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They need a way to get onto counters, climb stairs, manipulate objects, et cetera. But all of the necessary capabilities do not need to be self-contained. Humans achieve their amazing flexibility through tool use, and so will robots. And in many cases those tools will be other robots. One robot could boost another onto the counter and then they both could get out of the way, unlike a robot large enough to reach up to the counter.
Much smaller robots will co-exist in a world with humans a lot more smoothly than anything human shaped & sized.
I don't think you can call bad faith for worrying about the guy who has already been impeached in Congress for inciting insurrection.
Many jurisdictions count spoiled ballots. A spoiled ballot is a much stronger signal than not voting.
This means that Western Ontario (aka Kenora) was wrong in tzdata between September 22nd and October 13th. tzdata usually includes Kenora in America/Winnipeg, but when Winnipeg decided to go to permanent daylight, Kenora and the rest of Western Ontario was left behind leaving a strange and ambiguous situation that wasn't clarified until October 13th. If the Ontario government wouldn't have done the right thing at the last minute tzdata would have had to do something like resurrect the America/Rainy_River time zone.
LLM's are really good at that, though. If you feed it as input a bunch of critiques, then LLM's become very good at that critique, and can self-improve to a certain degree.
This only works for a little while until you need to involve humans again and kick off another cycle.
> It's subjective so you can't tell what is better without human input.
You can say the exact same thing about the type of coding that LLM's have gotten so much better at in the last couple years. Take a look at the criticisms of LLM code from a couple years ago. They were really bad at the stuff that seemed ineffable and required "taste".
Question: why have LLM's gotten so much better at coding over the last couple of years, yet the improvements at writing prose have been so minimal?
theory 1: there is something ineffable about writing prose that makes this a very hard/impossible problem
theory 2: the frontier labs put relatively little effort into improving prose writing
I hope theory 1 is correct, but I suspect it's theory 2. The frontier labs have concentrated their effort on self-improvement, which is largely a coding task.
Date decision announced:
BC: March 2
Alberta: April 20
Manitoba: Sep 17
Western Ontario: Oct 13
Manitoba didn't give much advance warning. Western Ontario is on the same time zone as Manitoba so it was very confusing there until at the last second it was clarified. So Microsoft has an excuse for screwing up Kenora. Vancouver though should not have been a problem.
Anthropic and OpenAI both use large numbers of Google Tensor chips.
Revolutions without a concrete plan to replace whatever they are burning down are doomed to failure, doomed to replace the status quo with something worse. Heck, most revolutions with a concrete plan are also doomed to failure, but the exceptions show that they're sometimes worth it.
And once we have a concrete plan to replace the internet, what's preventing it from incubating parallel to the existing internet?
The constitution requires paying fair market value whenever a company is nationalized. Theft would be unconstitutional.
Need to update the aphorism:
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. If you owe the bank $100 billion, that's country's problem.
In a process that takes multiple decades. Not particularly relevant in a conversation about AI.
If you don't do an overhaul and replace your rings, a high milage ICE car will not have the same range as new.
The Amish are overrunning America right now? Because it can't be Africans or Muslims, America is still 73% white.
> cut off completely from oil and gas
China is the world's 4th largest oil & gas producer. They're dependent on imports because they're the 2nd largest importer. However, they are simultaneously increasing production and decreasing consumption. Those two lines will cross some day. It might be a dangerous day for the rest of the world when China stops becoming dependent on imported oil.
Kudos to you, you're a more helpful person than I. I never looked for questions to help people, my interaction with SO was always "me first". If I had a problem before the AIpocalypse, I'd look on SO. If I couldn't find an answer I still had the problem and would have to figure it out the hard way. And once putting in the effort finding the answer it was little additional effort to provide it to others.
So I ended up with a large number of "revival" and "necromancer" badges for getting upvotes for answers on old previously unanswered questions. And many of my questions have my own answers posted a couple days later.
IOW, I provided a lot of value to SO. But I got even more value out of them, finding many more answers than I provided, especially since many of my answers were for very obscure questions. A real significant win-win.
I think this would have been a better model for SO -- encouraging more of this sort of drive by helpfulness rather than gamifying/socializing so much to encourage direct helping.
The stated preference of the majority in surveys is permanent daylight time, more sunlight in the evening and less in the morning.
The revealed preference is the opposite. Most people, when given the option for flex time, will start and end work later, increasing their morning sunlight and decreasing their evening sunlight.
Voting works on stated preference, so we'll likely end up with permanent daylight time.
It'll take several generations for this sort of effect to happen. Say 100 years. I wish we also had 100 years to adjust to AI and autonomous robots.
That's natural. Without clocks and artificial light humans wake up with the sun and gather around the campfire when the sun goes down.
I've noticed that in the corners of my 1s in follow mode where it doesn't bother me. Lucky, because mine would probably gather dust if follow didn't work well.
Xreal's can fix screens to a physical position and also have a "follow" mode that damps out the shakes.
Reviews indicate the Steam Frame runs desktop Linux apps fairly well, too.
In my personal experience pretty much every old farmer has had multiple vehicle fires. It's quite likely location dependent -- if you're in an area which clogs up air filters quickly, and or where dry straw getting in where it shouldn't is a likely experience, vehicle fires are very common.
Those trucks are probably doing over 200,000 miles per year and your apartment's cars under 20, so the fires/mile ratio seems comparable.
> so actually getting access to the "wealth" is difficult
reverse mortgages are not hard to get
> better measure than profit
Exactly. We should be taxing profit less and wealth more.