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The same can happen with many things on the internet. Reddit, Youtube etc. It's not specific to facebook.

> The most successful webpages are those where people are authors. Exactly. But not because they enjoy tweaking some website settings or enjoy the control over the layout of a page…

Most people don't want to reprogram stuff, they don't want to customize stuff. They want things to "just work", they don't want to choose which button controls the car windows and …

Ferrari guy approves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKp_jFxQJc

This is true but irrelevant. It may well be that reading doesn't make you successful, but not-reading makes you not-successful. It's like playing the lottery doesn't make you win, …

The becoming part of a special in-crowd who will save the world is the similarity. Not the torture and crimes of course. I've seen and read quite a lot about Scientology, but you a…

His website didn't load for some reason so I just went with the Google hit's title. Maybe that was his old page.

Grids are problematic because one can observe you at the boundaries, moving from one cell to another, so there are moments when you are very accurately localizable.

> OpenAI's research director is Ilya Sutskever, one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group's other founding membe…

> Unless I am mistaken, this is a clear reference to Roko's basilisk. EXCEPT Yudkowsky didn't dream it up. Roko did. Correct, I was conflating things. But his unfriendly AI scenari…

I share your concerns. It also worries me that the brightest ML researchers choose to work at companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft instead of public universities. One reas…

The brain doesn't "solve" tasks. That's cart before horse thinking. Our whole concept of "vision" only exists because eyes and visual cortices exist. I know it seems like a philoso…

Somehow Japan seems to be an exception and they seem to like humanoid robots a lot more than Western countries. Even old people are comfortable with being helped by human-shaped ro…

ML was there but at least when I started learning about these things around 8 years ago, the label "AI" was mostly used for symbolic stuff. Courses named "AI" taught from the Russe…

Sutskever, Schulman, Karpathy and Kingma are experts in machine learning. And yes, AI will definitely be used for all sorts of purposes including hostile means. Just like anything …

You're over-glorifying humans. We're still just a savannah ape and our skills reflect that.

There is no natural cutoff. If they become too creepy and make us emotionally attached, we'll change them so they don't freak us out in that way.

It's not necessarily the answer to AI, but it works remarkably well. Is it Skynet or the Terminator yet? No. There are different ideas for what constitutes AI. Expert systems and k…

It's certainly true that definitions are often arbitrary and aren't the "meat of the issue". For example if a field is too obsessed with how it labels things, then it's usually a b…

Enumeration like {X, Y, Z} is just one of the two main ways to define concepts. The other one is with a property, like {the Turing machines that halt on empty input}. In the first …

I think the "tree falls" riddle is precisely about making one realize the exact thing you said, rather than an actual attempt at finding a yes/no answer to it. I think an interesti…

> Anyone's welcome to still read him, for all we care, Of course, but I'd qualify this a bit. If you are in a life situation where you feel alone or in need of a community, you fee…

Seems like I can't comment normally anymore due to downvotes or some other mechanism. So I quit the discussion now.

In my time at LW I saw so many people becoming anxious, struggling with how to "escape themselves", how to transcend their biases, and meta-biases, knotting themselves into paradox…

I also think that his obsession with the kinds of inverted reasoning, such as "anti-inductive markets" is serving an interest of his: by planting this meme in your head, you'll sub…