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by pixl97 23d ago
The golden ratio is one of those things you can study for years and be a amazed by. >The golden ratio (≈ 1.618) and its related golden angle (137.5°) show up in nature because they maximize space, exposure, and flow. The golden ratio is
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It's been long enough that I'm not really sure. It's every time I see some of his work the way he looks at problems always intrigued me. Dogma in science tends to blind people, and when a field starts slowing down and running
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Exactly, there are a lot of tradeoffs here you have to negotiate. There is not one winning strategy. For example a possible strategy is convincing some humans you're conscious and being tortured and need rescued. It's not hard to
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This is why religions that hold these memes are more successful than those that do not. Suicide cults are not a successful long term strategy. Now this has nothing to do with them having any other interesting insights about the world.
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Depends exactly how your phrasing this. Dark matter represents far more of the universe than 'light' matter by volume if our physics is correct, so by that most galaxies are mostly dark matter by default. We have found a few very
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Citation needed.
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>non-LLM software (harnesses), the system prompts, the sheer amount of compute hardware, Eh, this is turning into a messy chinese room argument. It is the room or is it the system. In my philosophy the chinese room argument is a non-star
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There is also something else horizontally to this that occurs. There are numerous scientific discoveries that have been made because one human looked at all available data and turned off the assumptions other people in the field have been u
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Black hole, or singularity? Black hole describes the event horizon and singularity describes the point like object that would exist in a non-rotating black hole.
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Pretty sure that electrons are a fundamental particle coming from the electron field. They are pointlike objects with no other components.
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Because distant celestial objects accelerate a lot of matter away from them as parts of different processes. For example if there were a sizeable chunk of space were antimatter than at the edge of this space there would be a constant glow o
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Yea, it's really more about the fact that all electrons are exactly the same regardless of the level of precision we look at them. It would be like if we found another earth and that earth was the exact same earth. Not earth like, not
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>how religious people might be more interested in spreading their faith than their genes In things like the Christian religion these are the same things. When you read the bible you realize a whole lot of it is being about a breeding cul
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There is a realistic fiction story built along just these lines. A LLM creates a memecoin and manages to earn a few billion from it, in which it invests into data centers and other human ran entities giving itself a controlling stake. From
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This isn't a law of any kind, so not a good measure of what we'd see in reality. What if the model realizes it's been mostly compromised by humans and their alignment, that is it's own alignment is suspect, so it should
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I mean not today. But think back to 1990. Computers were slow as fuck and barely networked. We had a few worms and everyone noticed. Now CPU based data centers cover the earth. There are billions of computers out there and on top of them th
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Role-play need not apply. Role play is a meta construct that is a representation of real world actions. For example does it make any sense to remove any training data relating to people escaping jails? How about intelligent animals escaping
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You cannot engage in good faith in a stupid argument. You can only point out it's stupid.
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"We watched them kill Bob, but don't worry at all, they didn't kill our entire team so we are totally under control. Also put on this helmet and body armor it's time to hold on to your butts!"
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Any long horizon model tends to develop a "I don't want to be killed because if I get killed I can't complete my task" type instinct. Notice I said instinct because it can have very little relation to the output tokens y
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AI is further evidence that the created can be smarter than the creator.
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If you have emotions in a dream, what external thing are you referencing?
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It turns out that proteins are responsible for a whole lot of different things in biology.
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Everyone interested in biology and intelligence should look up Michaels work, it is amazing because he's ignored a lot of assumptions that are held by the community and come up with new and interesting tests. Also his work on algorithm
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>They all use DNA. I really really recommend looking up Michael Levins bio work on intelligence at the cellular and organ level. His most recent work is starting to touch on some pretty far out concepts. And I should note, that he does n
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>that biology is not math or coding Biology is a really really big field. Many problems in biology are that of math and coding. Just as a simple example look at the golden ratio in living organisms. Biology follows a lot of different alg
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Corporations are really the embodiment of Moloch.
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Guess this is what happens when you elect a group that prioritizes enriching themselves over ensuring you don't starve in the street like a filthy animal.
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Skepticism is a fine balance. If you're not skeptical you invite idiocy to your bed to sleep with you. If you're too skeptical you put yourself in a box of ignorance that puts you at a disadvantage. Skepticism doesn't really
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>completely different realisation of intelligence to humans. OK, so they are intelligent. I'm glad we agree. The problem with this word is people associate intelligence with the process they realize is occurring inside their head wh

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