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by mach1ne 4y ago
Could be. I glanced the neuroscientific theories of intelligence the paper referenced and they seemed to be mostly concerned with dividing general intelligence into abstract sections the purpose of which seems to be to define differences be
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by mach1ne 4y ago
This seems to study intelligence as in IQ adjacent items, rather than intelligence as in distilling the algorithm which makes us tick.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Lineages seem to be the downfall of empires. I wonder if the Roman Empire would have survived longer had Marcus Aurelius (or anyone after him) not chosen their heir by biology, but by virtue, as the previous emperors did.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Just to play the devil's advocate here, you can argue that ChatGPT is not really intelligent. It is one hugely complex probability distribution, true, but importantly, a static one. Human intelligence stretches the similar distribution
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That's what I love about this particular AI revolution. The technologies are developed in such a non-siloed manner that open source is able to replicate the largest steps forward in a manner of a year.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
> Why should society care about the happiness of those people if them being happy / content slows down growth and hence the collective happiness? This is the basic problem of what is our purpose. There's no definite answer. Wha
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That’s anecdotal though. For an opposite anecdote, airplanes have been pretty much the same since the 70s.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Okay, need to point out the obvious - a teleportation machine which takes you to the wrong place is a major issue. You really wouldn’t want to materialize to the wrong place.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Planning, quite simply. Antarctic station is planned to be as robust as needed, and so it is.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
> But the universe is unimaginably enormous, and the chances of any two such life forms being within reach of each other is miniscule. In order for it not to be, the universe would have to be absolutely packed with such life, and if it w
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I understand your point, but I don’t believe the probability to be vanishingly small, just extremely small (in this particular case, based on what we currently know). I believe you and I differ in our prior estimation of the probability of
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Nobody but actual tinfoil hats are saying ”it’s definitely aliens”. Nobody is jumping to conclusions. It’s all probabilities, and disregarding a possibility without evidence to contrary despite its improbability is, to my eye, as naive as t
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That’s not all, and that might be true, but that’s an example of how consultants in some cases do earn their pay. That being said, they generally don’t seem to.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Eh. It’s extremely probably not aliens this time, though there is a very small chance it is. Given the trajectory of humanity, the alien scenario explaining an unexplained phenomena is not unreasonable, though almost always very unlikely. I
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That’ll change at some point, and it’s difficult to make a case for a better name.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Some companies (mainly those which actually produce physical stuff) may lack the knowledge for fairly elementary process optimization. That's the stuff they teach the upcoming consultants at school. And that's the stuff that actua
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Military unable to determine how the objects were kept aloft(reuters.com)
51 points by mach1ne 4y ago|55 comments
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by mach1ne 4y ago
But it’s surprising just how much information we do have. What reason did the military have (both US and Canadian) to leak info about the shape of the objects?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Yes, the timing with the Chinese weather balloon was no coincidence. Either policy changed or radars were recalibrated.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
To my understanding the latest object traversed from Montana to Lake Huron in less than 24 hours. Can any such balloon really travel that fast?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Strongly suggests against balloons - mainly because they already shot one down and it was no biggie. Aliens are not impossible any more, but drones of some kind remain the vastly most probable option.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
If it were a sufficiently realistic simulation it wouldn’t matter. That being said, it most likely isn’t.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
>Tesla, for example, doesn’t have the unambiguously best self-driving kit despite having unambiguously more data. Don’t they?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
>Crazy thing is you _know_ you'll feel better but getting up and going can be a drag sometimes. Yeah, that’s because most of your agency is hooked up to the monkey brain. You’re not really fighting anything, your apparent incentives
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I know this has nothing to do with the subject of this post, but this is a prime example of why I greatly dislike the widespread use of obscure acronyms especially prevalent in the US. It took way too long to process that PoC meant ”Person
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Prompt injection is the closest thing to spells we have.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I often wake up in the middle of the night and go full visual hallucinations for a couple seconds. Sometimes the walls are covered in faces, sometimes a small chinese dragon flies slowly across the room. They only ever last the two-three se
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Interesting. What condition was this? Its psychology intrigues me.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
The point isn’t to derive useful conclusions. The fact that we have no idea about the probability of the existence of extraterrestial intelligence seems to make it inherently impossible to derive any conclusions from a formula where they pl
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by mach1ne 4y ago
If the events happen mainly at altitudes, smartphones have a hard time capturing them. There’s also the argument that since these would be super-intelligent beings, they might aim for a level of exposure that they’re confident won’t make th

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