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Android is open source; MacOS and Windows aren’t. This gives me more control over my computer, especially since this means LineageOS and GrapheneOS for the desktop soon.

GNU/GNU

Ubuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.

Not jmp?

This is a really good explanation of why I find Julia (effectively a Lisp in terms of these features) to be indispensable. The ability to generate code on the fly makes life so muc…

Never have I seen a title so perfectly encapsulate the very problem it's trying to solve. If you keep trying to "protect" your research from any kind of competition, you're doomed …

Answer: they don’t (Seriously, I’ve gotten so fed up with Python package management that I just use CondaPkg.jl, which uses Julia’s package manager to take care of Python packages.…

You’re 100% correct, I think. But it’s notable that in that case, an extra functional programming language would make things worse by dividing effort, not better.

Because 14 wasn’t enough. https://xkcd.com/927/

Actual AI researchers have wildly different opinions on this; IME, going off all the AI researchers I’ve talked to, they tend to split about 50/50.

Self-appointed by the boards of directors at major companies and universities? https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-r... And no peer-reviewed research, apart …

I feel like you’re misunderstanding how Julia syntax works. Julia syntax is Python syntax, for the most part. They’re not identical, but the differences are very small, and typical…

Julia already is a very high-level mathematics-oriented programming language, though. The reason Mathematica is so much faster here is it’s using a different algorithm. When you co…

This is a perfectly reasonable concern/criticism and one that plenty of EAs make. Going off funding, which is overwhelmingly directed towards global health and development, it’s pr…

Yeah, and there’s also GiveWell. Probably 80% of EA money goes to development, with the rest evenly split between the other three cause areas. I’d be very shocked if AI research go…

The main benefit is that they’re probably more likely to actually read it. I dunno about you, but if someone gave me a book I’d probably actually read it. I definitely wouldn’t rea…

It’s not; they’re pretty much completely unrelated fields. AI ethics focuses very little on AI alignment issues, which tends to worry about much bigger and more general problems. T…

AI alignment research is still extremely neglected. There’s a handful of researches looking at it and that’s about it. There’s plenty of coverage/criticism about AI, but it tends t…

Why? I think it’s perfectly reasonable to think that distributing books about effective altruism would be a very effective use for $30,000 of donations. Most EAs give 10% of their …

Yep, exactly — and the average EA donates way more than $30,000 over their lifetime. This is just a creative way to advertise, and I don’t see what’s wrong with charities trying to…