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by xpe 2y ago
Tell me where you’ve looked, and I will comment and reply.
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by xpe 2y ago
> I don't think anyone disagrees that monopolies and other anticompetitive behaviour is a thing that exists. There are people who never learned this or have essentially forgotten it. Some ideologies bury such truths. Among business&
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by xpe 2y ago
The linked article is worth reading. Apologies for sounding so dismissive, but after putting in a lot of study myself, I want to warn people here: HN is not a great place for discussing AI safety. As of this writing, I’ve found minimal valu
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by xpe 2y ago
Yes, and physical embodiments vary considerably. When software can relocate its source code and data in seconds or less, containment strategies begin to look increasingly bleak. The field of AI safety has written extensively about misunders
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by xpe 2y ago
To focus on the section about Alzheimer’s disease... For the sake of argument, I will grant the power of general intelligence. But the human body with all the statistical variations may make solving the problem (which could actually be a co
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by xpe 2y ago
This is far from obvious. First, technically speaking, one could have democratic-capitalistic systems with high degrees of redistribution (such as UBI) that don’t fit the pattern of classic socialism. Second, have you read Superintelligence
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by xpe 2y ago
Any attempt to connect this to the book of revelations is strained. Amodei uses reasoning and is willing to be corrected and revised; quite the opposite of most “divinely revealed” texts.
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When reading the article, the author makes it very clear that AI can cut both ways. See the intro, you may have overlooked it.
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Is such certainty warranted? I don’t think so; it strains credibility. I’m very concerned about many future scenarios. But I admit the necessity of probabilistic assessments.
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by xpe 2y ago
> AI isn't the problem, we are. I see major problems with the statement above. First, it is a false dichotomy. That’s a fatal flaw. Second, it is not specific enough to guide action. Pretend I agree with the claim. How would it info
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by xpe 2y ago
I will grant that fast iteration is beneficial. But for me, under 10 seconds is usually fast enough. (For example, I don't think I would care too much when comparing 0.5 vs 5 second builds.) I personally care a lot more about having a
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Right. Phrasing it as a question and waiting for the gears to turn can be a good strategy.
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by xpe 2y ago
Yes, there are many forms of power. Different forms are sometimes fungible to various degrees (varying across time and space). I would expect that financial wealth is the most fungible form of any of them under usual circumstances.
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by xpe 2y ago
> When capitalism is functioning well, ... I recommend this question as an interesting conversation starter at parties: Is it in the self-interest of the most successful capitalists to have a well-functioning capitalism?
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by xpe 2y ago
There is a difference between "declining" and "dying". The former is descriptive. The latter is a prediction. There is little debate that radio is declining. To me, it more interesting how it is changing: the audience, t
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by xpe 2y ago
> AM is dead, and FM is nearly there as well. Overstated and incorrect. (The author reveals their own bubble in the preceding paragraph.) Word selection matters; there is not point in using "dead" when we have more accurate wor
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by xpe 2y ago
Let's think about the implied argument behind "why is this is a special case?". It is one thing to see this argument is deployed in a sincere effort to seek the truth and/or some better form of governance. It is another
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Program synthesis is a generalization of this. I’m not sure that many ML researchers have thought about the connections yet.
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by xpe 2y ago
Some suggestions: - Don't assume only digital intelligence. - Intelligence is fundamentally valuable to humans. No need to add any caveats. > But that feels very far off, even in the current exponential curve of efficiency we'r
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by xpe 2y ago
The core argument has a logical gap; it doesn’t matter if most (present) ML applications need AGI or not. What matters is the value proposition of AGI, independent of how we currently conceive of ML applications. Focus on this question: “Is
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by xpe 2y ago
I disagree. On this topic, I’m seeing too many ideological and uninformed claims. It is hard for many aspiring AI startup founders to rationally and neutrally assess the AI landscape, pros and cons.
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by xpe 2y ago
> Anyone who claims they will for the 'good of humanity' is lying or was never a contender. An overreach. Some people and organizations are more aligned with humanity’s well being and survival than others.
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Stable V8 Bindings for Rust(deno.com)
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by xpe 2y ago
Whatever you think of the IRS, they aren't the master of their own destiny: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted (2018) > An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it und
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by xpe 2y ago
Copyright concerns are only the tip of the iceberg. Think about the range of other harms and disruptions for countries and the world.
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by xpe 2y ago
> At this point I'm convinced that new package managers forbidding transitive dependencies would be an overall net gain. Composition is an essential part of software development, and it crosses package boundaries. How would banishin
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by xpe 2y ago
> That's what inevitably happens when you make transitive dependencies easy and you have a culture of "if there's a library for it you must use it!" 1. This doesn't mean that C++'s fragmented hellscape of pa
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by xpe 2y ago
Does anyone have personal experience or an understanding of why sometimes coffee in the afternoon actually results in a feeling of perceived tiredness?
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by xpe 2y ago
You can't spell funeral without fun.
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by xpe 2y ago
The comment above seems too dismissive in my opinion. There is a lot of (credible and rational) (thinking and research) around what AGI might entail. There are also many interesting theories about consciousness that are worth considering. H

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