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Programmers will be replaced by whatever the superintelligence makes out of their atoms.

Fancy a fuck? Fancy a fight? My tree! My tree!

JPI Modula-2 was my first proper compiler on my childhood PC! I loved it, it was nicer to use than either Turbo Pascal or C. I actually bought my first ever hard disk (a mighty 10M…

Who cares? And how would we tell?

Apparently not. And I am slightly surprised by that.

Gmail have turned off the basic HTML view. The new interface is unpleasant. Assuming I can't get html view back, can I still use a mail client through POP3, or is the best thing to…

Oh God, yes! I'm old enough to remember when people thought it was important to have quiet and privacy to think. I used to love my job. All my life I've loved programming, and I us…

Christ, this is supposed to be for people with no spoons, and yet one of the recipes is: "Peanut Butter On A Spoon". Could they not be bothered to get someone to proof read it?

Presumably he doesn't care. How's his poetry?

He gets a standing ovation at the end, which is nice to see. Apparently this was released by accident and the youtube copy has been set to 'private', but luckily some quick-witted …

> To learn CNNs at the deep-dive level you need calculus, at least differentiation and integration. Oh the poor dears, imagine needing schoolboy maths to do science.

Am Eliezer disciple, can confirm.

Back in the day when Eliezer was optimistic about AI (there's a reason why the SIAI/MIRI logo looks like an angel), I wrote him a very silly e-mail warning him that, despite being …

I want to say that I completely endorse this. The whole thing in all its details. I don't have any reputation to sacrifice, and I don't expect my endorsement to convince anyone, bu…

It doesn't need any reason to hate humanity. It just needs to not care about us.

No one has an interest in playing this game at all. It is a bad game. Like the First, Second, and Third World Wars, the winning move is not to play.

Amazing how people who would never hurt a child seem to have no problem with building things that kill all the children.

Yeah, I'm not keen. But I'm old, and it wouldn't be so bad. I'm mainly about not killing all the children.

Almost no one thinks they will. The worry is that they're the last piece of the puzzle, and that we're very close to having all the parts for the real thing.

Not unless they managed to solve their own alignment problem, and they're friendly. Otherwise we'd already be dead.

And about 8000 science fiction novels. And the fact that an idea is obvious to a child does not mean that it is not true!

As a long term Yudkowsky-fan, I confirm that this tallies roughly with my recollections of his serious work. I don't know how much of a hand he had in 'Logical Induction'. It's def…

I think it's fair to say that he is not an Orthodox Jew.

We want to change everyone's gender, as often as possible; and will devote superhuman resources to spreading this philosophy over as much of the available future lightcone as physi…