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by mitthrowaway2 29d ago
The AI wouldn't be hiring engineers; it doesn't need people for that. At any rate, I have worked for fully remote distributed companies, and never met the CEO. And I think most of us would be willing to work for such a company at
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by mitthrowaway2 29d ago
Kind of, if North Korea were populated by a super intelligent uni-mind with lots of money, no trade restrictions preventing it from running projects in the United States or anywhere else, capable of winning widespread support by people arou
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by mitthrowaway2 29d ago
A lot of these "AI can't destroy humanity" skeptics seem to have watched the Terminator and convinced themselves that that's the AI-goes-wrong scenario that their opponents are imagining. Some kind of big war between h
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by mitthrowaway2 29d ago
Are you assuming that the humans are all unanimously aligned against the AI in this scenario? That sounds like the hard part. How does that happen? Does the AI announce its evil plans like a movie villain? Until then, it's the job of t
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by mitthrowaway2 29d ago
The list of things that can be done digitally includes: Performing remote work, applying for grants and loans, earning money, pitching investors, managing a fund, directing investments, transferring money, founding a company, earning profit
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
The fact that this happens more often when the AI is accidentally given an unexpectedly difficult or impossible task, suggests that it's happening for the reason that everyone predicted it would: it is behavior that helps the agent ach
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
The only species I can think of that coordinate better than humans do are ants, bees, and naked mole rats.
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
Oh yeah... that's much simpler.
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
I don't know about you, but in hardware startup land if you don't have a patent and your technology can be reverse engineered, you are most likely dead in the water and will never get investment. But I guess we can count on the bi
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
Also, thinking about it, you could probably defeat the optical retroreflection detector by putting the camera behind a Faraday rotator (optical isolator). But those are quite expensive and you'd need to be really paranoid to use one, p
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
The junction detector is a truly brilliant idea that, unfortunately, is probably rendered nearly useless now that everything in the world has embedded electronics in it.
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
The term you are looking for is what Douglas Hofstadter called "superrationality" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality ].
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
OK. I'm imagining such a password management system. I don't see why it makes sense for the government to ban Microsoft from using that company's password management system for Minecraft, just because Microsoft also happens t
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
If Domino's Pizza offered to deliver pizza to the Pentagon but declined in their terms of service to deliver pizza-box-shaped packages to Tehran, do you think it would be a fair and proportionate response for the DoD to ban anyone in t
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
Solution to save the environment: China should separate out Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia as separate independent countries. Hong Kong and Macao too. And then split north-south so that Shanghai and Beijing become their own capitals. C
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by mitthrowaway2 1mo ago
Wow, even with that being electricity rather than energy, that's orders of magnitude more than I would have guessed. That's a tremendous amount of electricity.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
Yep, if the riddle asked "what do calves drink", then "milk" would definitely have been the correct answer.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
> Human intelligence doesn't get confused like that. We do; this is the premise of many children's riddle-games, like the one that goes: "What is white and rhymes with silk? > Milk. What is cheese made from? > Milk.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
I imagine it might look something like a company-internal gig economy; someone puts out a request for a code review and a bunch of fellow employees bid on doing the job, and the requester provides a tip for good service at the end, etc.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
It's a pedagogical tool, not a rhetorical tool. It's meant to help people who are struggling to understand, by providing an easy concrete example. When you say "provides no mechanism by which that could happen", do you m
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
Words! What are they for? Communication. The word "want" is clearly used here not as anthropomorphism, but as an accurate descriptive term of the output of a black-box system, whether the internals are human or otherwise. They&#
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
Is there anything he's said in particular that, given the benefit of hindsight, you feel has turned out to be misleading in retrospect? Speaking for myself only, but if I were going to post a comment like yours on a public forum insinu
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
You don't think that taxes reduce consumption?
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
In the 90s it was more common to find aspartame and artificial colors in candy (although those haven't disappeared), but less common to find polyglycerol polyricinoleate and similar emulsifiers in chocolate.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
It's really confusing when someone I don't like does something I do like.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
For 99.9% of all possible goals it might be interested in accomplishing, more resources are better than less. If it has any interest in spreading all over the galaxy, that same interest will first spread it all over the Earth. If it's
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
Is that the most effective backup plan that it could come up with? Because it would be pretty amazing if its thoroughly-considered backup strategy exactly aligned with our wishful thinking. It sounds to me like starting with the outcome w
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
I expect it would take them all, but Earth is by far the easiest for it to start with. I don't see why it would leave anything for us unless we'd successfully instilled it with an interest in doing so, but that won't happen b
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
I think he just cuts a lot of takes together. It's his style.
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by mitthrowaway2 2mo ago
Also speaking of trains, I can't zoom out and look at intercity train lines. I can only see highways. If I'm in Japan without a car, planning a sightseeing trip and wondering where I can easily visit by train, I can't do that

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