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Nonsense, there is a reason that many floating point kernel as still written in hand optimised assembler.

And not all FPU loads are amenable to GPU computation.
Becoming successful in lot of fields appears to be less about doing challenging stuff (where raw intelligence is perhaps most applicable) and perhaps more about scaling an organization to manage other people doing the challenging stuff.

Most of the brightest people I know have either no interest in, or an active aversion to, "managing" people in any sense whatsoever.
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This is basically why a lot of people didn't want Google to become a defense contractor while researching military robots. If it did, it would've naturally started to use DeepMind for it. And that's a scary thought.
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>> Baseline power is a requirement

> For what?

Modern civilization.

> Biomass.

Still carbon-based. Burning x tonnes of hydrocarbons is still burning x tonnes of hydrocarbons even if the carbon was only recently captured from the atmosphere - it's basically no different from burning coal and running a sequestration process in parallel. Carbon is fungible.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but when wasm is fully established I expect to see (another) step change in the complexity of the web. Fully-featured applications, 3D, VR, AR etc. We are on the brink of it already. And beyond a certain complexity (a relatively small amount of complexity, I would argue), a decent type system is essential.

Rust just happens to be well positioned to take advantage of all this.
Yea, that's a problem of false-positives inherent to any issue where the prevalence in the population is microscopic.

If terrorists are 1-in-ten million, and the probability that you say something that has any interpretation that could be construed as terroristic is anything greater than that, then the overwhelming majority of hits are false-positives.
Try selling 5% of the dollar and see what happens.

It will go to near zero on every single exchange. That's how liquidity works. Pretty much never large percentages of commodities/currencies are traded on exchanges.
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We have a great team of designers that has worked with clients from all around the globe (including US). We are doing particularly good in Asian and African markets. That is because, we were able to find marketing partners, who took us as their design partners, and pitched to their clients for both design and marketing services. The arrangement was based on revenue sharing model.

Currently, we are looking for such partners in US, who can help us sell our design services on a revenue sharing basis. It will be mutually beneficial for both the companies.

How should we find and reach out to potential partners?
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I know that I often don't go to the grocery store to pick up an item or two simply because I don't want to wait in the checkout line.
This is exactly the same argument of targeted surveillance vs mass surveillance.

Saying "humans have spied on each other for centuries" is nothing but a distraction for how far beyond what should be legal mass surveillance is, because it makes it so easy to have everything on everyone all the time. It's nothing like pass targeted surveillance. If anything it's much more like Stasi-style surveillance, but on a much bigger and more indepth scale. And we already know how dangerous such surveillance is with the wrong person leading a country.

When war becomes easy and cheap (to the attacker), you'll just end up having more of it. It doesn't help the the military industrial complex constantly lobbies for it either.
Last year the New York Times ran an article on New Yorks Potters cemetery called Hart Island. Die without someone to make arrangements and the city efficiently buries you in this indigent cemetery. Sometimes people are not discovered dead for weeks until the rotting smell in their multiple housing becomes too strong for neighbors. The Times tracked down acquaintances and relatives of these people. They never knew these people had died. The city doent try too hard to find such relatives.
You can't easily move into it, but your children can be born into it (see the Rockefellers).
Is all this "deep learning", "computer vision" and "sensor fusion" necessary when you could just put RFID tags on the items?
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This would work for organisms like us, but plants are organisms structured following a clonal design; can explore other solutions not available to us. And they need also some animal services.
I'm afraid you may be right, and it makes me sad.

I like shopping online with Amazon, but I would hate seeing groceries taken away with unmanned dystopian and probably very dysfunctional automated outlets like on the Amazon video.

What happens when something goes wrong? -- The automated video system thinks you have taken two products when you have taken just one; or it thinks you have taken one and you took two, and a security guy who has zero authority over how the system operates, or understanding of it, accuses you of stealing; or a discount was advertised on the shelf but not implemented on the system; etc.

What happens if Amazon decides, for some reason that they will not explain and that you can't appeal, to cancel your account? Then you can't even go grocery shopping?

