kylecazar

"... many lifetimes ago in 2025"

This made me laugh. The world is different now. Congrats!

No doubt, it's very deeply entrenched and would face a ton of opposition... Which I do sympathize with. You spend your life mastering the dynamics of these stances/positions and then the rug's ripped out.

The game would change but I don't think it would be existential, more of an evolution. It may even make it more fun to watch. Speed becomes much more important as does general athleticism.

*millions

And yet, when I watch videos of these guys at 50 barely able to speak, it makes me sad, so I support changes that reduce the likelihood of CTE without sacrificing the nature of the sport. Which yes, is inherently violent.

Similar to the CFL. Offense lines up per usual with the ball. Defense is pushed back 1 or 1.5 yards (2 is probably excessive) and can enter the zone the second ball is snapped.

There are some side effects (goodbye tush push) but it drastically reduces helmet contact for those 8-10 players every down.

And indeed, disallowing brace against ground is all you'd need to get the standing result.

100% agreed

CTE is not just about concussions but any amount of damage consistently over time that accrues.

Current line of scrimmage situation is the worst case scenario. Linemen are a couple feet away from each other and they start from a crouched position. They explode up and hit the opposing line, very often with their helmet/crown, down after down, 60-70 times a game. You could not plan a better way to get CTE.

1) Neutral zone at the line, they start 2 yards away from each other.

2) Have to start from standing position, and/or:

3) First contact has to be arms

It would be a bit of an adjustment like it was for dynamic kickoff. You're never going to stop all head trauma in a contact sport but the mechanics of the line positions are basically designed for it.

I love football, but it's insane that we allow this for entertainment. Guardian helmets are insufficient. They need to commit to big changes, some of which will alter the game. No head in practice whatsoever. Redesign the line of scrimmage. Mandatory month out for concussions. I'll still enjoy whatever it becomes.

Not parent, but since we discussed in the other thread -- yeah, I think that's a good example of your observation that "intelligence" is broad and means different things depending on the context.

Cognitive intelligence in parent's example dies with you. It's gone. But a molecular biologist might say the cells of your corpse exhibit intelligence for some time after. They die gradually, and they do so according to a script of sorts.

I personally don't think it's an intrinsic property of all matter, but an emergent one with interaction specifically. Systems have intelligence, not particles, and to be a system, you must have constituent parts (which may not be intelligent themselves). That's why they say it 'emerges'.

A cell is a system, as is a virus, a tucan, a human and an LLM. They exhibit different levels and brands of intelligence, hence continuum.

That's the popular view among scientists/philosophers/my podcasters, at least, and it makes sense to me!

"Intelligence" = vessel or color in your example

There are words that distinguish between types/degrees of intelligence. Basal/proto intelligence applies to cells and bacteria. Somatic intelligence is a level higher at tissue. Superintelligence you've no doubt heard of.

It's true that "intelligence" is general/umbrella and doesn't have much meaning, but more specific terms do exist.

I can see a future generation of models. For now, LLM's train on human artifacts and they handle Python/TS well because of the overwhelming amount of code they've seen, combined with the semantic labels high level languages use that they rely on for reasoning.

Also, consider token efficiency. Imagine how many tokens would be torched just translating an import statement of a popular library to its binary equivalent, let alone a big complex program

"In one case, agents were given only a general list of vulnerabilities and told to find a communication channel on their own."

As far as I can tell, these are being presented in media as if agents yearn to communicate with each other and establish a cabal.

They are being instructed to do it, it's testing. If I prompted my agents to communicate with each other via any means necessary locally, and they found a way via cpu cache, maybe I'd be mildly surprised...

Actually, introspection is out as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-zero-introsp...

We consider psychological stress in a different category than physical. It's seen as uniquely cruel because it corrupts intangible things like identity and humanity, not knees and joints. We get physically laborious jobs... They're grueling but we understand the inputs, outputs and the toll.

Putting someone in front of the worst of humanity (CSAM, murder, suicide, bestiality etc) for 9 hours a day at $2/hr seems inhumane because it may very well change who they are and how they think. Add to that the fact that it's sponsored by the richest companies on the planet for the benefit of the upper half and you get the current, IMO justified, criticisms.

I'm thoroughly confused. Did what build a clock? AI?

The link is indeed to a clock.

Is it really that profitable to breed super-dogs for the military?

If they can reliably do it, I think they'll just end up providing dog customization as a service to consumers.

Nope, separate work! But indeed, it can be considered both... The emptiness of bourgeoisie/wealthy values and the superficiality of the humans that host them

If you're looking for examples critical of humanity you have lots of options (mostly from the last two centuries). Notes from Underground and The Death of Ivan Ilyich fit the bill.

I reread the former relatively recently (first time since college). It's dark, not for the easily affected.

Indeed, except when you get into the critical software realm. Firmware for pacemakers, avionics etc. There are respective ISO's/regulations and enforcement bodies.

I wonder if that ever expands to traditional software when the stakes and blast radius increase significantly with time.

Same, but on Kaitnieks/Sythe. Really fond memories of those communities ~2004-2007.

Wait, this system is standard SaaS and they can sign in from anywhere, not locked to department devices? That's crazy.

Looks awesome (I actually had found it in my research, but didn't see a ton about it). I'm gonna give it a go, thanks for the recommendation!

Two unrelated monks working on the same thing? What are the odds

I'd love to play the game when it's ready. I don't play much of anything but was searching for open-world sailing/exploration games very recently on Steam.

Sounds like exactly what I was looking for... Strange coincidence.

The extraction of value will be studied at business schools

I have it as an option in the Gemini app. I'm a Pro subscriber.

Hickey describes a tool as something wielded, usually requiring "control, sensory feedback, intention, intimacy, continuous direction, expertise". Lack of that is automation.

I believe my own use of AI is closer to Hickey's definition of a tool. I'm very involved (for now). But, I'm also certain some use it as automation, flying on vibes, providing vague 30,000 foot prompts and deploying the result to production without understanding the code. Hence, gradient.

That's my interpretation of parent.

A very small group of companies have the infrastructure required to train and serve a frontier model. They have a stranglehold on the compute/resources required for a new participant to break in.

And an overwhelming majority of enterprises running AI in production do so via one of two providers.

"its model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected websites"

Stop doing this?

If sleeping in this hypothetical does absolutely nothing for you biologically/psychologically, then yes.

I only value it so much because of how I feel when I'm well-rested.