Drinking culture changed more dramatically in English-speaking countries in late 1800s/early 1900s (temperance movement) than elsewhere.
I'm not convinced this is an alignment or technology problem. If my boss vibe coded an app for the customer and then assigned me to get it working, it would be impossible to maintain. If he gave me enough AI tokens to…
Sure, but to clarify the article is describing formalization (writing a correct program), not verification (compiling said program). The author is not making the same comparison. Verification is also open ended (not…
Downvotes? Just drag South America or Australia onto Africa and tell me it changed more than a few percent in size. Barely perceptible. North America is not 21.3 but 24.7e^6 m^3 according to google, so the ratio is 4:3.…
Continents are in truesizeof btw. Asia is much bigger than Africa, North America is only a little smaller. When you account for the Sahara Desert of course, there is more usable land in North America.
I don't get why people say this / focus on Africa in this conversation. I've never thought Africa was small and was taught about the Berlin Conference, etc in school. All the large continents are near the equator and…
Viruses probably too hard but I think small scale bioterrorism is much easier and doesn't require fancy enzymes. I think this is actually the best argument for regulation of current models. It's even happened pre-AI…
The second field can probably be created by changing the first field while the piece is still cooling down.
Textile manufacturing was dominated by Western countries until the 60s/70s btw. Berkshire Hathaway was a textile mill when Warren Buffet bought it. Besides, if people are living in the same conditions today as the…
Starvation due to conflict due to changes in economic relationships, not due directly to unemployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines Almost every mass famine in the mid to late 20th century was caused by…
Past changes to economic relationships haven't replaced labor either, yet they have led to conflict and starvation. You are setting an incredibly high bar here, essentially a strawman. If people feel disenfranchised due…
> I’m not interested in wild theories about AI driven labor market disruptions leading to widespread starvation Changes in political and economic power balance leading to unrest, conflict, death and deprivation is not a…
Many also claimed altruistic motivations for continuing their work, sharing technology with the Soviets
'classical economics doesn't know how technology affects the wage' - ridiculous, classical economists were addressing exactly how technology was changing society and economic relationships. they didn't have…
Land value tax / citizens dividend here is different to the UBIs sometimes proposed in contemporary US politics. The idea is that you tax and redistribute the profits on the scarce inputs to the economy, rather than the…
This is a topic I'm interested in, but the presentation and exposition on the website leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, it does make you sound like a crank. Almost all of the theory and predictions presented seems to be…
What happens if the outcomes were obtained instantaneously, and without effort on your part? Would it be more enjoyable for you? Besides, I don't think you can be driven by thousands of outcomes, by definition, as you…
I've heard this argument many times, there's a grain of truth and I strongly agree RE 'arhythmic and atonal trash', but it strikes me as disingenuous. Classical music was somewhat elitist even at the time, coexisting…
I definitely agree. And the common performance optimization metaprogramming (like 'do it this way for this type of input') works so much better with multiple dispatch, tag structs. Way ahead of C++ expression templates…
It was once called 'natural monopoly'
It kinda feels like Julia competes for the people who write the libraries for R and Matlab. Writing fast and elegant ODE solvers, etc in Julia seems to be easier than the others and they've attracted a lot of academics…
What you describe is very normal in telecom and has been for a long time. 4G, 5G, etc are all totally dependent on every device syncing to the one higher up in the chain. These days typically a digital control loop is…
'All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them' If knowing was the valuable part, then nobody would need a PhD. You could know more by just reading textbooks. Research…
Delimited continuations? Though I'm not totally clear what you're asking for. Semantics or syntax?
I don't think that's necessarily unlikely, but people making this argument rarely seem to understand just how radical a change is required to make that a possibility. e.g most small business rent their premises, and buy…
Drinking culture changed more dramatically in English-speaking countries in late 1800s/early 1900s (temperance movement) than elsewhere.
I'm not convinced this is an alignment or technology problem. If my boss vibe coded an app for the customer and then assigned me to get it working, it would be impossible to maintain. If he gave me enough AI tokens to…
Sure, but to clarify the article is describing formalization (writing a correct program), not verification (compiling said program). The author is not making the same comparison. Verification is also open ended (not…
Downvotes? Just drag South America or Australia onto Africa and tell me it changed more than a few percent in size. Barely perceptible. North America is not 21.3 but 24.7e^6 m^3 according to google, so the ratio is 4:3.…
Continents are in truesizeof btw. Asia is much bigger than Africa, North America is only a little smaller. When you account for the Sahara Desert of course, there is more usable land in North America.
I don't get why people say this / focus on Africa in this conversation. I've never thought Africa was small and was taught about the Berlin Conference, etc in school. All the large continents are near the equator and…
Viruses probably too hard but I think small scale bioterrorism is much easier and doesn't require fancy enzymes. I think this is actually the best argument for regulation of current models. It's even happened pre-AI…
The second field can probably be created by changing the first field while the piece is still cooling down.
Textile manufacturing was dominated by Western countries until the 60s/70s btw. Berkshire Hathaway was a textile mill when Warren Buffet bought it. Besides, if people are living in the same conditions today as the…
Starvation due to conflict due to changes in economic relationships, not due directly to unemployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines Almost every mass famine in the mid to late 20th century was caused by…
Past changes to economic relationships haven't replaced labor either, yet they have led to conflict and starvation. You are setting an incredibly high bar here, essentially a strawman. If people feel disenfranchised due…
> I’m not interested in wild theories about AI driven labor market disruptions leading to widespread starvation Changes in political and economic power balance leading to unrest, conflict, death and deprivation is not a…
Many also claimed altruistic motivations for continuing their work, sharing technology with the Soviets
'classical economics doesn't know how technology affects the wage' - ridiculous, classical economists were addressing exactly how technology was changing society and economic relationships. they didn't have…
Land value tax / citizens dividend here is different to the UBIs sometimes proposed in contemporary US politics. The idea is that you tax and redistribute the profits on the scarce inputs to the economy, rather than the…
This is a topic I'm interested in, but the presentation and exposition on the website leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, it does make you sound like a crank. Almost all of the theory and predictions presented seems to be…
What happens if the outcomes were obtained instantaneously, and without effort on your part? Would it be more enjoyable for you? Besides, I don't think you can be driven by thousands of outcomes, by definition, as you…
I've heard this argument many times, there's a grain of truth and I strongly agree RE 'arhythmic and atonal trash', but it strikes me as disingenuous. Classical music was somewhat elitist even at the time, coexisting…
I definitely agree. And the common performance optimization metaprogramming (like 'do it this way for this type of input') works so much better with multiple dispatch, tag structs. Way ahead of C++ expression templates…
It was once called 'natural monopoly'
It kinda feels like Julia competes for the people who write the libraries for R and Matlab. Writing fast and elegant ODE solvers, etc in Julia seems to be easier than the others and they've attracted a lot of academics…
What you describe is very normal in telecom and has been for a long time. 4G, 5G, etc are all totally dependent on every device syncing to the one higher up in the chain. These days typically a digital control loop is…
'All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them' If knowing was the valuable part, then nobody would need a PhD. You could know more by just reading textbooks. Research…
Delimited continuations? Though I'm not totally clear what you're asking for. Semantics or syntax?
I don't think that's necessarily unlikely, but people making this argument rarely seem to understand just how radical a change is required to make that a possibility. e.g most small business rent their premises, and buy…