- knodi123 parentI guess that makes sense. Thanks.
- I chuckled, but presumably it's useful for applications where you want data types to take up the same amount of space, like for matrices or database columns? Or maybe where you coerce different data types into boolean? The language offers WordBool and ByteBool too, so they're pretty consistent. And AFAIK, there aren't any languages where you can specifically allocate only a single bit for a single boolean.
- > The judge is an incarnation of evil and a pedophile so I don't think that's his Mary sue
Although... he did rather famously have a thing for underage girls...
https://medium.com/belover/cormac-mccarthy-was-a-pedophile-a...
- her followup post:
Deleted my post, which I published before Ruby central released their blog explaining things.
It’s ultimately not my place to say or speculate about what’s going on.
It’s obviously a disastrously bad roll out or whatever is happening and I hope they are able to make things right w the community.
- Try looking at the giraffe's recurrent laryngeal nerve. What isn't beneficial is sometimes retained as long as the cost isn't bad enough to impair reproduction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evid...
- > and then sort out everyone's status after the fact.
Did they do that? Or did they throw out the ones with valid visas too? (hint: It was the latter. Details are in the article.)
The bigger problem is that they "invalidate" your visa post-facto, on a whim, for whatever they want. Attend a political protest? Have a 20 year old bad check on your record despite having lived here for 50 years, since you were a young child? Embarrass a politician? I've seen all of those and more result in a legal immigrant having their visas cancelled and then thrown in jail until they can be deported.
- > Burden of proof is to show that AGI can do anything.
Yeah, if this were a courtroom or a philosophy class or debate hall. But when a bunch of tech nerds are discussing AGI among themselves, claims that true AGI wouldn't be any more powerful than humans very very much have a burden of proof. That's a shocking claim that I've honestly never heard before, and seems to fly in the face of intuition.
- > the USA has had DARPA monitoring stuff like this since before OpenAI existed
Is there a source for this other than "trust me bro"? DARPA isn't a spy agency, it's a research organization.
> governments won't "look ahead", they'll just panic when AGI is happening
Assuming the companies tell them, or that there are shadowy deep-cover DARPA agents planted at the highest levels of their workforce.
- * or governments fail to look far enough ahead, due to a bunch of small-minded short-sighted greedy petty fools.
Seriously, our government just announced it's slashing half a billion dollars in vaccine research because "vaccines are deadly and ineffective", and it fired a chief statistician because the president didn't like the numbers he calculated, and it ordered the destruction of two expensive satellites because they can observe politically inconvenient climate change. THOSE are the people you are trusting to keep an eye on the pace of development inside of private, secretive AGI companies?
- That's remarkably short-sighted. First of all, no, millions of them don't walk the earth - the "A" stands for artificial. And secondly, most of us mere humans don't have the ability to design a next generation that is exponentially smarter and more powerful than us. Obviously the first generation of AGI isn't going to brutally conquer the world overnight. As if that's what we were worried about.
If you've got evidence proving that an AGI will never be able to design a more powerful and competent successor, then please share it- it would help me sleep better, and my ulcers might get smaller.
- One of two things:
1. The will of its creator, or
2. Its own will.
In the case of the former, hey! We might get lucky! Perhaps the person who controls the first super-powered AI will be a benign despot. That sure would be nice. Or maybe it will be in the hands of democracy- I can't ever imagine a scenario where an idiotic autocratic fascist thug would seize control of a democracy by manipulating an under-educated populace with the help of billionaire technocrats.
In the case of the latter, hey! We might get lucky! Perhaps it will have been designed in such a way that its own will is ethically aligned, and it might decide that it will allow humans to continue having luxuries such as self-determination! Wouldn't that be nice.
Of course it's not hard to imagine a NON-lucky outcome of either scenario. THAT is what we worry about.
- to me? an infinite amount! So trying to measure it in dollar terms is already a pointless exercise.
If you want to see the hole in this argument, try looking at it from the other side- How can you arrive at the conclusion that a life is worth only $329M? Why so low? Why not a billion, or a trillion?
If you have to come up with an objective and dispassionate standard, then I doubt you'd find one where the number it generates is $329 million.
- This (OP) project is inspired by neovide, a recent neovim gui. And iterm2's animated cursor is a brand new feature, also inspired by neovide.
Honestly, iterm2 is way too nice a piece of software considering the price. A real labor of love from a guy who apparently has lots more free time than me. :-)
- I have {{popular job title in tech}}@gmail.com , and let me tell you.... yikes. Actually it's not that bad, I just tweak my enormous blacklist keyword filter once a month or so. For some reason, 99% of the junk is from India, which makes filtering easier. But brother you should see my "misdelivered crap" folder.
- Did I miss the vote we had on broadband speed goals, or whether we should publish prices?
Get outta here with that. Most of Trump's outrageous policies are incredibly unpopular, even among his base. He's just enacting the wildly unpopular Project 2025, which he denied ever hearing of while hiring 70% of its authors into his administration.
- But it was a spinthariscope. If the resin blocked all the alpha particles, then they wouldn't produce the visible flashes in the screen. It seems more likely that the radioactive substance would be embedded in the surface of the resin. And therefore eating it would still allow it to damage your tissues.
- > “The Master Key,” where a boy wise beyond his years rejects powers too advanced for humanity to adapt.
For those stumbling by- that's a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote The Wizard Of Oz! Here's a synopsis: https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Master_Key
- > It will power scams on an unimaginable scale
It already is. https://futurism.com/slop-farmer-ai-social-media
And all the other things you predicted. They're underway _now_ .
> Maybe if there are more of me, things will slow down enough
Nope. That's not how it's gonna work. If you want to prevent things, it will take legislation. But sitting it out doesn't send any message at all. No amount of butterflies farting against the wind is going to stop this tornado.
- The scary thing is that the robots will only continue to improve, and large numbers of them can be controlled by a small number (1?) of people, with other robots to handle logistics and support. So scenarios like "rogue leader ignores will of the people and orders his troops to ethnically cleanse a city" would go from being a mistake that causes the immediate end of a political career, to something that takes 15 minutes for 100% success.