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by scarmig 4y ago
Assuming no FTL, powerful adversaries outside your light cone are unable to do anything to you. Though it remains possible that latency between components in an AI system could become so large that it couldn't enforce consistency betwe
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by scarmig 4y ago
That reminds me of this, more optimistically: Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time. Even AC [Automated Computer] existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunke
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by scarmig 4y ago
Probably lower real wages (compared to what they'd have been otherwise) as competition heats up for those positions, as well as a tougher hiring environment for job seekers.
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's not too dangerous, but it can irritate you, particularly if you accidentally inhale it.
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by scarmig 4y ago
I would put good money on the bet that there's at least one influencer primarily using ChatGPT to generate their content. Spam of all sorts is the one category that ChatGPT can do with cheap, superhuman performance today.
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by scarmig 4y ago
I did this in my first job, giving two months of notice because it was the right thing to do for my colleagues and the company since it'd allow transition time and continuity. Then I was let go immediately. Which was an unexpected hit,
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by scarmig 4y ago
I think this is a pretty key point. If a business is going through any kind of rapid change, cloud providers offer a lot of off-the-shelf help for that, be it ability to scale, hosted infrastructure, or PoPs in new geographies. If the compa
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by scarmig 4y ago
And as far as problems go, "we're so successful that it makes financial sense to build our own on-prem cloud" is a pretty good problem to have.
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by scarmig 4y ago
One argument (that I don't necessarily buy) is that inputs from sensory perception play a major role in building a language model in humans. A human might not read TB of books to learn language, but if you put them in a sensory depriva
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by scarmig 4y ago
> People aren't reporting assaults? Sounds completely absurd. One reason this explanation falls flat is that reported and recorded property crimes have risen more. If the city were exceptionally underreporting crimes compared to the
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by scarmig 4y ago
Conscientiousness and having long-term time horizons is dysgenic. People afflicted with those traits tend to reproduce less, and, to the extent that they're heritable, the genes coding them will gradually decrease in prevalence in the
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by scarmig 4y ago
Reminded me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator The Water Integrator (Russian: Гидравлический интегратор Gidravlicheskiy integrator) was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936 by V
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by scarmig 4y ago
Self-aggrandizement isn't anything foreign to Eliezer, but he's genuinely terrified. Milking it for every drop doesn't really capture what he's doing.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Intelligence isn't everything; there's also effort, skills, and hours in the day. But AI (by supposition, for now) can outcompete humans on all four and would have fewer informational bottlenecks. Imagine a big company or governme
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by scarmig 4y ago
But I thought every man is part of the patriarchy and is given a free all-access pass to the old boys' club at birth.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Right; GPA is a coarse representation of performance on coursework. A 4.0 at Stuy with coursework on real analysis and organic chemistry means something very different than a 4.0 at a struggling inner city public school where the hardest ma
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by scarmig 4y ago
The idea that "holistic" admissions is used to benefit teens working to support their family is not realistic. An Asian-American kid who spends most of his waking hours doing deliveries to help keep his parents' struggling Ch
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by scarmig 4y ago
To be clear, I strongly oppose removal of SATs as a metric used to evaluate candidates. That said, there's a confounder here: schools which remove SATs as an admissions metric are schools that are looking for different things than acad
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by scarmig 4y ago
The thing is, getting into a top level school requires maximizing all of GPA, SATs, and what might be called "extracurricular appeal"; this crowds out a bunch of different pursuits, more so than grinding test-taking ability (which
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by scarmig 4y ago
In theory, other measures of student achievement: grades, extracurricular activities, personal statements, letters of recommendation. GPA by itself isn't terrible for this, though pairing it with test scores is an improvement over both
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by scarmig 4y ago
Since it now handles visual inputs, I wonder how hard it'd be to get GPT to monitor itself. Have it constantly observe a set of screenshares of automated processes starting and repeating ChatGPT sessions on prod, alert the on-call when
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by scarmig 4y ago
Speed and reliability seem to be better (so far; let's see how it scales). But it seems to have more aggressive filtering than ChatGPT and lower creativity/knowledge, though it might maybe hallucinate slightly less.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> I don't know anyone working at Google, nor anyone who worked at Google in the past (except a single intern). Hell, I don't even live anywhere near a Google campus! I did a couple year stint at Google, and I also didn't k
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by scarmig 4y ago
Translating between the virtual realm and the physical realm is where AI would have trouble. But that is pretty obvious to us, and would also be obvious to an AI intent on paperclipping us. So it wouldn't try to engage in that kind of
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by scarmig 4y ago
We would expect some vanishingly small fraction. Even at the grandmaster level, they happen ( rarely ): https://chess24.com/en/read/news/the-7-most-illegal-chess-mo...
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by scarmig 4y ago
Across the entire population, young women without children make more than young men without children, and have for awhile. See e.g. [0] This is driven by an elimination or reversal of the wage gap in many of the major metropolitan areas lik
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by scarmig 4y ago
Men still commit far more suicides than women when you condition on method of suicide e.g. intentional overdose.
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by scarmig 4y ago
1) Are reported to attempt suicide more. 2) Men choose methods that are more likely to be effective; this is true everywhere, including places that don't have guns. This speaks to the same thing as my earlier comment: men choose method
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by scarmig 4y ago
Reporting on bad experiences that are experienced occurs at equal rates between men and women. It's similar to the well-known gender suicide "paradox": women are much more likely to report thinking suicidal thoughts than men,
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by scarmig 4y ago
They did say "An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period." And what you're arguing for is effectively the same: an AI (maybe with some distilled specialty models) that can perform roles of everything from c

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