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randomwalker

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About randomwalker

Princeton prof: https://twitter.com/random_walker

Research: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/

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    Comment #45307103

    Yes, we're aware! Fortunately our book is not a broad indictment of AI :) And none of our claims are premised on tasks people can do remaining out of reach for AI. More here: https…

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    Thanks! HN was part of the origin story of the book in question. In 2018 or 2019 I saw a comment here that said that most people don't appreciate the distinction between domains wi…

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    Thanks for the comment! I agree — it's important to remain fluid. We've taken steps to make sure that predictively speaking, the normal technology worldview is empirically testable…

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    We do not assume a status quo or equilibrium, which will hopefully be clear upon reading the paper. That's not what normal technology means. Part II of the paper describes one visi…

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    I appreciate the concern, but we have a whole section on policy where we are very concrete about our recommendations, and we explicitly disavow any broadly anti-regulatory argument…

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