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by tomcatfish 4y ago
0.000000000000001 chance - cost $0 0.000000033333333 chance - cost $4 Which one comes up on top, expected value wise?
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
You're aware that the AI folks aren't trying to build AIXI, right? I find it hard to believe you'd thrash a theoretical infinite-compute chess model as silly this hard; it's a useful model as a boundary case.
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Do you think the author is somehow gaining access to the originals? I do not see how this is relevant.
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Another hyperbolic geometry game and previous discussion here [1]. The different areas in the game help with a grasp of different interesting properties of the non-euclidean geometry. [1]: HyperRogue – a non-Euclidean roguelike https:&#x2F
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
I don't think the people in the story would be upset at being shown a note from a (presumably long gone) friend?
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Many people would like to get things like "cure to disease X" or "reliable way to make people healthy" or "way to transport crops to hungry regions" before things like "green jelly beans linked to acne&quo
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Yes, Obsidian functions as a personal Wiki, which makes the above look sorta like "Why would I use Wikipedia instead of a 2.7 Gb directory of text files indexed by Bing?", which makes the value add more obvious, I think. (In case
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
From what I see, this was the maximally flame-y way to say what you said, and it's still inaccurate to call it "Not so kooky" as these commandments, while disagreeable to me, are not really that violent. 1. Maintain humanity
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
HN does not like displaying emojis, though a few slip through I believe.
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
That article: https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
How would it be "bad to the users benefit"?
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
I had the strangest issue with Thunderbird during the last big upgrade, where it took my PGP key out of gpg (deleting the key from the store in the process), and stored it in Thunderbird with no protection. I must have read an encrypted ema
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
To clarify, the comment in question was > Note that Mozilla has nothing to do with Thunderbird anymore. which fails to claim anything about the Mozilla Foundation or Corporation in particular.
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
I dunno, a social media platform with the mission statement "We're against human trafficking" would probably still suck.
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
All you've done is add insult to a hypothetical and pretend it's a point of argument. I shouldn't be surprised though, because "talk is cheap"
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
"The AI thinks it's good" Then why wouldn't it conceal it's good goal from those evil humans who would stop it from achieving it?
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
The concept of a philosophical zombie is outright incoherent under most formulations. The argument runs "What if everything was exactly like a universe where everyone had a mind except that no one had a mind?" The answer is that o
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
I like having something to scale 100B to, but this is a silly argument. "Instead of cutting this program, just have every military cut funding at once" is not a very realistic path forwards, and we're not going to get the pro
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
I saw a page once that was something like "7 Statistics Rules of Thumb for Programmers" that included some neat stats like * To get N trading cards which each have 1/N probability, buy something like either 2.7N or 3N cards C
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Since you're being modest, I'll follow with the relevant article of yours that I was going to take that quote from: https://www.gwern.net/Unseeing (A collection of musings on the difference in mindset between &quo
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Look above you in the thread[1] for a very simple demonstration of how "EV maximization and so-called "maximin" overlap a considerable amount of the time" can be false. I am not really clear on what background you could
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
They aren't, they're commenting on company general policy and making the obvious deduction from that. It's (literally) basic logic 1. Some site flags Firefox. 2. Not all sites flag Firefox. 3. Either every site flags Firefox
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
The operating point is that Scott Alexander isn't looking for a few extra dollars selling potentially fake health products. He makes a *lot* of money on Substack, enough that this concertn isn't valid. Also, "So and so isn&#x
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Artificial intelligence is modeled after abstractions on the concept of learning, not human thought. We just name things so that they'll be fun and easy to discuss, but (for example) there's no "human neuron" floating ar
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
A few paragraphs in > infused with logic so cold that even Mr. Spock would cringe upon hearing it > By contrast, defective altruism is [...] an approach that [...] implements this bold claim by weighing causes and beneficiaries again
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
Real question: What are you talking about? EA is about doing math to find charities that the highest "good per dollar" and giving them dollars in exchange for created goodness. Whatever you're talking about is something I&#x2
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
I have never heard this before. Is there more stuff like this? Note: I can't test this right now because I don't have any sites that do this particular bad thing
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
No. I'm being paid off by a different guy
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by tomcatfish 4y ago
As the old quote runs... "[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the e
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I tried to look for this research, and am referring to what I found. If there's more, I'll be wrong below. Why do so many commenters here throw away the many many Dunbar's number studies in favor of what appears to be one clu

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