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by richardw 2y ago
Yup, why I mentioned it. I first saw a mouse on an ST, triggering much desire compared to my Amstrad CPC-464. The Amiga arrived and that was gorgeous. I would try draw the Porsche pic pixel by pixel ( https://imgur.com/galler
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by richardw 2y ago
Good times. Remember these? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
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Totally. I’ve wondered how you safeguard humans in such a scenario. Not sure it can be done, even by self modifying defenders who religiously try keep us intact. I also somewhat assume it’ll get Darwinian if there are multiple tribes of eit
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The size of the gap between “smarter than humans” and “not controlled by humans anymore” is obviously where the disagreement is. To assume it’s a chasm that can never be overcome, you need at least the following to be true: No amount of foc
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Dude, my reference is to ever continuing improvement. As a society we don’t tent to forget what we had last year, which is why the curve does not go negative. At time T+1 the level of technology will be equal or better than at time T. That
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by richardw 2y ago
Choose any limit. For example, lack of agency. Then leave humans alone for a year or two and watch us spontaneously try to replicate agency. We are trying to build AGI. Every time we fall short, we try again. We will keep doing this until
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by richardw 2y ago
Do you think the AI won’t be aware of this? Do you think it’ll give us any hint of differing opinions when surrounded by monkeys who got to the top by whacking anything that looks remotely dangerous? Just put yourself in that position and t
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by richardw 2y ago
“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
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by richardw 2y ago
> You can make numerous observations of a single electron over a period of time and see a wave like pattern emerge I thought measurement along the path collapses the wave, removing the wave pattern over the full source to destination tha
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by richardw 2y ago
I’ve been waiting for Apple to arrive. They bring so much polish and taste. Two features I really want: “Position the cursor at the beginning of the word ‘usability’” “Stop auto suggesting that word. I never use it, ever”
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Eventually consistent means just that, I guess. But I’m sure their reasoning was a lot more sophisticated or impacted by scale than most. Cool problem.
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Banking, 7 ish years. Worked well for us in general. When I start needing increased confidence and truth the effort level goes way up but can be done. Definitely still worth it, has given us some solid benefits. When I say increased, I mean
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by richardw 2y ago
“ Sound waves from military submarine sonar systems can get as loud as 235 decibels. They are able to travel hundreds of miles and can maintain the intensity of 140 decibels as far as 300 miles from the source.” That’s insane. https:/
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by richardw 2y ago
Mine is Mindscape podcast. The AMA episodes are multi hour and filled with intelligent information. I do worry that on bad nights I might not be getting the sleep my brain needs because there’s a feed of input unrelated to my life.
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It’s a leveller. People who haven’t had the benefits of working with the exact stack on the same type of problem in another similar company still get a shot. Do you have the drive and enough mental acuity to solve this set of problems? You’
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by richardw 2y ago
You’re not wrong but Knuth’s programs have very few bugs and do a shitload. “The reward for coding errors found in Knuth's TeX and Metafont programs (as distinguished from errors in Knuth's books) followed an audacious scheme insp
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by richardw 2y ago
Wow. People have been keeping the lights on all this time? Incredible dedication. Wishing them many thanks for the amazing years, when the internet felt purely good and we had our lives ahead of us. It meant so much to see the “online” indi
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by richardw 2y ago
Honestly, don’t base your main pricing on college students. Maybe have a deal if they sign up with their college email address. For the rest, price for the customers you want.
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by richardw 2y ago
I remember a lot of chatter around Google buying up fiber after many companies had aggressively built out networks in the "broadband" scramble, which then lay unused. So-called "dark fiber". 2005 article: https:/&#
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by richardw 2y ago
Because an increasing amount of capital and effort is going towards improving the chances we eventually achieve AGI. We might hit another winter where the party stops, but right now a lot of stock prices are encouraging more research. That
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by richardw 2y ago
I’d say HN has generated them a huge amount of money. It’s a massive center of high quality tech discussion and HN posts have priority. Every other investment company would kill to own and run HN. What’s the value? Try set up a competitor a
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by richardw 2y ago
I imagine the first models that trained on HN comments resulted in staff members resigning and becoming hermit alcoholics after some brainstorming and "Show HN" test runs. To make something that didn't result in instant and p
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by richardw 2y ago
Apple and Google, you need to get your personal agent game going because right now you’re losing the market. This is FREE. Tweakable emotion and voice, watching the scene, cracking jokes. It’s not perfect but the amount and types of data th
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by richardw 2y ago
Good answers here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-shoul... I’d do a disservice to try copy and paste here so rather look at the top answer
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by richardw 2y ago
Yup. OpenAI will have the answers and humans won’t except through OpenAI.
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Main difference is recruiting much larger muscles, so at some point most humans will be faster over a longer period with the widget. Let Phelps train with this for a couple months and he'd be faster. Although probably sad, because he l
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"VanWalleghem said there is room to push costs down as the company gains experience from these first few plants. The storage systems have a projected lifespan of about 50 years, which is an important data point when comparing it to bat
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by richardw 2y ago
When you’re under the gun, bang for buck is crucial. When you have a relatively fat, wealthy and lazy society (compared to WWII and even the post-war 60’s) all the costs go up. Eg you could build roads or railways or ships back then. Now th
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by richardw 2y ago
Same as a wireframe. If you eg add colours and design elements people will focus on that. It’s also easier to search the site for Lorem Ipsum to check you haven’t left anything. Once it’s filled with English you have a harder time finding w
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by richardw 2y ago
Couldn’t they use a heavy weighted outfit? Add a couple hundred kg of gear and you’d get a solid workout on the same plane. Feels like you could make a treadmill that is smaller than the wall of death.

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