"So I'd like to engage AI risk from both these perspectives. I think the arguments for superintelligence are somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions. But even if you find them persuasive, there is something…
"John wore a T-shirt that featured a smiley face with a bullet hole in the forehead from which trickled a few drops of blood" Sounds like a Watchmen Comedian logo t-shirt. It could be construed as a bold choice but was…
"but I can't help but see parallels between today and the Industrial Revolution" You're not the only one. The current Pope Leo XIV explicitly named himself after the the previous Leo, Pope Leo XIII, who was pope during…
I'm not an enthusiast. I'm a Butlerian. Imagine hearing pre-attention-is-all-you-need that "AI" could do something that Donald Knuth could not (quickly solve the stated problem in collaboration with his friend). The…
Maybe. “The laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations.” - Paul Dirac “It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its…
"humans" Donald Knuth is an extremal outlier human and the problem is squarely in his field of expertise. Claude, guided by Filip Stappers, a friend of Knuth, solved a problem that Knuth and Stappers had been working on…
Nov 16 Update: Rebecca Heineman - Organizer It’s time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless. So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my keyboard, Pixelbreaker! So I can make…
> > IQ is compute speed, not storage. > Says who? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mathematical_... Von Neumann's mathematical fluency, calculation speed, and general problem-solving ability were widely…
Thanks! (My son loves to play.) BTW, the old Windows installer runs great under Crossover on Apple Silicon. I'm going to try running this native. I'll file issues for what I can't readily fix.
“Our clients understand that a two- to three-minute ad load is more valuable than a nine-minute ad load,” says Mark Read, head of WPP, the world’s largest ad company and Groupm’s parent firm. It's appropriate that even…
Then it's a shame that society has largely decided to discard as outdated longstanding philosophies whose tenets do teach the intrinsic value of each human independent of their economic output.…
The intersection of "AI", "I won't harm you if you don't harm me", and "I get to unilaterally decide what harm is" is going to be wild.
A fair summary (based on information from Open Secrets) would be that the vast preponderance of contributions were to Democratic and/or progressive candidates or funds ($36,846,356), plus relatively insignificant…
Yes, please. Thank you. I'm not sure which is the better argument: that they are a safety menace due to distraction from driving (video billboards?) or that they are profoundly ugly (including but not limited to…
Diplomacy is a species of high-stakes asking. 'Mr Herapath, I understand that you wish to visit the whaler, and you have my permission to go. You are no doubt aware that there is a great deal of ill-feeling between the…
First of all, I wish you luck with your effort to have children. It's almost a cliche at this point, but the prefrontal cortex isn't mature until between 25 and 30 on average. "One key part of that trajectory is the…
Their business model is literally profiting off of poor customer service (as a service). Get your credit card from a local credit union with at least one physical presence near you. Do your own backups or contract to an…
"Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-to-offer-booster-sho... Three months, available to all adults. "All adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months after their…
It seems apparent that the US government is pursuing a novel strategy to route around the Bill of Rights: Steps: * Allow (and encourage) private sector monopolies to form * Use its leverage and influence to "encourage"…
That "just" is doing a lot of work. It seems to me that many of these "rationalize all the things" schemes tend to bottom out at and build onto an "incorruptible kernel of truth" which, if corrupted, causes the whole…
Hanson says regarding national metrics: 'Well, now we’re going to authorize this same sort of agency to estimate number like GDP except we’re going to tell them to put more things in the number. Bills before Congress…
What allows this tactic to work is the size asymmetry between very large companies and smaller companies. It is much less effective against similarly sized companies. Very large companies have much more buffer (reserves…
This is true. We are being psychologically manipulated by extraordinarily skilled operators to redirect our attention from our family, friends, and local community toward these non-local (more lucrative) concerns. This…
Ok, this makes sense, thanks. Still, this is a horrible message to show a user who is in that situation and who did not place a sell order themselves (message wording from the article): “We’ve received your order to…
