haltist

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by haltist 3y ago
One brutally murdered journalist is irrelevant when the upside is the singularity, sir. You should be more techno-optimistic like Marc and all his billionaire friends.
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by haltist 3y ago
Saudi money is everywhere in tech. All the major VCs have taken money from them at some point which means there must be a few companies that have shares owned by some subsidiaries of Saudi Aramco.
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by haltist 3y ago
They're doing it for money.
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by haltist 3y ago
I once imagined a dystopian hellscape where people were used as spare computers during their sleep to solve protein folding. Glad to see I wasn't too far off the mark. Anyway, add this to the techno-optimist bucket of billion dollar id
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by haltist 3y ago
Saudi Aramco makes more money than all the top tech companies combined. Mohammed Bin Salman should look into building an AGI.
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Key Components of Civilization(education.nationalgeographic.org)
2 points by haltist 3y ago|0 comments
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by haltist 3y ago
The real intellect is the sun.
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The traits that make human beings unique (2022)(bbc.com)
2 points by haltist 3y ago|0 comments
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by haltist 3y ago
It's actually much worse than not having language. Everything on HN is just a number, literally. It's all a series of electromagnetic pulses.
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by haltist 3y ago
My mistake. Tell your VC friends you know an ultra genius on an internet forum that can solve any problem with AI and $80B. The money is the important part because without the money I can't buy the required number of GPUs for my AGI ar
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by haltist 3y ago
Ironically you had to use language to call me stupid. I think you should think about that for a while.
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by haltist 3y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Not all of us can be ultra geniuses. I recently got a neurallink so I am way smarter than the typical swarm element because I have direct access to the internet in my brain. I didn't even type t
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by haltist 3y ago
Humans define intelligence to be something about manipulating symbols and abstractions, aka language. To understand why this is the case try to go about your day without speaking or writing. Bonus points if you perform this trial without ac
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by haltist 3y ago
The prophet of techno-optimism has spoken. Let the chips fall where they fall.
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AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles(ft.com)
1 points by haltist 3y ago|0 comments
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by haltist 3y ago
Which company in the a16z portfolio is working on this?
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by haltist 3y ago
Great article that expresses one of the main foundational beliefs of techno-optimism: everything and everyone are just numbers. Marc Andreesen should hire this guy.
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Surprising Truths about the Human Brain(scottbarrykaufman.com)
2 points by haltist 3y ago|0 comments
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by haltist 3y ago
There are no parasitics, it's a topological phenomenon. AGI will solve this problem though and I know how to do it for $80B. Tell your friends and maybe we can get VCs to finance AI for electrical engineering. Solving electrical engine
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by haltist 3y ago
I think EE folks should learn about sheaves. It would help make better sense of how electricity works. There is obviously topological elements they are ignoring.
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by haltist 3y ago
He is saying people need to be more techno-optimistic and stop paying attention to all this fear mongering hack jobs about social media algorithms. These algorithms deliver billions of dollars of value on a daily basis. Money and GDP are mo
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by haltist 3y ago
Yet another hack job about the dangers of algorithms. Do these journalists not understand that Meta is worth at least several billion dollars? Do they not get how much value Meta and all its products have delivered to people all over the wo
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by haltist 3y ago
Great example of immortal digital avatars. This is just a simple personal avatar but it is possible to make technological gods with the same techniques. All that's needed is scale and $80B.
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by haltist 3y ago
You gotta be more techno-optimistic. People are just arithmetic and an existence proof that algorithms can be intelligent. People are just math so it's obviously possible to engineer general artififial intelligence with just math and c
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by haltist 3y ago
The inevitable endpoint is the same, abundance of all resources (almost vacuously) thanks to AI/numbers/people. It is not absurd at all to believe society can be regulated and managed by a large computer with the right software. S
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by haltist 3y ago
I believe the universe is a computer executing an algorithm. In fact, the universe is AI. This is a common belief among many techno-optimist church goers. People themselves are basically just numbers, aka algorithms, so future AI/numbe
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by haltist 3y ago
It's just a matter of scale because when you add more floating point numbers magical things happen. The magic is called emergence, as in if you have a big enough computer then it can do anything if you prompt it the right way. As a tec
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by haltist 3y ago
I sense you are a techno-optimist.
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by haltist 3y ago
We will solve math with math and this project will succeed as foretold by prophets of techno-optimism like Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates. All we need is the right architecture, aka mathematical formula for giving all of math a s
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Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons(apnews.com)
22 points by haltist 3y ago|7 comments

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