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“in a real race we have no actual chance of winning” is an absolutely wild thing to say in response to a link to a real race in which the human has won the last few years in a row.
I think it implies that the best competitors are not participating.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows
The fact that no one in that movie considered placing a treadmill at a strategic point vexed me to no end.
Because otherwise, 'it' will just back out of your trap and go along to continue to follow, wouldn't it?
> If you encountered a cheetah in pre-industrial times (and survived the meeting), you might think it was impossible for anything to go faster. Fun fact, there is no historical evidence of an adult human ever dying from a cheetah attack. They are naturally shy, and a lot smaller than you may realize.
You're right. They're smaller than you probably imagine (about the weight of an average Labrador). That's still definitely big enough to be a problem if they felt threatened, I'm sure, but the animals my friend was in charge of were raised to be around people for outreach purposes. That particular cheetah, for example, had once been on the Today show.
It's amusing to read people in the past writing about the prospect of superhuman intelligence. The real problems have turned out to be different. Sycophancy and hallucinations, which are part of being confidently wrong, remains a big problem. Needing square miles of data centers was an issue in 1950s science fiction, and disappeared by the 1980s. Yet now they're being built, with private funding and the prospect of p…
I predicted on this site in 2016 the massive social and economic impacts AGI would have and specifically when RL data loops are not available to anyone but major players: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12168228 I even wrote up a whole article that specifically called RL loop based development as the future: https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/the-ai-revolution-will-be-... > Reinforcement Learning tasks rely on ri…
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Well now we're just ignoring the point for the sake of a semantics debate.
It's just a poor point. Cats are a bad analogy anyhow because there is no cat language. You can't actually speak to them or have a drawn out discussion. But you can with humans and many have inspired thousands or even millions to action doing just that, no super-intelligence required.
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Well now we're just ignoring the point for the sake of a semantics debate.
It's just a poor point. Cats are a bad analogy anyhow because there is no cat language. You can't actually speak to them or have a drawn out discussion. But you can with humans and many have inspired thousands or even millions to action doing just that, no super-intelligence required.
This was such a terrible piece of work back when it came out, it hasn't aged any better. By the way, it was responded to by MIRI: https://intelligence.org/2017/01/13/response-to-ceglowski-on...
the comment about MIRI being a doomsday cult was exactly right. yudkowsky lost what little credibility he had left when he argued for the bombing of datacenters. as is (correctly, imo) argued by the essay, reading what they have to say is like reading arguments by heaven's gate
Kind of ironic that bombing of data centers is exactly what we're starting to see in conflicts now.
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SOMA was a cognito-hazard for me and my roommate in college; we played it in the dark together while on some sort of mild hallucinogen and when it came time for Simon to find that high-pressure dive suit, we lost our minds (no pun intended). Watching the WAU twist its way through PATHOS II in whatever way worked first is a particularly jarring analogy for what has happened to our own profession. I can't help but thin…
You should try Inside. There's a few underwater sequences and they're not horror at all. Honest.
Inside is a marvelous game.
Has anyone played SOMA? Spoiler warning. It explores this idea of, what if there's an AI in charge of ensuring mankind survives at all costs. What would it be willing to do, to keep us alive? Would we even recognize the result as human? It's a horror game and it explores all kinds of fascinating and disturbing scenarios. Simulations of human minds. Artificial worlds. Human minds in robot bodies. Genetically modified…
One of my favorite games, and I recommend it to anyone who loves a good existential sci-fi horror. If you are not comfortable with stealth games, it also has a "Safe Mode" where enemies aren't a threat to you if you just want to experience the story. Spoiler warning for those that havent played-- I forget the details exactly, but one scene stuck with me. It was a screen in one of the labs, where an experiment was run…
It always breaks my heart. I don't know what the right choice is. Leaving them be, broken, in their delusion they are on the Ark (or that they've been injured ans help is coming). Do you put them out of their misery? But it always seems like you're murdering them!
Well done, SOMA.
Has anyone played SOMA? Spoiler warning. It explores this idea of, what if there's an AI in charge of ensuring mankind survives at all costs. What would it be willing to do, to keep us alive? Would we even recognize the result as human? It's a horror game and it explores all kinds of fascinating and disturbing scenarios. Simulations of human minds. Artificial worlds. Human minds in robot bodies. Genetically modified…
I enjoyed the game but I think its exploration of the topics was pretty shallow. It might be better received if it's someone's first dive into such topics, though. I still enjoy ice cream the nth+1 time eating it, so I can't complain too much about games or anime or books that cater to parts of my interests, even if they fumble some things. Someday I'd like to play a game that plays with the ideas from Robin Hanson's…
Really? Interesting. I'm a die-hard scifi fan since forever, and of course I know the topic of consciousness and identity are well explored in scifi (and philosophy), but I thought SOMA did something genuinely deep and unique with it:
It put it you in the center of the experiment. It's YOU who's experiencing all sides of this, you who get to be surprised by the consequences. This is very different from reading about it in a scifi novel or even watching it in a movie. By making you the protagonist, and having it be an ineractive experience, you get to experience first hand the cognitive dissonance and confusion of... the thing.
SOMA (re)convinced me that videogames can be art. Not saying it's the only example, of course!