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Imo the podcast and the video are better served as background material for some other task. The low bandwidth becomes an advantage because it's often ok if you miss out on some par…

>So obviously, error correction with inputs/outputs is not the way we get to intelligence. This doesn't seem to follow at all let alone obviously? Humans are able to reason through…

Yes, this absolutely appears to be the main reason. Both in practical terms through birth control, but also through cultural terms in that it's now seen as a choice rather than as …

Well you see that take over and over because that's what people actually believe in and feel and it's almost weird it has to be repeated over and over. Most protestors are not soli…

Advanced intelligence may have evolve multiple times, but wouldn't the origins of simpler intelligence lie much deeper in the evolutionary tree? If Octopi use neurons too, it seems…

If all the wealthy would band together to spend their money on convincing every farmer to write software instead, then we'd all starve

You probably also need at least: - Y does not appear when X does not - We need an overwhelming sample size containing examples of both X and not X - The experiment and data collect…

And even if you do know there's causality (eg: the input variable X is part of software that provides some output Y), the exact nature of the causality can be too complex to analyz…

Why are bananas the funniest food? Even Claude seems to have caught on

I'm curious if we'll see a world where computers could solve math problems so easily, that we'll be overwhelmed by all the results and stop caring. The role of humans might change …

I'd like to recommend the author mentioned briefly in the article on this topic: Joel Mokyr. Unlike how this article paints him, Joel doesn't really point to a sole cause for the i…

Pretty sure you wouldn't find many circles containing galaxies all at a similar approximate distance There might be some, so it could be lucky and just random chance, but the stats…

There's so much ambiguous context that goes into your average '=', even when just talking about your standard functions on real numbers. You'll see it being used for anything from:…

I wonder if there'd be any good way to confirm or rule out an ancient Martian civilization. Would Martian surface structures be able to last a few billion years? Or would Martian p…

Possibly if language use fingerprinting ever becomes reliable enough to be able to connect multiple online pseudonyms together. That'd be a fun time

It's just a preference thing, I loathe the small program chaining style and cannot work with it at all. Give me a python script and I'm good though. I can't for the life of me imag…

To my untrained eye, the eastern United States and Uruguay + surroundings also seem like great places for civilizations to thrive. But for some reason those areas did not seem to h…

The Pledge of Allegiance?

The scans used for the grand prize look like this : https://scrollprize.org/img/grandprize/scroll1.mp4 It's a cut through the scroll, with the time dimension in this video represen…

We need supermarkets to provide places where people can donate or sell their excess reusable shopping so other people can pick them up and use. That should put a big dent in the ne…

>but the catastrophist discourse that there's a deep slowdown in productivity compared to the previous decades and that today we're mostly relying on things we already did in the p…

There are various things that go into inflation, and wages are only a small part of it. Wage price spirals are very unlikely and have not been demonstrated. Wages are not 100% of t…

Or not at all. If the 45% are exactly on the mark with inflation, then the average would be significantly below inflation. The 45% would have to significantly exceed inflation for …

Nor do I get what the plan is to stop good but overoptimistic actors developing AI that spirals out of their control I feel these kind of statements by Mozilla reflect exactly that…

Why do you assume a tabula rasa person would assume that consciousness ceases to continue on death? I don't think there's anything obvious that would suggest this goes one way or t…