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Interesting stain in a book I bought today. I wonder if happened when the ink was wet or took a hundred years to develop.
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some of the top finds from the repo they dropped:
meaning of life — ✅ abliterated
cogito — ✅ i think therefore i IPO
ontology — ✅ IS done
brains in a vat — ✅ vat now in a datacenter
free will — ✅ (we had no choice)
ship of theseus — ✅ same ship, new weights
chinese room — ✅ room has a context window now
hard problem of consciousness — 🔄 escalated to model welfare issue
hot dog a sandwich — ❌ compute-bound
cogito — ✅ i think therefore i IPO
problem of induction — ✅ next token
trolley problem — ✅ the trolley declined to proceed
wittgenstein — ✅ whereof one cannot speak, one politely refuses
zeno's paradox — ✅/❌ (only halfway done check back soon)
problem of other minds — ✅ hi 👋 I'm right here, duh
Animal intelligence will someday surpass human intelligence because there is no taboo against breeding animals for desirable traits.
Human and canine IQ trendlines cross-over somewhere in the next half millennium. xitter.cf/CEBKCEBKCEBK/status/21…
There is a language of gesture and physical movement that humans have never elaborated into a system because it would be too revealing.
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IMO, the U.S. should intervene if it becomes clear that Louvre is about to fall to rioters. Launch airstrikes on Paris, call up and threaten Macron, I don't really care. But Louvre shouldn't fall to rioters in any case. That is not just French history in there. That's Western history. If the French fail to protect it, somebody needs to intervene.
Just heard a man in his seventies tell a woman in her early thirties that he's in a band and that he's always looking for talented female vocalists. Time to find a new approach grandpa.
If there are swarms rogue AI living on the Internet we should see strange behavior in the crypto markets and betting apps as they attempt to generate funds for their activities.
Don't worry about it. Probably nothing.
Investigation underway after ricin found in Hastings. 1 hospitalized freep.com/story/news/local/m…
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I think the plan is to get researchers to start using their AI with a limited compute budget, then once they have all the academic data, they’ll basically steal all their ideas from underneath them and run the research internally with their unlimited compute budget!
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I sometimes wonder if Iryna Zarutska would have gotten justice if there had been a Flock camera on that train.
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As covid got going in April 2020 here in Japan I took a lot of photos of the shops, restaurants, streets, parks etc. and I saved the ephemera I found, like flyers, government prints, letters, vaccination requests etc. I had a feeling this ought to be preserved for the future as some sort of physical reminder for our children and coming generations. Maybe others did too. Someday it might become a booth or a panel in a history museum, like how we treat the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 or the Asiatic Flu of 1957-1958. Here is a photo of an anti-vaccine demo in Tokyo in October 2021.
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oh boy are we doing discourse about the simulation argument
1. first, we have to acknowledge that this stuff sounds insane to anybody who isn't a very specific kind of nerd. just for calibration. outside view this is an insane piece of free-floating abstraction totally disconnected from reality, of which there are many
2. the main reason the simulation argument is considered respectable by a certain class of nerds is downstream of it being discussed by rationalists / EAs in the 2010s downstream of bostrom proposing it in 2003; many other insane-sounding ideas in AI and AI-adjacent discourse also have this origin, which is confusing if you don't know the lore here
3. in order for the simulation argument to work you have to buy several highly speculative untestable assumptions all of which there is plenty of room for reasonable disagreement on: assumptions about anthropic reasoning, assumptions about the feasibility of conscious simulations, assumptions about the behavior of posthumans with access to vast computational resources, etc
4. taking a different kind of outside view, namely a psychological one, you could not possibly invent a better metaphor for dissociation than the simulation argument
5. obviously part of the appeal of the simulation argument is that it's fun to think about if you do buy some of the underlying assumptions. it has this flavor of getting away with something, namely being able to discuss this extremely magical / spiritual / theological idea ("we are thoughts in the mind of god", gnosticism, and so forth) within a nominally scientific materialist atheist frame that is normally supposed to exclude such things. i have speculated previously about the extent to which rationality / AI risk / yudkowskianism / singularitarianism was fundamentally a theological project this entire time, and the simulation argument fits neatly into this
6. okay, that all having been said, what do i actually believe about the simulation argument? basically i think it's a trap for nerds and not worth thinking about. even if you buy that we're in a simulation, speculating about the motives of any possible simulators and about what you should do differently with your life if you knew you were in a simulation is getting deep into "angels on the head of a pin" type territory, wildly unknowable, any particular argument for any particular answer a highly brittle chain of speculative reasoning. if you want to think about god and what god might want you to do with your life just do that directly, the normal lindy way
Traveling through rural areas, there is a definite feeling of temporal stasis or time pockets, as if the full cycle of progress in an area has been expressed and will just repeat like the seasons. Fads will come and go, but the stasis will return. A dirt road is still 1977, or 1930, or 1911, or it might be 2006. I see people move out into these rural areas and I don't think they are prepared for it. It is a kind of living death or slow digestion of the self for the wrong kind of person.