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by woopsn 3y ago
Not quite in retrospect -- the earlier paper on emergence addresses this > It is also important to consider the evaluation metrics used to measure emergent abilities. For instance, using exact string match as the evaluation metric for lo
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by woopsn 3y ago
A big rock with its own momentum is more likely to come down on the surface (wherever it is) intact enough. But yeah there may be other ways to spread our seed. My point is that it will unpropelled for most of the journey, and a seed not an
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by woopsn 3y ago
There are no streaks of gamma radiation (or any sort) going across the Milky Way connecting the stars. The second issue is less obvious - the Milky Way is some 13 billion years old, has hundreds of millions of stars, but is only 100,000 lig
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by woopsn 3y ago
Boeing can afford it, but the carriers built around 737 locked themselves in. They don't want a new plane.
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by woopsn 3y ago
The only way to go is to go is slowly and by not sending a ton, ie inject genetic material into a rock that's already on its way, hope for the one in a trillion chance that it takes root somewhere. That we're so alone in the galax
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by woopsn 3y ago
So called chain of thought can improve output quality ("reasoning ability") to an extent, but I wish for josh sake it were called "intermediate token conditioning" / something explanatory or at least descriptive.
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by woopsn 3y ago
In computing we use analogies everywhere: stack, bus, web, garbage collector, parent, container, ... Master became somewhat controversial recently, but overall the main risk our liberal repurposing of terms introduces is that we sometimes f
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by woopsn 3y ago
Regarding your last statement, what do you see as the distinction? Take for example eg continuity. Students are first taught it means you can graph a function in a single stroke of the pen. Later comes epsilon and delta, this is more abstra
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by woopsn 3y ago
Great series. It really humanizes Cantor for me to see him trying to walk back a claim in those letters. I did my senior project on the continuum hypothesis, up through Paul Cohen's proof of it's independence (he wrote a short boo
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by woopsn 3y ago
With ribosomes, hormones, spores, senses, brains etc., and by processing our genetic "code" into these things.
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by woopsn 3y ago
How much damage could one do with ~20 terawatts of brain power? A lot. But nothing clandestine.
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by woopsn 3y ago
Many people consider what OpenAI is building to be the dangerous application. They don't seem nefarious to me per se, just full of hubris, and somewhat clueless about the consequences of Altman's relationship with Microsoft. That&
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by woopsn 3y ago
I'm not sure who they are attempting to convince of what with this communication? Nobody who doesn't know who REDACTED is cares what REDACTED thought of the issue. This is again some of the least professional comms I've seen
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by woopsn 3y ago
Mr. Altman was fired for cause last year. He then demonstrated very thoroughly and publicly that OpenAI is controlled by Microsoft, and only nominally had its own board and charter. See general allegation "C. The 2023 Breach Of The Fou
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by woopsn 3y ago
I would love it if we got the ship's computer. That doesn't seem to be anywhere on the horizon. Until recently there was a button on my phone I could press to get immediate directions somewhere, to start a timer, any number of oth
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by woopsn 3y ago
They do. Altman is saying their tech may be poised to capture the sum of all value in Earth's future light cone. Saying "well that is not physically impermissible" doesn't make it real. In any case nobody has ever shown
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by woopsn 3y ago
You are very far out of touch.
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by woopsn 3y ago
That's funny. There is in fact a quasi-finitist number scheme called the counting numbers, closed under +1 and addition/multiplication generally but not exponentiation, so unbounded but not too "problematic" as they have
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by woopsn 3y ago
IIRC that is one of Zeilberger's opinions. For myself, I don't think "biggest number" makes sense per se in mathematics , but it is a fact that no matter what resources we muster we're left with some numbers equali
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by woopsn 3y ago
Did you write this reply because it was the most typical way that the thread up until GP could have continued? I don't mean that to sound flippant -- if this wasn't your intent, then obviously you understand the distinction.
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by woopsn 3y ago
I'm not advocating anything be broken. But if they're really doing what they say, and what I assumed you referred to by existential risk -- developing technologies "akin to the hydrogen bomb", that stand to "captu
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by woopsn 3y ago
In that world there is no alternative, we should shut them down and break their stuff.
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by woopsn 3y ago
OpenAI's oversight structure is plainly stupid by any measure. Their CEO and core "partners" liquidated the board and reformed it within a few days of his firing. The buck stops with Sam. The only thing Helen Toner screwed up
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by woopsn 3y ago
Certain prominent members noped out, but yeah.
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by woopsn 3y ago
What is there to explain? Sam Altman played a stupid game, founding a sham nonprofit instead of a startup, and won a stupid prize when the board fired him for dishonesty.
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by woopsn 3y ago
Firing Sam Altman was a truly great move and I hope the board wins out. Investors are furious... Who cares? That's why it is a nonprofit, to protect them from being forced towards maximizing growth and profit at the expense of their mi
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by woopsn 3y ago
The style presented is far from the norm at the moment not just because of gate-keeping and over-engineering, but because web software is refactored and improved so many times over. For example, <summary> only supports a weird set o
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by woopsn 3y ago
Not building the ship of thousands of little nukelets IS managing risk.
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by woopsn 3y ago
It's not just leakage, large constellations lower SNR in radio astronomy just by being long trains of metal.
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by woopsn 3y ago
That's true, but your GP is suggesting that infrastructure investments are unproductive as well.

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