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> they should not proceed when access is blocked

But a lot of software engineering is figuring out who to ask to get access to the thing you need to change to fix some bug...

The Big Short did a good job of this although not in a kid friendly way. Eg by explaining "subprime" as "sh*t"

Golang is also designed to compile very fast.

If your BASIC is compiled that's just a CPU!

> but then when we shifted resources that way, the money did absolutely no good here on Earth.

So things like curing AIDS don't count?

Sometimes constraints lead to new inventions. Like haikus.

The crockpot was allegedly inspired by sabbath stewing techniques.

"Sabbath" is just the anglicized version of the ancestral Hebrew word "Shabbat", meaning rest.

See also: sabbatical

Citation needed that people are thinking "therefore we must commit genocide against others"

Attempted genocide better describes Hamas, who slaughtered a 1/4 of the civilians in the first villages they got their hands on, before being pushed back.

So the AI equivalent of the socially stunted but brilliant researcher?

What is the obsession with equating the Holocaust with a war whose death toll is roughly 1/100th of the Holocaust (and that only if you include combatant deaths, which the Holocaust numbers do not?)

But the harness still matters.

In the case of stockfish, the harness is a tree search around the neural network evaluations.

Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)

Dr: I have good news and bad news

Patient: What's the good news?

Dr: We have a two step treatment to improve your social-emotional life.

Patient: What's the bad news?

Dr: The first step is, we have to turn you into a frog...

If you're just talking about security bugs.

There are also non security bugs that don't have exploits but just make the user experience worse.

Perhaps an analogy to Moore's law?

Bitter lesson #1: don't waste time optimizing code when a faster processor is around the corner.

What countered it: Moore's law stopped working.

Bitter lesson #2 similarly relies on scaling laws that might have diminishing returns wrt model runtime vs intelligence. Runtime matters for turnaround on the problem you're solving.

Exactly what problem does it solve that food stamps cannot solve more simply?

Government subsidized groceries seems like something that was already solved by food stamps. Having the government run entire grocery stores at a loss seems like a worse implementation of the same thing.

I guess it's nice for the voters who are too rich to qualify for food stamps, but in that case it would have been equivalent and simpler to just make the food stamps more universal (remove means testing).

If you really want something different to food stamps, India's subsidized canteens seem like a much more interesting idea: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/inside-indias...

There are evolutionary benefits to groups that cooperate and improve fairness internally.

But if an AI surpasses humans in every way, is there any evolutionary benefit for the AI to cooperate with humans?

Welp, that's enough internet for me today!

Warning for the squeamish: I only made it partway through the article before deciding it would probably make me nauseous if I continued.

> the world's dominant power by virtue of having roughly half the total world population

If human+ level AI takes off one would expect to see a great decoupling of power from population.

New Zealand does have the advantage of an ocean border and thus near total control on entries and exits.

Compared to the very porous land borders of the US.

Of course the easiest solution to the problem is money. You sell the games you don't want for money. You buy the games you want with money.

Much simpler than algorithms for bartering.

You're using "high interest rate" to mean "biotech has great returns right now".

Everyone else is using it to mean "the Federal Reserve has set the interest rate high right now"

Very different situations.

Of course that situation may be reversed for people with a Chinese grandma instead of an Italian grandma.

AoE may be Turing complete but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

The difference is mostly heart disease not "risky behavior".

If anything the average software engineer is more likely to die of heart disease due to our sedentary lifestyles.

Sitting on chairs is the real "risky behavior" in terms of health, although few people think of it that way.

Your CDC figure is an average over all genders. Assuming hacker news readers are disproportionately men, the mortality rate is even higher, since men die younger than women on average.

Everyone remembers Malcolm X, but does anyone remember the names of the thousands of civilians who protested the Iranian regime and got summarily executed?

Resistance doesn't work very well against highly militarized autocratic regimes.

Maybe the m dash?

The Arab States post-1948 genocide of indigenous middle eastern Jews has been far more complete than Israel's genocide of Muslims. There are almost zero indigenous middle eastern Jews left in the Arab states, vs two million Muslims living in Israel (20% of Israel's population).