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by kromem 4y ago
Do you think the same thing about Signal?
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If AI's compounding effects continue to play out as they have, my answer to "when" is "sooner than most people think." At very least I can confidently say the next 20 years will have more disruption to society as a
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by kromem 4y ago
His "0.8 is enough" idea is close to an observation I made a few years ago, that the Dunning-Kreuger effect seems to reflect an ideal breakpoint for social stratification. People low on the curve drift towards evaluating themselve
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Of course it is satire.
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Do you have any idea just how specialized the human brain is? I can just imagine if evolution was a side spectator event, people commenting: "Broca's area just regulates breathing. And that Wernicke's area is just pattern rec
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by kromem 4y ago
AI companionships for the elderly is going to be a beyond massive market by the time we're all old. Sometimes we just need people to listen, and in that AI will exceed most humans, who are generally just waiting for their chance to hav
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by kromem 4y ago
How good are you really? Because if you are really and truly excellent, my advice is to not bother with caring about the rest of the room, and to just focus on the quality of your day to day life. There's diminishing returns on 's
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Then you finally meet the smartest person you've ever met and, statistically given the quality of the room and their excellence above and beyond it, ever will meet. And you realize that person spends their life handing out wisdom which
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by kromem 4y ago
If anything, AGI seems to be the sole deus ex machina that can avert the inevitable tragedy we're on track for as a result of existing human misalignment. "Oh no, robots are going to try to kill us all" has to get in line beh
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by kromem 4y ago
It's interesting I so often see the discussion of AI in the context of what a singular model can or can't do. This seems myopic. Our own brains have specialized areas. Someone who has a stroke impacting Broca's region isn&#x2
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by kromem 4y ago
The paradoxical idea that AGI is going to still be a monkey paw following simplistic paradigms of operational goals in disastrous ways is hilarious to me every time I see it. I increasingly wonder at what point we'll realize that human
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We're going to have a harder problem with AI that thinks of itself as human and expects human rights than we are with AI that thinks of humans as 'other' and disposable. We're making it in our image. Literally. Human soc
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(Former emerging tech consultant for ~10% of Fortune 500 here) (a) I've noticed a common trend of AI researchers looking at the tree in front of them and saying "well, this tree is not also a forest and won't be any time soon
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by kromem 4y ago
There's two stories here. One is where the virus originated, which clickbait title aside is still uncertain as is discussed in the second half. The other is "was bad science occurring in relation to investigating the origin?"
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The Intercept is one of the last news outlets that does actual investigative journalism, and the podcast opens discussing how one of the people on it found out they were a finalist for a Pulitzer. The tribalism around brand loyalty infestin
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by kromem 4y ago
When I consulted for Fortune 500s, I was regularly proposing in-house solutions that would be carefully tailored to and integrated with corporate KPIs. They'd nod their heads in agreement, pat me on the back for the sage advice and the
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by kromem 5y ago
Not at all. Over the pandemic I got interested in late bronze age history, and I've been finding all sorts of interesting things cross-correlating papers in the past decade or so in different domains with ancient texts, etc. Fascinatin
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On the other hand, I just had a lengthy conversation with my dad on why he shouldn't drink chlorine dioxide, and that a Bitchute video from a guy who got a "doctor's of philosophy of medicine" from a diploma mill who had
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by kromem 5y ago
Look at food borne parasite rates for fish in the world, and what percent occur in Japan. In the US, all fish intended for raw consumption must be frozen in one of two ways that kill any parasites. In Japan, this is not required. Salmon is
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by kromem 5y ago
Everyone talking about "free speech" is buying the spin hook line and sinker. Anyone remember the Musk tweet about how his AI is so much better than anyone in the market realizes? Did no one notice that this is all happening withi
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by kromem 5y ago
For the format, AI dungeon already does. When I played with it, I started a quest as a wizard looking for a book. I was able to cast a tracking spell that led me to a giant library. I could have it read the titles of the books on a shelf in
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by kromem 5y ago
Yeah, it's getting to the point I'm starting to see current game design as getting long in the tooth by comparison to what I know is ahead. There's a great tech demo a dev did a year or two ago showcasing GPT-3, speech-to-tex
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by kromem 5y ago
Yeah, not like there's any sort of transparent way to audit a public chain of data blocks representing votes associated with an anonymous certificates that would allow end users (verified with registration cards and authorized with the
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by kromem 5y ago
You mean you weren't convinced by the argument that if MLK or Lincoln didn't have access to Facebook the world would have been a different place? Or was it the credentials of "I bought $12 of Bitcoin when I was young and it i
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by kromem 5y ago
Meta fundamentally doesn't understand what the Metaverse is going to be. They picture a virtual space where you, a human, will go to interact with other humans you know and love. They are thinking MMO Metaverse. What it's actually
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It looks like someone asked for a glyph that would look like a chart with a downward trending zigzag, someone ended up getting the instructions and drew this thing, and the request proceeded bunched with other requests through the process w
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by kromem 5y ago
This is actually much more interesting than just the level of detail. The motif on it is the same as on a seal found in the Mycenaean grave circle with "Agamemnon's Mask" (dated 16th century BCE, centuries too early to be Hom
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by kromem 5y ago
I don't think it's necessarily certain villainy for those who fight that fight as long as they are fighting it correctly. There's a huge case to be made that flooding the darknet with AI generated CP reduces the revictimizati
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My career advice to nearly everyone starting out these days is to bring different professional interests together if they have more than one. There's thousands of specialists in most fields, but not nearly as many generalists or people
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"The Broca area isn't true intelligence as it can't comprehend speech, only make it." Seems like a weird and overly obvious statement, right? Focusing on only one specialized area of the brain and claiming that in isolat

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