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by ummonk 3y ago
The article seems to be aware of the fact that plastic backpacks can be durable too: "Some schools in Shimane prefecture have moved to city-provided lightweight nylon backpacks called ran-bags (yeah, don’t ask me how they name things i
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by ummonk 3y ago
So if I understand the sequence of events right: 1) Developers are reluctant to build in a stagnant area because it would be a risky investment 2) The government provides property tax breaks for some anchor projects in the region 3) More de
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by ummonk 3y ago
He's talking about citing and quoting NYTimes articles, not republishing them verbatim. That said, it's very different if you're a publication that sometimes cites reporting from other publications vs. a website exclusively d
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by ummonk 3y ago
No it’s not a hybrid effort (except insomuch as LLMs are reliant on human generated data for training). They’re simply saying that the code created by the LLM can be examined and potentially understood by humans.
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by ummonk 3y ago
In other words, “LLM writes a computer program that generates new examples which improve the lower bound for the n=8 case of a problem.” I’d like to see how novel the program it generated was, rather than just being a brute force random sea
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by ummonk 3y ago
It ignores mentioning that many of the biggest e/acc proponents openly support AI potentially replacing humanity, seeing it as the next evolutionary step that might obsolete humans.
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by ummonk 3y ago
They’re nowhere near as obnoxious as evangelicals in small towns in the Bible Belt.
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by ummonk 3y ago
"End of all value" is pretty clearly referring to the extinction of the human species, not mere "AI alignment failure". The context is talking about x-risk.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Yeah you can get a whole genome sequence of yourself for about $300 now.
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by ummonk 3y ago
OpenAI isn’t a nonprofit company, and it has shareholders. Edit: nvm I missed the point was about firing the board.
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by ummonk 3y ago
You claimed “In the United States you can’t be arrested and charged with theft without the owner claiming you actually stole something.” Then you shifted the goalposts to “charges and convictions”.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Can’t they just announce an amnesty but make it contingent on turning in any illicitly obtained footage to the BBC?
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by ummonk 3y ago
It’s not clear to me why we should have a hard and fast statute of limitations for that reason instead of simply factoring it in when deciding whether the prosecution has proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
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by ummonk 3y ago
If you think scattering up to 70% of incoming solar radiation back into space is "magic thinking", I don't know what to say to you...
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by ummonk 3y ago
The material works by having very low emissivity / absorptivity at sunlight wavelength so that sunlight is scattered back out, and by having high emissivity at typical earth temperature blackbody peak wavelength, so it radiates out hea
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by ummonk 3y ago
It doesn't need to go back into space. If you don't want the scattered sunlight to heat your house, you can always add the same ceramic to your house...
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by ummonk 3y ago
Exactly. The paper is great for constraining the possibilities, but you still need to show empirically that there is an invariant speed of light and we live in a Minkowskian not a Newtonian world.
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by ummonk 3y ago
What the paper claims it is saying: you can get the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed. What the paper is actually saying: assuming there isn’t a privileged reference frame, you can show that either the Galilean tr
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Man crushed to death by robot that mistook him for a box of vegetables(telegraph.co.uk)
104 points by ummonk 3y ago|89 comments
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by ummonk 3y ago
One advantage I’ve seen talked about for the hydrogen ICE as a transitional engine is that it doesn’t require the same level of hydrogen purity as a fuel cell does.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Have you asked those RL experts to offer you a job or connect you with someone that is hiring?
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by ummonk 3y ago
Pretty sure if total employment, revenues, and profits for the tech industry will still be up from 2019. The recent tech “recession” is just a correction for the bubble that had happened during Covid WFH.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Presumably the surrounding air is below 100% humidity. So the light isn’t heating up and vaporizing the water, but rather helping the air pick it up faster.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Stop saying nonsense. There is a pathway back: "The DMV has provided Cruise with the steps needed to apply to reinstate its suspended permits, which the DMV will not approve until the company has fulfilled the requirements to the depar
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California DMV suspends Cruise's driverless testing permit effective immediately(dmv.ca.gov)
164 points by ummonk 3y ago|3 comments
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by ummonk 3y ago
Or you could ride a bicycle.
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by ummonk 3y ago
What would you suggest the publications use instead? Maps from billion dollar companies!
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by ummonk 3y ago
If you think Red Hat was a $1T opportunity then you’re the one drinking the koolaid.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Globally available birth control is just a new selective pressure that humans are beginning to adapt to. Assuming ASI doesn’t erase the human species, humans will be back to expanding towards Malthusian limits within a few generations, rebo
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by ummonk 3y ago
Yup the shareholder is an ETF today. The people voting on behalf of shareholders aren’t the people benefiting from the success of the company.

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