HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

chosen1111

0 karma · joined April 8, 2019

submissionscomments
chosen1111··on UK says Russian commanders will be held to account for war crimes
The west is doing everything it can to make this war a must win for russia.
chosen1111··on Calling all pirates: This US lawmaker wants you to seize Russian vessels
Yeah ww3 is looking more likely. I guess deagle was right.

This is an unrestricted submarine warfare moment

chosen1111··on Why Do So Many Humans Need Glasses?
Literacy
chosen1111··on Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube
Lbry
chosen1111··on Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens Repeats Uber Playbook, Loses Staff
So many people complain about the culture. Why even hire Americans at this point?
chosen1111··on NSFW Server Designation
This is why browser is better than apps...for now
chosen1111··on Parler is back online after a month of downtime
Is this because gab was getting lots of users?

Parler smells like honey

chosen1111··on Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)
Instincts evolved with nature and time. Thinking did too but with the coevolution of poor thinking and negative self talk and bad advice within a short period of time.
chosen1111··on A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’
I wonder what names she was called at the time for her refusal to go along with the established research from the pharmaceutical and medical community
chosen1111··on Google Play bans open source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”
Color me shocked. Why do we need app stores again?
chosen1111··on Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility
thank you for your candid and informative reply

i always find it fascinating to hear people's take on science and medicine

especially when conclusions that have weight reach politically hazardous territory

chosen1111··on The censorship of WallStreetBets needs to be a watershed moment for everyone
HN normies are realizing what the right wing have known for years.

Same with crypto people who doe eyedly tout “uncensorability” in their apps. Will you stand up to speech codes and natsec breathinv down your neck? I doubt it.

The end of the day all of this is ultimately either total fork of sovereignty or remaining in the pig pen of walled garden freedom.

It’s anti American but ultimately thats just what it is

chosen1111··on Coinbase Freezes USD Purchases
Why do people trust web apps like this in crypto?
chosen1111··on Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility
Does medical advice fall into this consensus trap?

If so...relative to today?

chosen1111··on The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
Unfortunately the openess of data he fought for would possibly be criticized as enabling accused malactors.
chosen1111··on Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
Check out Ruqqus its great!
chosen1111··on Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web
Just ignore people like this and continue to build. There is no reasoning or arguing with them. Eventually there will need to be a micro fork of the internet as it is today that is used like freenet, deep, ipfs etc. eventually sovereignty itself will need to be forked. This will need to exist at hardware level as well. Though this will be moot once you REALLLY want that neura link. But expect a fight from gov and alphabets to ban people using alt tech. And expect non kyc wallets and cryptos to be banned. Expect kyc to be needed to even access the internet regardless of your concent or knowledge of your consent. Expect your DNA sequence to also be stored in goog or elsewhere regardless of your consent. The virus has accelerated this process. If you value your speech use alt tech.
chosen1111··on A legislative path to an interoperable internet
Including sites like Gab and Bitchute?
chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Hopefully we don't. But we need to solve dementia which might require a deeper understanding of the connectome. And furthermore, the longer we age the more new diseases we will discover.

By the time we have multi-centenarians there might be whole new types of dementia that could arise.

Perhaps a better question than (do we need AGI) might be, do we need to solve protein folding before we can make meaningful progress. ie should protein folding be considered an ancillary problem or a perquisite for other solutions that must developed on the technology stack to make progress in age research

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Yes. And furthermore to your point regarding emulation...if it was required to get to quantum level accuracy it might not be possible, at least according to Sandberg in his brain emulation opinion.

And even furthermore, things like the microbiome's influence on the brain are not yet well understood.

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
I have no issue with it. Though I may just go ahead and start working on a punch-list style life-extensionist work. Even if it is nothing more than a fun exercise.

Seriously though, if I was bin Salman for example I would make something like this a personal priority.

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Would have to agree. At the end of the day we return to a previous form.

If matter itself is conscious or not is hard to say, but I don't see why it isn't possible that it couldn't be.

Though then would that mean souls are the matter itself or outside of matter?, assuming the existence of souls

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
I personally think WAY more money would be needed.
chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Ability to invent things that narrow AI might not be able to very well.

If, as Thiel and others have pointed out, ingenuity is slowing down, then in order to solve aging it might be necessary to have AGI invent the things for us to solve aging.

Would be curious if someone was of the opinion that we can invent the tech to solving aging ourselves and what resources would be needed to do so or if that process requires AGI first due to the barriers of solving aging being too great for us considering the resources required.

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
I know Nectome is a YC company. Altman has signed up I believe.

Vitrification is better than cryo as a last resort as I understand it, due to market risk.

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Very interesting. You are right that true immortality is not possible as eventually the universe has an end, now if it crunches and repeats is another question.

If we solve biological aging we then would hopefully eventually be able to buy time before we can develop mind uploading, which brings forth more of the points you outlined.

I probably should have stated the roadmap to solving aging.

chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
I'm thinking in terms of money, we are talking well into the trillions of dollars. And probably having to develop AGI.
chosen1111··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Has anyone done a really good analysis of how much money it would take to end biological aging? And then eventually buy time to develop immortalist technologies.

Something like a punchlist.

Do we need to solve mind uploading or AGI first?

What precursor technologies need to be available and what intellectual pursuits should people be pursuing and at what scale?

What political, legal and resource obstacles exist that might succeed in stopping the development of this technology?

Books like Singularity is Near are great but I wish someone would create something truly like a roadmap, with risks, prerequisites, decision-trees, capital needs and obstacles.

chosen1111··on OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
Very interesting thank you.
chosen1111··on OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
Great points. Thank you.

Is something like this capable of being run as a distributed computing project, akin to something like folding at home?

Are there any obstacles that would make recreating a GPT-3 via a distributed system impossible...other than GPT-4 coming out before completion of such a system?

Page 1 of 2Next →