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@frolickingfood Hill I will die on: The difference between "Calvary" and "cavalry".
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Aaron Brown
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Aaron Brown
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This is my me. There are many like it, but this one is mine. He/him/whatever
Adair County, Kentucky, USA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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AI execs when talking about the danger vs the exact same AI execs talking about how we should respond:
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people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now
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Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.
He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).
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In the late 1960's, Paul Ehrlich was advocating for cutting off emergency food aid to India.
This would have caused mass starvation.
When people say that he was evil, this is what they mean.
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going founder mode (killing millions of africans because i illegally withheld congressionally appropriated funds)
Lulu Cheng Meservey@lulumeservey
Here we see the clash of two opposing worldviews about legitimacy The founder view: progress comes from defiant upstarts willing to disrupt old institutions The lawyer view: authority comes only from credentials and tenure. “Do you have any history of scholarly review?”
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me as she grabs at my phone: "it is mother's talisman. The source of her power. The means by which she keeps you in the form of a baby. If you could consume it, you would come to possess all of her power…"
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Will AI become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.
Here’s what they had to say:
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Effective tomorrow: all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are now invalid
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they go to the DMV (that most will need to drive to) and exchange their license for one with the wrong gender
erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends…
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recipes are always saying wash the rice three times or until the water runs clear but last time i washed it like 10 times just to see what would happen and it still wasn't clear, never seen clear rice water
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There are nearly zero good reasons for an AI to ever impersonate a human, and making that universally illegal would be a good test case and trial for civilization's ability to prevent negative uses of AI.
grace@0xgrace
> return flight to nyc gets canceled by snowstorm > call united > immediately connected with customer service (rare) > voice is uncanny, def AI but they gave it a human-like accent > takes ~20 min to get rebooked (pretty good imo) > I ask if it's AI > "haha no ma'am but I get that a lot" > I ask it to calculate 228*6647 > it runs the calculation > ggs
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recently I saw an art exhibition that truly made me both laugh and cry: a retrospective of a painter I had never heard of before, Mexican surrealist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010). Every painting felt like an "instant classic," as if it had always been part of the canon
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o'clock was an irish time scientist. "nine o'clock" is like "nine watt" or "nine kelvin". in fact, clocks were named after o'clock, not the other way around. clock is short for "o'clock chronometer", like "tesla coil" or "dewar flask"
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@VesselOfSpirit @thiagovscoelho The telephone of course was named after its inventor, Felix J. Telephone.
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@thiagovscoelho people keep talking about "DARPA" in all caps so i thought it was some alphabet soup agency acronym but it's named after its founder Arpad Darpa
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@neqyve @KelseyTuoc The screenshot in Kelsey's original post is from this, which you should read:
theargumentmag.com/p/when-technic…
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@KelseyTuoc All LLM behavior can still be usefully explained away as "better prediction" and "better autocomplete" even with RLHF, I don't even know what you're trying to say with "during RLHF and Inference". Not sure what you're talking about here.
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Joseph Heath coined the term 'highbrow misinformation' for climate reporting that was technically correct, but arranged every line to give readers a worse understanding of the subject. I think that 'stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete' is, similarly, highbrow misinformation.
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@JeremiahDJohns Most of EA is correctly, adamently, and fanatically opposed to Trump (including myself). I hold a special kind of contempt for the few MAGA EA galaxy-brain-take-havers who actively helped bring about the civilization-level self-mutilation of Trump 2.
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