veerd

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by veerd 3y ago
1. Choice of language only matters up to an additive constant (e.g. you could just write a simulator so language A can run language B). 2. If you want something with less physical grounding, you could use lambda calculus instead of Turing m
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by veerd 3y ago
Most people that study AI existential risk specifically are studying it due to concerns about AI x-risk. So the list of relevant AI x-risk experts will be subject to massive selection effects. If instead you want to consider the highest sta
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by veerd 3y ago
Agreed. It's difficult for me to see how the regulatory capture arguments apply to Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (!!). Both of them are criticizing their own life's work and the source of their prestige. That has to be emotion
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by veerd 3y ago
Boiling it down to a single sentence reduces ambiguity. Also, given that AI x-risk analysis is essentially pre-paradigmatic, many of the signatories probably disagree about the details.
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Sam Altman On AI X-Risk (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)
2 points by veerd 3y ago|0 comments
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by veerd 3y ago
At this point, I think it's obvious that concern about AI existential risk isn't a position reserved for industry shills and ignorant idiots. I mean... that's not even debatable. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio aren't
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Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers(beren.io)
118 points by veerd 3y ago|23 comments
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Bioelectricity: A new perspective on cancer as a disease of geometry(youtube.com)
1 points by veerd 7y ago|0 comments
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by veerd 8y ago
This is a big deal! Full support for old browsers without compromising bundle size for newer browsers. I haven't seen anything like this elsewhere.