mach1ne

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by mach1ne 4y ago
I sometimes wonder if these galactic powers (if they exist) will prevent the creation of AGI.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
The countless eye witnesses for one.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
No. It's not viral in the sense COVID is. Minor epidemics around the world are possible but not anything really serious.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Carmack seems extremely lucid about his position in the field and the current nature of the field in general. While rogue scientists don't have great odds, Carmack is definitely doing important research studying off-mainstream subjects
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Even though something has a benevolent rationalization, it doesn’t mean the true motives are benevolent. It doesn’t need any New World Order conspiracy either. People in ruling positions often enjoy power, and they may be clueless as to how
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Two-party system with generally benevolent parties is decently good. Two-party system with corruption in the center of both parties is not a real democracy.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That’s just polarization for you. The Right with its Roy vs. Wade abortion law overturn displays similar shortcomings in their performance to attract the voters in the middle.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Yes, and for some reason the world is shifting towards megacorporations which enhances this problem across the board. Companies take small but certain steps from producers of goods to some weird authoritarian symbiotic relationship entities
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I don’t mean to be negative, but most people certainly don’t try their best. Many are only working for the paycheck and don’t attach their sense of success to their professional output.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Amen. I think the generosity of complex systems for different interpretations is the bane of comprehensive model for neuroscience.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Sure, but I think that's a different kind of loneliness than that of lonely people who have practically never had a proper friendship in their lives.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Yeah, few people understand that basic human communication abilities are actually not given, but learned. If an individual lacked the necessary comrades in their youth they might actually be incapable of forming proper relationships, at all
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Is there any chance it was theft?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Probably related to the more general notion of boring stuff and too dense stuff. It is as if brains optimize towards a certain percentage of surprise in their stimuli.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Those are not mutually exclusive though.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Fear doesn’t bring sanity, but scale might. Facing hardships and overcoming them generally seems to give people a sense of scale. It gives people a sense of contentment, which subdues greed. Then again, hardships do also break people, so I
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Innovation in narrow fields is not representive of the greater whole. Sure, generative AI is booming, but mobile phones and computers haven’t evolved practically at all in the last 5 years. The general rate of innovation can be somewhat gau
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by mach1ne 4y ago
This is actually what you’d expect from practically any system where wealth and power centralize as a function of time. The pressure will grow until it eventually might pop.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Not to sound adversarial, but you’re not presenting any evidence either. Where do you get that innovation is the fastest it’s ever been?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Without looking deeper at any of these, most of the similar stuff from past years has ultimately been humbug, if technically correct. For example, first headlines I found from ’net-positive fusion energy achieved’ were from 2013 or so. Rese
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Any idea what causes this?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I'm not familiar just how large cases it's supposed to tackle, but for small stuff like parking tickets a few solid legal arguments may be enough and you don't need to pay for tens of hours of lawyer's time.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Yeah and survivorship bias extends here too. I think we could actually do the math to derive the maximum probability for a nuclear apocalypse within a given timeframe from the fact that we’re not in the middle of it.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Accessibility and presentation
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by mach1ne 4y ago
1% per year is too high though. I’d estimate it’s closer to 1% per risk-year, e.g. Cuban Missile Crisis.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I wonder if Adolf would have pressed the button in his bunker? He would certainly have teased it. But would even he invite the Apocalypse if he saw his beloved Reich coming to ruin?
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by mach1ne 4y ago
This is actually how you get anything properly done in regards to your brain chemistry (according to current knowledge). Reaching goalposts consistently propagates the drive to continue.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
One strong influence on not coming back if taking time off is, I believe, the comfort one attains from a steady income. You worked only part-time which may have mitigated that influence.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Some startups do, some don't.

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