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by hamburga 2y ago
Every action should be assumed to be as short-sighted as the American President’s attention span. The people who articulated a more complex and nuanced strategy didn’t get any traction. We’re left with those who want chaos, power grabs, and
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by hamburga 2y ago
Parent here: it takes a lot of discussion, but it's a great time to talk about the reality of evil and villains. My kids are on the good side, or at least I like to think so ...
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by hamburga 2y ago
> After catching up on some sleep, Armstrong took advantage of his new private bath, got dressed, and went out for a long walk, stunned by the beautiful African American neighborhood he found himself in. “The reason why I was so amazed o
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by hamburga 2y ago
WTF. Do they usually give a reason for flagging?
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by hamburga 2y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by hamburga 2y ago
Are you kidding? Hegseth will roll out the red carpet.
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by hamburga 2y ago
Wrong; impoundment is illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_fu...
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by hamburga 2y ago
See my profile, thanks!
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by hamburga 2y ago
Blue Origin ( https://www.blueorigin.com ) | Software Engineer/Manager (multiple levels) | Seattle/Huntsville/Space Coast | Full Time/Internships Blue Origin develops reusable rockets and engines (including the
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by hamburga 2y ago
If you start going around talking about computer systems as literally alive (as I do, from time to time), I think you’ll at least find that other people find this perspective interesting (mostly disbelief/heresy, as if you told someb
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AI Is Scientifically Alive(muldoon.cloud)
2 points by hamburga 2y ago|2 comments
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by hamburga 2y ago
I actually found artificial life. Crocs. They keep on reproducing effectively and walking around (symbiotically with humans), with some mutation though the polysexual recombination process of Product Manager design reviews.
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by hamburga 2y ago
I’ve been looking at it more from an ecological angle. “We have tied all of the smooth functioning of society to producing new technology” — this implies it was a deliberate decision. Whereas in reality, there’s a selection effect where lea
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by hamburga 2y ago
I’m not sure if people realize what a weird test this is. They’re these simple visual puzzles that people can usually solve at a glance, but for the LLMs, they’re converted into a json format, and then the LLMs have to reconstruct the 2D v
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by hamburga 2y ago
Do trading bots count?
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by hamburga 2y ago
Agreed. I think what really makes them alien is everything else about them besides intelligence. Namely, no emotional/physiological grounding in empathy, shame, pride, and love (on the positive side) or hatred (negative side).
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by hamburga 2y ago
Yeah, good question. I think it depends on our politics. If we’re in a techno-capital-oligarchy, people are going to have a hard time making fresh water a priority when the robots would prefer to build nuclear power everywhere and use it to
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by hamburga 2y ago
I understand your point, and your totally valid concern about nihilism, but I disagree. Nihilism is "nothing really matters, science can't define good or bad, so who cares?" Whereas my view is, "Being good is the most im
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by hamburga 2y ago
Yeah. The whole notion that "AI will be good" is itself a category error, as if this could even be measured definitively. https://x.com/mickeymuldoon/status/1859825564649128259
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by hamburga 2y ago
Claude agrees with you! https://x.com/mickeymuldoon/status/1868319536187129895
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by hamburga 2y ago
I agree with you, of course, that we should test our assumptions empirically as a general point. However, there isn't time to test out every single assumption we could generally have. Therefore, the more worthwhile experiments are ones
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by hamburga 2y ago
I was taught in biology that a good scientific experiment is one in which you learn something whether or not the null hypothesis is confirmed. I am equating learning to surprise, though you could disagree with semantics.
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by hamburga 2y ago
Agree with you -- it's valuable to validate assumptions if there is some controversy about those assumption. On the other hand, this work isn't even framed as a generalizable assumption that needed to be validated. It seems to me
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by hamburga 2y ago
I mean -- if nobody's surprised, then nobody has learned anything, and then what was the point of doing all this work? Also -- if there's no surprise, then it's not science, right? This is why I describe this as something mor
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by hamburga 2y ago
Can somebody help me understand why we should be surprised in the least by any of these findings? Or is this just one tangible example of "robot ethnography" where we're describing expected behavior in different forms. I&#x27
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by hamburga 2y ago
To be fair, “skibidi” is considered part of the brain rot vocabulary, according my tween kids.
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What Are Software Development Best Practices, Really?(muldoon.cloud)
3 points by hamburga 2y ago|0 comments
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by hamburga 2y ago
Government alone could be huge, with this recent nonsense about the military funding a “Manhattan project for AI” and the recently announced Pentagon contracts.
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by hamburga 2y ago
As a Chicagoan, I enjoy Malort regularly, and I like to chase it with light beer. It makes the beer taste amazingly sweet.
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by hamburga 2y ago
I think there's a ton to be tapped based on the current state of the art. As a developer, I'm making much more progress using the SOTA (Claude 3.5) as a Socratic interrogator. I'm brainstorming a project, give it my current t

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