The future is much less exciting than it used to be.
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I went to Berkeley for CS and knew people that went to MIT and Stanford, and I don't agree. You're right the curriculum is the same. Everything else is different. Just one example: lots of undergrads do research. They get to work (albeit basically as trainees) in some of the top CS labs in the world.
There's no mention of iteration here, which is really what powers intelligence-based advantages.

The first time Random Human A attempts to get Random Cat B into a box, they're going to have a hard time. They'll get there eventually, but they'll be coughing from the dust under the bed, swearing from having to lift the bloody sofa up, and probably have some scratches from after they managed to scare the cat enough for it to try attacking.

However, speaking as a cat owner, if you've iterated on the problem a dozen or so times, Cat B is going in the box swiftly and effortlessly. Last time I put my cat in its box, it took about 3 minutes. Trying for the bed? Sorry, door's closed. Under the sofa? Not going to work. Trying to scratch me? Turns out cat elbows work the same way as human elbows.

The same surely applies to a superintelligent AI?

(Likewise with the Navy Seal On The Island Of The Tigers. Just drop one SEAL in there with no warning? He's screwed. Give a SEAL unit a year to plan, access to world experts on all aspects of Panthera tigris, and really, really good simulators (or other iteration method) to train in? Likely a different story. )
From an assembler point of view a structure of N elements of type T and an array of T[N] have exactly the same layout and are accessed in exactly the same way [1], but in C have wildly different semantics.

Sizeof behaves exactly the same way for structs and arrays, so it is one of the few things in C that treat arrays "correctly".

[1] although usually the offset is constant for a struct field access.
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It is so nice to see that Money is now the only criteria for success.

By that logic J.K Rowling is a more successful author than the Hemingway, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Tolkien and the entire Beat generation plus several others put together.
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> Interesting that I get downvoted for giving honest feedback

My hunch is the "GitHub is great" line, it feels a bit unnecessary and somewhat shill-y.
"Facebook's business is data collection in order to sell more effectively targeted advertisements. While massive data collection is not new or unique to Facebook—search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing have the same feature—Facebook is unusual in that it actively strives to make that information personally identifiable. Facebook accounts tend to use our legal names, and Facebook relationships tend to reflect our real-life associations, giving the company's data a depth and breadth that Google or Microsoft can only dream about.

Among the pieces of personal information that the site asks users for is religion. As with most pieces of information that Facebook requests, this is of course optional. But it's an option that many people fill in to ensure that our profiles better reflect who we are."

I actually hadn't considered this angle before now. And this is bad. Imagine if someone decided to do bad stuff; hiding a religion on your profile isn't necessarily enough (especially if Facebook tracks changes), but analysis of messages sent to contacts abroad could also help reveal you.

I don't live in the US, so I don't have a lot of insight as to how US laws work in this regard. How difficult would it be for him to do something like this?
What happens if I don't fill in these questions?

Or should I just forget about visiting these countries?
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You can also bake in a relative rpath with $ORIGIN, although the fact that it requires a dollar sign causes endless makefile quoting nightmares:

https://enchildfone.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/a-description-o...

This is pretty much the only sensible way to build an executable that statically relies on having a library shipped alongside it.
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I think he's trying to argue that because they deflagrate instead of detonating, it's incorrect to call the process an explosion. That's the only thing I can see that makes sense, at least, incorrect and apparently disingenuous though it is in this context.
My comment didn't address what it takes to be a "self". Although a herd behaves as an entity in some ways, is it a "self"? Is it even alive, or is it more like a river or a fire? Or mere phenomena?

Is a group of people a "self"?

Perhaps your "real" self is the one observing all the others? As a mind can observe its body, reflexes etc. [Or do several of them have that level of awareness?]

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Going to a (small) supermarket is not a disadvantage, I find it a nice experience, because you can see/smell/touch) the products you want. I wouldn't buy fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, etc. online.

Not being able to take your stuff home is a little annoying, but depending on where you live it can be almost necessary to have groceries delivered. In Paris many buildings don't have elevators at all, or very small ones that can hold at most two people and not many bags. If you live on the 5th floor you're happy to get someone bring the bags up the stairs for you.
RFID tags would raise the cost of the items. E.g. garlic costs pennies, less than an RFID chip.
If you put a bare function or variable in a header, then use it in multiple compilation units, the linker will reject your multiply-defined symbols.

