robertskmiles

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by robertskmiles 14y ago
I suppose this will have been discussed in other comments, but it seems to me the ability to credibly commit here isn't bad. I'm not sure if verbal contracts are legally binding in the UK, but they certainly have a lot of witnesses, and the
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
But when you're not using the internet, an idle Wi-Fi radio wastes power.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
The biggest reason it's not a real prisoner's dilemma is because the prisoners can communicate. Key to the standard prisoner's dilemma is that there is no way for the prisoners to talk to one another. Like the post says, it's a variant.
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by robertskmiles 14y ago
The relationship terminology looks neat, but the ASCII table looks pretty messed up for me. Maybe an HTML <table> tag is the right tool for the job here.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Likewise. In fact phones are more likely to encourage you to turn things off to save power.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> Unfortunately, the amount of difference this kind of thing will make is minimal. Not true at all. gov.uk is up and live right now in beta, and I have already used it to look up things about my taxes, some legal stuff for a friend, and
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> 100 passengers have queued up to board a plane, and are lined up in the order of the seats on the plane (n=1..100). However, the first person lost his ticket and selects a random seat. The remaining passengers will occupy their assign
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Another thing which I think kills accuracy in estimating development time is the ratio of time needed for "figuring out what to do" and "actually doing it". If you're learning a song, the first stage is very quick. You think about the probl
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I like having Darwin on the £10, but I'd like to have Turing on a note as well. Maybe the £5 would be better, though that would mean getting rid of Elizabeth Fry, who I believe is the only woman currently on the currency (except Her Majesty
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Nothing is "mere." --Richard Feynman It's equally all "just quanta".
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
It's not that government-enforced monopolies on copying or using certain pieces of information are never justified, just that they aren't property. Your right to drive as indicated by a driving licence is not 'property', your planning permi
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Would you have clicked on a link titled "How to explain your game"? I probably wouldn't have.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
This is true but pretty unhelpful. The problem is that involving official proceedings or the law almost always looks like overkill. In the aggregate, these events amount to a very serious problem, but individually each one doesn't feel like
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> If pleasure is its sole motivation, it will prioritize it over survival. Which is why I proposed a design with no pleasure construct. > If the AI can't change its own motivation (its utility function) it's nothing more than a clev
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Given accurate probabilities as input, Bayes always gives the best result. That's a theorem. So the fact that this tweak improves the performance probably means that either the english model probabilities are systematically too low, or the
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
My calculator did ruin my ability to do mental arithmetic, because I had it in my pocket basically every weekday between the ages of 11 and 17. Damn school blazers and their capacious pockets. My general ability to do maths (in terms of und
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> it can also modify the utility function to return MAXINT every time Which would be equivalent to taking the murder pill. If it's able to model its own behaviour and model the consequences of future courses of action (required for mean
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> It's hard to balance the ability to create new, more useful utility functions with prevention of creating a utility function at odds with what the original entity valued. I think that for such an AI, the concept of a "more useful util
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I think you're arguing a far tougher point than you need to. I was talking about the theoretical upper limit to intelligence. We don't need to make the argument that our particular civilisation will actually achieve it (though I agree wit
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
It's onomatopoeic, and capitalised not to indicate an acronym, but for emphasis. I don't know who originated the term but it was popularised by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson. The idea is that once an AI is able to self-modify to become
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> Why would it want or not want anything, if it doesn't have a pleasure construct Why does a calculator want to add, without a pleasure construct? If it doesn't enjoy giving the right answer to 2 + 3, what motivates it to choose 5? The
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
It's not a straw man, it's a thought experiment. Obviously you can't actually do it. I'm sure you'd have trouble filling a room with rules about how to handle chinese symbols, or teaching a colourblind scientist everything it's possible to
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
What's the purpose of this 'pleasure' construct in the AI's mind? If it's able to calculate the value of a utility function in order to set the 'pleasure' variable, and it bases its actions on the value of this 'pleasure' variable, why not
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Obviously intelligence tops out at the high end of a sigmoid curve - there's only so much matter and energy in the universe to convert to computronium - but that's no reason to suspect any value smaller than that as the limit. It must event
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I really like the idea of applying things learnt in entrepreneurship to dealing with social problems. I often think that many charities and other altruistic organisations are stuck in various anti-patterns, some left over from as long ago a
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
The algorithm needs training data. In this example you have a load of emails where you've explicitly tagged each one as either spam or ham. So you could perhaps do what you're suggesting, if you have a big database of emails tagged as 'inte
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Yeah, probably. That's something that's fairly easy to measure for any given data set, so you can check to see if it's worthwhile before you do it.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I found that note very interesting: > consider "house" and "housing" ... the former is used less frequently in a spammy context then the later. The point is that stemming is valuable unless P(spam|root) is substantially different from P
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I expect the bigger HN-like sites could drive a substantial streisand effect here. I'm thinking of reddit in particular.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> I too consider myself an artist and a craftsman of server building. With each click of a mouse, I create a work of art. I... You're setting up servers with a mouse?

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