throwawayoaky

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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Agree he's kidding though; there's a zero percent chance we'll survive our AI oppressors. Also never listen to infrastructure talk from someone who can't keep their own website up
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Doesn't matter if he's kidding; address the people who will take it seriously. folks who think they're smart but lack systems thinking ability are capable of believing anything; they're like early socialist dictators wi
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Also (and this should be obvious) our own ability to harness primary production is confined to a small number of species; backing these into an adaptive corner could play havoc with our large heterotrophic society, where calorie production
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Venus is also a thing. But agreed, (intentional) terraforming will be a good idea at some point. Disagreed on CO2 being the right way to do it; the sun was dimmer 60 million years ago. You can't feel your way into a solution here, y
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
> it's much harder to cram ads into a chat conversation. why do I feel like this sentence will age poorly
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
came for unsafe, was disappointed
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
it's possible we'll be able to blow up the AGI before it's finished with us. Maybe the best possible world is one where an early AGI destroys a huge amount of capital and ruins the reputation of its successors so they'r
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
yeh I dunno about this for HVAC. Unless the AI can drive down capital costs for robots, humans will have a distribution and cost advantage
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
heh in some fields that's exactly how you get a masters in the US
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
I'm picturing a curve of increasing steepness that we'll all inevitably fall off of eventually, but where the marginal utility of hanging on for one more cycle increases.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
for very rich values of "you"
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
I dunno, it still looks like human bodies will be useful for a while yet, if only because of the massive investment in legacy infrastructure designed for humans. So knowing the trajectory of AI better might help you determine whether to sa
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
I predict the first big crunch is going to happen once we have on-prem models in closed loops with company software. Fwiw looks like writing code will die before reading it will, so maybe get real good at making PR comments and close readi
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
what if you have children? Not everybody can afford the luxury of shrugging on this one.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Lot of confidence that our careers are going to be OK.. I'm suspicious because if there were sufficient AI to replace us, we would be in the position of our salaries depending on us not understanding that fact. Seems to me that the onl
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
There's this weird thing where a principal might be deluded about their own intentions. It's useful because it allows them to give inaccurate information about their future behavior without 'lying'. If a sincere/p
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Not the OP but yes absolutely. At medium sized USA companies it's common (not universal) for new team members to be discovered and or interviewed and or hired by the team that they will be working with. HR/recruiters are just tr
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
See you guys in five years!
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Horrifying pull quote: "Simply lowering the risks of getting sick—and the costs of paraphernalia, as Flaco from the Bronx articulated—could also incentivise drug use."
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Our only hope is that humans are already more intelligent on an individual basis than they need to be, and that coordinating AGIs looks a lot like coordinating/persuading/teaching people. Then we can all become middle managers, w
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
to offer an alterative: write all the code you want and throw it away. Don't get attached to the work of your hands. The code is the water; feel the problem, move towards the value.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
real talk though how do you make money at a shop that says no? we just gonna sit around with our hands in our robes and nod?
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
taste is a tarpit. If your project has enough degrees of freedom to require taste, you're probably going to fail. Geniuses please ignore me. Everyone else, find your audience first.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
I mean what do you want em to do, go all FFVII? Seems like the paintings were fine; very strange to see all the triggered in the comments. Guessing it's because young privileged hippies are an easy target for ire.. but idk it's a