I think the article would benefit from quickly defining what a CRDT is - (Conflict free Replicated Data Type). Even just expanding the acronym once would give a bit of an idea.
Indeed. Such closed loop dynamics turns the AI into a sort of iterated function system, which gravitate to basins of attraction, or exhibit chaotic behaviour.
I think that's a bit reductive. I suspect the constant stream of dicks, day in day out, in a dating app context, would cause a change in opinion in the moderators. It's the sort of thing that sneaks up on you without you quite realising it.
Is it OK? I'm genuinely not sure. I have been considering a new year's resolution not to keep propping up relationship that aren't reciprocated. Are they "not initiators" in all relationships, or just with you? Why do you conclude that it's ok (genuinely interested)?
It varies. Specially crafted noise added to the pixel values. Looks like random noise, but obviously isn't. TBH I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, It is "trained" using the vision network, with a loss function that is some combination of being low amplitude, and reducing the strength of the correct image identification.
Computer vision systems are not as robust as human vision systems. There are subtle changes to pixel values that can utterly flummox a computer vision system, but seem undetectable to a human looking at the image.
According to Wikipedia, the abrupt change occurs at the point when the solar wind's speed decreases into the subsonic range (speed of sound in the interstellar medium is approximately 100km/s and the sun emits the particles that makeup the solar wind at approximately 400km/s). This transition to a subsonic regime causes compression waves to form, and causes the rapid drop off.
As an engineering type, with a touch of the ol' Asperger's, I find that it's very easy for life to become a series of corridors. You can run life on rails, sinking into your day to day tasks. I think the value of this sort of article is not some hard won, sophisticated insight, but rather a so-easily forgotten straightforward one. We know it, but we act as if we don't.
We certainly do allow such activities (MMA fights, extreme sports competitions etc). But such activities are fundamentally different in my view. While risky, they are not designed to permanently damage the competitor. If a participant emerges victorious and unscathed, they can enter next year's competition. That's not the case with selling a kidney (nor with my admittedly extreme example above).
No-one cares about the waste of resources though. A castle is a symbol of power. It's the combination of lots of big, bold ideas, lots of public speaking, giving money out, THEN buying a castle. People begin to worry that these people want to rule them.
Yes, I think it is that. Any such "time for cash" arrangement will have an end date, and can be terminated or renewed regularly. Whereas selling a kidney - once it's gone, it's gone. The transaction can't be repeated.
You can justify anything with that argument, no matter how horrific. Why not permit people to allow themselves be killed in entertaining ways, for a pay per view audience, with their surviving family getting 80% of the proceeds? It's possible that that would be the most money they will ever "earn". Don't you want to give poor people as many options as possible?
But the point is, you're just asserting that. I think the parent poster was observing that, as effective altruists, they might attempt to quantify the pros and cons of such reputational factors (some game theoretic calculation, perhaps?) and include it in their determinations.
Back in the day, before flash added 3d I wrote a flash player emulator in a Java Applet, as a "UI System" for our 3D engine. Looking back, I've literally no idea what the hell I was thinking. :-)
I totally agree. I developed a 3D rendering engine using Flash + as3, and I think it's my favourite platform I've ever developed for. AS3 is a great language - Brendan Eich referred to it briefly in his Lex Fiedman interview, apparently it was essentially a potential successor to Javascript that never made it into the browser, which I found interesting. I wish it had become a new standard.
He's waiting until the AI christening. When the Godfathers are all lined up, Schmidhuber will dramatically burst through the church doors, brandishing a sheaf of papers from the mid 90s.