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AI is likely simple and won't require much processing power after all, so it will be impossible to ban it because it would imply more regulation and surveillance than what would be…

Were "dot-com" companies listed on the NASDAQ back then, or only companies with significant dot-com investments?

Related question: Is the AI bubble smaller or larger than the dot-com bubble? https://i.imgur.com/q7whaio.png

Not agreeing with OP, but citing single studies is often pretty misleading. It is better to look for meta studies because the outcomes typically vary considerably, so you cannot be…

I just think it's a futile kind of paranoia. Your anomalous behavior puts you on some list. Writing about it here puts you on some list. As every admin knows so well, spying on use…

… all of which is futile as long as NSA records everything and their databases will leak one day.

That does sound neat. Sounds like it could be combined with 3D localization to allow eavesdropping particular sounds sources even e.g. in large rooms with lots of people talking. M…

From the point of AI safety, slow progress seems to be beneficial.

How does multi microphone filtering work? I guess they localize different sound sources by cross-correlation (to get the timings) and triangulation (based on the timings and the sp…

This sounds like standard procedures for sampling from a Markov random field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_random_field

The method in the first paper is in production, AFAIK. Also, outdated ≠ obsolete.

2010 is pre-deep learning revolution/hype, so these slides are outdated. See e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01907 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01403

It looks like one can accelerate filters using WebGL shaders: http://evanw.github.io/webgl-filter/ I think Photoshop also operates on a reduced image for previewing the outputs of …

The processes are also designed such that people do not feel overstepped and ignored. After all, most things in life are about social status, or more immediately about salary statu…

Notably he was also answering other questions in the AMA, so it possibly only took him 2 minutes. It is not a difficult feature to implement anyhow, it probably went like this: vim…

Why do you regret buying it?

There are good reasons to assume that tariffs are not enough. From the episode I've listened to it seems they are hypergamy deniers.

> whatever that means I mean that he is a rare kind of public figure who is really down-to-earth, yet proponent of the free market & innovation. Like Trump he breaks with the norms…

I'm not losing optimism because of this. Musk fits right into the current political & cultural trajectory and the Tesla brand is sleek & timeless. The media is framing Musk's flaws…

> We need a world where none of us need secrets … which is impossible? This would require that the government never gets corrupt because you need secrets to get rid of a corrupt go…