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yourself92··on GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow
Someone at OpenAI is reading this thinking you may have just solved their funding issues
yourself92··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
> I could probably have worded this better but I'm sure it's something others have noticed... this choice we are able to make of how high fidelity our own understanding needs to be of the current working problem, and how that choice never really existed prior to AI.

I do get what you are saying and agree with you in principle, as I have noticed the same. But that said, this same way of thinking can really apply to any abstraction. It really just depends on the level you're working at. A software architect might know the nitty gritty details of how each service works, but really those implementation details don't matter if the abstractions are handled well enough, so in theory they don't really need to know those details as long as "the pieces fit". But of course the catch 22 there is you can't build good abstractions that can fit together well if you don't understand well enough the underlying details

yourself92··on Astronautilia
I have the same thoughts about content on the web
yourself92··on Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
Do you think some spook cares about reducing global warming?
yourself92··on Critical cross-account vulnerability in Microsoft Azure automation service
Need the keys to the castle? Just ask!
yourself92··on A 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
I think the intent is to clarify that the vehicles should be available to the general public, rather than just in some DARPA lab somewhere or something.
yourself92··on New Orleans shoeshine man wins legal battle over $30k seized by DEA agents
The war on drugs is a failure by any measurable standard other than who made the most money off the backs of the prosecution of our citizens.
yourself92··on Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43km [pdf]
What are some of the applications of this technology?

Edit: I'm also wondering if anyone has any idea as to the estimated cost of such a technology? Thousands, tens/hundred of thousands, millions? A quick search of lidar sensors seem to be in the range of $2500 - ~$10000 for ranges of sub 30 meters.

This technology seems similar(?) to lidar from what I can tell.

yourself92··on The Brown M&M's Principle
Design considerations
yourself92··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Maybe I'm just pessimistic but I doubt that will happen until there is a clear existential crisis for humanity.

It will always be a matter of "us vs them" it's just a matter of who is "us" or "them"

yourself92··on Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban
Because they've determined they can make more money by not doing that
yourself92··on The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
Exactly
yourself92··on The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention
"Following highly visible and even challenging negotiations, in September 2015 the U.S. and China agreed to important commitments pledging that neither country’s government would conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property."

LOL. Does anyone actually believe that?