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> What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not '…

> You're not allowed to sell illegal drugs on the street? ... Or that police should look the other way bc it's too heavy handed to just detain the few dozen ppl that do this until …

Man outlines how hardened criminals take down Flock cameras, detailing it step-by-step: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1v78ihu/...

> How many indignities do you stomach for what exactly? People selling handbags neither threatens my dignity nor makes me indignant. When I think of "terrorize", I think of things …

> "filth and crime" checks, it's "people selling untaxed marijuana" Yeahhhh, we have radically different ideas about what constitutes "they're terrorizing my city". Casual use of h…

The "goal" here, not in the sense of what AI scientists are shooting for, but in terms of "goal", "goalpost", and the idiom of "moving the goalposts", would be to invalidate the cu…

> this is not a research paper from a startup or a public frontier lab, it is just PR from a corporation If they're publishing the solutions to these 10 problems, then this is, ess…

And a lot of condensed matter physics. Type II superconductivity is a well-known one, but there are a lot of more less well-known ones

> If we didn't move the goalposts, then by definition we already knew exactly where we were headed at the beginning, and we very clearly did not. To me, the goalposts were already …

The unified position which many folks deny is "AI is powerful" or, alternatively, "AI will be powerful soon". (I'm personally still skeptical about this, but I'm being pulled towar…

Reading both your comments, I don't see them suggest that only human brains are capable of experience. Not even "only animal brains", for that matter.

> The question of whether they reason is meaningless. I'd disagree. Reason is the most reliable way we currently have of drawing conclusions (fewest false negatives, at least), so …

Recursive self-improvement only takes off when the improvements are large enough. We could set an LLM loose on itself now, self-improving its own code, but it's going to only make …

I think it applies to non-biological Von Neumann probes as well. It'll apply to any system that can mutate, even if that mutation is just cosmic rays flipping the bits on a hard dr…

> It does zero good "for me" but hopefully someone thinks twice the next time before expressing such a dumb incorrect opinion. Well, I doubt it's going to change anyone's mind if i…

Not ethically better, though. At least in the US, 99% of all pork is factory-farmed, and in much of that the pigs live their whole lives in a stall too small to turn around in. Pig…

You can view the guidelines here, at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I don't think you need to attack someone personally, even if you believe they are promoting pr…

Hacker News guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a top…

The article hardly mentions "oppressed peoples" at all. Much of the focus is on the benefits gained to the empire by the diversity therein, with brief forays into the historical an…

It's still just "buy low, sell high". You make the money from the same folks you normally would, only the order of when you buy and sell is swapped.

So that adds some extra "benefits" (mutation and natural selection improves the probes over time) along with some extra difficulties - how do you keep the self-reproducing probes "…

We could have coffee made today by automated coffee vending machines, but many people still prefer to go to a coffee shop. Why is that? Sometimes we don’t choose the cheaper automa…

To put it another way, the cost per advancement increases. That’s “as we advance it becomes more difficult to advance”. However, because of the prior advances, you also have more r…

tbf, they already had artillery pointed at 10 million people, enough to commit an atrocity. The nukes were just the frosting on the cake.

tbf, it's not like the toil and sweat wasn't partly the toil and sweat of the slaves.