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by tim333 6mo ago
Sorry. Maybe this and option 4 https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.economi...
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by tim333 6mo ago
I don't remember hearing he's losing his grip in the past. He always seemed pretty secure as dictator for life with any serious opponents like Navaly or Boris Nemtsov being killed in various ways. There seems more criticism now. L
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by tim333 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/OraDr
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by tim333 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/OraDr
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by tim333 6mo ago
Also I think Hassabis was long focussed on using AI for science. He got a PhD in neuroscience before starting DeepMind.
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by tim333 6mo ago
To be honest I'm not that up on those terms but I figure given that life evolved the functionality must be something like what I mentioned. I'll have a read up.
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by tim333 6mo ago
You do get people with short term memory loss who are conscious but keep looping back. LLMs do have some state as text in their context window. I guess in a sense they are conscious of that text. Or aware - not sure which word to use.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I've got a theory of consciousness, not a very complicated one, that could be used in a machine. Basically that it evolved as a practical way for animals to make decisions like whether to run from a predator. To do that info from the b
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by tim333 6mo ago
Nitpick nitpick: If you look at Turing's paper https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf and ^F for consciousness you'll find that's not entirely true.
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by tim333 6mo ago
>mechanism is what consciousness is about I don't see it that way - it's more about awareness of sights sounds feelings thoughts and the like. I've got little idea what mechanism my brain uses and don't think it matte
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by tim333 6mo ago
Googling I got the a power use estimate as Standard Query (Sonnet): ~0.84 Wh Assuming Dawkins made 100 queries over the the weekend we have AI power use 84 Wh, Dawkins brain at say 20W x 48 hrs = 960 Wh. Of course when you include the rest
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by tim333 6mo ago
It's often true - index investors tend to do better than people who follow corporate prononcements.
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by tim333 6mo ago
>constitution ... turned out to be papier mâché Give it time.
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by tim333 6mo ago
The article says too big for his boots and part responsible for a $787m libel judgement. Also called Senior Executive Vice President for Corporate Communications a cunt. Doesn't mention idealogue.
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by tim333 6mo ago
That was referring to equities. The modern version should be short oil when there is blood in the street and the president truths.
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by tim333 6mo ago
https://halupedia.com/hacker-news >Hacker News is a semi-sentient cloud formation
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by tim333 6mo ago
The UK went through getting rid of that with the landed gentry at the start of the twentieth century. Mostly tax - income and inheritance. It requires the political will to vote in people who will do it though.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I can't say I like him - one of the very few people I've blocked on Twitter for going on about how the pathetic Ukrainians are doomed and should just give up. Paul Graham also had a bit of a spat over whether he was the most evil
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by tim333 6mo ago
They've been hyped up recently by that sort of thing but a lot of the success is built on a dedicated founder who is exceptional at building things and has been keeping at it for ages. Vid of Munger saying Wang Chuanfu is great and he
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by tim333 6mo ago
It's kind of a shame.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I can't see rationing - there is a fairly open market in jet fuel and if supply is short the price will go up and and people will fly less. At the moment jet fuel futures prices for the summer are similar to now so people can hedge if
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by tim333 6mo ago
I've only done a bit of helping with computer systems but the gripes he lists - people not understanding the system, leaving, management trying trendy software and the like happen even without greedy capitalism.
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by tim333 6mo ago
In FTX's case there obviously was a crime - stealing customer money. With OpenAI I don't really see it, hence I guess the lack of a criminal case. The 'stealing a charity' bit is more metaphorical - it wasn't actual
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by tim333 6mo ago
Yeah it's a shame Xi has reverted a bit - less economic freedom and more warlike. Still it's much better than it used to be.
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by tim333 6mo ago
A problem with reporting it is the AI producers can churn out thousands or millions of the things. They need some sort of automated or semi automated way of dealing with it I guess.
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by tim333 6mo ago
China was completely mucked up economically under Mao, especially around the cultural revolution. I went there in 1983 when GDP per capita was like $300 and it was a bit prison camp like. It's changed a lot.
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by tim333 6mo ago
One thing China did which was smart was to start training thousands of engineers about twenty years ago, about 10x the number of US engineering graduates. That's paying off now. It was also a little sad to see the treatment of Tesla by
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by tim333 6mo ago
Though as far as I can tell the charity which Musk put about $30m into still exists and holds 26% of OpenAI's commercial arm valued at ~200bn. So rather than being stolen it's still there and with 7000x as much assets? Not sure ho
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by tim333 6mo ago
At least they don't get many views. Not sure why the system suggests them? Maybe they could have an "AI crap" feedback button to warn others?
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by tim333 6mo ago
We've had nuclear power since the 1950s with a boom in the 60s and 70s. Since then annual carbon emissions are up 6.5x ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-... ) It doesn't seem to be f

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