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That's a good point: the greatest value that we can glean from one another is likely not epistemological "facts about the world", nor is it even the predictive models seen in scien…

I don't know what difference you are referring to. I was agreeing with you. And also agreed: many trumpet the merits of "unassisted" human output. However, they're suffering from a…

This is a tech site, where >50% of us are programmers who have achieved greater productivity thanks to LLM advances. And yet we're filled to the gills with Luddite sentiments and A…

This article was published in an anything-goes journal [1] by a crackpot [2] at a bottom-tier university. At a glance, the article is ranting, not science. An axiom: When the best …

Because humans have 0% error rate? Whether or not the error function can be reduced to zero, I anticipate that human meddling will soon present more of a wrench in the gears of mac…

Plants ain't got brains. Gotta use their genome to process information. /Wild speculation.

This is a fix for a 13 year old bug from SpaceStation 13, a multiplayer computer game. The bug fix is for an obsolete engine for the game. It's a fix, but it's completely pointless…

A) You did write it, even if it were a joke. Don't be a liar-pants. B) It wasn't a joke. You called it " fairly troll-ish". It was thus fairly serious. It is your mind child, such …

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The Planck length is analogous to the pixel. Our parent universe has a much tinier Planck length, and hence it acts as an ultra high resolution monitor, on which it can fit all the…

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gwern! FWIW, I read what you have to say in the same, careful way that I read Bostrom. You're a treasure.

He's not saying the race is stupid. He is saying that it is more stupid , an operant he expounds on, revealing his underlying meaning as both accurate and mild. A factual statement…

> Are you saying that the author has no rational to say that? Sure, instrumental rationale: PR. And, because I believe that Bostrom says what he means, Bostrom probably does think …

An assertion without rationale is noise or worse. "That's racist; cancel them!" falls in the latter category. It's the mindless baying of the rabble. You don't engage with the rabb…

The quote is from their "Final Report, which is the first link in the submitted article.

This is a smear taken out of context. What Bostrom actually had to say is both accurate and mild: > “I have always liked the uncompromisingly objective way of thinking and speaking…

Seems the incompetent and curiously hostile Philosophy Faculty at Oxford killed FHI. > While FHI had achieved significant academic and policy impact, the final years were affected …

They're operating under the same principle that many of us have in refusing to help engineer weaponry: we don't want other people's actions using our tools to be on our conscience.…

Where / how did you get this?

Results: significantly less snoring and sleep apnea. N=25

Sounds like they ought hire you.

https://archive.is/9ErBf

I sterilize my N95/KF94 masks with UV light for reuse. If anyone wants to follow suit, beware fake UV bulbs. Test your product / bulb with a banana. Put masking tape on the banana,…