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by mcguire 3y ago
"For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken
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by mcguire 3y ago
Algae blooms result in de-oxygenated water, no? (Among other consequences.) https://www.cdc.gov/habs/environment.html
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How would you identify and impose costs for externalities without immediately being accused of "nannying" or legislating the outcome?
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by mcguire 3y ago
That is some very weird reasoning, though. " Looking at their statements again, if Guard 1 is telling the truth about guarding diamonds (as we deduced), he would be lying about the silver. This is okay, because Guard 1 can tell a half-
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by mcguire 3y ago
" Exterior iteration. Iteration used to be by stack / non-escaping coroutines, which we also called "interior" iteration, as opposed to "exterior" iteration by pointer-like things that live in variables you adv
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by mcguire 3y ago
I submitted a puzzle from https://dmackinnon1.github.io/fickleSentries/ , with the basic prompt, "I am going to present you with a logic puzzle. I would like you to solve the puzzle." https://pasteb
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by mcguire 3y ago
So, generative AI is better than the scripts traditionally used by customer service agents?
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One notes that historically (and probably currently), some of the smartest and most well funded humans all over the planet have spent their careers preventing one or more deities from killing us all. And yet I find myself an atheist.
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More or less unlikely than a superintelligent AI converting all of us into paperclips?
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No, I'm suggesting the entire hype over "superintelligence" is religious in nature. There is little evidence that the current AI systems are anywhere near human intelligence and none that "more than human intelligence&qu
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Replace the term "superintelligence" with "God" in that FAQ. Do you still buy the conclusions? " A God is a mind that is much more intelligent than any human. " " Go programs had gone from “dumber than chi
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by mcguire 3y ago
It's Pascal's Wager, right ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/ )? Sure, the probability of AI-triggered extinction is lowish, but the consequences are essentially infinite, so we are justifi
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It's not like we don't have similar mechanisms in place in other fields, but none of the signatories on that statement have, to my knowledge, mentioned institutional review boards or the entire field of medical ethics. Of course,
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I know you're getting downvoted, but that's a legitimate comment. The rogue, super-intelligent AI singularity involves creating an actual God after all.
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Look up "Runaway greenhouse effect". Think, "Venus". Is that likely? No. Is that more or less likely than a rogue superintelligent AI? Well, we have one example of the first and none of the second...
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by mcguire 3y ago
Yes, the religious belief in the Singularity.
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There are an unbounded number of concerns that could result in the COMPLETE EXTINCTION OF ALL HUMANS AND ALL LIFE that cannot be anticipated. Why are you fixated on this particular one?
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by mcguire 3y ago
I suspect the probability of a statement being false (a confabulation) is unrelated to the probabilities of the words and grammar making up the statement.
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On the contrary, I suspect "How do we prevent our AIs from killing everyone?" will be a major research question with a great deal of funding involved. Plus, no one seems to be suggesting things like the medical ethics field or ins
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by mcguire 3y ago
Is it ironic that they start with, "Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks," and then write about "the risk of extinction from AI" which is, a) the only risk of AI
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by mcguire 3y ago
Last year, Stephen West had an episode of his podcast, Philosophize This!, on Camus' The Fall ( https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-170-the-fal... ). He is notably more sympathetic to Clamence, making n
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by mcguire 3y ago
By construction. Assume language L has concept C expressed by term T, while English does not have a simple term for C. Further, assume that English speakers have a frequent need to express C. English will simply absorb T and trundle off lik
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I should have known this was about JW Greenlee; his twitter is a lot of eely fun. The economy of eels in England was surprisingly large. One fun fact: European eels are endangered and one of the most highly trafficked endangered species.
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If your workload is the embarrassingly parallel type that GPUs are designed for.
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You realize "it drives like a human being" and "it will surpass [humans in terms of safety?]" are contradictory statements?
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Back in Austin, it was pretty common for pedestrians to have to stop and wait in the crosswalk while cars continued to pass. I've also seen cars pulled over by police for doing so.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
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For some reason, I ended up calling those "axiomatic semantics"; predicate transformer semantics is a much better name. One of the weaknesses of PTS for common languages is that statements and expressions have very complicated sem
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Ooohhhh, a specification language for specification languages. The grammar that ties together graphical things like Petri Nets and TLA+ is going to be fantastic!
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Have you ever heard a discussion betweeen biologists about where to put a given species in the family tree? Taxonomies are a human construction.

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