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by hamburga 3y ago
They are doing computer science .
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by hamburga 4y ago
How much empathy do we exercise towards bacteria?
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by hamburga 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
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by hamburga 4y ago
I am trying really hard to understand the AI optimists' perspective, but I am shocked at how hard it is to find people responding to the substantive arguments made about AI existential risk. As far as I'm concerned, you sort of
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by hamburga 4y ago
Your reduction doesn’t cover the real risks of orthogonality, instrumental convergence, the zero margins for failure on the first try, intelligence explosions, and the impossibility of training for alignment.
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by hamburga 4y ago
That’s a very strawy straw man you’ve got there. AIs can do science, write code, impersonate people, and manipulate people. We’ve already got AlphaFold and ChatGPT and Copilot. People are moving full steam ahead with AI software developers
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by hamburga 4y ago
^ Thanks for that link. The doomerism is brilliant and clear and imaginative and absolutely worth reading and grappling with. I personally have no good response to how we deal with sufficiently advanced AI’s capacity to trick and manipulate
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by hamburga 4y ago
The simpletons around my neck of the woods call this “badvertising.”
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by hamburga 4y ago
Maybe unfair is the wrong word. I think most agree that scraping, even at a massive scale -- is in itself fair. But is it sustainable? Will LLMs drive interest/activity away from wikipedia.org? Will it put its own sources of high-qua
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by hamburga 4y ago
Can I please have the abundant Moroccan coast of 300,000 BC, with all the best real estate available for squatting?
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by hamburga 4y ago
This statement is at best grossly incomplete. There is plenty of research to suggest that hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than civilized people. E.g: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6 > There
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by hamburga 4y ago
Blocked by corporate firewall :(
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by hamburga 4y ago
Sure. I used to work in education policy, and this was the most reliable source I can recall of peer-reviewed studies on impacts of educational curricula/interventions. Plugged in elementary school games for you: https://ies
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by hamburga 4y ago
I have thought about this a lot and do not believe that I possess qualia. Don't know what it means.
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by hamburga 4y ago
Side question: how do we know if humans possess qualia? On the other hand, I think by definition we can be sure that a ML thought process won't ever be similar to a human thought process (ours is tied up with feelings connected to our
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by hamburga 4y ago
The long-term asset is the money lent to the customer that FTX expects will be repaid.
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by hamburga 4y ago
Interview with SBF starts here: https://youtu.be/0ik497cvvcE?t=956
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Ask HN: Who is funding Twitter clones / Blue Sky clients?
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Five Intellectual Horrors of the SBF/EA Complex(muldoon.cloud)
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by hamburga 4y ago
Not exactly that, but Nyxt allows you to navigate the web from your text editor: https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/nyxt/
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by hamburga 5y ago
If you're looking for some background on the big picture and strategic goals of Russia and NATO/US, I just watched this (from U Chicago political scientist John Meirsheimer) and found it to be extremely helpful: https:/&#x2F
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by hamburga 5y ago
Video lecture from Mearsheimer, for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
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by hamburga 5y ago
This conversation makes me wonder: has there been any halfway decent quantitative research on estimation methods? I've lived through what seems like the de facto agile standard: you take some piece of work, and estimate it out accordin
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by hamburga 5y ago
I've heard Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum creator) make the distinction between logical, architectural, and governance decentralization. Crypto projects tend to achieve the second, but not the first or third.[1] A blockchain tends to requir
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by hamburga 5y ago
That's what the Rich Hickey talk is all about!
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by hamburga 5y ago
More details here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/21/introduction-futarchy/
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by hamburga 5y ago
1. Government body says "We are considering adding full Github-flavored markdown support to Hacker News. Please establish a market on whether or not this will raise GDP by 1% over the next year." 2. People place their bets, either
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by hamburga 5y ago
> manipulating reality in order to win money in the market. Analogy: working extra hard to make your company succeed because it'll increase the value of your company stock. I think the idea is that these prediction markets are set u
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by hamburga 5y ago
From the transcript: Richard: They say Bin Laden is just going to put all his money in the market and then attack? Robin: Well, that was crazy because these were relativity thin markets, and they have a lot of money at stake. Basical
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by hamburga 5y ago
Yet we still use financial markets. Isn't the idea that we put up regulations to minimize this, just like we have restrictions on insider trading?

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