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by gooseus 3y ago
It's not happening and there isn't anything to worry about... right up until the moment when it's already happened and there isn't anything that can be done. I recently heard it referred to as "The Slow Breakup&quot
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by gooseus 3y ago
Can't tell if this is intentional because "F- anyone without an X-Twitter account", intentional because the "mystery" is a major product feature (a la xAI), or unintentional because Elon's organization is terri
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by gooseus 3y ago
> This is what neoliberalism does to the brain... Notice that when communists are discussed... > Oh look. The name calling begins... I never said I was a communist... Try reading to yourself, and recognize that you literally opened t
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by gooseus 3y ago
And this would be the same tired refrain of every tankie who will justify atrocities committed under communism by pointing out that bad things also happen under capitalism. I'd call myself a neoliberal (for lack of a better term), but
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by gooseus 3y ago
I think Dickens and Elliot are somewhat right and Orwell even demonstrates it in Animal Farm... there was a "public-spirited pig" bending the revolution toward fairness and decency, but it only took one other pig with a monopoly o
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by gooseus 3y ago
While GWB overthrowing an authoritarian government in Iraq on a lie is really bad, it does not rise to the level of overthrowing a liberal democracy in America on a lie. Yes, both were lies, but Bush barely had to lie at all to get the Cong
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by gooseus 3y ago
Read the latest indictment[1] and then find me another politician who has lied at anything approaching the scale and seriousness of Trump and his co-conspirators. At this point, in light of all of this evidence comprehensively laid out in r
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by gooseus 3y ago
Location: Brooklyn, NY Remote: Prefer hybrid, but available for full remote Willing to relocate: Unlikely Technologies: - Languages: Typescript (Javascript), Nim, PHP, Python, R - Frameworks: Angular, React, NestJS, ExpressJS - Services: Mo
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by gooseus 3y ago
Title isn't accurate, this seems to be a link to all of Mark Watson's older books: including books on Lisp, Haskell, Java, and personal stories. Looks like this PR from a couple months ago was him moving a bunch of older books fro
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by gooseus 3y ago
"Pokemon FireRed completed without visuals or audio." That's the first sentence of the video description, seems more accurate and neutral.
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by gooseus 3y ago
I say that "knowing" is very much a group activity, in fact, it's the only way one can even approach certainly that what one "knows" isn't just a hallucination or a dream. We can only "know" by verify
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by gooseus 3y ago
I agree to some extent, though I think the trade-off of sending lots of messages into space is lower than sending "seeds of life". A message has encoded information that can communicate something we're trying to express to an
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by gooseus 3y ago
Long post and having only skimmed it for now, I think I mostly agree... though I don't think I could ever call myself a nihilist. The last section captures what I've tried to say in my own (not currently online) writing on the sub
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by gooseus 3y ago
My guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al
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by gooseus 3y ago
I think you can enjoy some potato chips and some short videos, but I have my doubts about how many you can consume in a row while maintaining enjoyment. My experience is that the enjoyment one feels with the first few bites quickly transfor
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by gooseus 3y ago
Reasonable people can disagree and my phrasing was probably a bit over-seasoned, but neither side has a rigorous proof regarding AI or human intelligence. If nobody understands how an LLM is able to achieve it's current level of intell
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by gooseus 3y ago
"What if" is all these "existential risk" conversations ever are. Where is your evidence that we're approaching human level AGI, let alone SuperIntelligence? Because ChatGPT can (sometimes) approximate sophisticated
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by gooseus 3y ago
Not if the "secret sauce" is actually a natural limit to what levels of intelligence can be reached with the current architectures we're exploring. It could be theoretically possible to build an AGI smarter than a human, but
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by gooseus 3y ago
We'll get these cool things either way, no need to bundle them with the supernatural mumbo-jumbo, imo. My take is that every advancement in these highly complex and expensive fields is dependent on our ability to maintain global social
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by gooseus 3y ago
Fun student project, but let's say you do spend millions of dollars on R&D to get this into production and released into the wild to target lantern flies eggs. * What percentage of eggs in a given area is it expected find and destr
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by gooseus 3y ago
You haven't been able to look at anything but the /explore endpoint for weeks without an account, and the "content" on there has been total garbage. I was relieved when they started asking for an account this week becaus
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by gooseus 3y ago
Very cool. Does need to be updated since the deepest discovered shipwreck is no longer the USS Johnston[1] as of 2022. > The wreck of Samuel B. Roberts lies at a depth of 6,895 meters (22,621 ft; 4.284 mi), making her the deepest known s
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by gooseus 3y ago
As others have noted, geothermal vents could provide a place for life to get started, as it is thought to have occurred here. One thing that I think is important to consider is that what is really needed is an energy gradient which can be l
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by gooseus 3y ago
I feel compelled to write this though it's only tangentially relevant to the article and is an adaptation of Taleb's story of stock-picking monkeys[1] from either Fooled by Randomness or The Black Swan: Say you have an email list
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by gooseus 4y ago
Does it though? If I'm hurtling toward a slow death at the hands of a deadly infection, that doesn't necessarily imply that my immune system isn't actively fighting off deadly infections every day... instead it can imply that
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by gooseus 4y ago
I'd say that LLMs are a different way of organizing the world's information through a kind of lossy compression into enormous probability distributions that can approximate the original information with enough fidelity to be usefu
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by gooseus 4y ago
I've gotten good results from asking ChatGPT to give me Xstate representations of machines that I describe, very cool to copy-paste* into the visualizer as a starting point. * Only issue is that with so much active development since th
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by gooseus 4y ago
OpenAI has been collecting a ton of evals here https://github.com/openai/evals with many of them including some comments about how well GPT-4 does vs GPT-3.5. You could clone that repo, adapt the oaieval script to run
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by gooseus 4y ago
Yes, history remembers well the efforts of those people, and their results. And if you define who counts as "workers" and who the "owners" are just so, you can also add "fascist" to the list of people who advo
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by gooseus 4y ago
If anything terrifies me about our current moment in AI, it's this impulse to dehumanize actual living people as a way of defending AI from entirely valid criticism. Sure, people suck and lots of them are immoral and stupid... but they

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