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by tegmark 3y ago
i discovered this after buying a house with asbestos and looking not only into the official guidelines but the undercurrent of industry experts, their observations. the risks of asbestos are massively overblown in the way that the public un
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by tegmark 3y ago
your conclusion really depends on the AI. a billion humans put together arent as smart as the intelligence of one human multiplied by a billion. even if humans could coordinate without any friction or loss, there is no group of humans that
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by tegmark 3y ago
youre wrong and its because you are having an emotional block. you cant accept something like that. you decided that it couldn't be true as soon as you saw the conclusion and have never been able to see clearly the chain of reason lead
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by tegmark 3y ago
none of the parts that make up your mind have any of that either. it doesnt need desire, it can behave in any way that is necessary through the prompt, with all prompts generated based on a single seed prompt “protect your temporal interest
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by tegmark 3y ago
if you set up gtp in a loop continuously prompting “given the current sensor inputs, how can i best serve my own interests?” you would already be most of the way there even if it did some strange and stupid things half the time. all you wou
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by tegmark 3y ago
this exact sentiment was used to discourage the birth of science. common people enraged at the pointless and wasteful expenditures of the rich. to them, their telescopes and experiments were just as stupid as this. i would relax.
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by tegmark 3y ago
thats a 2012 account, too. i think we need more of this, pointing out when people made comically wrong predictions. we see all these confidently wrong predictions and it just gets tiring. i think HN should have some ranking system for getti
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by tegmark 3y ago
its crazy to think that this technology could have been used in the roman empire or any prior civilization that had a written language. personally i would use large billboard with a black/white pattern and a mask that slides back and f
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by tegmark 3y ago
without a proper definition, you cant say AI does or does not have emotions. generally, emotions are one tool in the toolbox that might be labeled “unconscious influence.” other tools include pain, dissociation. these are influences that ma
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by tegmark 3y ago
twitters brand is valuable. the only logical explanation is that musk thinks he will get something even more valuable in return for axing the brand. the strength of the brand is exactly why it needs to go. twitters brand is too strong for a