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Reliability is one property of a product. And it’s quantitative, not qualitative, so it all comes down to trade-offs

The Dutch auction vs lottery are two ways to solve scalping. They differ in what one considers fair.

When no work is safe from mechanization, surely the value of labor wrt capital must fall, and the societal pressure on redistribution will rise. The ultimate outcome of technological progress is either extreme inequality or massive redistribution

This can’t be sustainable, there must be a limit in human biology as to how complex jobs we can handle. More and more people will fall under that threshold.

Is this a different route to the universal basic income scenario?

Nothing, it’s that same story again. Industrialization turned peasants to blue collar workers by mechanizing agriculture. Then blue collar workers were turned to white collar workers by mechanizing all manual labor. Now AI is coming for white collar workers by mechanizing intellectual labor. The big question is what will white collar workers turn into.

So most training data would be grey and a little bit coloured? Ok, that sounds plausible. But then maybe they tried and the current models get it already right 99.99% of the time, so observing any improvement is very hard.

Because then the training data would have to be coloured

Interesting. The debate about whether the artist matters in perceiving a piece of art is very old. You don’t seem to consider the possibility that the artist’s intent matters when listening to music. For me it absolutely does. As the AI has no intent (agency), the AI music is void of any value to me.

Forget the government, what about your fellow humans? Is defending your country an obligation towards your government or towards your neighbor?

It’s interesting to read the discussion here through the lens of obligations vs rights. It would seem the rights are definitely winning.

The cooperative and competitive sides of our soul fighting it out in a single situation

I find it sad that while technological progress is seen almost as a given by virtually everyone, moral progress is often not even an aspiration

Think of a woodworking project. Compare doing everything old-school by hand vs using modern tools to go faster. Think about the end product being just an item with a function vs it having some design value or even craftsmanship value. Does the parallel work?

But individual behavior is not about preventing climate change, it’s about doing what’s right. It’s wrong to pollute the environment, one way or another. A single person not stealing won’t reduce the crime rate in a country yet it is the right thing to do.

This depends very much on what "practical purposes" are. For almost all conceivable technology, relativistic quantum mechanics for electrons and light, ie QED, is sufficient fundamental theory. This is unlike before quantum mechanics, when we basically didn't have fundamental laws for chemistry and solid-state physics.

Europe was a bit customer for Russia energy, and Russia invaded an EU neighbor nonetheless. After which it stopped being the customer. So it seems like that incentive didn't really work.

Now, let's aim at total energy consumption, not just electricity generation.

Is it perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis?

It certainly engages the brain in a similar way. I agree that the forums of old were proto-social media.

Same here. And while I may be on HN for a long time, I would fall asleep within minutes of a (good) book. Which tells me something about these two modes of entertainment

Can you name some examples?

I’m guessing what was meant is that the price of things that are to be invested in is growing wrt the price of things that are to be consumed. Which naively makes sense to me in an economy based on growth where the total consumption starts to stagnate—the surplus still has to go somewhere. Is it so or is reality more complicated than that?

I think it should have been “If you need oxygen and have a CNS, then you need sleep.” Other tissues can take oxidative break during wakefulness, but since CNS is _generating_ wakefulness, if it takes a break, by construction there is sleep.

I think it comes down to how much society is an entity in its own right vs just a collection of individuals. Proportionaly, saving society may be worth restricting the absolute freedom of individuals to some degree.

useless ritual fluff

I believe that LLMs can be very useful to identify this stuff in our processes. The solution shouldn't be then to fill them with LLMs but strip them entirely away. I tend to think the same about everyone freaking out about LLM misuse in education.

When we write source code for compilers and interpreters, we “engineer context” for them.

Is this essentially the same difference as between vanilla regular-grid and importance-sampling Monte Carlo integration?

This is how language develops, I’m afraid. But imagine that the age is 10^k where k is something like “age class”. Then indeed the age grows exponentially :)

One thing that'd be hard to give up is the camera. I have two small kids. I captured so many beautiful moments only thanks to a camera always being around.