khafra

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by khafra 5mo ago
What about your rouladen? Articulated steel blinds block quite a lot of light, don't they?
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by khafra 5mo ago
Should be able to use the local LLM to generate a short "They Live" style phrase based on the content of the ad.
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by khafra 5mo ago
The other scary part is when they have a fantastic negotiating position; because all of commerce depends on their continuing to work, and they can easily coordinate with each other because they're mostly copied from the same few templa
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by khafra 5mo ago
A wise man once noted that the word "amusement" has the same structure as "deforestation." (@stevenkaas on twitter).
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by khafra 6mo ago
"Did the vehicle just crash" has a short feedback loop, very amenable to RL. "Did this product strategy tank our earnings/reputation/compliance/etc" can have a much longer, harder to RL feedback loop. But
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by khafra 6mo ago
One bad possibility is that AI & robotics advance to the point where they can do every job better and more cheaply than humans; and then humans are no longer employable and all die if they have insufficient capital to survive the period
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by khafra 6mo ago
> what does Anthropic do to prevent malicious use of its software by its own government? Anthropic has ameliorated that danger by being designated a supply-chain risk by the DoW, preventing the USG from using it.
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by khafra 7mo ago
George Lucas vindicated once again. Of course, once loitering, intelligent munitions make it too dangerous to be an economically valuable human outside of a bunker, we'll need robots running the robot factories, then we get Philip K. D
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by khafra 7mo ago
xkcd 1053, my friend.
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by khafra 7mo ago
Nice! Last time I had a custom temporary tattoo made, I had to copy and paste from Attention is All You Need; this provides a much cleaner and more varied source.
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by khafra 7mo ago
Oh, for sure, the capital "owners" get ganked either simultaneously with the rest of us, or shortly after. But that's not a factor in their decisions; because if they didn't build it, China would; and there's obvio
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by khafra 7mo ago
Ok, but when the looms can autonomously analyze the market, design the products, organize purchasing and sales channel, run production, and deliver the products, the workers will not be squeezed. We will be discarded.
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by khafra 7mo ago
We're all going to have to use service accounts created on Windows Server 2003 or RHEL 4, otherwise they won't be old enough and will require manual login from an of-age administrator
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by khafra 7mo ago
We're absolutely not there yet, algorithmically or with compute. Algorithms keep getting better, though, despite the bitter lesson; and data centers keep getting bigger. If you showed a conversation between Terry Tao or Steve Yegge and
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by khafra 7mo ago
I think it's much more likely that the AI turns out not to be as compliant as the capital owners expect, and they die too. However, that's not useful in predicting what capital owners will do, because they follow their local incen
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by khafra 7mo ago
We'd all be a lot safer--even the capital owners--if today's robotics and multimodal intelligence were near the ceiling of what's possible, or even near the bend in the logistic curve where things slow down a lot. I haven&#x2
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by khafra 7mo ago
What's your plan for beating the autonomous drone swarms without capital?
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by khafra 7mo ago
It's never been tried before. Capital always required human labor, to be productive. Capital has never closed in on the ability to operate, maintain, defend, and expand itself without human assistance, as it is closing in on that abil
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by khafra 7mo ago
I did this exercise in school, over 30 years ago. Of course, with today's multimodal models, it's more like "hey, robot, make me a PBJ sandwich."
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by khafra 7mo ago
Whether the labor theory of value is right or wrong, the "real split" you describe will soon no longer exist. Capital owners will live on the labor of their capital. Non-capital-owners will live on the largesse of capital, or will
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by khafra 7mo ago
I mean, Sutskevar and Carmack are trying to one-shot AGI. We just don't talk about them as much as we do the labs with products because their labs aren't selling products.
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by khafra 7mo ago
There's definitely some physical underpinnings--most music systems have the concept of an octave which maps nicely onto frequency-doubling, for example. But there's also culture: For a purely Western example, even-tempering is in
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by khafra 7mo ago
I wonder how hard it would be to get a court ruling or new law that DB is required to bet on every arrival, and make their bets public in easily-digestible formats like .csv I'd really like to see that happen for the S-trains, as well-
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by khafra 7mo ago
Blending an omelette and a waffle should be totally doable; I've made waffle frittatas before and they turned out great.
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by khafra 7mo ago
Do the same thing we did with the nuclear arms race: Treaties to limit and control it. Obviously, we would have had more political leverage if our leaders had started working on a treaty before they crossed enough moral red lines to start
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by khafra 7mo ago
> we will need neural interfaces long term if we want to survive. If you think that would help you survive the rise of artificial superintelligence, I think you should think in granular detail about what it would be that survived, and w
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by khafra 8mo ago
I spent a few days in Singapore, long ago. I felt slightly anxious, but mostly because I wasn't familiar with the rules. I'm confident that, if I spent a year or two there, I would quickly become far less anxious than in other pla
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by khafra 8mo ago
There's imperfect ways to work with goodhartable metrics. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fuSaKr6t6Zuh6GKaQ/when-is-go... talks about some of them (in the context of when they go bad).
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by khafra 8mo ago
Humans cannot drive safely. Human drivers kill someone every 26 seconds. Waymos have never killed a person. Part of that is that humans are distractible, and their performance can be degraded in many ways, and that silicon thinks faster tha
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by khafra 8mo ago
Oh hell yeah, we can finally stop the braindead attempts to make a safe self-driving car with just cameras.

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