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Let me ask you this: 1. what makes you confident that the rules of particle physics alone can lead to a perfect simulation of macroscopic phenomena? (as you call it "emergent behav…

You don't have enough information to simulate and predict what goes on in an arbitrary 10 cubic cm part of your tissues for an arbitrary purpose (things are different if you had se…

I agree that the current culture of disclosure is unstable. Nevertheless, I think that there will still eventually be a mechanism to verify the degree and manner to which AI was in…

(Note: I'm sorry, I'm now realizing that my glosses were really bad, they provide a common basic meaning but that isn't always the sense that they have in the text, think "to bear …

"man of many turnings", is a more literal translation of polytropon than Lattimore and Fagles, and and in fact the whole line is better analysed as an original, literal translation…

Traditionally, a mathematician would be implicitly responsible for all that (if they were to publish Lean code) and also the intellectual work that led to the artifact of the mathe…

> Tesla's entire fleet runs on raw cameras. Including the driverless Robotaxi vehicles - which are basically a 1:1 match to how Waymo operates. I can't evaluate how true or sensati…

> it is unclear whether today's sensor platform is sufficient for parity.

I don't know how you can read my comment, not respond to my comment saying that today's self-driving cars use LIDAR, and continue to reiterate your point. I don't think I was clear…

I'm not talking about the state of today's self-driving cars, I'm talking about how we got to here. Also don't forget the overarching claim regarding lack of sensor and actuator fi…

You can point to the bitter lesson to support your claim, but on the other hand I can point to the massive investment in capital and time to get self-driving cars viable to support…

While that is true, just having LLMs "think about it" may discover unintended behavior and exploits, and you can choose to what extent you want to verify that the claims are correc…

Admittedly I'm quite removed from the Bay Area rationalists, but I get the perception that unlike with many other ideological communities, you could always lay out your countervail…

Folding clothes is already a compromise between leaving them unfolded and hanging them

Religious traditions tend to hold that certain claims or parts of their canon are infallible, whereas academic philosophy is more welcoming of the critical and argumentative proces…

For the skimmer/TL;DR'er, note that this article is by an advocacy group presenting their analysis of a situation, and then advocating and taking action on it: "Next Steps: Commiss…

I find this a hilarious reversal of what you typically see in journalism; here the headline and the "key takeaways" are very neutral language and the article itself is dramatic

I don't think Geohot has a good idea about LeCun and Hutter's views on the limitations of LLMs. I think that on abstract, textual domains, LLMs perform superbly, and they would agr…

> Google now pulls the rug on Android which is a whole different story because it used to be open. The whole idea of Android was to be open. This is the narrative for us in develop…

My intuitive understanding about double descent is that 1. Older ML models encoded in their architecture and lack of expressivity a bias to simplicity; which aided interpolation. 2…

By that same argument, taken naively, film and video are dehumanizing, but not deplorably so: certainly the intensity of emotion and experience through film is far less present tha…

> But accent and pronunciation are different things [...] This isn't true in the way you are thinking of. An accent can pronounce words the same way that another accent distinguish…

I don't understand the locus of the arrangement/decision that you find dehumanizing. There are several distinct ways I perceive how someone might find aspects of such an arrangemen…