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by slibhb 3y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. We're going to need humans with specialized mathematical training in the loop. Besides, these things have a way of surprising us. Before compilers, people wrote machine code by hand. It would have been r
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by slibhb 3y ago
Comments like the one you responded to are very common. Here and on other forums, often upvoted to the top. People look at the rich and feel envy. In an attempt to displace that feeling, they tell themselves "I'm a good person, I
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by slibhb 3y ago
Excellent links. My favorite part: > However you put it, there is no valid reason for a software left open without touching it to turn the computer into a toaster, especially since we don’t buy Russian gas anymore.
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by slibhb 3y ago
That's an interesting argument. I suppose I would expect a superintelligent AI to lack goals. Or perhaps the smarter it is, the fainter its goals would be.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Why would AGI prefer want to avoid being turned off? Why would it want to spread across the universe? Those seem like petty human concerns derived from our evolutionary history. I see no reason to assume a superintelligent AI would share th
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by slibhb 3y ago
> As an aside, the experiences of the marginalized people you describe don't seem to indicate that there is a net advantage to them. I think anyone who was adopting an identity in bad faith would quickly discover that it wasn't
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Many of the job candidates’ diversity statements emphasized their own “intersectional” identities—“a person of color and a member of the LGBTQ+ community,” “a first generation, fat, queer scholar of color” and so on. When trying to get
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by slibhb 3y ago
You're clearly unable to have a rational conversation about this. Sale of children/organs is not on the table. Dollarization and liberalization might be. We'll see.
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by slibhb 3y ago
China, Bangladesh, India, and Chile come to mind. I don't know if Milei will succeed but his recipe for success (liberalization) is correct. No one is claiming that it's easy.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's unclear to me what economic advice you're offering other than "we can have our cake and eat it". Fixing what's wrong with Argentina is going to hurt and there's no way around it. A responsibly run country
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by slibhb 3y ago
> How is that going to improve the situation in Argentina? I'm not sure slashing public education and healthcare is good for the country. People are extremely poor, what are they going to do when they can no longer afford medical ca
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by slibhb 3y ago
> He will fall upward to a better job someplace else if he chooses. I take "fall upward" to be a typo of "fail upward". The next sentence explicitly compares the situation to WeWork. My interpretation is correct, it&#
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by slibhb 3y ago
Lesswrong is a treasure. A scrupulously fair, highly detailed record. My verdict is that she's delusional. An example of this is her claiming she was shadow banned from all internet platforms except onlyfans and pornhub. That cannot be
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by slibhb 3y ago
He said they both involved failing upwards... OpenAI is not a failure.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Are you seriously comparing OpenAI to WeWork? I'm not particularly bullish on AI but you have to give OpenAI credit for what they've accomplished under Altman.
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by slibhb 3y ago
> That's right, an unknown way. So we know the internal structures of computers and their programs, but we don't know the internal structure of humans and how that leads to sentience, but somehow this translates into having goo
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Behaviour can't tell you there isn't internal life, but complex behaviour sure is a big red flag that there might be internal life there. I agree, behavior is evidence, but there are good reasons to suppose that, despite thei
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by slibhb 3y ago
I didn't say that internal life has nothing to do with behavior. I said you can't infer internal life from behavior. > I'm not asserting they have an internal life, the person I responded to was saying they have no interna
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by slibhb 3y ago
Using a rock as an example makes sense given the post I replied to. The argument that we lack a "mechanistic model of qualia" has nothing to do with behavior. That aside, we should be close to certain that LLMs don't have int
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by slibhb 3y ago
From that perspective, we can't say that a rock lacks an internal life. That seems silly to me. Perhaps we can't know but we can approach certainty.
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by slibhb 3y ago
With a simple computer, speaker, and accelerometer, you can build a device that says "ouch" when you drop it. Does it feel pain? My point is that there are good reasons to believe that a hypothetical LLM that can pass a Turing tes
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by slibhb 3y ago
> But financial capital, political capital, and public attention are fungible and directly trade off. I'm not sure that's true in any simple way. As far as the government goes, it has a role, but this isn't the 60s. SpaceX
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by slibhb 3y ago
According to google that process took several hundred million years. As long as we generate atmosphere faster than it gets stripped away, there's no problem. Anyway, I think terraforming is getting ahead of ourselves. Step one is getti
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by slibhb 3y ago
The moon doesn't have enough mass to hold onto an atmosphere. Still, I think we should build a moon base for the same reason we should go to Mars: even if these projects don't yield direct benefits, they are probably necessary ste
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by slibhb 3y ago
With "fringe editors" forced out from wikipedia, the people who forced them out have become more and more political. Instead of arguing about homeopathy and astrology, hot topics now include trans issues and covid. The former situ
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by slibhb 3y ago
> If trans people have such an obvious advantage why aren't they dominating every single category of every single strength-involving event? Because there aren't that many trans women who compete in women's sports. Neither
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by slibhb 3y ago
There was a NYT article about Bridgewater and Dalio last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/business/how-does-the-wor... If these articles are right, the picture I'm coming away with is that D
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by slibhb 3y ago
One of the problems with effective altruism (and consequentialism more generally) is that it's quite hard to look at SBF and say definitively that his actions had net negative consequences. Maybe his donations saved lives. Maybe anthro
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by slibhb 3y ago
I hope to never be the recipient of such "solidarity".
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by slibhb 3y ago
Extremely prescient exchange between SBF and Tyler Cowen: COWEN: Okay, but let’s say there’s a game: 51 percent, you double the Earth out somewhere else; 49 percent, it all disappears. Would you play that game? And would you keep on playing

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