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by trashtester 2y ago
Wealth did tend to mean land if we go back to the middle ages. But wealth above the freeman farmer level also meant access to a workforce capable of working that land and access to (or protection from) a military force capable of defending
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> if we have such incredibly sufficient machines at our disposal That's true. But it's far from clear that these machines will be "at our disposal" for very long. > Also scary, is military robots gone rogue. I&#x27
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> That’s the bottleneck the model was trying to avoid in the first place. Some real world validation is always needed, but if the validations that are performed show high accuracy, the number of experiments will go down a lot. > Nanbo
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If you want the really dystopian version, it would be AI controlled military forces. Or there could be some billionaire caste constructing ever grander monuments to their own vanity. Or the production could go to serve any number of other g
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I don't think it matters much if we're for or against such a future. If robots can do the same job as humans, but faster, cheaper and at a higher quality, out employers/customers will most likely replace us. If we're luc
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You validate a random selection of results using actual experiments. If you validate 10k results and a maximum of 1 of the validations contradicts the prediction, you're at about 99.99% accuracy. 10k experiments may seem like a lot, bu
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The human form is very versatile. While most robots may end up taking a different form, once we have sufficiently advanced humanoid robots, robots may replace human workers in almost any role.
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The need for validation is itself something that needs to be validated. If models can make predictions that are true >99.99% of the time, validation may only be needed for situations where even 0.01% error rates are intolerable. In any c
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AlphaFold/AlphaProteo are direct examples of how AI can allow us to bypass experiments when doing science. More importantly, though, is that insufficiently powerful AI has been a limiting factor in robotics. That seems to be coming to
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Precisely, but I think the feeling of knowing may be defined differently for the person having the feeling and from the viewpoint of others. A flat-earther may feel they "know" the earth is flat. I feel that i "know" tha
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My guess is that Ilya would be more likely to get it at some point in the future than the two of them combined.
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Relativity had just as much real world relevance in the 1920's as the Higgs boson has today....
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The discovery of the photoelectric effect was certainly as important as relativity in terms of how much it affects society. But it was only an incremental advanced on top of Planck work on blackbody radiation. I'm not saying that photo
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All UBI recipients are equal, but some are more equal than others....
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> Not really. The engineering effort of rewriting the entire codebase into a different language is astronomical. Not to mention that python is actually a good language choice for many types of environments, and basically the industry sta
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JVM based development has a place for some teams. Others need to go all the way to C++/C/Rust etc for the performance they need. But plenty of tasks can be done beautifully in Python. That's especially true in a data processi
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The main object is the in-between-land, where you need 10x-50x the performance of Python, not 500x the performance on some parallelizable workload. And in many teams, just having to worry about python makes it easier to keep team members pr
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> wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response Do you mean in her or in you?
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No problem. The AI assistant will have made sure he's not a wrongthinker in the first place. And even if he is, that job is going to be filled by another AI, regardless. All his wrongthing would get him is a lowered UBI rate.
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That NYC waitress is likely to have met quite a few European tourists who either tipped much too little, or were visibly grumpy at the expectation that they should tip. Also, plenty of software developers work as consultants on some kind of
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American economic success is not due to old companies staying big. It's due to the immense rate that some startups tend to grow . From the 100 most valuable companies on Earth, there are maybe 20-30 US (rough guess) tech companies t
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> I think complaining about culture is fine. A lot of people here in Europe, perhaps particularily so in France, do NOT think it's ok when American's on vacation overtly behave rudely and without respect. One attitude they tend
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> if you lacked the cash to pay salary you'd have to offer things like equity Do you think the 18-year-old getting a job serving burgers and beers at the recently started sports bar cares about the equity? Most of them would much ra
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> With that in mind, why are service staff singled out to receive tips? Partly for historical reasons. But also because it is one of the types of jobs where this actually works. (Because customers can experience the result of the work di
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I suppose even if it's paid 98% of the time, those 2% could still serve a signalling system where customers receive truly terrible service.
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When people tip, they intend that the money received is kept by those they give it to, or at most, shared with the part of the staff actually providing the experience (such as the chef of a restaurant). If a customer provides tip with the i
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> Why not do the best job you can all the time? > I may be imagining a utopian ideal there You definitely are. Most people need some kind of incentive to do their best. What those incentives are, vary wildly. In a family restaurant, t
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"When in Rome, do as the Romans do." This holds everywhere. (Well, with the exception of some places where locals have gotten used to tourists behaving differently.) To travel some place and then complain about the local customs t
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While I agree that tipping isn't really tipping if it is compelled, it's not tax either. No more so than any other cost slapped onto a price that goes to the owners or employees of a company. Taxes are those costs that are slapped
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Compensation models have pros and cons. I would argue that in countries where is is common (legally, not as corruption) tend to do better than those who don't. But it also leads to moral hazards. > I could ban it, I would. But THIS

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