johann28

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by johann28 11y ago
The same can happen with many things on the internet. Reddit, Youtube etc. It's not specific to facebook.
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by johann28 11y ago
> The most successful webpages are those where people are authors. Exactly. But not because they enjoy tweaking some website settings or enjoy the control over the layout of a page. No, the reason is connection with other people. They wr
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by johann28 11y ago
Most people don't want to reprogram stuff, they don't want to customize stuff. They want things to "just work", they don't want to choose which button controls the car windows and which knob controls the bass. This
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by johann28 11y ago
Ferrari guy approves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKp_jFxQJc
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by johann28 11y ago
This is true but irrelevant. It may well be that reading doesn't make you successful, but not-reading makes you not-successful. It's like playing the lottery doesn't make you win, but not-playing makes you not-win.
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by johann28 11y ago
The becoming part of a special in-crowd who will save the world is the similarity. Not the torture and crimes of course. I've seen and read quite a lot about Scientology, but you are right that they are nowhere near the same league. Sc
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by johann28 11y ago
His website didn't load for some reason so I just went with the Google hit's title. Maybe that was his old page.
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by johann28 11y ago
Grids are problematic because one can observe you at the boundaries, moving from one cell to another, so there are moments when you are very accurately localizable.
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by johann28 11y ago
> OpenAI's research director is Ilya Sutskever, one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group's other founding members are world-class research engineers and scien
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by johann28 11y ago
> Unless I am mistaken, this is a clear reference to Roko's basilisk. EXCEPT Yudkowsky didn't dream it up. Roko did. Correct, I was conflating things. But his unfriendly AI scenario is pretty bad too. My issue with it is that i
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by johann28 11y ago
I share your concerns. It also worries me that the brightest ML researchers choose to work at companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft instead of public universities. One reason is probably that academia and public grants are too slugg
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by johann28 11y ago
The brain doesn't "solve" tasks. That's cart before horse thinking. Our whole concept of "vision" only exists because eyes and visual cortices exist. I know it seems like a philosophical nitpick, but saying tha
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by johann28 11y ago
Somehow Japan seems to be an exception and they seem to like humanoid robots a lot more than Western countries. Even old people are comfortable with being helped by human-shaped robots from the depths of the uncanny valley.
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by johann28 11y ago
ML was there but at least when I started learning about these things around 8 years ago, the label "AI" was mostly used for symbolic stuff. Courses named "AI" taught from the Russell-Norvig book. Things like resolution,
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by johann28 11y ago
Sutskever, Schulman, Karpathy and Kingma are experts in machine learning. And yes, AI will definitely be used for all sorts of purposes including hostile means. Just like anything else, really. Financial manipulation, spying, intelligent mi
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by johann28 11y ago
You're over-glorifying humans. We're still just a savannah ape and our skills reflect that.
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by johann28 11y ago
There is no natural cutoff. If they become too creepy and make us emotionally attached, we'll change them so they don't freak us out in that way.
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by johann28 11y ago
It's not necessarily the answer to AI, but it works remarkably well. Is it Skynet or the Terminator yet? No. There are different ideas for what constitutes AI. Expert systems and knowledge-based reasoners? Pattern-recognizer black boxe
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by johann28 11y ago
It's certainly true that definitions are often arbitrary and aren't the "meat of the issue". For example if a field is too obsessed with how it labels things, then it's usually a bad sign. When in university, some c
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by johann28 11y ago
Enumeration like {X, Y, Z} is just one of the two main ways to define concepts. The other one is with a property, like {the Turing machines that halt on empty input}. In the first case a meaningful question could be "what is the thing
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by johann28 11y ago
I think the "tree falls" riddle is precisely about making one realize the exact thing you said, rather than an actual attempt at finding a yes/no answer to it. I think an interesting distinction can be made between concepts t
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by johann28 11y ago
> Anyone's welcome to still read him, for all we care, Of course, but I'd qualify this a bit. If you are in a life situation where you feel alone or in need of a community, you feel you're not included enough, or feel &quo
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by johann28 11y ago
Seems like I can't comment normally anymore due to downvotes or some other mechanism. So I quit the discussion now.
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by johann28 11y ago
In my time at LW I saw so many people becoming anxious, struggling with how to "escape themselves", how to transcend their biases, and meta-biases, knotting themselves into paradoxes with the elaborate hypothetical constructions,
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by johann28 11y ago
I also think that his obsession with the kinds of inverted reasoning, such as "anti-inductive markets" is serving an interest of his: by planting this meme in your head, you'll subconsciously apply it out of context, when his
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by johann28 11y ago
If climate science was advocated by a single person without any formal qualification in climatology, physics, hydrology, Earth Science etc. it would be similar. But Climate science is a lot less about an Apocalypse. Mainstream climate scien
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by johann28 11y ago
They like to emphasize and masturbate to that one paragraph in the Russel-Norvig AI textbook mentioning the concept of "Friendly AI" along with a citation to a Yudkowsky writing. Beyond that single case, I don't know any publ
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by johann28 11y ago
This is a very important point. His cult can wreck your thinking. I think it should only be read by people with enough contextual information to call his bullshit. He definitely is a smart guy in a way, and you can't easily attack hi