something who
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by gooseus 3y ago
Also this one https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionai...
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by gooseus 3y ago
I'm gonna guess it correlates with the handedness of the builder. As a right-handed person, when I've built spiral towers in games they have been clockwise because when building from the bottom up, clockwise just seems "right
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by gooseus 3y ago
"Bible" should probably have been excluded. Besides the fact that I can't imagine this many people here actually recommending reading it (rather than it just being mentioned it in passing), it's multiple books written by
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by gooseus 3y ago
I still need to read Snow Crash, should prob bump that up the list... I was thinking it could be some kind of academic paper about the evolution of grift, loopholes, and the inevitability of increasing complexity in regulatory systems or so
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by gooseus 3y ago
I think it's an interesting question to ask whether this contributed to how we evolved our general intelligence? Selection pressure applying alternatively to those that learn to hack the "language models" of their society and
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by gooseus 3y ago
It's not good, desalination plants have to mitigate this with long diffusers that regulate the rate and concentration of the brine that is being put back into the ocean. Here is one for sale: https://www.jains.com/Pipef
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by gooseus 3y ago
Well, I assume Youtube and their community are the judges and juries of Youtube. I am merely one humble judge and jurist of these comment threads, and I rule that your comment here is disgusting and ignorant. I recommend a sentence of 100 h
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by gooseus 3y ago
Youtube is a subsidiary of a publicly-traded company, it is non-essential, largely unregulated, and for-profit. This is very different from what is considered a "public utility". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by gooseus 3y ago
Except, and I know you must have read this somewhere else by now, that Youtube is not the State. Your employer (should you have one) doesn't need to wait until a court of law proves you guilty of a stealing paperclips before they fire
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by gooseus 3y ago
So I guess Youtube should instead by compelled to continue providing their monetization and hosting services to anyone who wants it until a court of law can prove they are guilty of an actual crime? Who is going to compel Youtube to continu
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by gooseus 3y ago
I'll make one point, which is that if you are a violent asshole who punches anyone in the face that looks at you wrong, you still can't actually harm anyone through Youtube except by trying to convince someone to come get their as
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by gooseus 3y ago
I forget where I read/saw it, but someone once made the point that because there are an infinite number of questions that can be asked, someone is always making some kind of statement based on a conscious decision about which questions
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by gooseus 3y ago
> "Do you believe there is an xrisk from ASI?" Yes, I do. I don't have strong feelings about how large that risk is, beyond being significant enough that it should be taken very seriously. I'm really sorry, but this i
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by gooseus 3y ago
I used to think that Musk and Tesla would die a death by a thousand cuts to their brand, but it turns out that public perception is more of an anti-fragile system, so every scandal they survive only makes them more resilient to the next sca
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by gooseus 3y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06391
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by gooseus 3y ago
Some great movies and some I still need to see... but there are four David Lynch movies, including two Twin Peaks movies spin-off movies, but not a single Coen Brothers? And Dr. Strangelove is tied with Mad Max: Fury Road?

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