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by jprete 3y ago
People who want AI to write for them don’t understand this process.
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by jprete 3y ago
If you support artificial life forms from AGI as “the next evolutionary step of humanity” then what is the difference between that, and being OK with human extinction generally? To put it another way, why exactly do you regard AGIs as being
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by jprete 3y ago
I think the OP is really just frustrated with the idea that CAD will use PDF and, in that application, 0.03% deviation can be too much.
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by jprete 3y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think for World War I the military strategy questions - and in particular the misconceptions - were very relevant to the decision to go to war. My understanding is that the various combatant powers believed tha
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by jprete 3y ago
The title given here is highly misleading, and doesn't appear on the linked page either. The content is probably interesting, but it's not at all what I was looking for. The correct title is probably "Code and Other Laws of C
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by jprete 3y ago
This doesn’t answer my question, which was about road miles per person, not private car ownership.
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by jprete 3y ago
Human drivers could easily do that today, which is why I’m saying that robot buses are not in any way a prerequisite for that system.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think you’re imagining a system with no real-world engineering difficulties, and then presuming everyone else is also imagining it.
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by jprete 3y ago
It is not the same with human drivers, because the GP’s hypothesized system can’t be done at all with human drivers. The 45-MPH human roadway is going to be less crowded because people can’t coordinate their exact speed with the car in fron
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by jprete 3y ago
I think car and motorcycle museums in particular live on the patronage of people who grew up when cars were symbols of independence and status, instead of a commodity. So the museums have nostalgic power for the customers, and that’s why th
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by jprete 3y ago
Your point is well-taken.
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by jprete 3y ago
Those are the kinds of optimizations that work very well in theory and are an absolute nightmare in practice. You're talking about a system where one kid running into the road could cause a chain collision of dozens of cars that were c
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by jprete 3y ago
> They’re already doing that. They don’t want to pay for the parking on the robotaxis, or move them further away when not in use, so they just drive in circles taking up space and making traffic worse without even carrying anyone. I real
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by jprete 3y ago
The prerequisite technology for an automated bus system is not the ability to take the driver out of the bus. The prerequisite is the ability to credibly signal to all the potential passengers what buses are going where they want to go, whe
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by jprete 3y ago
Do you think that people would be on the road _less_ if everyone were using taxis instead of personal cars? If so, why? What's the actual reason why robotaxis reduce the demand, or consumption, of road miles?
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by jprete 3y ago
No, it actually won't. There is nothing that a driver would do that an automated taxi would not, because both the driver and the automated taxi are optimizing for their ability to give as many rides as possible for as much money as pos
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by jprete 3y ago
I think the paper is purely political. Alcohol causes 140k deaths per year, and if there were any scientific goal here they would have included alcohol before including firearms.
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by jprete 3y ago
True, but history books have an inherent subjective distance. It’s always “person X writing about person Y”. I expect AI historical-person simulacra to be inherently more convincing than can ever be justified.
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by jprete 3y ago
Nonograms are not bad but I wouldn’t consider them either crosswords or puzzles. There’s a cap on how much skill is needed to solve one (of a reasonable size) based on the need to make a solvable piece of art. (Nonograms in general - withou
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by jprete 3y ago
Ethan Mollick is maybe the most biased - almost evangelical - GenAI commentator I’ve found, so it’s very hard to take a paper from him at face value. I don’t want to only throw ad hominems around, so I’ll also say that “consultants” as a su
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by jprete 3y ago
I had to look up both terms. Granger causality seems like an intuitive concept and I am thinking the unique contribution of Granger is making it computationally rigorous. Wikipedia, at least, doesn't give a rigorous definition of downw
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by jprete 3y ago
Not that I'm a lawyer, but this rule strikes me has having a lot of potential. If a company declares false beneficiaries, it may be hard to find the true beneficiary, but I would think it's a lot easier to find and prosecute every
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by jprete 3y ago
The headline is complete nonsense. The article cites a distance of 50 light-years at best. The Milky Way is 1000 LY thick and about 87400 LY across. The closest star is, as I recall, about four LY away.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think for Sudoku there are a lot fewer legal board configs than there are arrangements of the numbers. There’s probably a way to store the solved state as a single number and then just use 27 bits to specify which numbers are revealed. I
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by jprete 3y ago
I think fundamental to Willingham's action, and his intent, is that there now is no "official" Fables comic series. There's DC's version of Fables, but now anyone can make one with equal legitimacy. If people treat
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by jprete 3y ago
He’s just saying the quiet part out loud.
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by jprete 3y ago
What does hallucination have to do with alignment?
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by jprete 3y ago
Not directly related to the car situation, but the last time I bought a TV my first question was whether non-smart TVs exist. They do, but they're not worth the effort and my best option was to not connect the TV to the network. It sou
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by jprete 3y ago
I think the GP's question is more rhetorical, or, to put it as a non-rhetorical question: "Why is it acceptable on any level for my car to become a spyware device on par with Facebook, when I paid an enormous sum to be its owner a
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by jprete 3y ago
I was happy to go back to the office because working at home is bad for my ability to concentrate, and I also need the personal contact with others. But my particular desk location has not given me noise problems or anything. I also intenti

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