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by jengleton 4y ago
Great to see this posted here! DuckDB is an integral part of an in-browser data analytics tool that I've been working on. It compiles to WASM and runs in a web worker. Queries against WASM DuckDB regularly run 10x faster than the origi
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by jengleton 6y ago
You might not want to pop the emergency hatch when you're surrounded by vacuum.
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by jengleton 6y ago
Also interesting to note that a good portion of people lack an internal monologue. This interview made the rounds a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY
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by jengleton 6y ago
Hold up, you can't just throw out a claim like "many animals are sentient" as if it's a statement of fact. You might be right, but there's a reason that "the hard problem of consciousness" is hard. We don&
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by jengleton 6y ago
The illiteracy rate in the US is really quite incredible, with the federal government reporting something like 20% of the population to be "low literacy" https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp
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by jengleton 6y ago
If I were to paraphrase the comparison, it might be something like: "An AI is some constructed entity which, starting with a goal, uses its intelligence to make changes to the world in order to bring that goal to fruition. One of the t
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by jengleton 6y ago
In the video linked above, Robert Miles models organizational idea-generation as something like "everyone thinks of their best idea, and then we just pick the best from that set". That's definitely a simplification. I do thin
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by jengleton 6y ago
Sure! I don't see any reason why it would be impossible either, but the (hypothetical) problems are very interesting. Starting with the most basic problem of all: how do we even specify what we want the AI to do? The whole field of AI
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by jengleton 6y ago
Yeah, I agree. My original post was bringing up what I thought was an interesting comparison between hypothetical software AI and the corporations-as-AI metaphor presented in the talk. Corporations _are_ acting as misaligned optimizers. Sol
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by jengleton 6y ago
So I think the question is: when a group of people work together on something, can they generate ideas which are better than the best idea of any member of the group? If so, how much better? How does the effect scale as the size of the grou
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by jengleton 6y ago
That's fair. I interpreted the comparison as being between "AI implemented as a property of human organizations" and "AI implemented as a powerful search algorithm". While corporations can certainly be dangerous, th
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by jengleton 6y ago
Robert Miles has an interesting response to the claim that corporations are AIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw To paraphrase: yes, corporations function as agents, but their maximum performance is limited by t