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by jprete 3y ago
I personally have been looking for "explain it like I'm a CS PhD with lots of experience and the ability to look stuff up". But I suspect your summary would be pretty handy as well.
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by jprete 3y ago
Yes, and dropping the wrong test tube onto a subway platform can be an act of biological terrorism. Small actions can have enormous consequences.
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by jprete 3y ago
He "create[d] giant sheep hybrids to sell the species to hunting facilities", including "import[ing] parts of Marco Polo argali sheep, which is the largest sheep species in the world, from Kyrgyzstan into the U.S. without dec
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by jprete 3y ago
The article isn't particularly convincing given that they asked two "AI enthusiasts" and Ethan Mollick who, last I checked, was pushing the hype train as hard as possible. I don't claim Devin is bad, but these are not so
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by jprete 3y ago
True, I hadn't thought of that.
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by jprete 3y ago
I had very similar thoughts but I think one can do much better, even. Each move only needs four bits to identify the piece because each side only has 16 pieces at maximum. The game replayer would need to keep track of each pawn's start
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by jprete 3y ago
Using the probability distribution of moves at any given position, so that more likely moves take less space, will result in saving space on average. This is the same as Huffman coding, just applied to a different domain. For that matter, i
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by jprete 3y ago
Noting is very useful as long as you remember not to do it all the time.
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by jprete 3y ago
I reloaded until I was able to tap twice fast enough to reach the profile page, then "delete"/"deactivate" the account.
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by jprete 3y ago
I clicked through and skimmed for "losing my sanity". I didn't find anything - total clickbait headline - but it was interesting to note the utter lack of reasonable ACLing in the university's campus food-ordering system
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by jprete 3y ago
I don't think that's a fair interpretation of the situation at all.
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by jprete 3y ago
I've done this myself implicitly when trying to break down kitchen-sink classes. Often they were never really one class to begin with, so a lot of the contents can be separated into two or more new classes such that there are only a sm
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by jprete 3y ago
I know this might be perceived as an obvious question, but what exactly did you switch from, and to?
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by jprete 3y ago
Single-player AIs are fine-tuned by the developers for fun instead of frustration. I think the GP is talking about undetectable online cheating.
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by jprete 3y ago
I don't want to rely on this theory, exactly, but it's a very plausible outcome, and exactly the kind of homeostatic process that I would expect to exist.
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by jprete 3y ago
I am sympathetic to the point. I was somewhat concerned about nuclear war with Russia's Ukraine invasion, and I've become more concerned about climate change over time. I'm hoping either solar continues to expand - woot! - or
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by jprete 3y ago
Your statement augments my point. All human beings should be concerned about their place in a system that doesn't need them, to the extent it's constructive to think about.
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by jprete 3y ago
While you sound reasonable, I can't tell the difference between an honest opinion and a sales pitch here.
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by jprete 3y ago
The whole point of AGI is to be able to do everything a human can do, so this argument doesn't apply in the same way it did for mechanical automation.
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by jprete 3y ago
Thanks for the correction. I wasn't trying to imply an ordering, but I can easily see how my text indicated one.
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by jprete 3y ago
I agree with you! I have some visibility into this space through the lens of "high-end" boardgaming (big boxes, frequently lots of minis, very high production value, and usually high time commitment to learn and play). Crowdfundin
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by jprete 3y ago
I think there genuinely isn't a correlation here. Big Internet tech has been close to saturation for a long time, we've been in a zero-interest-rate environment for a long time, and a lot of companies grossly overhired during COVI
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by jprete 3y ago
You're assuming people have coherent beliefs, but they don't. It's possible to intellectually believe AI has high extinction risk and emotionally be convinced to work on it anyway, without reconciling the two.
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by jprete 3y ago
Anything that reproduces with survivable mutations, and consumes resources, is immediately subject to evolutionary pressure. Neither of those require biology.
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by jprete 3y ago
How are you planning to prevent VCs and startups from giving the AI as many robots as it wants?
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by jprete 3y ago
No. It lacks the capability to act independently of human requests.
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by jprete 3y ago
That doesn't help non-EU users, though.
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by jprete 3y ago
The US doesn't just need laws about disclosure of these practices. It needs to mandate that this kind of corporate surveillance must be a clearly labeled opt-in and cannot be mandated by any contract.
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by jprete 3y ago
No, because AI training is not human learning.
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by jprete 3y ago
Games are more fun than hobby programming because (usually) the feedback loop is very quick, they're designed to guarantee that success is possible, and you can tell why you failed at something. For hobby programming I think you need t

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