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by krisoft 2y ago
The true answer is that it is hard, and requies very carefull analysis. Putting a “door opener” on the robot is sometimes at no extra marginal cost. (Because it already has a manipulator to fullfill its job.) Sometimes it would make the rob
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by krisoft 2y ago
And humans spent even more effort to navigate themselves. As they were getting to the birds, as they were observing the birds and as they were getting back from the birds. Everyone who is not blindly thumbling or being pushed by winds or wa
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by krisoft 2y ago
But did it upended? Ponytail expected that they can solve the problem in about five years with a dedicated team. Obviously Ponytail is not a real person, so she did not get a real team and five year budget. But real people in the real world
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by krisoft 2y ago
Demonstratably less energy was spent on automating that task, yes. Just look into the history of the School of Sagres, the longitude rewards, the Nautical Almanach published by the Royal Observatory, the LORAN project, the Transit project,
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by krisoft 2y ago
But that is because the goal of openai wasn’t to pass the Turing test. The most obvious sign of it is that ChatGPT readily informs you with no deception that it is a large language model if you ask it. If they wanted to pass the Turing test
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by krisoft 2y ago
> the “evidence of innocence” is very flimsy “Evidence of innocence” is a very problematic concept. Have you thought through what is your evidence of your innocence? (Not just regarding to this case, but regarding all cases involving dea
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by krisoft 2y ago
> The only non-cgi part of the video was when they showed a regular cart unable to handle plain stairs. I disagree. The video showing the drone being pushed around by the experimenters is not CGI. It is real footage. It is weirdly evenly
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by krisoft 2y ago
But will it always solve the task? Because without that it it is trivially easy to “solve” the halting problem by just declaring that the turing machine halts after X steps.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> What's the mechanism of this? It doesn’t necessarily have an easy to understand soundbite explanation. Biology is like spagetti code. Everything depends on everything in difficult to comprehend ways.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Having a foldable flying drone you could use to scout for you could help a lot when exploring caves. I agree with that. But is this the right form for it? Airships are bulky. Caves are obstructed. A smaller flying drone, like some form
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by krisoft 2y ago
But like... why? What does an indoor airship get us which we couldn't do before "for cave exploration"? It sounds like they needed to map out the cave in detail before they could even design the airship. So there aren't
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by krisoft 2y ago
Or the vendor might want to warn users about the vulnerability. It is a different story to stay “there might be vulnerabilities, consider updating to some other gizmo” vs “there is a vulnerability, you have to abandon the gizmo”.
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by krisoft 2y ago
This is the reason why I think the explosives were most likely hidden in the batteries. Some explosives have similar enough chemistry that they cannot be told apart from legitimate battery packs by the scanners. This is a known threat, and
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by krisoft 2y ago
There are CCTV videos purported to show some of the explosions: https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1836041245996584983 It is indeed not the kind of explosion I would expect to see from lithium ion. (Those usual
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by krisoft 2y ago
> To do that, dog should be handled by someone who is not their regular police handler. Not necessarily if the experiment is double blind. (Or tripple blind I guess because it is the dog, the handler and the on-site experimenter who are
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by krisoft 2y ago
Didn't Arrival go bankrupt? https://fortune.com/europe/2024/02/06/british-ev-maker-value... I think I have seen a youtuber who was buying some of the prototype UPS trucks on an auction: https:&#x2F
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by krisoft 2y ago
> The AI would have loyalty to its creator, and it would get into the deep philosophical aspects of what is a living organism vs what is a machine and why that matters. I guess you will have to write it for me to see. :) > People nee
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I have a side project. wanna see the code? you can't! screw you it's mine! Lol. Are you ok? > MS is a wildly different disease than Alzheimer's. They didn’t say it is the same disease. They said “I know several people
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by krisoft 2y ago
> What if you do this while you're still alive? Nothing? It remains the same story. What do you think it would change? > Von Neumann probes would be super energy inefficient too. Stars radiate a lot of energy. Simple fact of the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I think that to think one should not get a behavioural replica because you don't think it would be you is a non-sequitur however Didn’t say that. Do get one if you can afford it. It would be usefull for all kind of things. But con
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by krisoft 2y ago
That is a common scifi trope. For example it is the starting point of We Are Legion (We Are Bob).
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by krisoft 2y ago
What you are describing is just an AGI aligned with a particular person. So we (humanity) is working on that problem. Not sure if it will ever satisfy the desire to lenghten human lifespan though. Just as a thought experiment imagine that w
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by krisoft 2y ago
> if we gave loyalty to all the inventors we're benefiting from right now it would be impossible to go to war with anyone. You say as if that is some bad thing?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Even if it's only three parts and the factory is only profitable when producing thousands a year. If that is the case you manufacture more than enough and put them on a shelf. > Some costs that will crop up even without investi
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by krisoft 2y ago
You are not wrong. The Guardian made an absolute hash of it. I recommend that you read the original document which says this: “However, to fully understand and appreciate these artifacts, it's crucial to know the exact location where t
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Ireland is not a person so the concept is entirely political. Of course. Is that some kind of gotcha? > provided you don't cause any negative externalities, you should have the default right to do whatever you want on your land
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by krisoft 2y ago
Would you tell us what is that important difference? Just for those of us who can't read your thoughts yet.
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by krisoft 2y ago
Plus the added benefit of looking exactly like a ballistic missile attack on radar. :D Hope nobody with a twitchy trigger finger ever mistakes your flight for one! And also hope that no enemy will try to disguise their incapacitating strike
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Capitalism is meant to distribute money to maximize utility to humanity. I don’t know where did you get that. Or even in what sense you mean it. Is this a normative or a descriptive statement? Other than that. I feel your frustration.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> However, if I never buy a single ticket, there is a definite 0% chance I'll ever win the big prize. I'm not sure about that. There is some chance of someone random buying a ticket and gifting it to you and then that ticket wi

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