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by mkaic 4y ago
AGI is like the nuclear bomb in more ways than one. It has the capacity to end the world, or start research that ends up making the world a utopia. It's also inevitable like the nuclear bomb -- no international treaty could have stoppe
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by mkaic 4y ago
As a former Mormon, I can see that first idea being absolutely hilarious if implemented correctly. I'm imagining all sorts of increasingly absurd scenarios you could place the Mormon main character in and the kinds of jokes you could m
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by mkaic 4y ago
Huge fan of SpaceTeam but boy howdy does it stress me out sometimes haha. Lots of good memories of playing with my family and hearing the most absurd phrases being screamed at the top of their lungs. RECOMBOBULATE THE AERATOR! PAY TAXES! SU
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by mkaic 4y ago
Not sure about inference but for training, 128GB is big enough to fit a decent-sized dataset entirely into memory, which causes a massive speedup. It's also probably cheaper to get a 128GB Mac Studio than a dual-3090 rig unless you&#x2
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by mkaic 4y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of the memory bandwidth point, though it makes sense. TIL!
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This is really cool for a number of reasons: 1.) Apple Silicon currently can't compete with Nvidia GPUs in terms of raw compute power, but they're already way ahead on energy efficiency. Training a small deep learning model on b
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by mkaic 4y ago
Agreed! Though there are also times when our hairless-ape-ness can be a good thing -- for example, sometimes good things come from our irrational tendency to obsess over singular pursuits. Think about all the companies that make great produ
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by mkaic 4y ago
(author here) I totally agree, we shouldn't be trying to bring down the perception of the species! It's just useful to be mindful/remember sometimes that we are still animals, which means we're still going to be predispo
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We are still just hairless apes(mkaic.substack.com)
2 points by mkaic 4y ago|4 comments
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If people say it, and other people understand what is said, then it's acceptable, correct English. End of story. "English as she is spoke", as Mark Twain put it. The dictionary is defined by how people speak, not the other wa
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by mkaic 4y ago
For real. This is how the system ought to work. If they have the resources to come after you if you accidentally filled something out wrong, they have the resources to fill it out right for you in the first place. The tax system in the USA
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by mkaic 4y ago
98.4% by just thinking of words that i could not easily draw a mental connection between, then iterating over the list and double checking that no pair of two words had a noticeable link between them. if they did, i swapped one or both of t
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by mkaic 5y ago
Kind of ironic that the author has elicited a divided response with the "joke less, laugh less" part of the post.
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Among other things.
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Mykel Kochenderfer (one of the authors) is my uncle! Very friendly and smart guy. He helps run the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab (SISL) and I've gotten to see some very neat projects like self-flying drones when visiting.
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by mkaic 5y ago
I get the feeling that in the future, it will be necessary to sign videos with cryptographic keys based off of scans of your iris or other secure biomarkers if you want anyone to know it's actually real. Mannerisms are much too imitabl
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by mkaic 5y ago
probably Nvidia's latest Instant Neural Graphics Primitives paper (as far as I'm aware). they demonstrate near-instantaneous training of NeRF models: https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/
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Transhumanism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mkaic 5y ago|0 comments
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I agree! I'm Gen Z and I sympathize with the "good Russians" because I know a few. I've talked to people living in Russia right now who are furious with Putin for the awful evil things he's doing. I want Ukraine t
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by mkaic 5y ago
Anecdotal counterexample (I'm Gen Z) -- Ukraine is pictures on a screen, and that's what brought my attention to it! I want Ukraine to win the war and I think what Russia is doing is extremely wrong and heinous, and I also would
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by mkaic 5y ago
Sidenote as someone who's a member of Gen Z -- I... didn't grow up knowing nearly anything about the USA's wars of aggression other than that we were fighting someone in the middle east. I knew there was fighting, but I did
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by mkaic 5y ago
I don't think he's campaigning for "zero moderation" -- he's spoken about plans to fight bots. I think he just wants zero moderation for accounts run by actual humans, which is still a can of worms, but a different
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by mkaic 5y ago
Antonio is fantastic! If you like him I would also strongly recommend Eric Rosen's YT and Twitch channels -- he's a very laid-back, wholesome IM who's very funny and very instructive.
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by mkaic 5y ago
I thought it was interesting how difficult he found this! Seems like his brain is super hard-wired to play chess a specific way and he was unable to generalize the rules to the extra dimensions? Super fascinating.
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by mkaic 5y ago
Hikaru is fun but my personal favorite chess streamer is Eric Rosen, an incredibly chill, laid-back, witty IM who loves gambits and stalemate traps and radiates good vibes on stream. Super funny, super wholesome, and super instructive too!
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by mkaic 5y ago
+1 for Eric Rosen, he's the only chess streamer I always enjoy watching -- the others all tend to get on my nerves after a bit.
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by mkaic 5y ago
"Bread makes you fat?? " ~Scott Pilgrim
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by mkaic 5y ago
As a 3D artist who uses a lot of photoscans -- the scan quality looks fantastic to me! Photoscanned assets aren't usually meant to hold up up close, they're more intended for quickly building out a larger scene. Additionally, th
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by mkaic 5y ago
Awesome, thanks for the recommendation. I'll look into his writing!
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by mkaic 5y ago
I will, thanks for the recommendation! I hope my original response didn't dismissive -- it wasn't intended to if so.

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