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by lsc 8y ago
If we had AI that was as much smarter than us than we are than, say, dolphins or chimpanzees... assuming that physical limits kept that gap from widening, would you see that as this disastrous singularity? See, I always thought of the singu
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by lsc 8y ago
I thought the idea was to create an AI that was way smarter than a human? I mean, if you just have human level AI, that's not gonna cause the singularity unless there aren't any physical limits preventing it from scaling itself u
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by lsc 8y ago
There is a lot in 'logical inference' that we still don't really know how to describe well enough to tell computers how to do it. (I mean, I think it's super interesting how we figured out how to teach computers to do p
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by lsc 8y ago
>Unless you believe in something supernatural providing extra computational capacity, we know that the physical limits allows the manufacture of a sub 20W computational device in about 1.5kg of matter with the capacity of a human brain.
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by lsc 8y ago
>Is it? Computational power is still growing like before. I don't think it is. transistors per watt and transistors per dollar are not going up at the same rate as they used to be, even if you have costless multi-threading.
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by lsc 8y ago
This problem can be solved by hiring a professional who doesn't interact with the children to do the arguing, assuming there is enough money on the table to make that worthwhile. (I mean, I agree it's a big problem. I also dislik
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by lsc 8y ago
>Integrated circuits are nowhere near what's possible. Brains are possible. Brains send signals at roughly the speed of sound. Copper wires send signals at roughly the speed of light. It's unlikely something much like a brain c
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by lsc 8y ago
>I've seen humans deal with novel situations. The only assumption needed is that humans and AI are subject to the same laws of nature (that is, that there is no supernatural / outside element to human intelligence) right, but a
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by lsc 8y ago
>Slower progress in microprocessors is a good point but specialized hardware like TPUs could overcome some limitations. Also, slower does not mean stop. When we talk about decades into the future, even a 20% average annual improvement am
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by lsc 8y ago
>b) we've already beaten the brain in straight compute density by many orders of magnitude. citation needed. computers are better at arithmetic, sure, but computers can only do things that you can map to arithmetic. I'm given
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by lsc 8y ago
Eh, if you are talking about something truly human-like rather than what people usually mean when they say AI these days, I think there are other limits. We're running up against limits on feature-size in our integrated circuits. If
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah, deal with novel situations better than humans. In a world where we are approaching the physical limits of integrated circuit feature size? I like my chances. Personally, I find it amazing that humanity survived the cold war. the f
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by lsc 8y ago
what I find interesting is that for most of my life, Moore's law was... as real as gravity; It seemed like any problem you had, wait a few years and you could just brute force it. The future really did look limitless. Now, moore'
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by lsc 8y ago
you are pretty optimistic about your AI's ability to deal with novel situations.
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by lsc 8y ago
So in your model, road wear is priced into the costs of all goods, no? That's one way to do it, but the problem is that then a single potato logistics company has no incentive to use a (presumably more expensive) transport method that
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by lsc 8y ago
>Can someone explain the fakes problem? I think J have literally never run into this on Amazon despite actively buying thousands of dollars of various items for years. There are several things that could be described by the 'amazon
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by lsc 8y ago
it might help amazonbasics, but it hurts everything else; I am generally okay paying extra for the convenience of amazon, so I think I'm their target customer? but I have been burned a few times by fake products sold as the real thin
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by lsc 8y ago
I do agree that the shower hose looking thing next to the toilet cleans just as well and is a lot cheaper, but for my money? I personally think the automatic nature of the toto is an entirely different (and, imho, better) overall experience
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by lsc 8y ago
> Has anyone tried to make an SV startup-style company sell Japanese-type toilets in America? I think a lot of people would like them I think google is indirectly in that business; It used to be that only my foreign friends would be like
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by lsc 8y ago
Hm. I was trying to make the point that it's difficult to get to the top 1% of anything competitive. I was pointing out that just getting to the top 1% of income among all americans is pretty difficult; but I think you are looking
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by lsc 8y ago
If you think 3 hours a week is enough to make you "fit" - we have very different definitions of that word. Certainly, 3 hours a week is a lot better than nothing, and does make an absolutely huge difference over a sedentary life
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by lsc 8y ago
King is awesome, though I prefer his novellas and short works. Apt pupil? The Showshank Redemption? The Breathing Method? really, all of 'different seasons' was incredible.
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by lsc 8y ago
When I am at a loss for something to read and I want something that is usually a low-effort but very good read, i throw darts at the Pulitzer for fiction list. I'm reading Greer's "Less" today, the most recent winner, an
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by lsc 8y ago
>Being in or out of shape is a lifestyle choice Are you young? this is all very different when you are young. I know I didn't have any trouble staying fit when I was college aged. For most people, there comes a point in your la
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by lsc 8y ago
I don't think that's the plan op is talking about... the plan is if you change the housing rules so that the approval to build your apartment is state level rather than local level, then assuming it makes financial sense, develope
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by lsc 8y ago
>But just getting to the 1 in 100 level? Hard work will take you a long, long way down that road, because most people simply aren't willing to put in that work. Tell me, do you have a 1 in 100 income? if it's all effort, why n
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by lsc 8y ago
My point is that today the digital camera market on the high end is all about the lens, something that is difficult and that Kodak didn't have a lot of expertise in, Just like the film camera market was. There was a period of time
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by lsc 8y ago
Hm? I thought Kodak was killed by the demise of demand for film cameras. They didn't have a significant leg in the world of high-end glass lenses or in the world of smartphones, which are the only, I think, significant photography m
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah, gym teachers love to express the same set of beliefs. I personally think that's a lot like saying anyone who studies hard enough can become a great programmer. I mean, sure, in both cases, someone who doesn't try hard isn
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by lsc 8y ago
eh, I would assume (hope) that the 'grit' required to do something physically unpleasant and the grit required to do something mentally unpleasant would be different sorts of things. Some of the best tech workers I've known h

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