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by greenrd 11y ago
I don't think it is the case that "AI-fearing folks" like myself don't appreciate what the alleged difficulties of building AGI might be. Rather, the burden of proof is on you, the doubters, to show that we need to spend
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by greenrd 11y ago
> So suggesting that by (say) 2066 software will not only stop sucking but will be able to meta-improve itself with bug-free perfection to the point where it can eat the world seems curiously ungrounded. That's a straw man. Software
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by greenrd 11y ago
Yes, this was by far the most excruciating part of the interview.
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by greenrd 11y ago
I don't think he's saying that liking college is a bias. Or rather, he is, but I think he's saying something subtly different (which implies the former): that those who denigrate college, or are "meh" about college,
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by greenrd 11y ago
I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that - unlike one of my fellow RationalWiki editors who literally criticised effective altruists for (gasp) paying other people to do stuff for them, which is like the foundation of capital
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by greenrd 11y ago
> 1. Dogmatic adulation of Yudkowski as a "savior" figure. They're just copying the man himself, who sees himself that way. But before you dismiss that as cultish, be sure you fully understand the problem he's trying
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by greenrd 11y ago
I used to think that way too. Now I believe they are working on problems which will only become relevant - pulling a figure out of my ass just to put a figure on it - 30 years hence - but in 30 years time, we'll be damned glad that the
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by greenrd 11y ago
Could you elaborate? "Systems with asymmetric power" presumably refers to the AGI - or does it? Maybe you are referring to the AI box or the utility function design or the "nanny AI" which is meant to contain the AGI? I
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by greenrd 11y ago
So again I ask, what would you propose we do about it? Criticism leads to boycotts lead to resignations. At what point does it become unacceptable, and unacceptable to whom?
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by greenrd 11y ago
I've heard a lot of people complaining about JIRA and so on, but I've never really understood why they hate it. Sure, it's closed source, but so is GitHub, and people seem to like that (this discussion notwithstanding).
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by greenrd 11y ago
I think there's a big difference between just getting your book printed and getting anyone to read it. It's all about the distribution and marketing.
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by greenrd 11y ago
It's not like Github and Google Code are the only two choices. (Of course, Google Code isn't a choice, as it's shutting down.)
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by greenrd 11y ago
What nonsense are you blathering? Github isn't open source so you can't fork it. Meanwhile there are lots of other GitHub-a-likes out there - Gitlab is only one of them. So if you don't like Gitlab either, there are other cho
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by greenrd 11y ago
The claim is not that white people are overrepresented because of devious trickery, but because white people are usually doing the hiring and they are often biased, consciously or unconsciously, against non-white people, and women. It'
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by greenrd 11y ago
Again another diversity piece that claims that trans people are somehow "locked out" of tech. I've seen no evidence for this, and in fact some evidence for the opposite - that they're overrepresented. That makes sense, I
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by greenrd 11y ago
Possibly, but only if people actively choose usernames that remove hints of such things, avoid disclosing their ethnicity or gender, avoid using stereotypical male or female communication patterns... it's a rather unstable equilibrium.
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by greenrd 11y ago
> Just because someone has dark skin doesn't automatically mean they are "black" because black is more of a cultural thing than a race. What are you trying to say? That sounds incredibly racist. Are you trying to say that
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by greenrd 11y ago
> I think you're saying it's important to have visible role models with the same ethnicity and/or sex, and/or whatever other bodily attribute we're focusing on at the moment. But why would anyone think that unles
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by greenrd 11y ago
> If the only real goal put down on paper is to hire x% black people and y% brown people and reduce z% of white people under some fuzzy equality rubric I suspect that in GitHub's case, the diversity officer was tasked with defining
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by greenrd 11y ago
This is very odd. I know universities can be very liberal places, but where did this combination of "mandatory" and "student-run" come from? I'm actually in favour of flattening hierarchies - but not inverting them.
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by greenrd 11y ago
What would you propose we do - jail people who call for boycotts? Jail people who criticise corporations? I'll spell this out very simply: the same laws and social standards that make it OK for you to criticise them, make it OK for the
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by greenrd 11y ago
Codes of conduct generally act to protect people from racist and sexual harassment, by prohibiting and deterring it. Name one example of racist harassment against white people that a code of conduct hasn't prevented. tumbleweeds
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by greenrd 11y ago
He was on the wrong side of history, but your last sentence was unnecessary and over-the-top. He wasn't hired as a CEO, he was promoted into it. Before he became CEO, his political donations would not necessarily have been a concern.
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by greenrd 11y ago
The mobile experience for github is not amazing either. It rearranges everything for no apparent reason and makes it harder or impossible to access what I want.
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by greenrd 11y ago
If things ever get that extreme, it's time to whip out the research on race and IQ. It's like, well, you asked for it.
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by greenrd 12y ago
Subhumans? Your Nazi ideology is showing.
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by greenrd 12y ago
You're missing the point. Imprecise thinking and forgetfulness is not lack of will, it's imprecise thinking and forgetfulness.
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by greenrd 12y ago
But Google's cars can't even merge on the freeway yet, and they need vastly detailed maps which must be kept 100% up to date. (The existing car companies are trying to avoid the latter drawback, but there's no proof that they
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by greenrd 12y ago
Isn't this because China has had internal migration controls for over 70 years, which are unheard of outside communist countries? Actually I think it's unheard of outside China.
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by greenrd 12y ago
Surely we are sending in the drones precisely because humans are so valuable? The military are ultimately accountable to the voters and the voters don't like American casualties. And voters are also able to influence humans' econo

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