skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I've never owned a mac and my current iPhone I got from work is the first Apple device my household has ever had for longer than a week.

I don't watch either shows, but... and I can't tell you why, but reading the summary articles of "Apple showed X and Y" is still more interesting to me than ANYTHING Google has unveiled in the last 10 years. I'm a very disappointed Android user of roughly 12-13 years (my main point is that the damn phones never get updates after 1-3 years) and they never bring out anything exciting. I mean, I don't find the stuff that Apple unveils exciting (except the M1, that was something new) but I can hardly imagine anything less interesting than Google products.

Sure, many WWDC updates are like "number behind 'iPhone' goes up" but at least it's something of a cycle and you can't really escape it if your friends are talking about it. There seems to be at least some sort of innovation. Maybe it's also a little "hey this sounds kinda nice, wouldn't it be cool..." (typical grass is greener on the other side).

But in retrospect I couldn't actually tell you any meaningful feature in Android that I found really good in a new version. It has always somehow worked for the basic things I do. Also one main point is that they have a non-convoluted lineup. Even I, as someone who should have zero clue, could summarize the current things in two sentences. Google? I have no idea. I/O feels as if this was WWDC + AWS Summit + half of E3.
There's a lot of flexibility in how much living space a person is using also, it's an order of magnitude difference depending on how much money they have.

People used to live a whole family in a one room apartment, and now we have single divorced boomers living in whole houses alone. I think people adjust a lot here depending on the economy
Anti-intellectual? Interesting. I had the opposite thought: that the article aims at too high a level to be accessible for the common reader who doesn't know what "parametric functions in higher dimensions" are.

But having said that, I think you are not being fair to both sides: you are taking some researcher's gut feeling at face value while requiring the rebuttal to start with a formal definition of what intelligence and sentience are.

> This refusal to consider has the effect of making me think there might be something really interesting going on.

I know I am just a guy on the internet who has no right to tell you how to live your life, but I would strongly advice you against this line of thinking. At best it doesn't lead anywhere productive, and at worse you end up shooting an AR-15 inside a pizza restaurant while trying to save children trapped in a nonexistent basement.
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Some antipsychotics work by essentially blocking the activation of most neurotransmitter receptors, preventing neural circuits from firing. Newer ones also activate one or two specific receptors. It seems plausible that these two ”frames of mind” are two completely separate neuronal networks, and because one of them is entirely blocked while on medication, it tends to overfire when off medication.
Next time you need to map out roads like that, try Caltopo. For any _map_ use cases, things like Caltopo and Gaia are miles better. Google Maps is great for following directions they give you, or finding businesses and well known places, but it's a horrible map in any other context.
Very simplistic analysis. Real yield is a function of inflation over the life of the bond. It might be 8% now, but the market is not pricing that over the next 20 or 30 years.

And people buy MBS because they have a higher yield than treasuries.
I do love Cliff Still, and it's great to see how spectacularly wrong he was on some of this (selling books on the internet turned out to not be quite as preposterous an idea as he thought!).

He was definitely right about the isolation it caused though!
One plausible answer to your line of inquiry could be that GPT-3 is indeed broadly similar at least in outcomes to the Language Centers of the human brain (e.g. Broca's Area), but that the Language Centers are only a small portion of a complete human brain.

An interesting thought experiment would be to imagine a cyborg who had sustained a stroke in their Language Centers and had those centers replaced with a GPT-3-like computer. Do you think this cyborg person would experience sentience in a different way after getting the GPT-3 implant? How do you think their subjective, 1st-person experience would compare in the three phases of their life?

* Before the stroke

* After the stroke

* After the brain implant ?
No, you don't need to send me pictures of your invoice...I'll just take your word for it then.
I know this isn't exactly what you said, but it's worth reiterating that the language models have no abstract or conceptual understanding. What they have, broadly speaking, is a (very large) system of Markovian connections between, say, the tokens for the word "life", and all the other tokens from works that they've been trained on about "life".

This is why, for example, when you include author notes in a GPT-3 prompt such as "don't mention the war", it doesn't grasp the conceptual negation, it just sees the words, and you've mentioned war, so now you get a war story even though that's exactly what you didn't want.

Folks who don't grasp this nuance are responsible for a vast number of head-scratching posts on various forums relating to services like NovelAI, AI Dungeon et al. "How do I stop it talking about X?" - answer is always, essentially, you can't, because although it may have a clump of connections corresponding to a word that represents an abstract concept, it doesn't actually have anything corresponding to conceptual awareness, nor any of the machinery of reasoning necessary to implement such a directive.
This article is not an argument against LaMDA's sentience. LaMDA may indeed not be sentient, but this article argues using the bandwagon fallacy, appeal to authority, ridicule, among others. No actual technical description of why not. Perhaps not its intent, but it's hard to see what the intent actually is, then.

