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by scarmig 11mo ago
I don't think there's a confirmed mechanism (or even whether the fact that it does prevent dementia is a confirmed fact). But you could speculate that obesity -> cardiovascular issues -> neurological damage, and that could e
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by scarmig 11mo ago
In California, attacking someone with a knife, solicitation of murder, and shooting a gun at someone in their car are all nonviolent felonies. I'm happy--indeed eager--to have all of these (correctly) classified as violent felonies. Bu
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by scarmig 11mo ago
Partisan does not mean wrong. The original article is clearly very loaded, but it's also the type of story that the mainstream media hates picking up: massive welfare fraud being used to fund terrorist groups in Somalia gores at least
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by scarmig 11mo ago
Is he required to buy stock? AFAIK he could just as well hold cash or bonds, and if he believes a bubble pop is imminent (within the next couple months), that would be a responsible move.
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by scarmig 11mo ago
Next up: an agent that manages returning impersonal, unwanted gifts and getting a refund. Then, it can delegate to the gift buying agent who can use the funds to buy more gifts!
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by scarmig 11mo ago
It will be an endless whinge "the Boomers screwed us over, so we need to screw over everyone else just to get by."
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by scarmig 11mo ago
For my toddler's first desktop, I started with a simple collaborative setup project. Nothing at all fancy: had them write a scheduler, MMU, etc. Holding off on network stack and drivers until they're a late teen, though.
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by scarmig 11mo ago
You could riff off an approach similar to https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/di...
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by scarmig 11mo ago
And then users balk at the hefty fee and start getting their medical information from utopiacancercenter.com and the like.
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by scarmig 11mo ago
The core objection I'd have to your argument: humans also don't have privileged access to the territory. Neurons don't have some metaphysical super power that let them reach into the True Reality; all there are are maps encod
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by scarmig 11mo ago
If it makes you angry that people want to work to build AGI--people who have thought about it a lot more than you--you can't convince them to stop by repeatedly yelling "I don't think it's possible, you're a fool!
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by scarmig 11mo ago
> It’s this myth that’s the root of the AGI conspiracy. A smarter-than-human machine that can do it all is not a technology. It’s a dream, unmoored from reality. So, if you assume that AGI is fake and impossible, it's... A conspirac
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by scarmig 1y ago
It could also be something structural about how the "friendship graph" looks. The mean number of friendships isn't the median or typically experienced number of friendships, and if friendship relationship distributions follow
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by scarmig 1y ago
The report says that different media organizations dropped their robots.txt for the duration of the research to give LLMs access. I would expect this isn't the on-off switch they conceptualized, but I don't know enough about how d
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by scarmig 1y ago
> Participating organizations raised concerns about responses that relied heavily or solely on Wikipedia content – Radio-Canada calculated that of 108 sources cited in responses from ChatGPT, 58% were from Wikipedia. CBC-Radio-Canada
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by scarmig 1y ago
If you dig into the actual report (I know, I know, how passe), you see how they get the numbers. Most of the errors are "sourcing issues": the AI assistant doesn't cite a claim, or it (shocking) cites Wikipedia instead of the
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by scarmig 1y ago
From the domain, I'm guessing the answer is Schmidhuber.
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by scarmig 1y ago
Eventually, we can replace human consumers with LLM agent consumers, and things can scale indefinitely.
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by scarmig 1y ago
The mathematical term for the four by four matrices you were looking at is "quaternion" (I.e. you were looking at a set of four by four matrices isomorphic to the unit quaternions). Why use quaternions at all, when three by three
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by scarmig 1y ago
A war with China will do massive damage to the European and world economies, though, even if Europe stays entirely out of it. China more or less stops exporting (and importing); the economies of South Korea and Japan immediately contract 25
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by scarmig 1y ago
It does assume that life must be associatable with a planet. It's a plausible assumption, but you could also hypothetically have life develop on a star itself or its remnants, comets, clouds of interstellar gas. Maybe even something mo
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by scarmig 1y ago
The emptying of institutions in California happened long before that, in the late 60s and through the 70s; it became very hard to commit anyone, which justified further cuts. If you pass a bill that destroys mental health systems for the sa
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by scarmig 1y ago
> After Saint Reagan (hack ... spit) "closed the institutions", there was supposed to be something better. That never happened. So, now you have the mentally ill cycling between the streets, the emergency rooms, and the prisons
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by scarmig 1y ago
> The working class abandoned democrats, not the other way around, when LBJ decided that the Civil Rights Act was a good thing, and got bipartisan support for it. Odd, that the working class stayed with the Democrats for half a century a
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by scarmig 1y ago
Haven't read any of those Nebula/Hugo books, but there are shifts in style and emphasis that are very indicative of the author's gender. Not at all universal, but given a thousand words of writing, I bet I could identify the
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by scarmig 1y ago
If the revisionist Western appeals to you, I'd also recommend Oakley Hall's Warlock.
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by scarmig 1y ago
That might be an understatement of his capabilities, though obviously he wasn't a professional mathematician. It's a joy to read some of the eulogies professors at the Santa Fe Institute gave to him: https://www.santafe
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by scarmig 1y ago
> machines that would rather kill a thousand humans than say the N-word At least we'll have a definite Voight-Kampff test. Joking aside, that's not a real motivator: internally, it's business and legal people driving the a
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by scarmig 1y ago
Well, in the case of a), at least, many of the humans creating it seem to genuinely want more than anything a world where humans are pets watched over by machines of loving grace. And even if that collective intention is warped by market fo
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by scarmig 1y ago
The vaccine maybe might have played a part in mitigating that issue.

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