houzertuch

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by houzertuch 7y ago
Denying your child access to an internet connected computer in 2019 would put your child in a very disadvantaged position in life. It has become necessary to be fluent in computer operating system GUIs and the ways of the internet. For scho
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by houzertuch 7y ago
Is this out of UC Davis? There was a fellow working on something like this over there a few years ago
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by houzertuch 7y ago
Child porn is a string of ones and zeros. So are death threats and nuclear weapon schematics.
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by houzertuch 7y ago
Like I have said countless times, it’s easy compared to what we get in return. It’s easy to understand in principle. It doesn’t require sophisticated mathematics. So you think that we should let all countries have whatever weapons they want
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by houzertuch 7y ago
Industrial revolution: has nothing to do with this. Some forms of human labor were automated. The set of all human abilities was not threatened. AGI is fundamentally different because AGI will automate everything a human can do. Increasin
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by houzertuch 7y ago
And the people at cern often publish literature that warns of the possibility of black holes? and advocates particle acceleration to be done by people with good intentions so that the black holes are kept at bay? Your comment is so full of
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by houzertuch 7y ago
The idea that technology is always a net zero, cutting equally in both good and bad directions, is fuzzy thinking. It is intuitively satisfying but it is not true. Humans are a technology. When there is other technology that does intelligen
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by houzertuch 7y ago
Prove me wrong if it is so obvious. As the people at OpenAI have rightly said, AGI is a compute-gated problem. It is a problem that can only be solved with very, very large amounts of compute. The world has some total amount of computing po
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by houzertuch 7y ago
I don’t understand how there can be no comments regarding the fatal flaw of AGI which is that it will completely ruin the economics of the world. The world is the way it is now because humans are the only source of intelligent signal proces
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by houzertuch 7y ago
AGI will the the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity. Even if you can’t see that, you can see that it has the potential to be very bad. I know this because OpenAI literature always stresses that AGI has to be guided and developed
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by houzertuch 7y ago
It’s crazy how many people advocate for rent caps when all it will do is make the housing shortage worse. And making it harder to evict tenants will also make it worse. If you want housing, sign a year lease and dont be a horrible tenant.