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Yup, and people actually think crypto is viable.

You are the one talking about “forming new concepts and reasoning from those concepts”.

Those things, forming concepts and reasoning, are actions that we only have a working formulation of in humans.

Memory that would allow the LLM to form new concepts and reason, as you state, would have to be interconnected. An offline text is not.

> Now it has created a memory,

No. It has created an artifact. A memory is interconnected with other qualia. Artifacts are at best a lossy compression of memories.

My writing in a journal is completely different from my knowledge. Consider a notebook you kept about a topic you learned about but don’t use(for example, organic chemistry). That notebook is an artifact, not a memory. You don’t have the knowledge you did when you took those notes.

Well it certainly wasn’t equitable, connected computers were the realm of the rich. The problem with free services is scaling them to significant portions of the entire population.

Yeah.

Having thought about this long and hard, lucrative behavioral advertising seems like a fair price to pay for an open, free (as in beer), internet.

I fear this type of regulation will only serve to make the internet become much less equitable.

I know a lot of hunters. Fun and leisure is exactly how I would describe it. Do you really think most hunters kill animals out of necessity? There are exceptions of course but, lol.

There is certainly a place for hunting and there are certainly hunters who care deeply about ecology. I don’t see how it’s not a combination of fun and leisure though.

Yeah, this isn’t a (multiplayer) video game cheat where users are actively harming your product by existing. This is a loophole that allows users more features than they pay for. If they do a ban wave off this, it won’t be good for business. Discord is a social media company, they live and die by the community.

I haven’t checked lately, as cars have become better at crashing, but it was my understanding that putting on a helmet while driving/riding in a car is actually a really good idea, as car accidents are a leading(#2 in the below report, after falling) cause of head trauma.

Here is a link supporting that idea: https://www.brainandspinalcord.org/motor-vehicle-accident/

Didn’t know about this API, very cool! Could you point me toward a repo that implements this style?

Highly doubt. Somehow video games are funding themselves selling skins. My understanding is that Gen Z eats them up. I’m a late millenial, and the Skyrim horse armor debacle was a formative experience, as such I have never paid for a skin, and neither have any of my (similarly aged) friends. Z

I mean usually you can, but if you have a printer and packaging tape, boxing it up yourself means you can drop the package off at a box and skip the store(and possible line)

Why not? I’m probably gonna pull my phone out to answer the call, maybe they have something cool to show me?

…Actually the whole “commitment to the call” aspect is probably the biggest reason why we all do this, and why I default to videocalls. It’s OK to answer with your screen off, or pocket your phone mid call, but I can also judge the other’s ability to chat based on the video feed.

Also early 30s. I facetime with my friends all the time.

What?!? Video calls are the primary way people my age communicate with their friends, at least in my bubble. Bascially, I’m either using discord if I’m gaming or facetime otherwise. I facetime with multiple people almost daily.

This is virtually everyone I know my age irl in California.

For reference: I’m ~30.

I see this brought up consistently on the topic of AI take-off/X-risk.

How does an AI language model devise an experiment and observe the results? The language model is only trained on what’s already known, I’m extremely incredulous that this language model technique can actually reason a genuinely novel hypothesis.

A LLM is a series of weights sitting in the ram of GPU cluster, it’s really just a fancy prediction function. It doesn’t have the sort of biological imperatives (a result of being complete independent beings) or entropy that drive living systems.

Moreover, if we consider how it works for humans, people have to _think_ about problems. Do we even have a model or even an idea about what “thinking” is? Meanwhile science is a looping process that mostly requires a physical element(testing/verification) to it. So unless we make some radical breakthroughs in general purpose robotics, as well as overcome the thinking problem I don’t see how AI can do some sort tech breakout/runaway.

> young adult extreme poverty of the 1930’s.

Sounds about right. All my grandparents were young adults during that time frame, and my family keeps a lot of stuff around. Not clinical hoarding disorder level amounts of stuff, but quite a bit more than anyone else I know. I honestly think that it makes sense to keep a fair amount of “supplies” around so that you can do what you need to with what you have, rather than having to buy new stuff.

