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Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by _Algernon_ »

sdsd wrote: post #20
chneu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not. Everytime there's a new form of media or communication there's an uptick in "bad actors". Think yellow journalism or any of the moral panics around TV programming. Even back when the printing press was invented there was an uptick in troll behavior. One of the Green brothers posited that martin Luther was really just a pamphlet troll. With social media and the Internet, stupid just got louder. I don't think…

Yes and no. In swaths of the world, we're actually observing a reverse Flynn effect and IQ has been dropping, in some places for decades. Eg: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...

This started long before the internet.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by jimbob45 »

sdsd wrote: post #20
chneu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not. Everytime there's a new form of media or communication there's an uptick in "bad actors". Think yellow journalism or any of the moral panics around TV programming. Even back when the printing press was invented there was an uptick in troll behavior. One of the Green brothers posited that martin Luther was really just a pamphlet troll. With social media and the Internet, stupid just got louder. I don't think…

Yes and no. In swaths of the world, we're actually observing a reverse Flynn effect and IQ has been dropping, in some places for decades. Eg: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...

IQ tests are administration-sensitive and have changed dramatically since the beginning of such a Flynn effect study. The population makeup of many countries has changed in recent years to include many immigrants for whom the study would make exceedingly little sense to include. IQ tests do not cover and do not claim to cover a comprehensive view of human intelligence, famously lacking verbal and social components entirely. It is possible past IQ tests were simply overtuned and we’re now seeing the natural correction.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by codeflo »

chneu wrote: post #14
jgbmlg wrote: post #4

It's ironic that machine intelligence is advancing during an era when human intelligence is declining.

It's not. Everytime there's a new form of media or communication there's an uptick in "bad actors". Think yellow journalism or any of the moral panics around TV programming. Even back when the printing press was invented there was an uptick in troll behavior. One of the Green brothers posited that martin Luther was really just a pamphlet troll. With social media and the Internet, stupid just got louder. I don't think…

Amplifying stupid can be very deadly, though. In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war, and radio brought us World War II. Eventually, society will adapt. I just wish we could find a way to adapt faster than the bad actors do.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by disqard »

codeflo wrote: post #23
chneu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not. Everytime there's a new form of media or communication there's an uptick in "bad actors". Think yellow journalism or any of the moral panics around TV programming. Even back when the printing press was invented there was an uptick in troll behavior. One of the Green brothers posited that martin Luther was really just a pamphlet troll. With social media and the Internet, stupid just got louder. I don't think…

Amplifying stupid can be very deadly, though. In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war, and radio brought us World War II. Eventually, society will adapt. I just wish we could find a way to adapt faster than the bad actors do.

(continuing in that vein, and taking the liberty of making a giant oversimplification):

...and TV brought us Ronald Reagan, and the Internet gave us Trump as POTUS.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by numpad0 »

...yeah? It'll be great if machines could learn and adapt on-the-fly instead of just compressing the scrapes for 1 epoch over the course of few months into a 1TB download. Making machines learn and adapt on-line is what AI was always about.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by TheFragenTaken »

quantumHazer wrote: post #18

Is it me or this is yet another PR stunt masked as a serious article with LaTeX and all the fancy things? The graph doesn’t even make sense. I’m burning out from all this hypester type of thing, it’s really really tiring.

There should be a term for this. I semi-unironically trust content written in Computer Modern, even if I know it's insane.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by daseiner1 »

codeflo wrote: post #23
chneu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not. Everytime there's a new form of media or communication there's an uptick in "bad actors". Think yellow journalism or any of the moral panics around TV programming. Even back when the printing press was invented there was an uptick in troll behavior. One of the Green brothers posited that martin Luther was really just a pamphlet troll. With social media and the Internet, stupid just got louder. I don't think…

Amplifying stupid can be very deadly, though. In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war, and radio brought us World War II. Eventually, society will adapt. I just wish we could find a way to adapt faster than the bad actors do.

i think it’s consensus that yellow journalism directly led to the spanish-american war via hearst
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