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by scotty79 1mo ago
yeah, but when people are free to spin and zoom the virtual globe they understand perfectly how the projection relates to the real object, which they don't when it comes to maps
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Since we are moving away from print and towards screens, shouldn't we be just using actual globes?
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Next step, taking into account effects of acceleration according to general relativity.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
That's funny because that's exactly what I feel when I travel IRL.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> The majority of drivers are good Well, 80% of us believes ourselves to be above average, so there's that.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
So pretty much the same thing that humans do. New things come out of those connections.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Yeah, people are paid to promote AI and people are paid to criticize AI. Regardless of the issue money flows to pundits on both sides. Then the manufactured engagement is milked for ad profit.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
I think the watershed moment was when it was proven that it can solve highschoolers maths olympiad problems at competitive level. These problems require complexity of thinking that is beyond what most humans have to deal with in their entir
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Why in weeks, not months or years?
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> My belief system was shattered the day the proof was announced. I can't imagine having eyes and being able to hold the wrong belief regarding AI for so long. The fact that AI can surpass humans and make novel contributions to our
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Yes. That's exactly what I had in mind. Thank you.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> Not sure how they’re intending to compete with the US when even a top AI lab can’t afford to be competitive. It probably means they don't, they just do their own thing how they see fit.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
So your argument is that AI is more lika Amiga than computers? I'd say that Amiga wouldn't fizzle out if it wasn't superceded by pc. It very well may be that transformer architecture is going to be superceded by something lik
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by scotty79 1mo ago
What did fizzle away then and why do you believe AI is more similar to that thing than to computers?
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> no one is saying it won’t be valuable in 50 years Plenty of people are saying that. That AI is fundamentally a bubbl and nothing will ever come out of it and we shouldn't pursue it.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Prepare for moving goalposts. In 50 years people will still doubt that AI can create anything novel and worthwhile, while they are going to rely mostly on the things that didn't exist before AI, in nutrition, medicine, technology, comm
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by scotty79 1mo ago
We can expect similar diversity in what alignment means in context of AI.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> they cannot learn new things without forgetting things Where did you get that idea from? Basically last few years was them constantly learning new things while improving their capability on the things they already knew.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox Computers never got profitable. They just made the alternative infeasible. Also, if you believe Amazon accounting, e-commerce only very recently got somewhat profitabl
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> It's not unreasonable that these systems cap out at some point, or perhaps fizzle away entirely. Yeah, like computers and mobile phones did. Things that have utility, even if not immediate or initially obvious, don't fizzle o
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> But I still consider myself the owner of my own startup. AI is not the owner. You have a small company but when there's more money and business at stake, owners often delegate decision making to hired people. Decisions that engage
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> So the question then becomes, how much damage can be done by an AI-directed corporation, funded by AI-directed investment firms, providing well-paying jobs to loyal locals by building an arbitrary number of AI-designed chemical and pha
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by scotty79 1mo ago
> which I feel is at least 50% likely to just be marketing bullshit You'll have hard time figuring the reality if your mind staunchly rejects robust multi-party observations.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Paradoxically, front-end is holding well enough because that's the spot in software development where taste matters the most. The models can't just rely on text processing. The models need vision, computer use, and critical artist
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Large parts of eucariotic DNA comes from ancient viruses so in a sense, viral things make us who we are. At least in large part.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
That's the nature of employment relationship. On the flipside, as long as you follow employers rules, you don't bear the responsibility for the results. That's a huge upside that have always balanced out the lack of control o
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by scotty79 1mo ago
Do you feel like a significant number of humans would commit genocide if given the tools? Well, it's not really that hard to imagine, especially if we allow for influence from an insistent and charismatic individual.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
If we can usually raise a human to be a good person that wouldn't do genocide I'm sure we can raise an AI, especially since we have direct access to its brain and many, many retries.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
He was kind of on point though.
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by scotty79 1mo ago
If you are an employee, the employer has control over how you should do your work. IF you don't like that, transition to being a contractor and sign service agreements where you are going to be paid solely for results not for how you a

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