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It's also incorrect: there is the back of a stop sign visible on the left of the picture but you must not select this to pass the level. Par for the course with these captcha-like …

You've missed the point. He isn't advocating for everyone to suddenly use JPEG where they wouldn't before. He's advocating that, since there are so many JPEGs already in use, the a…

So, you have experience in UI/UX yourself then to say this authoritatively?

>global capitalism is the major force for extreme poverty in this century. The complete opposite. Where do you think globalised capitalism gets cheap labour from? Hint: it's not de…

Why the fuck are you worrying about "metaphysical frameworks?" The things EA mostly focuses on are people dying of easily preventable starvation and disease. There is no need to br…

Yep. It's just bad. He's essentially advocating for effective altruism to become another lobbying group or NGO.

Wow. If Amazon is being held up as a good example, things are truly bad. My only experience is with Audible, and it is way too difficult and obscure to figure out how to cancel you…

At the very least, if you are showing the instalment price, you have to show the number of instalments, and the fact that it is an instalment rather than a pay-as-you-go subscripti…

So you're in favour of people phone-scamming the elderly? They just need to take personal responsibility and do their due diligence, right? Or do you want to take away the ability …

I mean, the only reason things like this aren't commonplace is cost (of the skillset, tools). Basically anything's possible these days with CGI, everything is purely a matter of th…

Yep. To be useful for exploring potential "true" values, a system would probably need some way of showing you the distribution of its guesses, so you can get an idea of whether the…

That's a fair point. Police use artist sketches from witness descriptions to help identify a suspect. It's a similar idea. The difficulty will be making sure people treat it the sa…

Seems like Firefox doesn't have this feature yet either? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission

I will admit I don't fully understand the implications of this. Doesn't this mean it's essentially game over for running untrusted JS by-default? Doesn't default-deny functionality…

I believe it's this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00165 And then the NTK paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07572 There is also this which seems to have been produced in parallel, clo…

Thanks for your [2] link paper, it's an interesting one. If you think about it, the high-level idea makes some intuitive sense. Since NNs are known to be "equivalent" to kernel met…

Why exactly is it a problem that powerful models can memorise training data with random labels, if they generalise well on non-memorisation problems? I also think that a lot of pro…

Absolutely. The fact that China almost completely disregards IP and shows no signs of "innovation" slowing down disproves the notion that you need government backed monopolies on i…

That's a really great, interesting paper ([2]). Thanks for linking it here. This is a more recent (Dec 2020) paper by one of the authors on combining empowerment and extrinsic goal…

These arguments get trotted out every time this comes up, and they are bad. >1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing agai…

It's easier to make a very specific style of application that's very similar to what a lot of other people make. Anything outside that is probably significantly more difficult thou…

I would consider the advances in ML to be mainly mathematical and hardware rather than software. Being able to write the libraries to support ML operations wouldn't have been a pro…

Okay - could you give some examples of where you think huge advances in software have been made?

You're also closer to a laptop screen. After using a 14" 1080p laptop I definitely would never go lower than 1440p at that size again.

With you on that. I think I only made it about 20 minutes in. Maybe it's better live.