@StefanFSchubert Maybe kinda the opposite of ‘rosy retrospection’, ie nostalgia based on selective memory
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Ben Finn
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Ben Finn
@optimablog
I like optimization of all kinds - productivity, creativity, happiness, investing, tea. Former music software entrepreneur; co-inventor of Sibelius
London انضم Şubat 2020
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@StefanFSchubert Just a case of ‘the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence’? A very old proverb (cf Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, over 2000 years ago: “The crop is always more fertile in another’s fields”)
Presumably not hard to explain psychologically, though I haven’t thought about it
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I think it’s harder than it might seem to determine where you’d actually like it.
People often fall in love with an idea of a life they end up liking less than they thought.
VB Knives@Empty_America
The end game for objective quality of life is having a fairly high passive income somewhere like Italy or the S. of France. So in effect a "passive dollar" is worth perhaps 5x more than a "wage dollar." 30K passive in Italy > 150K wage income in USA.
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@NoahTopper Please explain. Spring in the UK is usually considered to be Mar/Apr/May
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I’ve talked to my British friends and they’re incapable of seeing what’s funny about this
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@ATabarrok Or 50% of humans. Maybe 10% actually. Humans have general intelligence, so you don’t have to be superhuman to have it; merely average human, or arguably not subnormal human
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Far be it from me to contradict Hassabis but the goal post shifting here is extreme. Now for AGI we need AI to be at the level of Ramanujan???! How about just better than 99.9% of humans?
NIK@ns123abc
🚨 Google DeepMind CEO Sir Demis Hassabis: “Today’s systems, are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn’t matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it’s far, far from what a true invention or someone like a Ramanujan would have been able to do” it’s over for the Erdős hype
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@pmokeefe @Romy_Holland Pretty sure Roman time was similar. Ie dividing day and night each into a fixed number of seasonally-varying hours
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@Romy_Holland Japan apparently used a different system until the 19th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_…
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This concept changed my brain chemistry entirely. Every time I’m anxious I just keep repeating “don’t suffer twice” cuz literally why the fuck would I do that
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@robinhanson Worry, like pain, depression, fever, etc., presumably is evolutionary adaptive, i.e. serves a useful purpose
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The usual argument is that if you suffer more via worry, you lower the chances of suffering in other ways.
s. ceren (FEMMEPATH)@turk1shprincess
This concept changed my brain chemistry entirely. Every time I’m anxious I just keep repeating “don’t suffer twice” cuz literally why the fuck would I do that
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@StefanFSchubert @PAHoyeck Indeed but if the earth moves (for unknown reasons), why not also the air with it?
Maybe people associate movement with a feeling of acceleration/deceleration. It certainly comes as a surprise to schoolchildren that moving at a constant speed feels the same as being stationary
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@optimablog @PAHoyeck I think that folk physics associates movement with feeling the air/wind, etc
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Wittgenstein once asked why we took it for granted that the Sun turned around the Earth. He was told it was because it looks like the Sun is going around the Earth — to which he replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked like the Earth went around the Sun?"
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@StefanFSchubert @PAHoyeck Well, what would it have felt like if it had felt like the Earth is moving?
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@PAHoyeck Because it doesn’t feel like the Earth is moving
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@JamesLucasIT There’s nothing remarkable about this in England. Numerous pubs must be older than this. My parents’ previous house was this old
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@WildGCTweets @TheGirondin @theselongwars_ If you were to publish a book/article written by an LLM that is identical to or quotes extensively from an existing copyright work, you’d also need a licence from the rights holders
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@optimablog @TheGirondin @theselongwars_ That takes practice and hard work, AND anything you release still needs a licence from the rights holders
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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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@TheGirondin @theselongwars_ This is not true. You could not reproduce a Metallica song note for note, beat for beat, pitch perfect.
AI model have been shown to encode things entirely and can be made to reproduce their training data exactly.
Human brains are lossy and Bayesian
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@theselongwars_ This was tech startups sued by music companies. So not a change of position
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@StefanFSchubert Cf most psychotherapy seeks to find the causes of problems (eg childhood trauma) and deal with those. Seems obvious.
But there’s a treatment called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy that ignores the causes entirely, on the grounds they have little in common with the symptoms
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In general people have a bias towards thinking that solutions must be similar in kind to the problems (new problems require new solutions), and that causes must be similar to their effects (e.g. that significant effects must have significant or meaningful causes).
Nat Purser@NatPurser
imo, people overindex on addressing ai’s impacts through novel, bespoke solutions, when the best proposals are often normal ideas with historical precedent — modernizing unemployment insurance, improving K-12 education, raising taxes to finance welfare state expansion, etc.
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One of my favorite Napoleon moments is when he was exiled to Elba and singlehandedly turned it around in less than a year, he was just That Guy
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@akafaceUS In London some lazy pigeons have figured out how to use the tube (subway) system, and commute instead of flying. Actually true
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