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It seems perhaps that the liberal democracy approach to immigration policies is now dangerous to the survival of democratic institutions. Maybe all countries should deport illegal immigrants, and severely limit immigration for a period of t
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by nis0s 2y ago
It would be well-deserved and helpful towards culling many AI services, which are essentially snake oil. For example, the science and research on lie detection using image and audio analysis is tenuous at best, but there companies purportin
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by nis0s 2y ago
You’re right. Antarctic penguins and walruses are good examples of this. Penguin females go hunting, while the males hatch eggs and rear the young till the females return. Walrus males, OTOH, absolutely dominate other walrus males, and keep
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by nis0s 2y ago
Some time ago I interviewed with an AI governance think tank, and one of the topics that came up for ensuring Western-allied AI supremacy was trade security of compute resources. I didn’t want to shoot down their approach on this to their f
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Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek(venturebeat.com)
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Why do people use chatGPT in favor of open source models? The performance isn’t that different for general queries, and not even that much for specialized ones.
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I think a lot of people get the privilege to be wrong by relying on status and brand name recognition. It’s a sad and dangerous tradition which needs to be addressed.
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> This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams. Well, this doesn’t even make a little sense. All organisms are capable of stress respon
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by nis0s 2y ago
For most people, success comes from winning the parent lottery, or if not that, then birth nation lottery. I hate to say this, but the UFOA phenomenon sounds to me like someone who got lucky, and rode someone else’s prior success. Very few
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I think the intelligentsia sold everyone on these ideas really well. It’s hard to say what would have been, but people work with the frameworks they’re given, either directly or indirectly, and some frameworks muddy the waters.
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The internet changed the scale and speed of communications, which is why all of this seems like it’s a new phenomenon, but politics has always been like this, if not worse. In fact, misinformation campaigns allow carrying out bloodless take
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by nis0s 2y ago
If I generally know what my levels are on a daily basis as both my diet and my routine is constant, then I don’t need a device. But I guess some people do. It’s also a little presumptuous to believe that someone would want to wear a bulky m
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A lot of games are trying to clone each other’s success without bringing new mechanics or IP to the table. In a way, I get it because once you have games which essentially form cults and a lifestyle around them, then to any humble developer
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AGI is not a problem because humans can learn to use it for their own benefit. The problem is that it’s no where near intelligent enough to even replace a pre-school teacher. Why would I trust it for anything more complex than that? But tha
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> If truth is objective, then we must always be open to the possibility of being wrong. Thus respect for others should lead us to be careful about claiming that we know anything for certain, and that means believing that truth is more th
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I am not sure exactly how the tech in question was developed, but it seems to me a more serious approach is to use estimates from the patient’s same gendered relatives, such as their grandparents or parents. Applying average distributions t
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If the ultimate goal is gaining skills or training someone to be able to provide for themselves, then vocational schools and apprenticeship programs should be valid choices after high school. There’s just a lot of social stigma around not g
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by nis0s 2y ago
Selective pressures evolved the human brain to its current state. When you’re a relatively small primate with soft surface areas, and easy to piece skin, what survives will depend on cognitive flexibility for successful survival. Resource c
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by nis0s 2y ago
Happy Yule to those who celebrate it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
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CEOs should be replaced by AI, charm shouldn’t be a factor in decision making.
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> The idea that humans are natural-born predators was not just a scientific claim; it also found expression in the broader culture. In the 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies,” a group of school-age boys stranded on an island descend into sava
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I am not sure I see a technocracy as yet, and to me it seems the underlying philosophy is simply dark enlightenment. I find dark enlightenment is an incomplete perspective for determining any basis of truth and reality. Even if the goal is
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I think the discussion on serial vs parallel processing is incomplete in the linked paper, and is one reason I think the 10 bits/s bottleneck is an incomplete or misinterpreted result. Here’s a review with sources on serial processing,
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I wasn’t being “dishonest”, I couldn’t copy/paste the entire text on my phone. I addressed the rest of that statement in my comment by noting that you can’t make the same assumptions about biochemical reactions and emergent behaviors o
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When compared directly to the 10^9 bits/s for sensory information, which uses the same type of information, it is slow.
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They say this directly in section 7.2, > In contrast, central processing appears to be strictly serial… and then they proceed to give misinterpretated evidence of serialization because they’re making assumptions about lower level biochem
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Any chemical reaction happens with a success rate that is not 100% guaranteed based on lower level quantum phenomena and higher level atomic interactions. It seems the author doesn’t take first principles into consideration.
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It seems this analysis is incorrectly assuming a serial communication mode for neuronal transmission, which isn’t what happens.
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Laws need to change to let people rifle down drones in airspace over their property.
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IME, people talking about aliens were engaging in psyops or misdirection. Unless you’re in the Serengeti, it makes more sense to assume horses before you jump to zebras.

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