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> Now the idea is that the insurance company discontinues the App and the (untrusted) customer must have an iPhone 18 Pro to make an insurance claim?

In a couple of years it will be almost any iPhone instead of 18 Pro. And if it catches on, other phone vendors will provide a similar service.

I tend to fly cheaply with multiple transfers/layovers. What I figured out recently is that it is nice to combine the flights in such a way that one of the layovers is _longer_.

When the airport has a good connection to a major city then 12 hours during the day are enough, but I'm happy to bump it to 2-3 days.

I have managed to visit some Chinese and Canadian cities this way and it was both more interesting and much cheaper than taking a direct flight.

There was a discussion on it here yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1wfdnus/why...

It works, but there is usually a noticeable difference (at least with Quest).

I remember around iPhone 6 or such popular design rumours that were circulating around turned out to be wrong. There were photos of chinese warehouses filled with cases made for the incorrect design.

With iPhone 4 Gizmodo literally acquired the prototype and still large portion of the crowd did not believe them, because the design seemed radically different to what they expected.

Nowadays with the size of the supply line there seem to remain no more hardware secrets before the keynotes.

For me it's annoying that I cannot right-click the link and copy the actual target. They are breaking the web.

These things were obviously always concerning but I feel the situation has taken on an entirely different dimension now that they could feasibly use whisper + LLM to actually review _all_ the communication. That's crazy.

Darkness travels even faster than light on Discworld, because it has to be fast enough to get out of the way when light arrives.

It is a bit less strict than you think. It's not just about the police giving the tourists some leeway.

- Alcohol is fully legal for non-muslims, even if they have residency (or in rare cases citizenship).

- Unmarried cohabitation is fully legal, unmarried sex is mostly legal. It can only be prosecuted when a partner is cheating and their wife/husband files a complaint. Or when a minor is involved and their legal guardian files a complaint.

On the other hand homosexual and transgender expressions are still illegal, like you say.

So this is explicitly built for partially-contained agents who have the normal protocols/methods blocked, right?

Wasn't holocaust caused by words?

You don't need to cancel all the noise to solve 1+1 correctly. The model in the example is non-deterministic.

I don't know Penrose's view deeply enough to defend it further (view which I for the record do not share).

For the hardcore Overwatch community perhaps, but not for the general gaming community, especially if WG is about to grow further and host more and more wikis.

For people who regularly get into new games its much easier to learn just one easily distinguished domain with the high quality wikis.

overwatch.weirdgloop.org works better than overwatch.wiki in this sense, apart from the complaints about the odd name up in the comment chain.

Per the article they don't.

> There’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel, though - based on our experiments so far, it seems like once we establish these new wikis fairly well on Google, it should be safe to move them off weirdgloop.org back to whatever the appropriate name was, while keeping the existing Google juice that the subdomain picked up. I’m hoping that in 6 months or so we can just 301 redirect overwatch.weirdgloop.org to overwatch.wiki, use Google’s change of address tool, and put these wikis to where they should have been in the first place.

Fair enough, I can see that.

If you run an LLM (with temp >0) and use a true random generator for seeds, it will still tell you 1+1 is 2.

I'm with you regarding opinion on consciousness, but do you think it would be 'better' if there were no dualists and no dualist essays and ideas?

Because I hardly think so.

This is not like alternative medicine where there is harm for people who don't follow the mainstream. And I stress again that Penrose (in the interviews I saw) doesn't actually claim that he absolutely has to be right.

> If mind was random, people would miscalculate 1+1 with 50% probability.

That does not follow at all.

Thank you so much for what you do.

> Of course the alternative is what the parent comment suggests ("probably just need a good base domain for game wikis") - but you have to get THAT domain out of Google jail first.

So why not get such domain, wait out until it is let out of Google Jail and then put all the wikis on subdomains?

I imagine you would quickly gain trust and people would immediately recognize the links and know that this is the place to go. As opposed to the current state where the wikis have separate domain names and for each game we need to learn which one is the "good one".

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Second question: Any thoughts on liberating non-gaming wikis from fandom, such as TV show wikis?

Have you actually hear him talk about it? It is very far from rambling and he will be the first to tell you that he is not sure he is right.

We need physicists to come up with and develop novel ideas to consider no matter how many of them might be entirely wrong.

Don't plenty of android devices have barometers? I expect Google being Google and recording all that data unless you opt out.

Would that be practical for weather forecasting or not really?

It is odd but also fascinating. If he likes it that way then all the power to him. He's not exactly trying to convince others to do the same.

Were people not happy about WSL?

I too liked the detour about cheating.

Why sell? I thought the idea of donating to them is to make the information available for everyone for free.

So he is posting it again because he believes it is crucial information for us.

Apparently the crowd agrees because they keep upvoting these.

I don't think it's truism. One could believe (and I think plenty people do) that with the right containment it is possible to contain an intelligence regardless of its strength.

I still don't get how do you do this undercover. There are a billion websites. How do the agents stumble upon the same obscure unused wikis?

Maybe I'm leaning into scifi, but I believe that Yudkowsky is right that a sufficiently smart intelligence is uncontainable at all.

We can only hope to either never create an AI so strong or to align it correctly. But if it is not aligned and only “contained” then it won't ever be safe.

I don't understand one step: How did the agents know to gather on that particular website?

Did the second agent just google for something like it and find the first one's post?