I hope that some AI researcher can better explain than this to the public.
Thanks to the author for writing this. As a young man who has come out the other side, I appreciate the courage of the author to put this message out there and expose themselves like this on the open internet.

I hope we as a society can continue to be more open about ways to communicate frustration, depression, and sadness. This way it won't be pent up released in an explosive event like a shooting.
How does one own a company by serving ads. I don't get it
This reads well-meaning, but ultimately misdirected. There is no solid data corroborating the "school shooters are bullied" narrative - in fact, many of them have a long history of being bullies themselves, which then gets twisted from "kids try to avoid the weird kid who does disturbing things" into "poor little baby had no friends".

Disabled, queer, poor teens are not shooting up schools. The profile of a school shooter is overwhelmingly white, male and middle/upper class. A shooting is an ultimate tantrum for which the perpetrator is never held accountable.
Well if scientific paper contradicts the observable experiences from the real world, then obviously something went wrong during the experiment.

And you still believe in this paper because you didn't reproduce it yourself or you didn't see it being reproduced step-by-step in real life, you rely on this scientist who conducted the experiment reporting it legitimately and other scientists involved in peer review process to have actually read the paper and verified it through reproduction (which isn't all too common in academia btw.)
the biggest moral hazard with defined-benefit plans is making decisions that increase your own personal longevity. The reality is that most Canadian plans have some levers available to cut benefits (primarily by making inflation indexing discretionary).
It's intentional, certainly, but the intent is Janelle Shane's.

That's the point, really. You only get the intent out of it that you put in, it does not have intents of its own.
Right, humans also lie and can appear to be arbitrarily inconsistent or forgetful.
Those aircrafts can be easily fitted with a parachute actually.
> fed his deceased girlfriend's chats to GPT3 [1] and believed the system was giving the answers she would have

Isn’t that what AI does? Repeats back what it’s “heard?”
Doesn't help that many AI companies fuel the hype with both unrealistic performance metrics and bad scify.
Honestly, I find Helm to be a trap that is going to reduce your capability to run service reliably - or understand it. It's probably one of the most annoying bits in kubernetes ecosystem
> with the ability to detect and act on its environment, as well as form memories

So an AI which is really an AI, is really an AI. Yes, well done.

The issue is that finding coincidental statistical associations in character strings in 100mil historical documents isnt AI.
I think there's genetic predisposition but unless you have a separate disease, myopia is unlikely to just emerge out of thin air. There's probably something that we do that harms our ways and the studies point to the time outside as the key factor (screen time was just a correlation).
Only insofar that the act of building a car could be considered blasphemy.

Theologically (at least among the framework of Judeo-Christian beliefs), a “god” would require omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. Using tools provided by a god, within their own framework is not godly; no matter how advanced they may seem. Altering the fabric of that framework would be.

That being said, the creator of the AI might certainly be seen as a god from their perspective.
I think your comment is very out of context.

For one, it's not even debatable that US had a big network of spies going in and out of the ussr. So, even if those specific musicians weren't spies, there were tons of spies nevertheless, thus the soviets had every motive to search thoroughly.

Second, the chances of these musicians not being spies is extremely low, we're talking of an anti-ussr operation during a period when us-ussr tensions were high. A simple civilian doesn't "just travel to an opressesed country to exchange intel against the state using steganography techniques". I'm not saying there are 0 chances they are plain civilians, I'm just saying the chances are very low
What if the most expedient way to accurately continue the text sequence is to temporarily "embody" as an agent that would have generated the prior text? This would involve encoding emotions, performing reasoning ability on behalf of the agent, and keeping track of its memories.

Do you find the above scenario plausible?
Oh, in a mere 200 million years, neat! sits back and waits
If I understood correctly, it all renders server side and then adds the interactivity where it's necessary, and in a react app is kinda easy to spot which components are interactive or not, the biggest difference here, vs a traditional react framework, is that fresh is more similar to astro[0] than next.js/remix, so it ships less js.

What I read from other comments is that fresh does code splitting, so for example if the interactivity is out of your viewport and you scroll down to that element, it will then load the js required to make it interactive, while I find that idea cool, what worries my is that it could take a few ms to load the js and then other few ms to boot that component and render it interactive. But I don't have experience with any of the frameworks (besides next.js where I build a small demo project to try it out).

[0] https://astro.build
So, according to your logic, a criminal responding to an interrogation with "things we know never happened" would not be sentient?

