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by patcon 3y ago
If you're visiting london and feel inspired by the "make it real" demo, ppl in that circle routinely demo at Maggie Appleton's rad Future of Coding events[1] (and many other talented people building UIs and interfaces).
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by patcon 3y ago
heh thanks for the reply :) I am probably a bit too enthusiastic about applications of Polis-like's (in the "when you have a hammer" sense), but there's a bit more to the system's mechanism design than just Polis --
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by patcon 3y ago
Not sure why it's a flag. We have lots to learn from how science was done in the past, and from the actors who did science. Recent science is pretty objectively at a low point (proportionally to overall) in "breakthrough innovatio
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by patcon 3y ago
Thanks! What are your thoughts on this model of promoting breakthrough innovation? How to fund Breakthrough Innovations in Science (Puja Ohlhaver @ DeSci.Berlin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guLDNMAOn24 Puja has a few ta
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by patcon 3y ago
I think of it as the difference between blank paper and a note-taking system: paper is hyper-versatile, but sharing systems of using it, that's where all the richness of paper is :)
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah, Elon just rebranded it, and pushed fwd its full deployment I was fully bought into the premise of birdwatch due to it being based on a great tool I've worked with for years (Pol.is), but Elon seemed to have loved it for all the w
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by patcon 3y ago
The proper guardrails worthy of being entrusted, they best come from an ecology of human minds with diverse perspectives and ideas, to grok the whole possibility space with minimal blind spots. The human machine is already tuned to do this
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by patcon 3y ago
Speed. Consensus usually implies self-reflection. Know thyself and all that jazz. If there's no time to know thyself, it's hard to get true consensus.
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by patcon 3y ago
I recall the HackDesign website/course being great a few years ago! Not sure about now, but used to be free...! https://hackdesign.org/
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by patcon 3y ago
For example, Silicon Valley, had a handful of co-producers who went to niche tech conferences like dweb camp and got attendees on consulting contracts for the upcoming seasons they were writing. I presume the conference circuit was still wh
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by patcon 3y ago
> Some of Altman’s backers, including OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, publicly expressed derision specifically toward Toner and Tasha McCauley, another former OpenAI board member who voted to fire Altman and is connected to organizations t
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by patcon 3y ago
I read a bit of your history. I highly respect your takes. Thanks
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by patcon 3y ago
You're making the case for the side you're critiquing
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by patcon 3y ago
While mostly used for plants, there's another method that's essentially shooting cells with bullets coated in genes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun
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by patcon 3y ago
Wtf. Are these still down there???
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by patcon 3y ago
Unsure, but maybe related to newer considerations/nuance: Scaling theory of armed-conflict avalanches https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/avalanche-violence-... Podcast: https://complexity.sim
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by patcon 3y ago
> Stick that file on a USB stick and stash it in a drawer as insurance against a future apocalypse. You’ll never be without a language model ever again. <3
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Helen Toner, the effective altruist who sparked the Open AI coup(smh.com.au)
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by patcon 3y ago
One would be a singular bespoke (and highly specified) improvement, and the other is likely a generalized flywheel that may keep incentivizing many further improvements
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by patcon 3y ago
> The board acted like the most incompetent group of individuals who've eve[r been] handed any responsibility. This whole conversation has been full of appeals to authority. Just because us tech people don't know some of these
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by patcon 3y ago
From the Reuters article you linked, the only hit from "ctrl+f confirm" now says: > Researchers have also flagged work by an "AI scientist" team, the existence of which multiple sources confirmed. Maybe it firmed up i
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by patcon 3y ago
Agreed. Perhaps a reason for public AI [1], which advocates for a publicly funded option where a player like MSFT can't push around something like OpenAI so forcefully. [1]: https://lu.ma/zo0vnony
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by patcon 3y ago
Being funded by Microsoft is one thing, but working for them might lead to some dissonance -- I think tech ppl are already wary of them owning GitHub... and then owning the team building AGI. It would and should give ppl pause. I suspect Sa
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah! <3 https://github.com/mitmproxy/android-unpinner
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by patcon 3y ago
I have no skin in this game, but reading your comments frustrates me
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by patcon 3y ago
I feel you are being unimaginative and maybe a bit naive. I worked in biochemistry and used to eagerly anticipate the equivalent of free continuous integration services for wet lab work. It's here, just not evenly distributed and cheap
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah, it strikes me as a rather absurd proposal as well.
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by patcon 3y ago
> Their ambiguous goals induce politics. [...] This is the problem with religious organizations and ideological governments: they can't be trusted, because they will be captured by their internal politics. Yes, of course. But that&#
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by patcon 3y ago
No, I didn't mean to say that it was necessarily bad, just that this sincerity/charm is simply power. And we should rightfully be wary of power. And least this woman was, and I agree. Predicting how it will be used (good vs bad) i
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah, I agree there are two types: 1) repeating things he's reflected in or seen in the past (more like autocomplete), or 2) mixing two semantic concepts that he's seen in the past, and using it as a bridge to walk over to get to

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