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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> In an attempt to appear less partisan This doesn't really work when you're trafficking in "explanations" about how Group A thinks invented by Group B for the purpose of delegitimizing Group A's disagreements
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> leading to schisms in the communities and competing conferences that would ultimately disagree on fundamental principles in science and policy. Ignoring the original topic and the rest of the comment, this part sounds like actually a
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> In this sense it's similar to "Who speaks bad, thinks bad and lives bad. Words are important!" by Nanni Moretti in Palombella Rossa. Yes, if you use some disfavored group's vernacular, there's a decent chance
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> should have sunset clauses That would be the extra lights that have to be turned on at night.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
They're like backups, in that they don't actually exist unless you've tested them. A copy-pasted plan is actually fine, as long as whoever's responsible for following it actually can follow it and it works. A plan that n
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
No, we are not on track to create a literal god in the machine. Skynet isn't actually real. LLM system do not have intent in the way that is presupposed by these worries. This is all much much less of an existential threat than, sa
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> historical drift from “AI alignment” referring to existential risk, to today, where any AI personality you don’t like is “unaligned.” Alignment has always been "what it actually does doesn't match what it's meant t
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
That sounds... fun ... for people with mobility issues.
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As obviously silly as this is, could it actually be useful for getting the observed phenomena acknowledged by people who might just tune out is presented with the underlying math that makes it individually? How much overlap is there between
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> AFAIK everything above above absolute zero radiates, which effectively means that everything radiates. What really matters is temperature relative to surroundings . Something at the same temperature as everything around it won'
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I've seen proposed perpetual motion machines based on treating simplified calculations as if they're the real thing.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Am I the only one who wishes they could be inside in a windowless room 24/7/365? Seems like the sort of thing that might later turn out to have been a bad idea regardless of how it seemed at the time.
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> 1080p So good enough for gargoyling or other situations where even a laptop form factor is a pain, but not a proper replacement yet.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> What other tools in software sometimes work and sometimes don't that you find remotely acceptable? Searching for relevant info on the Internet can take several attempts, and occasionally I end up not finding anything useful. My
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Time spent on tasks was never as relevant as hitting deadlines without backtracking or building up technical debt. Managers and their employees alike only ever focused on hours because they hated their jobs. Where I work, the budget
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Enron started out as a real company doing real things, and only pivoted to fraud later.
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It's a proper scientific paper with a DOI and thirteen citations.
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People are misestimating current AI, and trying to work out a new explanation for what makes humans special.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Their argument rests on computation being a theory ("simulation") while agency/cognition being real ("processes"). Put that way, I don't buy the distinction. One is wholly internal to the entity under di
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Whether some entity has agency isn't an inherent property of that entity. It's a property of how some observer reasons about that entity's interaction with its environment.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> debating whether or not we have free will Free will is an abstraction. It's not something that's concrete enough to say it does or doesn't exist, but a tool for reasoning about certain systems that are to much of a pai
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Inventing your own programming language for your personal project is a TERRIBLE idea, and will likely doom the project in the long run. It's something that everyone should do at least once, ideally on a hobby project where it wo
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
We already have AI taxis (in specific limited areas, but still). Driving isn't something I'd usually call "merely mechanical".
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Oh, I thought the "I wasn't asking" option was to just reimage it with Linux.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
How fortunate that AIs are tools operated by humans, and can't cause worse responsibility issues than when a human employee is required to blindly follow a canned procedure.
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The other kind of free money, that goes to people of the fun side of the unevenly-distributed future by nature of their having a tech advantage.
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> One of my greatest fears for our industry is that we'll never have a company like early Google again. That was mostly an artifact of the free money that gets thrown off as tech advancements are integrated into society.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> when stimulus is structured in specific ways people lose their grip on reality, or rather more accurately, people have their grip on objective reality ripped away from them without them realizing it because these things operate on us
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It currently seems to be mostly interesting philosophical discussions about why this is even a thing , rather than having devolved into rote mudslinging along the standard fault lines. Which means that at least for now it's still wort
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> It has LONG been the practice that confession is absolutely confidential without exception. The idea is that they believe that there should be absolutely no barriers to confession when the eternal fate of the confessor's soul is

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