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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is a joke: Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> So suddenly Yudkowsky is the Thought Leader and a punching bag I only meant to imply the latter. I suppose I inadvertently applied the former by mentioning him juxtaposed to Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, although it is a stretch for
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Allowed? Where do I say he is or isn’t allowed? You must be trolling to so poorly represent what I’m saying. He can wear anything he wants. So can you. So can anyone. If he wants to, and for all I care, he can dress up like a clown. Or dres
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I didn’t create the meme of a neckbeard wearing a fedora. Know you meme entry [1] is 9 years old at this point. Just like I didn’t create the trope of a scientist wearing a white lab coat. But if someone is doing a 2 min video sketch of a s
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by zoogeny 3y ago
We play with tropes based on appearances within our culture. Consider Shrek. The story is made to subvert the trope that the ugly person is the villain, as it was in Disney movies. But the real point isn’t some Platonic view of Beauty. It i
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Imagine we had started taking climate change seriously in 1990 I don't want to completely derail this thought but I am a bit older than some of the crowd on HN and I was in high school in the 90s so my perspective is a bit differe
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Yudkowsky's take on AI safety is to tech companies what greenwashing is to the auto industry and oil companies. The most useful of fools. Yudkowsky acts, speaks, dresses and looks like the most neck-beard of neck-beards. He wears
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In the last ten years technology has increased substantially. In the last five years AI has advanced significantly. That is worth really letting sink in. I try my best to avoid every kind of online discussion on these topics that I reasonab
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I believe you are confusing two different things. First: the activities that you would take as an individual that would make you grow. Second: the perception of others for your potential for future growth. This article is about how we rew
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A careful reading of the source article states: > With each track, the participants were given a short biographical text that either emphasised the natural talent of the performer, or the hard work that had helped them to develop their a
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I think your mistake is by considering a single person and not considering the comparison between two individuals. Consider two athletes that can both achieve some specific result, e.g. run a quarter mile in some equal fixed time. The first
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Here is my uninformed analysis: if your performance is due to pushing yourself to your limits, then you have no room to grow. If similar performance is due to talent and required little effort then you have room to grow. The other cliche we
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is a YouTube channel TechTechPotato [1] that has a podcast on AI hardware called "The AI Hardware Show". Pretty small and it gives you a view on how niche this market is - but if you want the 10k foot view from young budding
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It seems that time and time again, transformers are the swiss army knife of learning systems. And specifically LLMs are proving to be like chameleons. In some ways that shouldn't be surprising. Some say that math is a universal languag
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is worth watching Yuval Noah Harari's recent talk at Frontiers Forum. [1] In it he details the possibility of AI being used to create new religions that are so powerful and persuasive that they will be irresistible. Consider how QAn
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The tech to look out for in this space is called NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields). Just do a quick search on that term and you will find a whole bunch of videos that reconstruct 3d scenes using digital stills. I just saw a paper a couple of da
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think "advocate for themselves" can be reductive. There is a spectrum of advocacy. One approach is to work with a medical team over time to document symptoms and impact on your life, experiment and document attempted treatment
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I really appreciate this response. > I do not personally believe that treatments that can improve one's life should be gatekeeped (gatekept?) sheerly by disorders In my most libertarian moments I totally agree. But I also accept (ev
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have a friend who is a Nurse Practitioner. In Canada this is pretty close to a doctor in that they can order tests, diagnose patients and prescribe treatments and medications. She was in private practice for a while. She talks often about
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I was always a bit annoyed with WhatWG splintering from w3c. If we had bitten the bullet 20 years ago and stuck with xhtml then I think we would be significantly closer to people using structured formats for web d
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Just some random feedback on the val.town interface. The concept is interesting but I have one gripe. I want to know what the code I'm about to run will do and I notice the pretty unique `@stevekrouse.hnLatestPosts` type interface wher
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> If a dog misbehaves [...] I'll use a gruff voice and a hard look. If the dog persists in the undesirable behavior and looks for approval, I'll refuse to look at it or face it. I recently got an older golden retriever (7 year
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by zoogeny 3y ago
On your pricing page, it just says $75 for cloud. Is that per month? per year? one time purchase? Pardon me if it is described somewhere, but I've scanned the page multiple times and can't determine it.
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Meta still has the Portal line of products - which were competitors to the Alexa, Siri and similar Google audio assistant product lines. I just searched and it looks like Meta are currently partnering with Amazon to license Alexa on these d
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> I've been actively looking for good arguments against AGI being much closer than we should be comfortable with, and reasons why we should not fear systems that surpass us in intelligence. > My guess is these people will act sur
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Thank you for asking this question and pushing for clarification. I literally have a tab open with a question to GPT asking it to explain to me the positional encoding and QKV concepts of transformers. After going through Karpathy's Ze
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It is very interesting to compare Knuth's position on LLMs to Einstein's position on quantum physics and I think it is apt. At least Einstein was explicit in his distaste for non-determinism. Knuth does not specify in this exchang
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> Studying the task of how to fake it certainly leads to insightful subproblems galore. ... > I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trus
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I think this is awesome and I recommend anyone interested in following it through. But one problem with this kind of thing is that it has the character of "How to Draw an Owl" [1]. I have been tinkering with Ableton for 10+ years
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by zoogeny 3y ago
You've brought up an interesting idea in my mind: the infinite patience of AI. No more burned out, jaded customer support people. No more exhaustion answering the same questions over and over. No one feeling motivated today but in a ba

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