"So I'd like to engage AI risk from both these perspectives. I think the arguments for superintelligence are somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions. But even if you find them persuasive, there is something…
"John wore a T-shirt that featured a smiley face with a bullet hole in the forehead from which trickled a few drops of blood" Sounds like a Watchmen Comedian logo t-shirt. It could be construed as a bold choice but was…
"but I can't help but see parallels between today and the Industrial Revolution" You're not the only one. The current Pope Leo XIV explicitly named himself after the the previous Leo, Pope Leo XIII, who was pope during…
I'm not an enthusiast. I'm a Butlerian. Imagine hearing pre-attention-is-all-you-need that "AI" could do something that Donald Knuth could not (quickly solve the stated problem in collaboration with his friend). The…
Maybe. “The laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations.” - Paul Dirac “It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its…
"humans" Donald Knuth is an extremal outlier human and the problem is squarely in his field of expertise. Claude, guided by Filip Stappers, a friend of Knuth, solved a problem that Knuth and Stappers had been working on…
Nov 16 Update: Rebecca Heineman - Organizer It’s time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless. So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my keyboard, Pixelbreaker! So I can make…
> > IQ is compute speed, not storage. > Says who? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mathematical_... Von Neumann's mathematical fluency, calculation speed, and general problem-solving ability were widely…
Thanks! (My son loves to play.) BTW, the old Windows installer runs great under Crossover on Apple Silicon. I'm going to try running this native. I'll file issues for what I can't readily fix.
“Our clients understand that a two- to three-minute ad load is more valuable than a nine-minute ad load,” says Mark Read, head of WPP, the world’s largest ad company and Groupm’s parent firm. It's appropriate that even…
Then it's a shame that society has largely decided to discard as outdated longstanding philosophies whose tenets do teach the intrinsic value of each human independent of their economic output.…
The intersection of "AI", "I won't harm you if you don't harm me", and "I get to unilaterally decide what harm is" is going to be wild.
A fair summary (based on information from Open Secrets) would be that the vast preponderance of contributions were to Democratic and/or progressive candidates or funds ($36,846,356), plus relatively insignificant…
Yes, please. Thank you. I'm not sure which is the better argument: that they are a safety menace due to distraction from driving (video billboards?) or that they are profoundly ugly (including but not limited to…
Diplomacy is a species of high-stakes asking. 'Mr Herapath, I understand that you wish to visit the whaler, and you have my permission to go. You are no doubt aware that there is a great deal of ill-feeling between the…
First of all, I wish you luck with your effort to have children. It's almost a cliche at this point, but the prefrontal cortex isn't mature until between 25 and 30 on average. "One key part of that trajectory is the…
Their business model is literally profiting off of poor customer service (as a service). Get your credit card from a local credit union with at least one physical presence near you. Do your own backups or contract to an…
"Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-to-offer-booster-sho... Three months, available to all adults. "All adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months after their…
It seems apparent that the US government is pursuing a novel strategy to route around the Bill of Rights: Steps: * Allow (and encourage) private sector monopolies to form * Use its leverage and influence to "encourage"…
That "just" is doing a lot of work. It seems to me that many of these "rationalize all the things" schemes tend to bottom out at and build onto an "incorruptible kernel of truth" which, if corrupted, causes the whole…
Hanson says regarding national metrics: 'Well, now we’re going to authorize this same sort of agency to estimate number like GDP except we’re going to tell them to put more things in the number. Bills before Congress…
What allows this tactic to work is the size asymmetry between very large companies and smaller companies. It is much less effective against similarly sized companies. Very large companies have much more buffer (reserves…
This is true. We are being psychologically manipulated by extraordinarily skilled operators to redirect our attention from our family, friends, and local community toward these non-local (more lucrative) concerns. This…
Ok, this makes sense, thanks. Still, this is a horrible message to show a user who is in that situation and who did not place a sell order themselves (message wording from the article): “We’ve received your order to…