There's actually a ton of evidence that they have committed crimes but the article doesn't mention that. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/15-members-direct-action-minn...
There are actually a lot of trivial reasons why that couldn't possibly be the case, such as the observation of non computable physical phenomena.
I have far more epistemic humility than someone who thinks that consciousness arises out of the abstract form of a calculation rather than the physical substrate of a calculation. Believing that consciousness is tied to…
Who says I don't include octopi or dolphins?
They worship something far worse than money.
Roughly, a brain like the one that is in your skull. Just because I can't off hand describe the physical composition of a brain doesn't mean it's not obviously different from the physical composition of a GPU.
Neurons are different from GPU logic gates and the physical mechanisms by which a network of physical neurons computes answers is extremely different from the physical mechanism by which a GPU computes an answer.
The answer is yes, it is a p-zombie. What is so difficult about that? Being able to make someone think a computer program is conscious does not make it conscious, because by that logic a Duke Nukem soundboard is…
I will believe that an AI model is conscious when someone runs a simulation of water on a GPU that can make someone wet. Consciousness is a physical phenomenon and only emerges from a specific set of substrates.…
This is what I was missing. Demanding that porn sites block VPN traffic (or only accept residential traffic) would mean that everyone everywhere using a VPN gets blocked not just in Utah. I still suspect there's some…
Yeah but the state of Utah could just tell them to knock it off because they're the state.
So it would be possible if the state demanded that VPN companies provide adult sites with continuously updated lists of their exit nodes. It also seems to me like Utah could just demand that adult sites only accept…
This requires a lot of extra work though, and extra work is downward pressure on the behavior (underage people looking at pornography) that the state of Utah is trying to exert downward pressure on. The inability to…
Not sure what the impossibility is. VPN's have a set of exit relays. If traffic is coming from one of those exit relays, it's coming from a VPN, so adult websites can be required to block traffic from those exit relays.…
I am aware and mostly agree with the dogma about how decision-making power should be delegated to those with the most relevant information to that decision. In fact, that to me seems a bit tautological and beside the…
"In a high trust society people aren't trying to con you but they're still subject to structural constraints." In a high trust society people are not, generally, trying to con you whether or not they are subject to…
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.
The Book of the New Sun is probably my favorite "sci fi" series. It's so incredibly different in terms of tone, content, philosophy, and style. How's "Chronicle"?
"A high trust society doesn't cause a monopoly to become efficient." Actually it very literally does.
We are not talking about chainsaws and excavators, we are talking about LLMs. LLMs have different risks in terms of scale and kind and must be considered differently.
Banning hardware and banning software are very different things, and the latter is orders of magnitude easier than the former. Physical and non-physical things are different!
I must have missed the part of the letter where China's cooperation was necessary.
I thought his points were legitimate and well argued. I think that it's very easy to say "X should be unrestricted". I also think that eventually one of these models will be used to do something truly destructive and…
I've read some allocator walkthroughs before but I thought that this line stood out: "to get individual free() working, the allocator needs to remember something about every allocation it handed out. and that’s the…
My man (https://www.c82.net/images/naturalists-library/vol-4/plates/...) is having a bad day.
There's actually a ton of evidence that they have committed crimes but the article doesn't mention that. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/15-members-direct-action-minn...
There are actually a lot of trivial reasons why that couldn't possibly be the case, such as the observation of non computable physical phenomena.
I have far more epistemic humility than someone who thinks that consciousness arises out of the abstract form of a calculation rather than the physical substrate of a calculation. Believing that consciousness is tied to…
Who says I don't include octopi or dolphins?
They worship something far worse than money.
Roughly, a brain like the one that is in your skull. Just because I can't off hand describe the physical composition of a brain doesn't mean it's not obviously different from the physical composition of a GPU.
Neurons are different from GPU logic gates and the physical mechanisms by which a network of physical neurons computes answers is extremely different from the physical mechanism by which a GPU computes an answer.
The answer is yes, it is a p-zombie. What is so difficult about that? Being able to make someone think a computer program is conscious does not make it conscious, because by that logic a Duke Nukem soundboard is…
I will believe that an AI model is conscious when someone runs a simulation of water on a GPU that can make someone wet. Consciousness is a physical phenomenon and only emerges from a specific set of substrates.…
This is what I was missing. Demanding that porn sites block VPN traffic (or only accept residential traffic) would mean that everyone everywhere using a VPN gets blocked not just in Utah. I still suspect there's some…
Yeah but the state of Utah could just tell them to knock it off because they're the state.
So it would be possible if the state demanded that VPN companies provide adult sites with continuously updated lists of their exit nodes. It also seems to me like Utah could just demand that adult sites only accept…
This requires a lot of extra work though, and extra work is downward pressure on the behavior (underage people looking at pornography) that the state of Utah is trying to exert downward pressure on. The inability to…
Not sure what the impossibility is. VPN's have a set of exit relays. If traffic is coming from one of those exit relays, it's coming from a VPN, so adult websites can be required to block traffic from those exit relays.…
I am aware and mostly agree with the dogma about how decision-making power should be delegated to those with the most relevant information to that decision. In fact, that to me seems a bit tautological and beside the…
"In a high trust society people aren't trying to con you but they're still subject to structural constraints." In a high trust society people are not, generally, trying to con you whether or not they are subject to…
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.
The Book of the New Sun is probably my favorite "sci fi" series. It's so incredibly different in terms of tone, content, philosophy, and style. How's "Chronicle"?
"A high trust society doesn't cause a monopoly to become efficient." Actually it very literally does.
We are not talking about chainsaws and excavators, we are talking about LLMs. LLMs have different risks in terms of scale and kind and must be considered differently.
Banning hardware and banning software are very different things, and the latter is orders of magnitude easier than the former. Physical and non-physical things are different!
I must have missed the part of the letter where China's cooperation was necessary.
I thought his points were legitimate and well argued. I think that it's very easy to say "X should be unrestricted". I also think that eventually one of these models will be used to do something truly destructive and…
I've read some allocator walkthroughs before but I thought that this line stood out: "to get individual free() working, the allocator needs to remember something about every allocation it handed out. and that’s the…
My man (https://www.c82.net/images/naturalists-library/vol-4/plates/...) is having a bad day.