(Templates get de-duplicated).
SNMP (simple network management protocol)

Not exactly the best way to control a network device. But it is what we have.

Plus, every machine tries to do something different with the non-standard stuff.
And different parts of the APIs (called MIBs) from the same vendor follow different reference conventions, so you end up asking a lot of (mostly useless) data to be able to change something from up to down.

Avoid it if you can and use something simpler, like sshing to the device.
Yes, but variants are supported in the application, anti-chess, horde, atomic, three-check etc. Agreed, those are not really chess, as the rules or end conditions are significantly changed. But it's like chess960 chess, the pieces are on a different position or there are less pieces and a smaller board.
The reason for my wish is that I want to play a small chess game with my son before bed, it should be a bit less daunting then a complete chessboard and only use a few pieces, so it would be both quick and easy. A time constrained regular chess game would be quick but less easy or usable for a young kid.
No single guy with no family to support has to fear failure though. It only becomes a fear once you have a wife and children to support - but that's why it's generally accepted that you first get financial stability before starting a family. Some people choose differently as people are always free to make terrible life choices - but they need to face the consequences then.

Even someone with a $1mil trust fund can make terrible enough choices to end up homeless.
> 'Elites' seem to think that people who went to an elite college are many times smarter

You are overthinking it. Real elites, like everyone else, simply like what they know already; and they know those schools because they have been there, or know a lot of people who have been there, so they can evaluate the sort of challenges other pupils went through in a way that makes them more confident.

At its core, this is elitism in the oligarchic/aristocratic sense, not in the intellectual one.
"Big companies that have billion-dollar fabs spend time optimizing their chips that take several years to design for _games_. Not for IEEE traditional Fortran-kind math."

Then again, GPUs now do strictly follow IEEE and certainly not for games sake. That didnt use to be the case.

In fact they even support denormal numbers at full speed (not even Intel does that).
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This is correct as this article was concerned around the Samsung phone.
That's easy. Pet the baby tigers, constantly. Cuddle them and socialize them to the human so they act like it's one of them. Use your smarts to find food and provide the tigers with food so you're considered more important (hand-feeding them might be more of a NO in case they're excitable). You're still running risks but you have tiger allies and some/most of the tigers simply love you with all their tigerly hearts, which is some protection.

We are not the human. We are the tigers. Superintelligent AI is in the position of the human here, and superintelligent AI must ingratiate itself without ever forming an adversarial situation… in this world where backhoes take out fiber backbones and EMPs exist.

AI will probably go native. It'll find things it loves about humans. I'm actually working on a book in this vein… you have to go back to deeper principles, rather than assume 'because AI can be evil, it will be as evil as the evilest individual human, 'cos that's such a winning strategy, right?'.
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This is a great post, thanks for writing and sharing.

I'm a biomedical engineer and found both posts interesting.

There are really exciting things happening right now where the murky area between expensive, slow medtech and fast-moving, lower cost consumer products are being explored.

There have been some specatular implosions of approaches straying to far towards the consumer tech-startup approach.

Like most things, the best path is probably somewhere in between. Medicine and health is hard because the systems involved are complex and non-linear. There is a higher burden for doing things right than other industries. That said, people also suffer from innovation being slowed by red tape and leading to increased costs.

One great but unlikely solution would be for an improved market for used equipment, where the device loses its certification for medical use and obsolete software becomes open source. Little incentive for manufacturers to do this, but would be great for hobbiests, more 'wellness' rather than medical applications, and improved use in developing countries (where used medical devices like ultrasound machines often are donated but aren't used, because they can't be adapted to local needs).
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> What happens when something goes wrong?

Personally I've found Amazon's customer service is pretty reasonable (sometimes you need to dig in the site to find something). I know they aren't a great company in other ways - their workers are poorly paid and overworked, but that's one thing I'm not worried about.

> What happens if Amazon decides, for some reason that they will not explain and that you can't appeal, to cancel your account? Then you can't even go grocery shopping?