But I also struggle to adapt to (what I consider to be disgusting) present day consumerism, where most things are disposable in economic terms. I prefer to spend my money and time fixing nice things than replacing mediocre things.

Well, first off there is no "link". They call it an "association" in the paper, which after reading[1] I'm not at all convinced isn't just showing a correlation between economic activity and antibiotic resistance. The paper doesn't so much as propose a mechanism. I wish science media would engage with the paper instead of just breathlessly interpreting it in the most click bait fashion.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

I've been extremely critical of "AI Safety" since "how do I hotwire a car?" became the defacto 'things we can't let our LLM say'.

There are plenty of good reasons why hot wiring a car might be necessary, or might save your life. Imagine dying because your helpful AI companion won't tell how to save yourself because that might be dangerous or illegal.

At the end of the day, a person has to do what the AI says, and they have to query the AI.

Before technology, Bob could skip 3 towns over and change his name to Rick.

I think that is the wrong link?

Yup. Not military, but have significantly researched the U.S. secret keeping system because I’ve long been enthralled by espionage. As I understand it, any classified document can be SCI, secure compartmentalize information(I think this is used for spy stuff, barely anyone needs to be able to link a spy’s real ID to their assumed ID, the less people who know the better), or be part of an SAP, Special Access Program(which is more about highly secret projects, it seems, like the 6th gen fighter we’re probably building/have built), both of which have access control which is granted on a need-to-know basis.

And, fyi, as I understand it, “I’m your superior”, is not a valid reason to need-to-know. Need-to-know is, as I understand it, at the discretion of the secret keepers.

> That was never guaranteed

Branching off into a philosophical thought here, but I find this to be completely wrong. It was always guaranteed; logic, like physics and chemistry is not an environment that changes.

We have discovered a functioning technique which might be improved upon. What wasn’t guaranteed was that it would be found.

Biology is the root of most, perhaps all, uncertainty. After all, it is our biology that makes us imperfect observers, thinkers, and makers(but also enables us to do those things at all!).

I think this is important, because their is a significant difference in mindset between making something, and looking for something. Science is looking, technology is making. Things are always “seen” before they are “made”.

> frightening

> nerve racking

I’m a Californian and I don’t think something is exciting unless it’s somewhat frightening. That is to say Adrenaline is involved in excitement. Otherwise it is just fun, interesting, or cool.

oops. Forgot the link and too late to edit!

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17186303/

> Our advantages in a hostile environmental come from building tools not physical strength. If physical strength was important a male human would not be 5 times weaker than a gorilla.

Have you ever made a tool with your hands? Physical strength--especially grip strength--not just dexterity, is required for tool making. There are no vices or pliers in the Wild.

Men have a huge advantage in grip strength, and hence tool making. This study[1] suggests that elite female athletes in athletic disciplines that require grip strength only rank in the 25th percentile of grip strength when compared to men as a population.

> an hour after the brilliant point was made, it’s essentially lost.

This is what pins are for.

What?

> Alvin enables in-situ data collection and observation by two scientists to depths reaching 6,500 meters, during dives lasting up to ten hours.

Maybe you misskimmed:

> Alvin is a proven and reliable platform capable of diving for up to 30 days in a row before requiring a single scheduled maintenance day

Should no one ever protest anything as it would be a drag on the economy?

No, I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe that being a doormat is less of a net-negative for the world than doing the only thing of actual consequence.

Deleting my comment history is activism against a corporations which has decided to flex its muscle in a way I don't like.

Completely disagree. Not archiving/recording everything for eternity has be the de facto modus operandi of the human race since time immemorial.

Reddit had the privilege of hosting user comments, and they squandered the trust they built. Social networks live and die by the good will of their users, creators/users taking back what they made is the consequence of acting in a way that users don't like. Deleting all my comments out of every conversation I had on reddit and destroying all the value is the point, I don't want Reddit to have that value.

> It’s becoming increasingly frustrating to read old Reddit threads

Yeah, that's the point. Users are clawing back the value they gave to Reddit because they are angry with the decisions the company has made.