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by iroh2727 4y ago
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A Social Theory of Intelligence (that Includes the Seemingly Unsocial Octopus)(nathanieltravis.com)
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Octopus Intelligence and the Puzzle of Sociality(nathanieltravis.com)
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Mmm I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I definitely believe in giving users the ability to customize and control the software they use. But on the other hand, I feel like a search engine, in order to be good, should be opini
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Anything that's not connected to the internet.
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Why is the box black? Because it’s more of a tangled mess. Many classical methods are absolutely appreciably less tangled. Now, that doesn’t mean that the fact that a method is classical makes it by default untangled or a good approach. I m
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by iroh2727 4y ago
And if by AI we mean deep learning, it’s very entangled and non-modular code. In other words, what would be considered unmaintainable or unscalable code according to the basic principles of software engineering. Not to mention that it is of
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Just curious, what concretely is “the way AI can potentially bring benefits to humanity”?
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by iroh2727 4y ago
This is a lot of speculation on what exactly Putin's calculations were. Of course war is bad for Russia in the short-term but given NATO encroachment, you can't just let yourself be slowly encroached on forever. I think your point
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Definitely agree with the summary of your views. I think your point on the motivation of eugenics coming from the desire to build a welfare state is very interesting. (I need to think more about the motivation for people that want to build
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by iroh2727 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that there are times that call for defending your in-group against an out-group. It could be fighting for scarce resources or when your lives are on the line. But do you also agree that there are times where it is out
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Ok point taken. But above you were mentioning examples of genocide…. I guess we could decompose something like racism (which I guess extends to other ways of categorizing in-group vs out-group) as (1) natural tendencies to group and make ju
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Yeah I agree that no one acts in a knowingly malicious way. But considering for example racists or eugenicists, it's important to note that no one is born a racist or eugenicist. Those mentalities are always either (1) something other
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by iroh2727 4y ago
I agree with your point about scientific breakthroughs coming via pure curiosity. I’m just saying that we can’t forget the human agency at play here. We didn’t have to build the atom bomb, and it wasn’t exactly simple to turn insights from
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by iroh2727 4y ago
This "pulling balls from an urn" analogy at the beginning is very misguided. Where is the agency in this analogy? If you build tools with the intention of them directly being useful to people, they're likely to be useful. If
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The Death of Mystery Is an Illusion(nathanieltravis.com)
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The Death of Mystery Is an Illusion(nathanieltravis.com)
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Yeah honestly I only remember Avatar the movie because of the SNL Papyrus skit mentioned in this article lol. Possibly superior to the movie. But who knows, maybe Avatar 2 with its new font will be better... I mean, I do like the ideas and
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Yeah related to this: another interpretation of this paper's findings could be that what's important is not listening per se, merely putting the other person's interests above your own. For example, if I hear and remember eve
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by iroh2727 4y ago
Spotify (brilliant!), unix, Google's Flume, DynamoDB, EC2, the Lithium ereader app on android (simplicity is good!), Wikipedia, Google Search (or perhaps Old Google Search), emacs, vscode
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by iroh2727 5y ago
If I just take a purely observational stance with no judgment, what jumps out to me as salient from what you just said is not your loneliness (many people are lonely). It's your attitude towards the purpose of socializing. At least in
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What Drives Innovation in Artificial Intelligence?(nathanieltravis.com)
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What drives innovation in artificial intelligence?(nathanieltravis.com)
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by iroh2727 5y ago
And other important questions, such as: (1) does a meaningful form of AGI already exist? (2) is the field of ML a bubble and will there be another AI winter? (3) how are breakthroughs in the field of ML made?
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Is Evolution Needed for AGI?(nathanieltravis.com)
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On the Origin of Species (of Machine Learning Models)(nathanieltravis.com)
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by iroh2727 5y ago
Yep, this is very similar to my take as well. Also, now that I think of it, although we often talk about how much more data-efficient humans are compared to ML models, we could say that we're actually much more data-inefficient than mo
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by iroh2727 5y ago
If you make it to the psychology section, that's where the explanatory power becomes apparent (or at least is speculated on). Though, yes, it is a lot of text to get there (I'm relieved that some people made it that far). If you d
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by iroh2727 5y ago
Thanks for quoting this part of the paper. It's probably the most interesting part. To add to what you said, though, I don't think of these phenomena in terms of random mutations. In other words, I don't think of these people
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by iroh2727 5y ago
Correct. I'm very familiar with RL, but I didn't see how referring to RL literature fit in to my particular argument (and I'm not intimately familiar with that literature). That said, I'd suspect there are fruitful conne

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