richk449

12 ms·

91.
by richk449 3y ago
“I have recently taken to asking candidates who interview with me for research positions whether it is possible to hear the shape of a drum. This seemingly innocuous problem was posed by mathematician Mark Kac in 196612 and stumped the mat
92.
by richk449 3y ago
And if I want to know if I or my neighbor should be shamed for something, I just consult you, the oracle of shame?
93.
by richk449 3y ago
Do you have a link to this? I’m interested to learn more.
94.
by richk449 3y ago
So salt combining with water takes energy, and separating it gives off energy. Yet combining happens spontaneously, and separation doesn’t. Because I don’t understand this, it seems like a paradox. What am I missing?
95.
by richk449 3y ago
I’m sympathetic to the pain for the programmer, but I still have so many questions: The months of backlog to build against was hard coded? Changing it requires rebuilding and redeploying the entire software stack that runs the factory? This
96.
by richk449 3y ago
Butlerian jihad is a good reference point. Something so bad happened that a large enough portion of the population was convinced to destroy thinking machines, and this no-computer norm was held in human society for a crazy long time (been t
97.
by richk449 3y ago
> A judge willing to commit the Butlerian Jihad[0] might even say that regurgitation does not matter and that all AI outputs are derivative works of the entire training set[1]. A judge can’t “commit” the butlierian jihad. A jihad is a ma
98.
by richk449 3y ago
Fun question. What does it mean to be "less financially conservative"? Invest more in stocks than bonds? Or buy a fast car? Maybe the right move is to invest in raw materials that are used for the components that go into computers
99.
by richk449 3y ago
Farnsworth fusor
100.
by richk449 3y ago
Sure, now imagine the backup system was discontinued twenty years ago and not tested since then.
101.
by richk449 3y ago
> “The problem is that it’s not a treaty; that’s an American law,” Sai said. “The United States could no more annex a foreign country by passing a law than it could pass the law today for the Congress to annex Canada. It has no effect b
102.
by richk449 3y ago
I think it is a reference to Hinton's comments about Wittgenstein in the New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2023/06/men-made-fut... There are, he conceded, aspects of the world ChatG
103.
by richk449 3y ago
At least part of the point is recognizing that this was a credible threat to Putin. What would it take for the US president to leave Washington DC though? Obviously a real possibility of nuclear war. What else though?
104.
by richk449 3y ago
Why is it not a mass shooting if a gang is involved?
105.
Tearing-down Tesla’s in-house radar design(ghostautonomy.com)
2 points by richk449 3y ago|0 comments
106.
by richk449 3y ago
> that's how tyranny works. if a large enough (like 15%) people are stupid enough to give up a basic right for a perceived safety, tyranny flourishes Is that how tyranny works? Asking because I honestly don’t know. When the American
107.
by richk449 3y ago
> If I hired a babysitter and on their watch, one of my kids caught on fire, yes, I'd insist on attributing that to the person whose one job it was to ensure their safety, and at least not hiring them again. Interesting that the res
108.
by richk449 3y ago
You seem to have captured some truth. But isn’t it also true that the cushy life is possible because of the previous generations strivers? It was Glug that caught only the minimum amount of animal needed to survive that built the modern wor
109.
by richk449 3y ago
> No they don't seem vastly more powerful. They're stochastic parrots--there is no 'intelligence' or problem solving, logic, comprehension, etc. This doesn’t feel like a coherent argument to me. The statement “There i
110.
by richk449 3y ago
> I don't buy it, it's a better chat bot It feels like this is a category error that is causing you to miss the reason there is so much excitement. It like saying “I don’t get it, the model T is just another car. We have had th
111.
by richk449 3y ago
> Sampling evidence shows that Salmonella prevalence varies substantially across the pork industries. On average, 30.3 percent of comminuted pork samples were Salmonella-positive. For pork cuts samples, an average of 9.3 percent were Sal
112.
by richk449 3y ago
To a plasma physicist, 10 is within an order of magnitude, so as good as one could hope for.
113.
by richk449 3y ago
> I don't think "I would have gone about the topic differently, but you’re doing fine" is a growth opportunity. It just has something of an ambiguously negative vibe without actually saying what it's about, while also
114.
by richk449 3y ago
The world is changing much faster than humans evolve. The last ice age wiped out many large mammals in North America. The right mix of traits in warm weather wasn’t right when the cold weather hit. So maybe social media winter is coming?
115.
by richk449 3y ago
> In one experiment, people gave impromptu speeches on controversial topics in front of a friend who offered feedback. Unbeknown to the participants, the researchers had randomly assigned the friend to give ambivalent or negative comment
116.
by richk449 3y ago
In the same way that Russian roulette isn’t a black and white issue?
117.
by richk449 3y ago
> Even if an AI has the launch codes for ICBMs somewhere in its training data, it doesn't have an interface to the nearest missile silo to use them. It cannot commandeer the resources (hardware, space, cooling, electricity) it needs
118.
by richk449 3y ago
It’s amazing how easily people are fooled into thinking something is intelligent. I met Stephen Hawking once and asked him how to slice video with ffmpeg. He didn’t have a clue! Obviously he isn’t an intelligent person. Yet so many people
119.
by richk449 3y ago
> We can start here: what is the difference between intelligence and consciousness? Let’s find out! > Let’s explore the idea that there are three forms of consciousness: natural, artificial, and synthetic. We (humans) have natural con
120.
by richk449 3y ago
Recipes are terrible when it comes to time. I have this one open in a tab so I can try it soon: https://www.seriouseats.com/lamb-biryani The first step is the prep step, which it says takes 5 minutes. In that step, I have t

More ›