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by jibal 8mo ago
A superintelligence isn't a genie or magic wand ... it can't make a computation that cannot be completed in a feasible amount of time run any faster. This is precisely what makes systems chaotic--they are fully deterministic but n
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by jibal 8mo ago
Not really.
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by jibal 8mo ago
The fact that inserting runtime checks and doing garbage collecting slows things down is not a bug, not something that needs to be fixed. As for "I think it would be move productive if you ...", that's just rude. I wasn'
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by jibal 9mo ago
He's not posting under an alt--that's an absurd slander.
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by jibal 9mo ago
It's just a personal blog entry with a cutesy title drawn from a cutesy story, not "AI buzzwords".
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by jibal 9mo ago
D has named regular arguments and optional regular arguments. It has optional template arguments but not named template arguments.
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by jibal 9mo ago
up to 5x is not what most people mean by small.
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by jibal 9mo ago
No, defer is always optional, which makes it highly error prone. There's errdefer, which only defers if there was an error, but presumably you meant what you wrote, and not that. BTW, D was the first language to have defer, invented by
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by jibal 9mo ago
Everyone dies. And if your lifespan is 1400 years, you won't live for nearly 1400 years. OTOH, people with a 1400 year life expectancy are likely to be extremely risk averse in re anything that could conceivably threaten their lives ..
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by jibal 9mo ago
The usual (e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/j4xo8e/the_univ... ) bunch of logical fallacies and unexamined assumptions from Bostrom. Good philosophers focus on asking piercing questions,
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by jibal 9mo ago
Walter's a regular on HN. > This very post is probably his too, under an alt :) The probability of that is virtually zero. Walter is a principled person, has better things to do, and his writing style is vastly different from the OP
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by jibal 9mo ago
https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html > Note: ImportC and BetterC are very different. ImportC is an actual C compiler. BetterC is a subset of D that relies onl
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by jibal 9mo ago
I like and use D but Nim has better metaprogramming capabilities (but D's templates are top-notch except for the error message cascades). (And Zig's metaprogramming is severely hobbled by Andrew's hatred of macros, mixins, an
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by jibal 9mo ago
You should familiarize yourself with these: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jibal 9mo ago
None of that is remotely true.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Slavery used to be seen as a good thing by those who benefited from it (or thought they did).
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by jibal 9mo ago
People have a choice between being rational and optimizing the alignment between the outcome and their preferences, or being irrational and doing something else, like not voting, spoiling their ballot, voting for a probabilistically infeasi
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by jibal 9mo ago
> We really need a rule in politics We really need a rule against proposing unenforceable rules.
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by jibal 9mo ago
No one ever learns from Malthus. One of the many errors here is assuming that the prediction target lies on the curve. But there's no guarantee (to say the least) that the sorts of improvements that we've seen lead to AGI, ASI, &q
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by jibal 9mo ago
Because it's not installed by default.
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by jibal 9mo ago
The distinction is the point and the subject matter of the article.
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by jibal 9mo ago
That seemed a lot more plausible to the rational people who are careful readers than all the speculative baseless accusations.
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by jibal 9mo ago
I'm a highly literate reader and writer of technical topics, and there are a lot of bad technical writers who think they aren't. Except perhaps for the title, which is way too narrow, the article is excellent writing about a tech
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by jibal 9mo ago
The article is smooth reading and technically excellent.
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by jibal 9mo ago
There's a huge amount of valuable content in the article. People saying silly nonsense like '10k words for "migrating code and data is a headache"' missed out on all of it--which may well be fine for them because no
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by jibal 9mo ago
Something can be humorous without being nonsense, such as this RFC.
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by jibal 9mo ago
I've seen it a couple of times (it's on YouTube, IIRC) and it was well done but I much preferred the book.
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by jibal 9mo ago
The Lathe of Heaven was the first I read and had a big impression on me. Much later, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas did.
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by jibal 9mo ago
Lovely.
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by jibal 9mo ago
April 1 , 2001

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