maxbond

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by maxbond 2y ago
> No you didn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703486 If I was unclear - the equivalence doesn't hold because one of these are moral entities and the other isn't. > No I didn't. https:&#x
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by maxbond 2y ago
> I was pointing out that your original argument makes no sense, because of what it would mean if you applied it to humans. And I explained why this equivalence doesn't hold in my view. You have made no attempt to justify it. So why
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by maxbond 2y ago
To my eyes, Altman appears to be joking.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Interesting. I do see there's a point where TGN-1A and APG cross, so perhaps a ship dragged a net across both in that vicinity? I'm well out of my depth here, but I would imagine that ships don't drag their anchors very far,
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by maxbond 2y ago
Absolutely. Appreciated. I could've said I didn't want to continue in that direction in a way with less tone, as well.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Let's just be perfectly clear here. You asked: why should we treat these two cases differently? I answered: one of them involves harm and one can't possibly. You then refused to discuss the topic further. I never changed my mind.
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by maxbond 2y ago
The nerve of me, to expand on my views as a discussion develops. Of course you have lots of great points to make, but you can't share them with the likes of me.
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by maxbond 2y ago
I had the same reaction, but it looks like they might not be independent [1]. There's also this remark in the article: > Undersea internet cable problems are not rare in Vietnam, which early last year saw all of its five cables disr
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by maxbond 2y ago
(ETA: See response, my hypothesis was incorrect.) Judging by this map: https://www.fiberatlantic.com/ Three cables are connected to the city of Vūng Tàu, and the other two are further north. So there's probably a centr
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by maxbond 2y ago
That's pretty uncharitable. You pivoted the conversation by introducing a new hypothetical for me to respond to. Of course my response is different. There's no conflict between the two comments. If we're going to be play that
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by maxbond 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to be clearer in the future. I didn't intend to communicate that it was a quote. I meant to communicate that it was tenuous to describe it as torture.
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by maxbond 2y ago
I'm sorry if anything I said insulted you or seemed to be a comment on you personally. That wasn't my intention.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Have you read much Asimov? You might enjoy the stories featuring Susan Calvin, the "robot psychologist" who is exactly the authoritarian you imagine. In particular you've reminded me of the short story "Robot Dreams.&quo
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by maxbond 2y ago
I guess our disagreement here is that I don't think AIs are moral entities/are capable of being harmed or that training AIs and teaching humans are comparable. Being abusive to pupils isn't wrong because of something fundamen
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by maxbond 2y ago
> Well this is just like humans. Totalitarian societies don't produce great creative work. The clear implication that it's "just like humans" is that we shouldn't be surprised because it is comparable to an autho
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by maxbond 2y ago
The training data includes imagery that, when interpolated over a high dimensional manifold, results in these things. That doesn't imply that they were in the training set, or even anything close to them.
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by maxbond 2y ago
You compared it to an authoritarian regime and locking someone's head in a cage with rats (which is patently torture). If you didn't mean to imply that it was coercive and bad, then I don't know what you meant.
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by maxbond 2y ago
I don't understand the notion that aligning an AI is "torture" or has any moral component. The goal of aligning an AI may have a moral or ethical component, and if you disagree with it that's fine. But I don't und
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by maxbond 2y ago
I know this is off topic but translating "tao" as "reason" seems antithetical to taoism. A lot of taoist philosophy and practice is about suspending your intellectual faculties and perceiving the world in a more unfilter
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by maxbond 2y ago
I think you overstate. It's an ellision ("written by OSS, the predecessor of the CIA" to "CIA"). They're as common as weeds and as old as the hills. It's all well to point out that it's factually inac
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by maxbond 2y ago
I expressed myself in a confusing way, I just meant "in a loop" and understood that to be a 60s sleep.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Autoscaling workers polling in a tight loop seems like a way to bring down production to me. Database is getting too many queries, causing the job queue to grow, causing more workers to spin up, causing a higher load of queries, ....
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by maxbond 2y ago
I explain in another comment that I want jobs to be durable, so I can't just spin up a new thread. It's not the performance overhead that bothers me as much as the session-sticky state and additional complexity in the database, my
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by maxbond 2y ago
Durability is more important to this use case than performance. I want the option of picking up a jobs within, say, a minute, but I am willing to accept a much worse worst case so long as I never lose track of a job. Another scenario to con
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by maxbond 2y ago
What would you do if you wanted to pick up jobs in close to real time? Listen/notify? An extension that adds long polling? Consuming the WAL? Giving up and using a different technology? I'm working on something similar, and these
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by maxbond 2y ago
Additionally, when you add new construction to a hot place, the additional sidewalk and asphalt makes it hotter. Adding new construction to a cold place doesn't make it colder.
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by maxbond 2y ago
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Clarifying question; did you take a pen and make it blank, or did you turn a pen blank on a lathe? I gather it's the second, since the project was to have everything hand made.
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by maxbond 2y ago
What is the lack of a Rust equivalent to all those projects is because they already exist and work well, and Rust programmers aren't as mad to rewrite things as the stereotype suggests?
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by maxbond 2y ago
There's tons of stuff of the kind you're describing in Rust, more than I care to list but I'll offer you some [1-3] that I think would interest you (based on this comment alone). If your perception of what people are doing in
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by maxbond 2y ago
Recently I was reading the news and saw an article from USA Today with an AI-generated cover graphic of Donald Trump. And with both this and 19 Terrifying Men, I'm at a loss why anyone would do that. Surely people have already made thu

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