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by rytill 4y ago
So what specific task will AI definitely not be able to do in 5 years?
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by rytill 4y ago
How would you falsify this hypothesis? What specific task do you think AI will be unable to do in our lifetimes because of this lacking of comprehension?
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by rytill 4y ago
SC2 has only gotten easier to play. Selecting multiple buildings, selecting more than 12 units, auto-mining, idle workers, select all army. So you must be referring to how other players got better at winning, or the aggressive strategies pl
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by rytill 4y ago
I agree with your sentiment. Can anyone suggest alternative solutions? How should founders hire early engineers who feel invested in the company? - offer more equity - offer more salary - offer the same position but with no “founding” title
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by rytill 4y ago
This seems really wrong. No way you would see this effect with more highly trained participants. Did anyone try more than some mock experiment with two unpracticed students?
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by rytill 4y ago
Is this author writing research? It doesn’t seem like it.
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by rytill 4y ago
Just curious, have you sampled many robotics companies? I have worked with dozens and it seems like there are some with well-balanced power dynamics between mechanical-electrical-software.
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by rytill 4y ago
Can you share an example of such a talk?
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by rytill 4y ago
What if it wasn’t enough to live on, but enough to significantly impact the ability for the poorest to survive? Say $3600/yr = $300/mo. Don’t you think that could increase the pool of STEM candidates from poor families without cre
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by rytill 4y ago
What software do you use for GPU password cracking? Custom? And for what purpose?
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by rytill 4y ago
How would UBI make the power gap larger than it already is?
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by rytill 4y ago
> concerns about AGI make about as much sense as an overpopulation on Mars I disagree strongly that this is an apt analogy. Planning strategies for dealing with overpopulation on Mars is contrived and unnecessary, whereas planning for AG
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by rytill 4y ago
It’s not like polars is a drop-in replacement, it has a totally different API.
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by rytill 4y ago
Logistically I always wondered about this. How can you prove that you really lost access to the money if you forget your password, or it’s stolen?
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by rytill 4y ago
Whatever is the driving factor behind the laws of physics seems to have “perfect information”. Not implying anything religious.
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by rytill 4y ago
Could you come up with unique dad jokes, if prompted?
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by rytill 4y ago
You can’t just claim a letter and expect no one else to ever make a thing that is named that letter. Except C.
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by rytill 5y ago
Citation needed.
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by rytill 5y ago
Are people funding founders who want to make new search engines?
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by rytill 5y ago
It is a dangerous assumption if wrong because it prescribes that you can do most unhealthy activities and they are not major factors for your health outcomes.
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by rytill 5y ago
Does anyone know what font is used for the copy of this website?
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by rytill 5y ago
But if the first spaceship was never developed, would the second spaceship have been?
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by rytill 5y ago
> It’s just a simple numbers game: there are more obscure books than popular books, so there are more obscure good books than popular good books, so the more books you read the more likely your favorite is an obscure one. There is an uns
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by rytill 5y ago
Wouldn’t you say the experience of “being you” or “being me” would be part of the system of how consciousness works? And therefore, whether you like something or I like something, it’s part of the happening of consciousness. Maybe “you like
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by rytill 5y ago
Do you think there is such a thing as objective morality? Not just human ethics, or social norms or whatever, but that some things that occur are "better" than other things in some important sense. Or maybe, that certain actions a
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by rytill 5y ago
There must be another category "voter" in between commenter and lurker. Content creator > Commenter > Voter > Lurker I wonder what percentage of users vote frequently but don't comment.
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by rytill 5y ago
For one, real-time avatars make heavy use of “AI processing”. https://research.facebook.com/videos/audio-and-gaze-driven-f...
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by rytill 5y ago
What is the cost difference between the Hetzner dedicated machine and an equivalent EC2 instance?
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by rytill 5y ago
Thank you for sharing. I wish this were the default behavior of positional and keyword arguments rather than requiring a `/, *` in every function definition.
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by rytill 5y ago
Many people on HN think that, for instance, GPT-3 and that family of works does not represent any real advancement and continually disparage and poke holes in the output of the model. These threads are upvoted to the front page occasionally

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