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by p-e-w 3y ago
> 420/800/1200 ppm has no meaningful difference That claim contradicts the results of the NIEHS study "Is CO2 an Indoor Pollutant?"[1], which has found that "Relative to 600 ppm, at 1,000 ppm CO2, moderate and st
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by p-e-w 3y ago
As for downsides: I wouldn't be surprised if your body adapted to the higher oxygen levels that you provide it with the concentrator, resulting in reduced productivity when you're not connected to it. Just like people who live a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> IQ is highly associated with self-control and discipline. I'd like to see a citation for that, especially for the idea that the self-control/discipline associated with high IQs transfers over to non-academic aspects of life,
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by p-e-w 3y ago
People who attend institutions considered "elite" have on average been told since early childhood that they are part of the elite. In my experience, such people tend to have less self-discipline and fewer inhibitions than regu
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's great news. If there ever was an opportunity for newcomers to enter the search engine market, it is now. 15 years ago, the idea of competing with Google would have been laughable. Not only did they have all the money, their sear
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That watch was custom-made for the dive, though. It was not a regular Rolex diving watch. I think the strongest commercially available diving watches are rated for 1000 meters – less than 10% of the depth of the Challenger Deep. Which is
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> what's an iPhone that can't connect to the internet worth? It's just a telephone with a camera Nope. It's just a camera. Because the "telephone" part relies on infrastructure that is unmaintainable without
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Shutting down the Internet would stop most of global trade, cripple most government operations, and trigger an economic meltdown that would make the Great Depression look insignificant by comparison, not to mention unimaginable social chaos
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I very strongly doubt that they would have continued a dive with a cracked window. Their risk was abstract, and caused by ignorance. The crew of the Trieste continued to descend knowing full well that their vessel was damaged. That's
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> During the descent [of the Trieste to the Challenger Deep], one of the window panes cracked and shook the entire vessel. ... and still they did not abort the dive. In fact, they continued to go even deeper. Think about that for a sec
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Huginn is a bunch of mechanical rules explicitly created by the user and easily understandable by them. It's "autonomous" in the sense of a grandfather clock. The rules governing LLMs, while in principle mechanical, cannot
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Sure. And if the "bad" program has spread as a virus, you just pull all the plugs of all the computers, right? Of course, you will kill modern civilization by doing so (and many millions of people as a result), but at least the AI
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> LLMs are nowhere close. We are nowhere close to even a rudimentary understanding of how current LLMs actually work. All we have are low-level building blocks, and lots of philosophizing about high-level output. Considering that, rely
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> seems to not have much awareness about what the consequences of such a project might mean That's the worst part of it. Is the current generation of LLMs dangerous? Probably not. Will the next generation of LLMs be dangerous? Maybe
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> In what scenario can you kill 100,000 people with with an LLM hooked up to a Python interpreter? The article talks about LLMs being hooked up to the Internet. Big difference. If you really can't imagine a scenario where this mig
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by p-e-w 3y ago
A fairly lengthy article about Autonomous AI, and, as far as I can tell, not a single word about the safety implications of such a system (a short note about reliability of LLMs is all we get, and it's not clear that the author means
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Rust had Mozilla's backing, and later other behemoths like Amazon and Microsoft jumped onto the bandwagon. Corporate support is absolutely essential for a new language to be taken seriously in the industry. If Go weren't associate
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'm not trying to demonstrate that my claims are true. I'm trying to demonstrate that it is meaningless to discuss these topics in the first place, because we don't understand the workings of the mind nearly well enough to di
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That you leap from "basic challenges" to anti-science fundamentalism really shows how deep-rooted this problem is. Most educated people today earnestly believe that the only ones who would disagree on basic issues with the high pr
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> since it’s possible to imagine it, this means it will come into existence Nope. That's not the argument. In fact, it's such a bad take that it reeks of a deliberately constructed strawman. The actual argument is: Since it&#x2
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by p-e-w 3y ago
And you don't have a shred of actual evidence to demonstrate that, only your own preconceptions about how things supposedly are.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's speculation, not evidence. The traits you describe aren't demonstrably incompatible with the mechanism I proposed.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Not again. We had this same bad argument just last week[1]. Custom-engineering backdoored client software, and rolling it out to a subset of users in a targeted attack, is not comparable to storing everything in plaintext on the server an
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by p-e-w 3y ago
But that is exactly the information you need in order to determine which config file is being read in all situations. A single location doesn't cut it if the reality is more complicated. If the goal is to find out which particular fi
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by p-e-w 3y ago
strace uses ptrace, which some programs disable with prctl as a security measure. So while this can be a useful hack, it doesn't always work.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I don't think I've ever encountered a widely used program that doesn't have that information in its manpage. The manpage is the canonical source the article calls for. With the exception of New Age software like Go, that fo
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by p-e-w 3y ago
They welcome shallow challenges that allow them to demonstrate their intellectual superiority by correcting them. They most certainly don't welcome challenges to the basic assumptions on which their teachings rest. Not that professors
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Climate change is a real field of science. AI risk is Nostradamic prognostication by people who know more than you. Any prediction of the future is necessarily based on modeling and extrapolation. Five years ago AIs couldn't pass
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Show me any evidence for AI risk today beyond people's theories and beliefs? Deduction. Empirical evidence isn't the only source of insight. You don't have to conduct experiments in order to reasonably conclude that an e
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> fully licensed, regulation compliant ... in the US. There appear to be no licenses from anywhere else in the world[1]. A small detail that you'd think might be worth mentioning on the homepage, but AFAICT, they don't. [1] ht

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