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by mcguire 4y ago
Your comment put me in mind of something I saw in 1999 or so; where a local newscast in Austin profiled a local start-up and included: "We can't discuss what we do because someone else could take the idea and beat us to it."
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by mcguire 4y ago
On the contrary, it is misleading. By framing the debate in terms of hypothetical potential future problems, you can deliberately discount current, concrete problems. See also FUD.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Technological advancements have always come with unintended consequences. While the potential benefits of language models and other technologies are exciting, you must also consider the potential negative effects they may have on society. F
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by mcguire 4y ago
Can you demonstrate exponential progress in AI? One notes that in roughly 6000 years of recorded history, humans have not made themselves any more intelligent.
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by mcguire 4y ago
A junior writer would absolutely plagiarize or write things like, "For example, if you deposit $10,000 into a savings account that earns 3% interest compounding annually, you'll earn $10,300 at the end of the first year." But
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by mcguire 4y ago
This is true only if the "output" is of the same quality as the work done by humans. For tractors, that's unarguably true. For writing and artwork? (Unless someone wants to make the argument that automation has allowed and wi
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by mcguire 4y ago
The last time I looked (which has been a while, I admit), that meant that you had a very hard time using any of the standard library types with an arena or whatever form of management you used for your specialized code. What does that loo
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by mcguire 4y ago
"Now, Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus. And no one can say for certain if law-enforcement officers actually removed him from the building. And thus, a riddle was born. Documents pertaining to the
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by mcguire 4y ago
This is the article in question: https://web.archive.org/web/20221019003915/https://www.rolli... "Now, Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus. And no one can say for
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by mcguire 4y ago
Seems like that article is currently titled much more accurately: "CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of ‘Transgenderism’ — and Somehow Claims He’s Not Calling for Elimination of Transgender People".
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by mcguire 4y ago
You missed the third leg of that particular stool: the public's urge to deny the truth of anything because it comes from the media. Source: Do your own research. -- a grumpy old man. :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
Any mention of Lobachevsky requires this: https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A
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by mcguire 4y ago
So? What is the point of living? :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
What is the point of providing food? Surviving? Existing? Is that the highest achievement? Is remaining breathing for a few more seconds the greatest goal?
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by mcguire 4y ago
None of the existing models of what we call 'general intelligence' are capable of improving themselves exponentially.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Singularity-related religious beliefs.
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by mcguire 4y ago
AI alignment people are dedicated to fending off the gigantic PR disasters like Tay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot) ) in order to keep their funding. Whether either is capable of "bringing AGI to life&quot
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by mcguire 4y ago
Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback does come from a version of the alignment problem: it's intended to prevent the horrible corporate and research PR problems caused by Tay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta
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by mcguire 4y ago
"Stable diffusion does not default to creating black people (you have to insert black into the prompt)..." Sure it does; just give it a prompt about urban poverty, inner city youth, or welfare mothers.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Rosewood is similar, I believe.
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by mcguire 4y ago
It doesn't seem likely that SVB would have had to close their doors to depositors without the run on deposits from people like Thiel.
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by mcguire 4y ago
From what I have seen, they were not insolvent before the bank run. They were in trouble from a bad bet on interest rates, but were attempting to restructure their holdings to get liquidity. Bank runs are a psychological construct, not an
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by mcguire 4y ago
SVB was not insolvent before the run on it; any bank in the world can be driven out of business by a bank run based on nothing but rumors.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Are you aware how close SVB was to being solvent after the bank run? From the numbers I have seen, was in mild trouble but nowhere near insolvent before Thiel and those like him caused the bank run.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Person acting on unfounded rumors causes massive problems for many others. Pretty much defines Sili V. culture.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Banking != stock market.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" It would be good for everyone to understand that in taking his own money out, and encouraging others to do the same, Thiel was protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of startups to failure. This was a choice to get his an
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Protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of startups to failure(twitter.com)
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by mcguire 4y ago
Being structurally a tree and producing useful wood are two distinct things.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Is pine a tree? Cedar? Fir? Magnolias? How about cabbage?

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