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by scarmig 4mo ago
There are reasonable anti- and pro-AI views. There are also unreasonable ones on both sides, and it's best if they are ignored. However, on a site like HN or Reddit, you're far more likely to hear squawking about "stochastic
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by scarmig 4mo ago
So, the reasoning goes, I don't consent to other people using AI, therefore when you do you are violating me?
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by scarmig 4mo ago
No one is "forcing" you to use AI. If you don't like it, then... Don't use it. And if you're right that it's all a bunch of cryptobro NFT lies that offers nothing to the world, you'll be fine and well-posi
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by scarmig 4mo ago
Everyone I know who works at Anthropic genuinely believes in safety and has deep concerns about the potential existential impact of AI; the "they are just hucksters pretending to care about it so they can run a scam" point of view
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by scarmig 4mo ago
David Sacks is probably the least credible guy associated with Trump administration AI policy. Yes, worse than Hegseth and Trump himself. Consistently duplicitous. On the other hand, Anthropic really needs to up its game here. I am sympathe
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by scarmig 4mo ago
Yes, we get that if you assume there is zero existential risk from AI, then there is zero existential risk from AI.
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by scarmig 4mo ago
"We need an approach to make sure AI doesn't destroy the world and wipe humanity to extinction." "Yeah, and quotas on web scrapers!"
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by scarmig 4mo ago
You have a slightly less great model. Depending on your thesis on how fast AI will advance, that might be minimal, or it might be huge. However, "AI is advancing too fast for people to make obvious efficiency improvements economically
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by scarmig 4mo ago
"I feel very strongly that I'm unique, therefore you are wrong" is a bad argument. Consciousness is an extremely confusing, ambiguous topic, and no one has a good way to establish it, or even define it. But it seems to demand
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by scarmig 4mo ago
> Isn’t this a problem with human proofs as well? Human proofs are themselves a kind of a proof of work. They certainly write flawed proofs, but you can expect a human author of a paper to have put in more effort--substantially more--tha
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by scarmig 4mo ago
"Forcing redistribution" doesn't always happen. Typically, redistribution happens when negotiating leverage has increased such that the beneficiaries of any redistribution can make it more painful to not redistribute than to
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by scarmig 5mo ago
That's one philosophy, sure. My philosophy is that schools that graduate students who are illiterate and innumerate have failed, no matter what rhetoric they put out about equity and social problems. (There are limited situations where
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by scarmig 5mo ago
That mistakes the point of education. Schools do not exist to fix every social problem, and demanding they treat fixing every social problem as their number one priority is how we got into this mess of "teach nothing but make sure ever
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by scarmig 5mo ago
The revisionism here is astounding. Yes, San Francisco eliminated algebra for all 8th graders in public schools. It was not a simple rename. Parents sent their kids to supplementary private classes that taught the same curriculum as the old
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by scarmig 5mo ago
That would be a reform I'd get behind. At the same time, it's still a bad use of funds, and lenders likely wouldn't have the ability to discriminate based on likelihood of bankruptcy or success in an academic program. So it j
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by scarmig 5mo ago
You can absolutely make a bet on who's more likely to succeed based on a 100 point difference, though. It's not absolute, but it's highly predictive. And the reason the SAT was dropped wasn't because admissions were bein
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by scarmig 5mo ago
That's a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. Treating universities as a system, it is deeply problematic and even immoral to saddle students with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to enter programs that it is
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by scarmig 5mo ago
"Buy, borrow, die" is a bit of a bogeyman of the Left; it's not a common strategy for HNW or UHNW individuals, and to the extent it is used, there are much better ways to close it than a wealth tax, which is coarse and rife w
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by scarmig 5mo ago
The artificial centipede.
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by scarmig 5mo ago
It's also worth noting in that in very high dimension, the convex hull will contain massive volume. It could well be the case that humans established that convex hull millions of years ago, and all of our inventions and innovations sen
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by scarmig 5mo ago
AI removes the bottom rungs of the ladder you need to climb to reach the top. For now. Soon, the ladder will be a pair of stilts; best get to the very top before that point.
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by scarmig 5mo ago
Make small, incremental changes in the correct direction that will face minimal internal resistance? A lot of people want everything, immediately, and seem to believe maximalist approaches are no more politically dangerous than more increme
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by scarmig 5mo ago
I live in San Francisco too and know how to get both. The vape shops sell only vape equipment, in theory; in practice, they "secretly" sell vapes behind the counter, but you have to ask for it (and occasionally they'll say th
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by scarmig 5mo ago
One of the more amusing things about the vape panic is that it's now easier to purchase fentanyl adulterated meth in San Francisco than it is to get a Juul pod. And it's riskier to be a seller of the latter than the former. Public
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by scarmig 5mo ago
It always was unprincipled: regardless of whether someone's a fan of DEI or not, these companies are short-sighted, profit-driven, and at best reactive to trends. The only reason any person thought otherwise is that they were either de
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by scarmig 5mo ago
His argument proves far too much: it would apply even if every data center built an entirely renewable dedicated solar farm to power it. After all, energy is fungible: the newly built solar farm could be going to help consumers transition t
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by scarmig 5mo ago
A "large portion" of data centers needs to be quantified. Particularly, newer data centers are much more likely to used closed loop systems. And, the bigger they are, the more likely they're on closed loop.
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by scarmig 5mo ago
The other kids will have to suffer so the misbehaving kids can be saved, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make!
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by scarmig 5mo ago
Even in supervised ML, pure gradient descent is not the most efficient optimization strategy. E.g., momentum is ubiquitous, and the updates it induces cannot be expressed as a gradient of some scalar loss. But the rotational non-gradient co
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by scarmig 5mo ago
> If you talk about having a subjective experience, then we don't know of any way to prove that even other humans than ourselves have one. We go entirely by assumptions based on physical similarity and our ability to communicate. Th

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