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by somestag 10y ago
I think the fundamental difference of opinion--between those who worry about the existential risk of gAI and those who don't--is not whether or not gAI can pose a risk to humankind, but rather whether it will , and if so, whether th
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Well, for one, I never said the were. You can read what I wrote as you would read, "Today, I visited the store (including the cafe)." You don't need to go to the store cafe to go to the store, but you're additionally spe
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by somestag 10y ago
I've gotten some decent mileage with family and friends by making the distinction between "weak" AI and "strong" AI. I tell them that any AI that's designed to only solve one type of problem (or a finite set of
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I've heard this argument a lot--that the first true general AI may lead to to extremely rapid advances in GAI capabilities (through one means or another), and it will be impossible to do damage control after the fact if something goes
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Maybe we can generalize this a bit, since you can definitely be stressed/anxious but not feel busy (e.g. when you have a big presentation coming up, and you're more worried about your performance than your preparation). I would gu
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The author makes it abundantly clear the article is for working professionals, particularly women. I don't see any suggestion in the article that a single mother with three jobs has time for swing dancing lessons and hiking trips. And
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Do you not believe in morals at all , or do you just not believe in universal morals? What about ethics ? I ask because your position takes on very different implications depending on exactly what you believe. In my experience, most peo
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Yeah, it takes like a week tops to go from knowing nothing about private trackers to knowing what all the majors ones are. What.cd has been extremely well-known for a long time now. The exclusivity was less about actually being hidden and
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On the one hand, it was clear that the website wasn't meant to be informative, since it always recommended the client's drug no matter what the questionnaire returned. Clearly that was a bit shady. On the other hand... as a genera
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There are many factors and implications that go into the tradition, and the diamond itself is symbolic of much of it. That's why you can't logically reduce the tradition down to a single element with an easy alternative. For examp
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Taken to its logical conclusion, your argument boils down to saying that any human who spends money on something that's not strictly utilitarian deserves to be treated as non-human. You try to hedge against this by saying that you enjo
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I wonder if dread is the right word for it. I've always associated feelings of dread with knowing (or fearing) something is going to happen that will be terrible. You can certainly dread going to your job, but that weird state of lim
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by somestag 10y ago
First off, I don't understand how you make the jump from "wants a possession" to "deserves to be treated as a possession." Even if we accept that wanting a diamond ring would make her dumb (and I don't accept t
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by somestag 10y ago
Not at all. Of all the reasons for wanting a diamond ring, the mere fact that it's expensive is relatively low on the list for many (most?) people, and even then the price is just a proxy for expressed commitment. If it were about th
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by somestag 10y ago
I dunno, I don't think it's that simple. For one, the "respect your values" arguments goes both ways: she values a diamond, he doesn't. If she insists on a diamond, she's not respecting his values. If he insist
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by somestag 10y ago
In my reading of the article, I never detected a suggestion that Darwinian evolution was flawed or incorrect. In fact, as far as I can tell, the article says exactly what you're saying: that a complete understanding of evolution involv
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Because the process of becoming "less lonely" is time-consuming and sometimes downright uncomfortable, and success isn't even guaranteed. Friendship is what happens when you enjoy each other's company. If 20 lonely peopl
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by somestag 10y ago
This is true. However, it becomes more difficult if the hobbies you're interested in tend to attract a type of person that you don't mesh with very well. You can't really become close friends with people whose company you don
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by somestag 10y ago
There is a wide continuum of behaviors and interactions between courteous banter and harassment. This isn't the usual lament about how people don't talk to each other; this is the lament that people don't talk to each other
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by somestag 10y ago
I would put it the other way around: that we're all very bad at separating truth from fiction. That's what's terrifying to me. How many people are genuinely bothered by how hard it is to find truth? How many people even thi
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by somestag 10y ago
I certainly agree that we should be trying new things. Only good things can come of that. But I think it's very important to acknowledge that these "problems" with games are not born out of laziness, lack of creativity, or an
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by somestag 10y ago
> If we look at nature, we see the opposite: almost all animals seem to experience some sort of emotional reaction to stimulus, even if they don't seem capable of complex rational thinking. Well, my (personal) par for "sufficie
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by somestag 10y ago
I put a lot of stock in the power of discourse. When a person publicly expresses their hatred or contempt, they always raise the levels of hatred and contempt in the listeners--those that agree with them are emboldened, and those that disag
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I think the reason that there is little academic work in the direction of making emotional machines is because we don't have a clear avenue of attack for that problem. We understand so little about the brain in general, and emotions se
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Call it "teaching," "training," "learning," "conditioning," or whatever else you like, but it seems pretty self-evident that people change how they think and feel based on their experiences. Some of t
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It's totally fine to have a different opinion. When you went into the article, you expected to read something about the author's mechanical keyboard. The article was instead about technology that diverged from the author's ta
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Depends on your perspective. If you had infinite money, everything would effectively be free no matter how much it costed, and "value" to you wouldn't be a function of cost at all, but rather one of factors like time and conv
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If your switch is more than a few lines, the Pythonic way is to use a dictionary, rather than many if-else statements. A dict is roughly as concise as a switch, and it's also much easier to work with and extend. Following the principle