jhanschoo

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by jhanschoo 11d ago
You don't need the onerous assumption that the universe is algorithmically generated, just that all ways to reason about and communicate intelligently for the purpose of making decisions is digital.
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by jhanschoo 19d ago
As a young adult that data analysis blog post seemed like cool shit, and today I'm horrified because it seemed like cool shit. They make for "cute" PR soundbites, and back then the data analysts likely didn't know better
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by jhanschoo 21d ago
> Most of climate change happens not because some decrepit old man lives on his yacht but poor people in third world countries get their first air conditioners. You're confusing acceleration with velocity. Poor people are far from t
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by jhanschoo 24d ago
It's also the case that different people have different mouths and habits and there is no one-size-fits-all solution, and the best option might be to try a variety of options and see what sticks for you.
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by jhanschoo 26d ago
> I wasn’t sure how I felt about these local moratoriums or about the tech-optimist gung-ho “let’s build” attitude. Both seemed kind of wrong to me. I think we need to be very deliberate—we need to have a robust public debate and underst
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by jhanschoo 26d ago
Reminds me how (iirc) Machiavelli observed that instability and dysfunction from class conflict and internal factionalism in Italian city-states often led to the people welcoming external authoritarian rule that brought stability.
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by jhanschoo 26d ago
On the topic of climate change, off the top of my head, these countries don't have a per capita carbon footprint as large as the US, and the significant ones are I suppose India and China, and China seems open to dialogue on the topic,
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by jhanschoo 1mo ago
They can, surely, but I presume that in some cases there's a lack of preexisting regulation on land use and on others politicians are not properly representing the interests of their constituency.
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by jhanschoo 1mo ago
> The reason is because of the “universal geometry of embeddings”, i.e all human languages have the same underlying pattern structure, so any model that is very good in any language is good in all languages. I think this claim is accepta
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by jhanschoo 1mo ago
You are a different anti-LLM person than the article's author. You aren't one of the "many" anti-LLM folks that they are referring to, whereas the author is one of them. Your reasons are quite distinct from the several o
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by jhanschoo 1mo ago
When you say "The neural network approach"... you are effectively refining the problem space into something smaller based on the data that you are training the NN on. (Note: I'm speaking vaguley, on the same vague level as yo
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by jhanschoo 1mo ago
> The theory is not wrong, but in practice it's often irrelevant. Sure, any algorithm you can come up with will blow up on some inputs. But you might get a fast solution on 99.9% of inputs. A lot of simulation we only have exponenti
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
I'm sorry, I cannot continue this conversation. To do so we need an intense back-and-forth that this format is too asynchronous to provide. Either that, or I will need to spend hours trying to anticipate your responses and address them
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
Let me ask you this: 1. what makes you confident that the rules of particle physics alone can lead to a perfect simulation of macroscopic phenomena? (as you call it "emergent behavior") 2. what makes you confident that our univers
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
You don't have enough information to simulate and predict what goes on in an arbitrary 10 cubic cm part of your tissues for an arbitrary purpose (things are different if you had sensing instruments and are satisfied measuring something
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
I agree that the current culture of disclosure is unstable. Nevertheless, I think that there will still eventually be a mechanism to verify the degree and manner to which AI was involved in the production of art, though perhaps with very di
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
(Note: I'm sorry, I'm now realizing that my glosses were really bad, they provide a common basic meaning but that isn't always the sense that they have in the text, think "to bear arms" and "to bear a burden&qu
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
"man of many turnings", is a more literal translation of polytropon than Lattimore and Fagles, and and in fact the whole line is better analysed as an original, literal translation from common dictionary glosses than a "crapp
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
Traditionally, a mathematician would be implicitly responsible for all that (if they were to publish Lean code) and also the intellectual work that led to the artifact of the mathematical paper (and code, if part of the contribution). This
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
> Tesla's entire fleet runs on raw cameras. Including the driverless Robotaxi vehicles - which are basically a 1:1 match to how Waymo operates. I can't evaluate how true or sensationalist this story is, but this bearish article
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
> it is unclear whether today's sensor platform is sufficient for parity.
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
I don't know how you can read my comment, not respond to my comment saying that today's self-driving cars use LIDAR, and continue to reiterate your point. I don't think I was clear and explicit, it being tedious to write, and
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
I'm not talking about the state of today's self-driving cars, I'm talking about how we got to here. Also don't forget the overarching claim regarding lack of sensor and actuator fidelity in the parent comment; self-drivi
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
You can point to the bitter lesson to support your claim, but on the other hand I can point to the massive investment in capital and time to get self-driving cars viable to support my more bearish view.
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
While that is true, just having LLMs "think about it" may discover unintended behavior and exploits, and you can choose to what extent you want to verify that the claims are correct.
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
Admittedly I'm quite removed from the Bay Area rationalists, but I get the perception that unlike with many other ideological communities, you could always lay out your countervailing opinion with evidence. You could disagree on many t
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by jhanschoo 2mo ago
Folding clothes is already a compromise between leaving them unfolded and hanging them
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by jhanschoo 3mo ago
Religious traditions tend to hold that certain claims or parts of their canon are infallible, whereas academic philosophy is more welcoming of the critical and argumentative process.
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by jhanschoo 3mo ago
For the skimmer/TL;DR'er, note that this article is by an advocacy group presenting their analysis of a situation, and then advocating and taking action on it: "Next Steps: Commission must repeal EU-US deal. noyb ..." It
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by jhanschoo 3mo ago
I find this a hilarious reversal of what you typically see in journalism; here the headline and the "key takeaways" are very neutral language and the article itself is dramatic

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