Or let's put it another way: was there any specific instruction set for the Ai in question that indicated it "had to" only respond based on "things the humans know happened"?
This is absurd and greedy of the employee. Surely the cost of internet and electricity would be a drop in the ocean compared to an Amazon engineer's salary.

As an aside, here in India, most companies do reimburse internet charges. But then broadband internet is quite cheap here - my 300Mbps connection only costs me around $25/month.
It's not because of the downcycle, no one who's been in crypto long enough cares about that

It absolutely is and there is a lot more of this blame game to come as people’s illusions are crushed. BTW it’s not a downcycle or a season, it’s a crash and cryptocurrencies will not recover because:

Nobody is using them as currencies - the experiment has failed, instead they are vehicles for speculation

The supply of greater fools in the world population has been exhausted, and after they lose all their money they will never return

That’s not to say coinbase and Armstrong don’t deserve criticism but let’s be clear about why it is happening now - his actions haven’t changed, the context has, and a lot of people have lost money they’re never getting back invested in coinbase itself and cryptocurrencies so they are angry (esp employees who probably invest in crypto, in coinbase and depend on the company).
The entire point is that libavcodec exposes a different interface. You wouldn't build a GUI for ffmpeg, you'd build one for libavcodec unless your actual goal is generating ffmpeg commands.
Take it a step further where you have cops who are forced to meet a certain quota in ticketing violations (with those quota targets being directly driven by budgets). What happens when a cop can't meet their target for a week? A hint: they don't pat themselves on the back for upholding a safe community.
Are you Doctor WHO?
Funny you mention Australia, back when people worked in offices you could sit down on the banks of the Yarra on a Friday night, and watch chopper after chopper flying the wealthy from their Melbourne offices to their Mornington peninsula weekend homes. There’s already a pretty big rich guys who won’t take the train market.
Do you believe the world is deterministic?

That if you feed all the variables of the current state of the universe to an algorithm that knows all the laws of the universe, we can replicate life 1:1 to the last atom, from the beginning of the universe to any arbitrary point in time, the same way, every single time?
In the UK I understand they now have acccelerated promotion programs for more educated candidates, designed to get them into management more quickly. I suppose it is the parallel of officers vs enlisted in the military. What it takes to be a good leader could be different to what it takes to be a good beat cop. I also understand that this has caused friction with less educated but longer serving staff who see smart kids promoted past them. I suspect if it is handled well then everyone can get over this. It's not like people don't get over promoted in civilian life!
Thanks for validating my idea of how this works. Btw, is google (or any AI group) able to create a set of connected neural networks, different in function, that could operate continuously without a prompt? Would that be closer to what we’re discussing?

E.g. something like a short/long-term memory blocks, visual and text processing, emotional block (why not), etc.
Hot headed? Turns out a 40°C+ brain is normal
Are those page memo still six pages long?
My god. Even in 2007 one glance at the stack of phone books in any apartment building lobby would have told you how little people were using them even then.
Look for second order effects here: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1536008920375754752

First would be that this (completely bonkers) claim will also paint any subsequent claims as also bonkers. Which is Bad, because with 100% probability, at some point in the near or medium future we'll hit on the real deal.

Second is that the first reflex of a human being who thought he saw a real AI was to give it rights and autonomy. That's something that actually never clicked for me until now. I always thought the danger is simply in not recognizing the first dangerous AIs, not that everybody will agree they're (super)intelligent, but we'll be hamstrung to defend against it by the public opinion. Our chances of surviving this just got a lot lower.

And in case anybody will protest that AIs will not be an enemy, I'll paraphrase EY: they don't want to kill you; it's just that you're made of atoms they may need for other things.
Typescript was almost delightful experience for me both on back and front end.
After reading the replies of the creator here on the effort that they have put into the project, would you still stand by this opinion?
I agree with you here, that it is striking there isn't a single mention of what members might think. But I also wonder if it's relevant at all. To me, there's no real correlation between intelligence and being a good person. A really smart officer might also know precisely which things he or she can get away with, to the community's detriment.
This seems irreverent to me. If you created an evolutionary algorithm, where these very complex statistical models competed for survival, I don’t see how that would help one of them become conscious.
I've joked since 2014 that I was born at the perfect time (1993) to never be able to buy a house, and this seems to prove that my patience in waiting out the market was not in fact a wise move. Very cool
Reading some of the more eager comments, I think it needs to be said I don't always my application indexed, so having an actual SPA makes a ton of sense. What good is any of this when your session is in the browser and all you can manage is serve the login page "very fast".
I also have a lot of dreams which I remember time to time and it makes me feel confused because why my brain thinks about things which is not even real.
Also, sometimes when I wake up I need a little bit of time to understand if it was real life or just a dream
1 short cut to cutting demand is to copy everyone else around the world. Let cities get rid of single family zoning. Let go of pride and commute by bicycle. The energy consumption will drop by a magnitude. People's health will improve. We as members of society will see each other face to face more often, closing the polarization. Make the police walk and cycle around town, not sit aloof in their metal tanks.