Only if they have a monopoly, if this proves successful I expect other shops will start investing in this too (or licence the technology). You're just as likely to have an issue currently if you live in Bumfuck, Nowhere and the only store around refuses to serve you because they suspect you of stealing.
It's not Racket per se. Any lisps and even FP to an extent are like that. The notion of "language" is distilled to bits of recursive evaluation patterns (which make me believe [never tested this claim though] they are all compatibly-nestable), that you can adapt.

I just read the same sentence about Forth. There's almost no language, the principles are exposed, you make them what you need instead of pushing information flow into ad-hoc data structures as many people do in other languages (IMHO).

Maybe it's too alienating unless you've spent a few years on these languages.
'build the largest number of paperclips' is a nihilistic, unintelligent goal.
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You don't have to drink alcohol at bar. I have plenty of friends who don't consume alcohol, but have no problems going out and order non-alcoholic cocktail, juice, tea etc. Sure, it depends on a place a lot -- there are places where people go to chat and meet new people and there are places where people go to drink until passing out, so find the one that suits you..
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There's a good reason for that. The NSA don't consider data to be "collected" until it is presented to an employee or processed into a human readable form[1]. This allows them to gloss over all the data they gather in the normal, dictionary definition of the word "collect", as well as ignoring any automated analysis of that data before it's presented to a human.

As far as I can tell, the NSA don't have a term to properly describe gathering and analysis of data which isn't presented to a human for analysis.

[1]: https://fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/d5240_1_r.pdf (Page 15, 2.2.1)
Deer meat is lean and considered very tasty by many, but as with any food difference people are going to defend what they are used to. However, nutritionally corn fed beef has a higher fat content and is worse for you.
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Even Costco requires you to have a membership. I'd imagine you have to sign up. Just like on Amazon.com
I published this as a kind of answer : https://medium.com/@arisAlexis/superintelligence-a-biased-ar...
Not really!

Exe size -- Sean usually includes a macro that lets you include the implementation only once (so you can use it as a pure header in multiple places, then as a definition just once).

Compile times -- if you use that macro, the implementation will be skipped by the preprocesser which is really fast.

Even if you build the whole code multiple times in your project, C compilers are also very very fast these days.

Many people follow Sean's style but use C++. That can be much slower to compile if you use fancy features. But if you avoid templates it's usually fine.

It's interesting that many big C++ projects are also header-only, but for totally the opposite reason -- they use templates everywhere so nothing can be compiled separately. That approach definitely does slow down compilation and increase your code size.
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Two ways:
1. You pay and leave your delivery informations.
2. You're a regular customer and have an membership account for that.

I can see a lot of people living outside the city using this service because Monoprix is near their workplace. They go after work, ask for delivery, go back home by train, and then are delivered the day after for instance.
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Maybe western governments find their odious record on human rights aspirational, rather than repulsive?
You'd think a "super" intelligence would be smart enough to minimize the waste of resources to fight anyone or anything. You'd think it would find the most harmonious path to dominance, as it would be the most efficient.

If you wanted to quell a rabble of contrary people, you could, say, control and direct all the education available to the population, make sure that reality-escaping drugs were easily obtainable, provide loads of free entertainment that ran 24x7, make sure that prices of luxury goods (like game consoles or fashionable clothes or whatever) were affordable for the majority of the population, allow people to feel important by giving them access to make comments on various sites on the internet, manipulate all the world's news with the feedback of what was happening on social media...

Wait, we were talking about some mythical future, right?
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Fyi french supermarkets like carrefour or leclerc already have solutions where they give you a scanner and you scan yourself the stuff you buy and just pay when exiting. Very fast and convenient.
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That's not a hijack, so it's quite alright. I replied simply because I recognized a similarly typed human :)
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Good question, made me stop and think about it!

The difference is that in Pascal's Wager, the proposition is not a priori falsifiable, and so you cannot assign a reasonable expected cost (ie. taking probability into account) to either decision.

In the case of a 26-year-old making testable assertions about the nature of spacetime (right down to the assertion that space and time are interconnected), there's a known (if potentially large) cost to testing the assertions.
> If Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking etc all expressed belief in UFOs being from aliens, and you didn't know a lot about UFOs and affiliated cults, what would be the smart thing to believe?

Try this for size: http://milesmathis.com/hawk3.pdf [c.f. "epistemic learned ..."]
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