simonh

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901.
by simonh 3y ago
You are simply defining consciousness and information processing in terms of alive and dead. If those are your axiomatic assumptions, you’ve already established the outcome before evaluating the issues. Consciousness may be more than proces
902.
by simonh 3y ago
I have a perception. Light stimulates my optic nerve, that sends a signal to my brain, and I experience seeing a red Apple. The signal is information. There’s nothing inherently red about it, if you looked in the nerve it wouldn’t turn red,
903.
by simonh 3y ago
So he says that he doesn’t think consciousness is computational, but in the rest of the article pretty much everything he says about it is in terms of processing information. “ In fact, the brain is always making predictions about what’s ou
904.
by simonh 3y ago
Someone else baked my bread, made may car and built my house and I paid for all of them. So are you saying a reasonable description of the state of affairs is that I appropriated those things? Liberal economics is based on several freedoms.
905.
by simonh 3y ago
It seems pretty clear they are a non native English speaker.
906.
by simonh 3y ago
In liberal economies you buy someone else’s work. In communism it is appropriated by the state. Source: I have family who grew up and lived in a non-capitalist worker’s utopia.
907.
by simonh 3y ago
The LLM probably doesn't have enough sample texts where the response is requested to be character limited to have generalised that as a constraint.
908.
by simonh 3y ago
Another avenue is training on generated text. This is likely to be important in teaching these things reasoning skills. You identify a set of reasoning tasks you want the system to learn, auto-generate hundreds of millions of texts that con
909.
by simonh 3y ago
They do use Apple Pay and say so on their own web site. Apple Pay is a payment network, just like the credit and debit card companies. They all charge fees, typically 0.2% for cards, and 0.15% for Apple Pay. But somehow the card systems are
910.
by simonh 3y ago
That’s not how wealth works though. Billionaires don’t literally have tens of millions of $100 notes in their hands. So where is all that money? Almost all of it is in the form of shares and bonds, which represent control of and investments
911.
by simonh 3y ago
True human level AI yes, but we’re still a long way from that IMO. For the singularity to really kick in AIs need to start optimising and improving AIs faster than we can. Then we’ll be in a feedback loop that is beyond our ability to forec
912.
by simonh 3y ago
There used to be three, those two are still there, but the one under Ukraine got taken over by the CIA for their bioweapons program.
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by simonh 3y ago
Production does scale with human labour input. At small increments it scales linearly, but you get scale efficiencies as you ramp up. Then you satisfy demand at a certain price point and reach equilibrium. But if you can dramatically increa
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by simonh 3y ago
I'm bottom tier management so I work with middle management directly a bit. All of this is just the organisations Ive been in, I'm sure there are every possible kind. Top level management is often driven by short term incentives,
915.
by simonh 3y ago
"It doesn’t seem necessary that pushing a button all day for someone else’s benefit is more moral than building a realm in Minecraft all day, but our culture is replete with admonishments that time spent laboring is the only time well
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by simonh 3y ago
What payments are you talking about? Apple doesn’t charge transaction fees for Apple Pay.
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by simonh 3y ago
That’s the alignment problem. We don’t know what the actual goals of an AI trained neural net are. We know what criteria we trained it against, but it turns out that’s not at all the same thing. I highly recommend Rob Miles channel on YouTu
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by simonh 3y ago
It seems like consciousness has a major role in learning and memory formation. It’s very much about attention to what is important. The thing is it’s also attention to the experience of paying attention to things, and I suspect that’s reall
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by simonh 3y ago
Monopoly (noun): Thing I hate that is incredibly popular, and I’ve got all bitter and twisted about it.
920.
by simonh 3y ago
I have no problem with it as a term of art, but to me using it in the name of a product is pretentious. Maybe it’s been poisoned for me by the fact Microsoft went through a phase when everything seemed to be marketed as an experience, and t
921.
by simonh 3y ago
Before we get too excited about the idea these galaxies are too big to have formed so early, it looks like there’s evidence some very large galaxies can form a lot faster than previously thought. https://youtu.be/CrGhpqKfRv4
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by simonh 3y ago
I don't want an 'experience', I want a tool. I say that as a Mac user with a ton of Apple stuff, so I appreciate that design is function, but every time a company tags a product with the word 'experience' it's
923.
by simonh 3y ago
It's incredible to me how little insight our conscious selves have into what's going on in our subconscious. It seems like almost all the cognitive hard work goes on in the back end systems and the front end we usually think of as
924.
by simonh 3y ago
The other weaponisation plans. The one about undermining western democracy and society. Yes that’s it, the one where we target our own population. No not intelligence gathering, yes that’s it, democratic discourse itself. Narrative shapin
925.
by simonh 3y ago
> ..is necessary because an AI could hack it's way out of a laboratory. Yet, they cannot explain how an AI would accomplish this in practice. I’m sympathetic to your position in general, but I can’t believe you wrote that with a str
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by simonh 3y ago
> What people also fail to understand is that AI is largely seen by the military industrial complex as a weapon to control culture and influence. Could you share the minutes from the Military Industrial Complex strategy meetings this was
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by simonh 3y ago
I wouldn’t call it “the literature” really, some literature for sure. I don’t think a lot of people in the field accept that an AI isn’t generally intelligent unless it’s a physically fake human. I still have faith in the Turing test, but I
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by simonh 3y ago
Where on earth did I say anything about trusting institutions? Or that there’s a solution?
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by simonh 3y ago
Only because historically we have all vaguely peers to each other in capabilities, and there are so many of us spread out so widely. There's a kind of ecology to human society where it expands and specialises to occupy ecological, soci
930.
by simonh 3y ago
Yep. Sometimes so. https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/wood-joinery-methods-use-no-...

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