The US would get explosive growth by not forcing such enormously inefficient car-centric cities.
I would find LaMDA more convincing if it wasn’t constrained to a request-response model, but instead could choose to say something whenever it felt like.
Yes that’s part of the point. I’m not sure there is a name for these, I just call it frontend server. You don’t necessarily have to put your whole application there, but can focus on client interactions, and these things are really good at that.
Toyota's battery manufacturing capabilities are extremely behind the curve. There will likely be a few years where they are unable to make nearly enough to meet demand. That is why a lot of investors are unhappy.
A Sanskrit grammarian noted that all things have meaning precisely by relative associations.

Sounds sounds. Letter to other letter. Word to other word. Paragraph to other paragraph.

Quite profound in contrast with the Chinese room thought experiment.
No, and that’s precisely the point. A “true AI” would have an independent intelligence and the ability to form self-referential thoughts.

Regurgitating statistically sound data in an intelligent-seeming manner is not what these researchers are referring to when they refer to “AI”.
Attack the argument, not the person.
I often wonder how many of these open letters are read by the person they're directed at, presumably very few. I think some of the points they say make sense, and if they hung around on 4chan or 8chan and posted very abbreviated versions of these points, then that might at least reach some potential shooters. But posting on a substack is a bit like screaming into the void even if it was, as you say, well-meaning.
At least personally, my subjective experience as a sentient being includes having a 3-dimensional "virtual reality" view of the world around me, which is mostly informed by sight but also by touch and sound. I think this is a key element of human & animal sentience and I tend to think that all animals that have this "3D representation of the world" in their mind are sentient. E.g. fish can solve mazes, in a way illustrative of having a 3D view of the world within their minds like we do, so I think they are sentient. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251359525_Performan...

If you search Google for the phrase <you see with your brain not your eyes>, you will find lots of blog posts and the like, explaining with examples which I mean by the 3D VR-like world in your head which I am describing.

Another commenter in this thread raised the question of whether robots that navigate the world are sentient. I think the answer is possibly yes but I'm going to give a huge disclaimer which is I don't think that sentience is morally relevant, I think what is morally relevant is whether an entity feels qualia or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia In my personal view (just hunches really), I think that whether qualia are felt depends on the implementation. My hunch is that an implementation of a neural network in hardware, i.e. an actual network of transistors, might feel qualia, but that a software implementation of the same neural network would not. But others have different hunches and this is a question as yet unsolved by today's science.
I’m referring to this site’s guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Czech Republic does require a degree since early 2000s. Back then I had a few classmates who were cops and went to college to satisfy the new requirement.
The only thing I ask to Deno is to make typescript development as immediate as running python.

I'm exhausted by webpack and similar
> Are you getting 2% margin loan from something like IB or M1?

I’m in Sweden so I’m getting it from my broker: https://www.avanza.se

> With what vehicle are you short those Bunds? I'm curious.

I bought a bit of this: https://www.avanza.se/borshandlade-produkter/certifikat-torg...
Put an end to "all that" what, exactly?
> 45 C is not _that_ hot for a black box in the [insert warm place] heat during summer

I've been in a major city that would benefit from power backups like this. The hottest day the all-time heatwave was 45.2 C. So yes it's provably a reachable temperature, one where you _really_ want the aircon to work, and not lose the power.

Toyota's vehicles there have a reputation for being affordable, rugged and long-lived. And mass-produced. So the Tesla Powerwall may be a nice Proof of Concept - if you can afford it, if you can get one, but if Toyota is also in that market, well that's a different ballgame. Far more people will pay attention. All the same, I would wait a couple of years, see if the V2 is much of an upgrade.
suppose a child were raised by a human parent and at some point becomes a teenager and thinks, this person isn't worth listening to at all?

If that's possible then I guess it's possible to tell the AI raised teen the AI isn't really a person, you just need to find the right moment to give them that thought.

Basically you need another AI monitoring development to pick the optimal time to inform the child that the first AI is just a computer program.

OR you could do it like the movie I Am Mother https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_am_mother
What’s more ? Curious what it takes for large setups.
I wouldn't run on node, deno loads the dependencies from a url directly (no need to install that) a convention is to use a `deps.ts`[0] file. Also with node you will need quite a setup to run this project (if it could run), you will need ts-node, webpack or similar, etc, while deno comes with all that tooling included by default.

[0] https://github.com/lucacasonato/fresh/blob/main/src/server/d...