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computerphage··on The AI emperor has no clothes
Like, there is an argument that can be made here, but "there's just not enough money in the world to justify this" definitely isn't it
computerphage··on The AI emperor has no clothes
Indeed. There are trillions of dollars /per year/ paid to workers in the US alone.
computerphage··on Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
"due to privacy concerns about privacy"

This strikes me as a particularly funny typo

computerphage··on Haiku Validator
"Sometimes" and "sense" are both wrong. I don't think this library is very good
computerphage··on Anthropic is endorsing SB 53
I understood that from the context, but my question stands. I'm asking why OP thinks that sentience is necessary for risk in AI
computerphage··on Anthropic is endorsing SB 53
Why do you think systems need to be sentient to be risky?
computerphage··on A bubble that knows it's a bubble
So, how would you do it?
computerphage··on The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long
Why is it relative humidity that matters here instead of absolute humidity?
computerphage··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
Thank you!
computerphage··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
Wait, aren't they cancelling leases on non-ai data centers that aren't under Microsoft's control, while spending much more money to build new AI focused data centers that that own? Do you have a source that says they're canceling their own data centers?
computerphage··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
> This is purely an observation: You only jump ship in the middle of a conquest if either all ships are arriving at the same time (unlikely) or neither is arriving at all. This means that no AI lab is close to AGI. Their stated AGI timelines are “at the latest, in a few years,” but their revealed timelines are “it’ll happen at some indefinite time in the future.”

This makes no sense to me at all. Is it a war metaphor? A race? Why is there no reason to jump ship? Doesn't it make sense to try to get on the fastest ship? Doesn't it make sense to diversify your stock portfolio if you have doubts?

computerphage··on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
Trademark isn't the same as Registered Trademark either, while we're at it
computerphage··on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
To be clear, I think a "phone" as in smartphone, that can't make calls would be mostly as useful for me, personally.

But you might be claiming "people would buy an empty box, if apple put its logo on the box"

computerphage··on GenChess
Jonathan Schrantz has videos beating stockfish (not full strength, more like the JS version) a couple years ago using specifically anti-computer preparation.
computerphage··on GenChess
True, but perhaps missing the point
computerphage··on GenChess
Did you find any that didn't work?
computerphage··on Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying
I'm pretty surprised by this! Can you tell me more about what that experience is like? What are the sorts of things they say or do? Is there fear really embodied or very abstract? (When I imagine it, I struggle to believe that they're very moved by the fear, like definitely not smashing their laptop, etc)
computerphage··on Show HN: A Website for Comparing Protein Powder Prices
A less efficient way to implement this under your own power would be to set a reminder to check it again in, say, a year. I use Google keep for such things all the time
computerphage··on AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
Stockfish doesn't use material advantage as an approximation to winning though. It uses a complex deep learning value function that it evaluates many times.
computerphage··on BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)
And you thought your for-loops were too deeply nested!
computerphage··on Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
How do you know that?
computerphage··on Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development
Why is it in so many things? Because it's effective. It's not like people smoked cigarettes because they wanted a small amount of lung cancer risk, they smoked cigarettes for a totally different effect of the product.
computerphage··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
I'm not sure it is. Not if chatgpt is operating off of the notes you already took yourself
computerphage··on Why Did a Drug Gang Kill 43 Students? Text Messages Hold Clues
Part of the answer is climate and geography. It's just meaningfully different south of the US than north of the US for drug production. And this is not limited to just mexico, a lot of non-mexican-produced drugs also traffic through mexico.
computerphage··on For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching
Yes you did, but also I do indeed always forget this when I imagine homeschooling
computerphage··on Scientists unfroze rat organs and transplanted them
I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecmOuCIoNc which makes me thing that pumping cold fluids would work at least a bit.
computerphage··on Scientists unfroze rat organs and transplanted them
I would love an answer to this question
computerphage··on Scientists unfroze rat organs and transplanted them
Good news! Your organs are already irrigated by your circulatory system
computerphage··on Statement on AI Risk
I disagree that there's no reason to believe it will ever exist. For one thing, many smart people are trying to build the technology right now and they believe it to be possible. I see no compelling case that the intelligence scale simply tops-out with humans; that a more intelligent system is ruled out by the laws of physics.

The topic here is human extinction caused by AI. I don't know of any serious argument for why a non-general intelligence (really a system less intelligent than a human) would pose an extinction risk to humanity.

Plus, my background understanding of the people who signed this is that they're worried about AGI, not present-day systems, but that's an inference.

computerphage··on Statement on AI Risk
Geoffrey Hinton quit google.
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