mannykannot

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How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret(lesswrong.com)
3 points by mannykannot 9mo ago|1 comments
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Maybe, but it is the present which concerns me.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
That last criterion most assuredly will not be matched here.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Harsh as the Yukon is, it is a walk in the park compared to anything in space, where there is no realistic possibility of a rush of individual prospectors. Several areas of the ocean floor are covered with valuable polymetallic nodules [1]
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
This is my reading, as an outsider: the head activator almost certainly does not exist, but the question of fraud is somewhat ambiguous. To establish either the status of the head activator or whether fraud was committed, however, are not p
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
It is more than that, as there is cold comfort in having an explanation that is arbitrary and capricious, irrational, contrary to the stated rules, or based on falsehoods, if there is no effective means of appeal - especially if there are f
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Improved turnout and participation is a good thing in itself, but not necessarily if it puts a weapon in the hands of those who do not like the outcome and are seeking to invalidate it without regard to whether it represents the electorate’
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
I am not aphantasic, but I would not say that I "feel" pain when I see people undergoing painful events (depending on how much weight the quotes around 'feel' are carrying.) I can remember that hitting my thumb with a ha
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
I beat the target by deleting the parts that were causing the cycle count to be too high. /s
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Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mannykannot 9mo ago|0 comments
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
You are describing hiking in the mountains, which doesn’t generalize to mountaineering and rock-climbing when it gets difficult, and the difficulties this view is abstracting away are real. Your second and third paragraphs are entirely cons
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Sure - and climbing a mountain is just putting one foot down higher than it was before and repeating, once you abstract away all the hard parts.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
The fact that it reached this point is further evidence that if the AI apocalypse is a possibility, common sense will not save us.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
If (as you seem to be suggesting) relativity was effectively lying there on the table waiting for Einstein to just pick it up, how come it blindsided most, if not quite all, of the greatest minds of his generation?
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
That is a very interesting idea, though I would not dismiss LLMs as a dead end if they failed.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Don't tell the current administration that there's something so un-American about the currency: they will insist on fixing it, and probably retire Jefferson as well.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
As the ratio used is a rational approximation of an irrational, I would guess that the ratio-preserving feature breaks down well before you get to atomic sizes, though I have neither proved that to be so nor figured out how to calculate the
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
That's interesting. Do you know if they are used to keep track of the trains' positions with axle-spacing precision everywhere, or only at stations and track-section boundaries? (my somewhat cursory search suggested probably the l
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Quite often, when my search returned a 'closed as duplicate' reply, I found the allegedly duplicate question did not accurately describe my problem, and the answers to it were often inferior, for my purposes, than those which had
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
Hardcore proponents of this style often incant 'DRY' and talk about reuse, but in most cases, this reuse seems to be much more made available in principle than found useful in practice.
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by mannykannot 9mo ago
That’s a fair point, but a combination of “fake it ‘til you make it” together with extracting massive “compensation” before you actually make it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
How about "the documents were clarified" or "their contents were revealed"? Maybe "formatted for reading on your device"?
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Talk of how it might be interpreted is rather beside the point when the administration appears to be implementing a particular interpretation and SCOTUS appears to be fine with that, whether or not it is a selective one. Those are the concr
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Personally, I do not see the distinction here between the two sentences, but your last paragraph got me thinking: should we be using parenthetical, self-interruptive clauses? When we are speaking extemporaneously, we may need them, but wh
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
I will just float this idea for consideration, as I cannot judge how plausible it is: Is it possible that LLMs or their successors will soon be able to make use of formal methods more effectively than humans? I don't think I am the onl
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
> You even admitted it was a poor argument. "Creative" re/misinterpretation is becoming quite a thing here - what I actually did was agree that rgmerk had a more defensible position after he pivoted away from his origina
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
I like the way you made me think! It had not thought about it until now, but I take your point. While thinking about it, this phrase occurred to me: “silver bullets are a defense against zombies.” It is not the same phrase structure as the
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
No you didn't; you pointed out why it is not, in itself, a significant issue in the first place (which rgmerk tacitly seems to recognize in his first response, through pivoting away from the 2% claim.) My position on this has been that
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Yes, indeed! But I don’t think Daenney gets it.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
And I cannot figure out why you are saying this, as nothing I have said previously either contradicts what you say here, or is contradicted by it. If you could say what you think I am saying in my posts in this thread, we can sort it out.

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