computerphage

Well now I'm super curious to know if you read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. What did you think of it?

I don't know enough to decide with certainty if the post in question is right, but it definitely seems earnest. I believe the poster sincerely holds those beliefs.

What's your threshold for how risky a disease had to be before you'd call it risking they're lives?

P100 is much easier to find than N100

These six numbers could've been drawn in any order.

And, importantly here, including Apple and Google, though perhaps to a lesser degree

My experience is that they engage with ethics more than any other groups that I'm familiar with, except professional philosophers (including PhD students of philosophy).

The 80K podcast interviews professional philosophers all the time, for example:

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/hilary-greaves-compa... https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/will-macaskill-paral... https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/david-chalmers-natur... https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/peter-singer-advocac...

Or, perhaps you mean that they engage with philosophy and philosophers, but they don't spread their engagement around in the field the right way?

> Google is slowly replacing all their messaging products with this

This is exactly what Google used to say about hangouts! https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2017/03/updates-in-g...

English is my only language. Its spelling is still terrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_pronunciation even has "Antarctica" on its list of examples.

"The words Arctic, Antarctic and Antarctica were originally pronounced without the first /k/, but the spelling pronunciation has become very common. The first "c" was originally added to the spelling for etymological reasons and was then misunderstood as not being silent."

Imagine trying to hold people accountable for disinformation when they just start spreading everything with fleets.

Democrats aren't going to mention election interference right now, but otherwise I think your gist is spot on.

There is! Just type "antarctica" into the search box

Another win for the heuristic "if someone says 'everyone knows X' it probably means X is false"

What happened in New York?

Would you mind elaborating on the sorts of harms you're thinking of?

Third world nation seems quite exaggerated to me.

Are you suggesting that Waymo might not use machine learning? What do you imagine they do instead?

Ok, fine. It doesn't "know" any trivia. It'll still crush me in a trivia contest:

"Q: Who was president of the United States in 1801? A: Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States in 1801.

Q: What city is in the northwest corner of Ohio? A: Toledo is in the northwest corner of Ohio.

Q: What highway do you take to get to North Lake Tahoe from Oakland? A: Highway 80 is the highway you take to get to North Lake Tahoe from Oakland.

Q: What are Darius's abilities in League of Legends? A: Darius's abilities in League of Legends are: Apprehend, Decimate, Noxian Guillotine, Crippling Strike, Apprehend [sic], and Hemorrhage.

Q: Who did Capablanca defeat to become world chess champion? A: Capablanca defeated Lasker to become world chess champion."

Of those 5 questions, I could answer #1 after deploying a mnemonic and some math, and #2 if you gave me multiple choice of the top 5 cities in Ohio, and I would miss the rest.

AlphaGo doesn't know anything about the game of go. It "just" manipulates symbols, runs instructions on its CPUs and GPUs, illuminates pixels on the screen for a human to see.

It just also "happens" to be the case that if you interpret those pixels as go moves and play those moves against the world champion human go player then eventually that human will hold a press conference announcing to the world that AlphaGo has won the match.

The original paper is full of comparisons and benchmarks. It includes a section on arithmetic.

It's not a very rigorous refutation. I think that's part of the reason this post is so contentious.

His next paragraph claims that Nabla "debunks" the idea that "large language models" can be used in healthcare.

That's not just "some people have unrealistic expectations" it's "this tool, when when more advanced and find tuned, will never be appropriate to use in a very broad class of use cases".

He also says "GPT-3 has no knowledge of how the world works", which is clearly an overstatement meant to clear up hype, but is untrue. For example, GPT-3 knows more trivia than I do.

The iPhone didn't replace your flip phone, apple did. The iPhone didn't build itself.

Ah yes, because if I alone don't pay Amazon any money, they'll go bankrupt any day now.

There is such a thing as coordination, and it's not always easy.

> Evolution has non-death mechanisms too

Very importantly: different reproduction rates. This is already more important in human evolution than premature death.

You're wrong. Death is not a fundamental part of evolution.

Natural selection does not imply that the only type of selective pressure is survival. Death is merely one factor that affects reproduction. Further, only premature death matters directly for reproduction. Most people die long after they reproduce (or have had a chance to reproduce).

That's not to say that curing aging won't change the trajectory of the human species' evolution, but to be frank I don't really care about the human species. I care about humans. If someone said: "we should continually kill off the weakest 50% of humans to make the species stronger", I'd say that person is a monster.

If you put curl in a script that runs on every new machine in your infrastructure, I'd say that's pretty widely used.

But are any of your knives made from sand cooked in a microwave?

My understanding is that the claim is sharpest knife that was made in that fashion, not sharpest overall knife.

Thank you. I didn't know that.

In what way is it not true? When a reaction does convert mass to energy we call it a nuclear reaction