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by naasking 1y ago
HATEOAS adds lots of practical value if you care about discoverability and longevity.
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by naasking 1y ago
> For people who have only a surface-level understanding of how they work, yes. This is too dismissive because it's based on an assumption that we have a sufficiently accurate mechanistic model of the brain that we can know when som
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by naasking 1y ago
I used to do this as well, but Gemini 2.5 has improved on this quite a bit and I don't find myself needing to do it as much anymore.
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by naasking 1y ago
As I said above: > This + continued technological development entails that AGI is inevitable. Everyone takes the above as a given in any discussion of future projections.
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by naasking 1y ago
The reason it's inevitable is because because it follows from physics principles. The Bekenstein Bound proves that all physical systems of finite volume contain finite information, humans are a finite volume, ergo a human contains fini
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by naasking 1y ago
> The Navier-Stokes equations are a set of differential equations. The functions that the equations act upon are functions of time (and space), so the system is perfectly reversible. It's hard to take full reversibility seriously gi
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by naasking 1y ago
As far as I've seen, her position is only that AGI is pretty much inevitable. What's so fantastical about that?
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by naasking 1y ago
This looks like a reinvention of the final, tagless interpreter, which has been a great, common technique in functional languages for awhile: https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/index.html#tagless-final It's
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by naasking 1y ago
I think the hygiene issue is somewhat exaggerated. Early printing often didn't prioritize properly dried filament so the output often bubbled and had many pockmarks and imperfections where bacteria could grow. If you look at modern pri
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by naasking 1y ago
Typically, multistage languages permit program generation at any stage, including runtime . So that would be different than C++.
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by naasking 1y ago
Optimization is absolutely one of them, once you start dealing with higher order programs or programs with sophisticated control flow. Compiler optimizations are not enough to infer the Futamura projections in all cases, for instance. http
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by naasking 1y ago
De facto policies are still active policies, even if they aren't de jure.
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by naasking 1y ago
> Is there a part of the US’s 250 year history where we weren’t bringing in immigrants from poorer countries to provide cheap labor? Pretty sure they're referring to a de facto open border policy, where you basically permit all sort
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by naasking 1y ago
1. Dust specs would respond to momentum imparted by the light much more quickly, which would reduce the momentum difference between the ship and the specs. 2. Enough incident light could vaporize the specs entirely leaving only gas or plasm
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by naasking 1y ago
> Generally, fertility rates are higher among poorer populations compared to wealthier populations. Yes, but they were even higher in the past. Fertility has declined among the poorer classes much more than among higher income classes,
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by naasking 1y ago
Perhaps, some fraction of the laser energy beamed to move the sail is redirected directly in front of the spacecraft to vaporize any dust particles in its path. Fragments of a circular sail could be angled in the right way so as to take som
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by naasking 1y ago
> All of these working together means that each year the act of having a child is much more deliberate and the parents likely having more resources. Which in turn should mean fewer youth delinquency, which as the article notes is how mos
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by naasking 1y ago
Diffraction spikes [1] are a natural result of the wave-like nature of light, so they occur for all objects viewed through a telescope, and the exact pattern depends on the number and thickness of the vanes. My favourite fact about these in
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by naasking 1y ago
I don't see why you necessarily need multiple machines, just multiple checkouts, one for each agent. Depends on what shared resources are involved, eg. databases, etc.
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by naasking 1y ago
That same link puts AI risk under the "far future" category, basically the same category as "threats to global food security" and asteroid impact risks. What's unreasonable about that?
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by naasking 1y ago
Western nations have dominated the world for centuries, in science, technology and cultural dominance. Russia is a bit player and has been for some time. Even if China were to ascend to equal prominence as the US, it would be an outlier in
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by naasking 1y ago
> If things are going to get better in Africa, it will be because Africans grow their economy and pay taxes and their governments can provide the services that they want The problem with this argument is that the path to achieve this is
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by naasking 1y ago
Which organization? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/f6kg8T2Lp6rDqxWwG/...
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by naasking 1y ago
House prices don't fall forever, and as long as selling prices don't fall below cost of construction + margin, there's still incentive to build. There are numerous examples around the US where this is taking place, like Austi
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by naasking 1y ago
I don't think it's useful to conflate "the ends justify the means" with "cost-benefit analysis". You sometimes use the latter to justify certain means, but you don't have to , that's why they're
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by naasking 1y ago
This is what some EAs believe, I don't think there was ever a broad consensus on those latter claims. As such, it doesn't seem like a fair criticism of EA.
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by naasking 1y ago
> If you are a gene, you can probably produce more offspring in an already-industrialized environment by making brains that lean more towards misogyny and sexual promiscuity than gender equality and intellectual achievement. The fact tha
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by naasking 1y ago
> "hey, I've got a thought, maybe I haven't considered all angles to it, maybe I'm wrong - but here it is" I dunno, that seems like the tone of every article I've read on less wrong.
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by naasking 1y ago
There should always be a surplus of homes, the point is to get a sufficient surplus in the places that are in demand that this places downward pressure on prices, aka competition.
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by naasking 1y ago
All isolated systems or sensors that simply notify humans or providing them with basic calculations. The MP3 and entertainment systems on modern cars are orders of magnitude more complex. Again, you don't have to take my word for it, j

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