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by longtom 6y ago
I kinda agree that "fairness", even though a valid issue, seems receive a disproportional amount of attention. The central dangers, apart from misuse, seem to be a coordination problem and a control problem. The coordination probl
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by longtom 6y ago
Another great channel is Yannic Kilcher, especially the "papers explained" series: https://www.youtube.com/c/YannicKilcher/playlists
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by longtom 6y ago
Even though that may be true it is not clear there is a way out that does not jeopardize millions of existences/sources of purpose and meaning for millions of people. Without a careful plan out it will be a disaster. It's a comple
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by longtom 6y ago
> stop wearing those stupid fucking polyester hoodies According to this chart, the main sources of pollution are by far wear and tear from car tyres and road surfaces. Synthetic clothing comes last. https://i.imgur.com/Km
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by longtom 6y ago
It is not only unsatisfying to ML researchers, but pretty much everyone. We are mere prediction machines and AI is going to render us dispensable bags of meat using an embarrassingly simple algorithm that you could explain a bright child wi
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by longtom 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwr3DDvFpw
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by longtom 6y ago
Two comments recommending Jitsi. Suspicious.
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by longtom 6y ago
Google does engage in censorship in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#United_St...
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by longtom 6y ago
Is Google really any better? They may simply be better at hiding their surveillance apparatus. We need to decentralize, i.e. destroy large non-decentralized organizations.
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by longtom 6y ago
But it sends your stuff to MS instead?
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by longtom 6y ago
What's the problem with duplicating effort?
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by longtom 6y ago
See below. They now decided to switch back to Linux again!
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What would happen to a car in a lead bunker over the course of a billion years?(quora.com)
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by longtom 6y ago
Unfortunate name: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Simp
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by longtom 6y ago
This is an interesting question. Likely more than 0.1%, perhaps 20-40% I'd guess. Which would be the lower estimate I provided.
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by longtom 6y ago
Thanks I was not aware of these details about the hydrocephalus story.
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by longtom 6y ago
Real neurons have many other trainable parameters and a lot more computational structure, so this is of course a simplifying assumption, but it is not entirely baseless either as it is known ANNs can approximate any function in theory, whic
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by longtom 6y ago
It seems it has (rudimentarily) learned concepts general enough to be logic itself. That is general intelligence. Now hook it up to reinforcement circuitry and make it even larger and it will mark the end to life as we know it. GTP-3 has 17
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by longtom 6y ago
Gross.
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by longtom 6y ago
This is a compression artifact. You cannot process everything that is going on, so your brain fills in the missing or uncertain parts with a similar (abstract) computation that it already has experienced in a similar manner. It is abstract
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by longtom 6y ago
Facebook should be destroyed. No company should have that much information about that many people's private lives.
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by longtom 6y ago
Fair enough. But if "mental exhaustion" is not some serious impediment, then not sure this is worth talking about. Not seeing much evidence here.
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by longtom 6y ago
Brief confusion and distraction is not the same as malaise.
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by longtom 6y ago
> Zoom fatigue is real. What's the evidence for this? I believe there is a psychological effect that people report more malaise when you ask them about it. Back when I first studied psychology I self-diagnosed myself with like 5 dif
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by longtom 6y ago
Because softer shadows add to the realism, so they would have used them if they had invented a new efficient ray tracing method! Look at 5:12 in the video. The shadows are way too sharp. It's probably good old shadow mapping for the fi
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by longtom 6y ago
Another trick is in stead of tracing multiple bounces per ray at once, to compute one indirect bounce every n-th frame using intermediate results from the previous (not the current) frame and then spatio-temporally smooth the results, possi
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by longtom 6y ago
Life is complex, hence most things have advantages and disadvantages.
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by longtom 6y ago
The font blurs slightly on my Windows 10 machine at 125% zoom.
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by longtom 6y ago
I'm not seeing much evidence for this being helpful. Inclusion attempts I've seen where largely failures and there were no pilot projects so it seems all of this was seemingly (well-intentioned) politicking.
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by longtom 6y ago
The simplest rule is people should cohabit peacefully. AFAIK there is no evidence that this is enabled by more exposure. People assort themselves by IQ for a good reason: Most people have a natural desire to dominate and the lower IQ person

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