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Love it! Always wanted to build something like this. Glad you made it first though!

Drop your Twitter in your profile. Would love to give you a follow :)

> I like science fiction too, but all of these potential scenarios seem so far removed from the low level realities of how these systems work.

Today, yes. Nobody is saying GPT-3 or 4 or even 5 will cause this. None of the chatbots we have today will evolve to be the AGI that everyone is fearing.

But when you go beyond that, it becomes difficult to ignore trend lines.

Here's a detailed scenario breakdown of how it might come to be –https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/carl-shulman

Death.

The default consequence of AGI's arrival is doom. Aligning a super intelligence with our desires is a problem that no one has solved yet.

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

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Listen to Dwarkesh Podcast with Eliezer or Carl Shulman to know more about this.

Re:Notion for everyone on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:19AM (#23245200)
The 5mb is a per file size. You can still upload unlimited files as long as they're less than 5mb.
Not OP but this felt like a simple test - https://twitter.com/backus/status/1091203973246111744

There's the Vividness of Visual Imagery Quiz but that's self-administered and is a questionnaire.

Re:SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video] on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:57AM (#19288156)
Re:Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios? on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:27AM (#19115754)
My favorite is http://worrydream.com/

Here's a twitter thread containing some 'quirky' personal websites, not quite portfolios though.

https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10026747950313267...

Re:OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video] on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:37AM (#17825321)
> I find it amusing & ironic that they're pursuing games of efficiently & strategically killing enemies as examples of their successful progress. ;-)

Except that the amusement and irony would cease to exist once you have some idea of what's happening behind the scenes.

The AI doesn't know it's "killing enemies". For it, it's just something that results in the increase of a numerical reward signal.

Re:OpenAI Five on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:14PM (#17393545)
I wanted to add the observation that all the restricted heroes are ranged. Necrophos, Sniper, Viper, Crystal Maiden, and Lich.

Since playing a lane as a ranged hero is very different from playing the same lane as a melee hero, I wonder whether the AI has learned to play melee heroes yet.

The lure of making money as a child is a temptation far stronger than most can resist. If I had access to the things these guys had, I can totally see myself going down the exact same path.

Now, a little older, the prospect of fines that will take a lifetime to repay and/or prison is way more deterring. As a kid, you just never think about it.

> Not sure how much it's "paying off"

Read what you love until you love to read. Then you can move onto books that seem that they might have some pay off.

Re:Sketch.systems on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:21AM (#17273445)
True, I thought it was something new that Sketch had released at first glance.
Re:Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:02AM (#16820990)
> Not available for India.

It is.

Re:Productivity on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:38PM (#16806706)
Thank you for the reply.
Re:Productivity on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:18PM (#16804260)
Just curious, is your life better for having spent that time learning more about politics? What prompted you to get started?

Asking as somebody that doesn't care much about politics but not averse to the idea of making an effort to understand it if the benefits>cost.

Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:33AM (#16763516)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ

Not sure how I feel about sharing this here but yeah, this should answer some of those questions.

The Youtuber is.. A 'comedian'..

Re:Tesla fatal car crash prompts NTSB investigation on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:29AM (#16695564)
A post on Tesla's blog about this incident - "What We Know About Last Week's Accident" https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-acc...
Re:Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:02PM (#16469381)
It shows 8 3-click paths for me. https://imgur.com/a/uo9oi
Re:Why Discrete Math Is Important on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:49AM (#16212003)
Surely, online resources for these courses must exist? I guess it's just about finding the will and time to put in double the effort because of a lack of instructor/conducive environment.
> Amount of non-IITians running/starting industries far exceeds in number. And they don't get the same funding...

Can you give me a source on this? One that compares the economic contribution of students from the next-10 colleges in India and finds it to be more than that of the IITs. Because otherwise, you're comparing different sample sizes and your statement becomes trivially true as a result.

> But by and large most IITs are largely places to train people, and send them to foreign countries.

Try looking up statistics of what % of students go abroad immediately after graduating from an IIT. Perhaps that might help you revisit this assertion.

> An argument could be made to spend this money to improve public schooling infrastructure in India.

The government's already spending 10x on that than they are on Higher Education. (2009) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_India#Budget How much would an extra 0.5x help.

> while contributing a net negative to the Indian economy (As their education is heavily subsidized at the Indian tax payers expense).

Below a link to a study from '08 that tried to assess the contribution of IITs to the economy. Perhaps some numbers might change your mind? (It's incomplete but includes the executive summary.)

https://www.ibef.org/download/Content_19dec.pdf

Perhaps an article (from TOI nonetheless)? - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IITians-contributi...

Before you dismiss these with whatever reason, perhaps you can show some data to back up your point?

The Tank Man (1989) : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Tianasquare.j...

`An unknown protestor bravely stands in front of a column of armored tanks as an act of defiance against the Chinese government following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.`

`This photo is one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century and has since been widely used to represent the protests. It was a set of student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 aimed at exposing the deep splits within China’s leadership. It was also known as the ’89 Democracy movement. The protests were triggered in April 1989 by the death of a communist leader.`

Some more context behind the photographer who clicked the photo - https://pastebin.com/aGVLYDVz

A day to Remember (10 Min) : https://vimeo.com/44078865

Liu Wei, a Chinese artist goes around the streets of Beijing on June 4th asking people ‘What Day is it today?’ hoping for an answer on the lines of ‘Today’s the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre’ but what he gets instead is a lot of ‘I don’t know’'s from the people whose faces clearly say otherwise.

> However HN asked me to put it down and cancel it so it's discontinued now.

What issue did they have with it?

A feature suggestion:

If another user has posted a comment on an article you are currently viewing, perhaps you can change the extension icon to indicate so. That could be a trigger to open the comment section.

Otherwise, I'll probably keep being disappointed upon opening the section in websites that don't have comments in them.

Note : I haven't actually installed/checked the extension out. Sorry if this feature's already there!

Re:Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us? on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:10PM (#15934657)
I appreciate that they're making an effort at looking into it. However, my newsfeed will still remain blocked/removed until I have more control over what I can see. The snooze functionality is a step in the right direction.
Don't people here use the 'block newsfeed' extensions?

I think that's a nice middle ground to be on. I can still participate in groups that I'm a member of, can still chat with friends, while not have the awfulness that is the newsfeed shoved down my mind.

Re:Show HN: Baby Buddy on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:20AM (#15559022)
It's when a baby needs to be fed?
Re:Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots on Monday October 09, 2017 @02:53PM (#15436438)
> and was defeated handily within hours of being available to the public.

The public exploited tricks to beat it. They did not beat it 'handily'.

Afterwards, the pros who do beat it only manage to do so ~2-3 times for every 100 games played. I believe they have been playing the same version that was shown at The International and not an iterated version.

Re:The days are long but the decades are short on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:54AM (#9456801)
> 11) Go out of your way to be around smart, interesting, ambitious people.

That is hard.

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