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by haltist 3y ago
I am not talking about sci-fi magic and unlimited capabilities. What I am saying is very concrete and obvious: profits are misaligned with long-term ecological viability. The evidence for this is very clear as well because the biosphere is
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As a matter of good policy they wouldn't publicly denounce anyone that was associated with YC.
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Nice essay but one of the main assumptions is false > Given some random goal or goals, if you let imaginary humans, even bad ones, with unlimited capabilities optimise the world accordingly, the result should be compatible with human exi
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I highly recommend a tour of your local electricity distribution substation, you will learn a lot about how the modern world operates. If you can visit one of the main power plants then that's even better.
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Insurance companies in America determine which patients are worth treating and which ones are unprofitable. In theory AI can enable better and cheaper treatments for everyone but that would mean insurance companies would have to start carin
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He has a very interesting definition of "god" as a coherent multi-agent but at that level of generality any multicellular organism also qualifies as a god. Does he clarify during the interview what is the difference between abstra
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Population growth is necessary for exponential consumption, i.e. the more people there are the greater the GDP of the country because all economic metrics measured by neoliberal economists are linearly correlated with population size. In fa
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Dynamo Theory (2010)(news.mit.edu)
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And it's probably going to keep getting worse as more synthetic chemicals enter the water cycle and accumulate in plants and animals.
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From molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body(cell.com)
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The weaponization of artificial intelligence (2019)(forbes.com)
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Will technology save us from climate change? (2021)(mahb.stanford.edu)
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Capital in the Anthropocene. A review by Ulv Hanssen (2022)(thebeacon.in)
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The neoliberal economic model requires exponential growth in consumption and these economists are the ones who help politicians draft their policies and budgets. Degrowth ( https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/econom
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https://www.coursera.org/articles/how-to-learn-artificial-in...
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Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agda(cs.bham.ac.uk)
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The status quo is working out so well for them that they are planning to expand capacity and make even more profits.
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Multinational AGI Consortium (Magic): A Proposal for International Coordination(arxiv.org)
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This would be a good application of AI, convert informal proofs into formal proofs for Lean or Coq.
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Delusions and Delusional Disorder(webmd.com)
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So why can't GPT do arithmetic? At what scale do you suppose it will manage to add numbers?
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Neural networks approximate the statistical distribution of whatever they are trained on. There is no reason to expect that any neural network will perform well on out of distribution tasks, e.g. multi-digit addition and multiplication.
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Which part do you think is incorrect?
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Talking to people is exactly what they're doing but the talking happens through intermediaries who spy on every interaction because they want to increase advertising revenue. The truth is that the advertising model is corrosive because
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Looks like they want to create a city purely with profits from fossil fuel sales.
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In a cameras-everywhere culture, science fiction becomes reality (2015)(latimes.com)
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I wasn't proving anything. The fact is there are articles explaining that remote operators can take over the controls in an emergency situation and that's exactly what you were denying. In any case, this discussion has run its cou
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You seemed very certain that I was completely incorrect. My point is that you should consider that you might not have all the details and if you haven't actually worked at an AV company then you do not know what capabilities are grante
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> In addition to allowing emergency crews to access and move vehicles, Cruise says that it is also providing its own remote "assistance advisors" the ability to conditionally route its Chevrolet Bolts. This means that if law en
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So you are 100% certain that remote operators can not take over the car?

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