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I don't think that's necessarily proof against the Bayesian brain. It seems reasonable that the brain is also using its statistical models to assess the relevance of new evidence. So it's not just "new evidence, I need to update" but more like "new evidence, how likely is this true? I'll update according to the magnitude of the likelihood."
It’s interesting how the first benefit he lists for AI is productivity. It was a similar message in one of OpenAI’s recent blog posts.
I don’t understand why the threshold is “never”. Isn’t it entirely possible that the AI is learning a model of chess but this model is imperfect? What if AIs don’t fail the same way as humans?
That sounds nice and all but the distribution of engineers doesn’t match population distributions.
This leads to organizational pressure to hire based on population distribution. Doing so inevitably means hiring based on attributes other than skill.
He literally said that's what he's looking for when he announced his company. He also shows off his work stats on twitter.
Eh, if you follow this guy it's pretty clear he's a bit of a wannabe tyrant. I wouldn't be surprised if he owns a copy of Atlas Shrugged and shines Peter Thiel's boots every morning before he gets back to working on Bun and making sure his employees hit the 80 hour mark.
Overall, I think the tech industry needs to do a better job of calling out the self-centered, narcissistic, libertarian, objectivist, wannabe billionaire, hustle culture types. These are the types of people who won't think twice about working on Facebook's algorithms to improve user engagement at the detriment of society and our mental health.
What do you think about being a Thiel fellow? Do you think billionaire elites are good for humanity?
Are you willing to hire people who don't want to work 80 hour weeks yet?
Politics is just decision making in groups of people. Similar analyses can be used whether you're talking about government, schools, your workplace, open-source projects, your household, etc.
As a general rule I tend to always interpret these discussions as "how humans interact with each other" unless the discussion itself is about the law.
Wow. It's clear nobody gives a fuck. We're all doomed aren't we.
I’m inclined to believe you. In my experience men are socialized to downplay mental illness whereas women are the opposite, they wear their illnesses on their sleeve.
Because then my choices are:
1) give in and pretend to go along with it.
2) look like an asshole at a wedding.
Sorry if I don’t want to ruin someone’s wedding lol.
Just so you know, if I ever met you at a party I probably secretly resent you and I'm guessing I'm not alone.
I DONT LIKE DANCING. I DONT LIKE THE THING THAT YOU LIKE.
My issue is the claim that these people are poorly adjusted.
Perhaps these people are responding to other peoples sense of superiority. These other people don’t get called out because they are “normal” and we assume that normalcy is automatically superior.
Or perhaps people are different and they find themselves pressured and bullied by “normal” people.
Whenever someone has done that I end up pretending it’s fine until it’s socially acceptable to stop.
Yeah I just don’t find dancing fun. That’s it, end of story.
Wherever there’s dancing at a wedding or something I just think of it as something I have to get through so I don’t appear rude.
one touches people's emotions, the other doesn't.
Yes and then someone comes along and makes a change that breaks something seemingly unrelated and it’s less likely to be caught because there is no type system.
And please don’t say tests solve that because they don’t. They help but they don’t solve it.
See this is what I’m scared about in my current job. We have some people who want to use dynamically typed languages and some who want to use static.
I don’t think being able to brain dump code is a good thing and it leads to an unmanageable mess when you have a large codebase. Types are essential as far as I’m concerned, but I constantly have to get into arguments with the dynamic type fans because their “flow” Is being restricted.
It looks like this guy has created multiple accounts and posted the same URL multiple times.
A little unsafe is better than all unsafe.
I’ve found that there are a confluence of factors that make “built in rust” important to me.
First of all, Rust is relatively new so this tells me that the codebase is likely new.
Secondly, I think rust tends to attract smart people who like programs to be small and fast. Case-in-point meilisearch is a simple, single binary download.
Both of these together indicate that a project has a higher chance of being freshly written code, by smart people, that is small and fast.
Before I get a bunch of we’ll actually’s, I’m not saying these things are true 100% of the time.
Still feels gross to look forward to advertising.
Why does it have to be a trade off?
I don’t think he actually cares about mimicking humans, I think he just wants a truly intelligent AI system that can learn in a sophisticated way like humans do.
I think that’s actually pretty doable. Take for example flying. We don’t build airplanes that flap their wings because we have a deeper understanding of flight that allows us to build flying machines far beyond the capabilities of any animal.
Likewise, once we understand the mechanics of intelligence we should be able to build something that can learn that is completely computer based.
A good analogy is perhaps a config file for a computer program.
My interpretation is that Carmack is essentially confusing a config file for the computer program itself, then saying "look how small it is, this shouldn't be that hard to reverse engineer".
I'm not even talking about culture. DNA is only useful because the laws of physical reality are built a certain way. Without that context the information within DNA is meaningless.