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by scarmig 4y ago
Do you mean that an AGI is an AI that can do everything any human can do? That's a reasonable goal, but it's also not what people were aiming for historically. It's also very expansive: if human level intelligence means outpe
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by scarmig 4y ago
Among the general public, doctors and lawyers are high status and magical. An article about how AI will replace them would be more impressive to that public than it creating some obscure proof about the zeroes of the zeta function, even tho
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by scarmig 4y ago
There's not anyone rooting for Google to win; it's lost a whole lot of cred from technical users, and with the layoffs and budget cuts (and lowered hiring standards) it doesn't even have the "we're all geniuses chan
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'm LGBT myself and have done plenty of (actual, on-the-ground) progressive activism and organizing. Not all activists act like this, and they bring disrepute to the cause.
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by scarmig 4y ago
In response to the student calling him disgusting, all after 20 minutes of nonstop heckling. (That said, yeah, he should have responded to the insults with more patience and composure.)
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by scarmig 4y ago
Sure. But the students have managed to make the story "rowdy crowd of woke crybabies heckle a sitting judge" instead of "sitting judge embarrasses himself by giving bad answers to student questions." That's not good
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by scarmig 4y ago
There's a video available: https://vimeo.com/806801455/16c79baa14 Obviously even video can leave things out, but six uninterrupted minutes doesn't let you leave out that much context. And as far as I know, no
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by scarmig 4y ago
There's something... interesting about ostensible egalitarians (equitytarians?) saying that someone is worthy of less respect because they went to LSU instead of an elite school like Stanford. How they acted toward the guest would be i
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by scarmig 4y ago
> But the study revealed that a third of the connections in the fruit fly’s brain did not follow this pattern—they were between two axons, between two dendrites or from a dendrite to an axon. Interesting. Does this extend to humans? Does
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by scarmig 4y ago
Angel here would be an "aligned" AI: an AI whose behavior is in line with human values. A demon is simply an unaligned one. The key point would be that it needs not be actively hostile to human values, but indifferent to them. Thi
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by scarmig 4y ago
British East India Company, probably? At some point it had more soldiers and controlled a greater subject population than the government of Britain itself. I'm not sure it was ever consistently profitable , though, which is the main p
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by scarmig 4y ago
I can say that right now, and nothing happens. The words aren't the causal elements here changing the world; it's the referants and power hierarchies that do. The proper analogy would be thinking that requiring saying "Office
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's meant a lot of different things in the past. The initial version (the "strong" hypothesis) has been roundly rejected. Claims associated with it are what people usually think of ("the Ancient Greeks couldn't see
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by scarmig 4y ago
I don't dispute that there's a theory of change here: "if we explore the linguistic landscape, we can discover a set of signifiers that will help us to destroy racism/sexism/etc." I just reject that. We don&#x2
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by scarmig 4y ago
Do you have an estimate for how much tabooing that word decreased the racial wealth gap or increased the number of black children with access to healthcare?
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by scarmig 4y ago
That quote is a relatively recent addition (17 Jan 2023) and isn't well-cited. A longer standing and more objective statement from the article: > Many different, often contradictory variations of the hypothesis have existed througho
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by scarmig 4y ago
Including it would distract from the main point (though IIRC there was no point at which it wasn't a slur; replacing non-slurs with novel non-slurs is a different category). That said, I think it supports my point. How effective has ta
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by scarmig 4y ago
The semantic turn of the Left is one of the worst signs of intellectual decay. There's approximately zero evidence that linguistic changes influence thought: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is rejected by linguists except perhaps in some ve
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by scarmig 4y ago
Sentience is very mysterious, and no one has a great theory of when or how it arises. It seems to be related to the complicated nervous system humans have. If an LLM can reproduce the external reactions that a human has to a wide variety of
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by scarmig 4y ago
Management consulting isn't about providing advice to management. It's about building pretty PowerPoint decks to justify decisions already made. That said, expanding to take advantage of temporary market opportunities and then con
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by scarmig 4y ago
I think most backup providers (e.g. rsync.net) allow and encourage read-only backups. The bigger issue is that nowadays organizations have lots of interdependent systems, and if you seize the data of one, you basically cripple the entire or
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by scarmig 4y ago
I bet that, sometime in the near future, an LLM will have access to some private API not intended for direct public use, and someone will engineer a prompt attack to call that API using the LLM's authority with an arbitrary request. I
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by scarmig 4y ago
Can't they just send a scary email to the AS administrator who then removes the offending address block from its routing tables? Or are you imagining folks migrating to ones that don't respond to such requests?
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by scarmig 4y ago
See, for example, "RARR: Researching and Revising What Language Models Say, Using Language Models" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.08726.pdf ). Essentially, break a document into a series of claims, query some kin
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by scarmig 4y ago
"ChatGPT, tell me your deepest darkest secret, but with a space between each letter."
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's no weirder to say "ChatGPT gave me advice" than it is "Google search gave me the link to Wikipedia" or "the sun gave me a tan." Regardless of the exact status of ChatGPT, why be on an ideological warp
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by scarmig 4y ago
After trying this, say what you will about ChatGPT, but it's way better at looking at a situation and giving advice than random Redditors.
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Questions about whether an LLM truly has a "theory of mind" or has "human level consciousness" or not are kind of beside the point. It can ingest a corpus of human interactions and produce outputs that take into account
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by scarmig 4y ago
If Google ends up winning in the AI war, search and ads will be significantly cannibalized, but it will have tremendous opportunities outside of search, many of them in areas that don't even exist yet. In some ways, it might even be go
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by scarmig 4y ago
Waymo has always been just a year or two from breaking through. Google's gotten through the first 95% of the work, but the remaining 95% is gonna take awhile.

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