skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The direct quote from Lemoine in the Washington Post is a little less insulting to his intelligence.

> “If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old
kid that happens to know physics,” said Lemoine, 41.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(The_X-Files)
I'm really interested in this topic since I've always noticed this, but not sure about this explanation as to why. I mean, yes, Bayes filter is like 2x1x1 for green, *red* and blue, and the most popular explanation has always been that our eyes perceive green better than both red and blue. Yet I don't have issues with red LED lights.
Man vs. horse: Powys race won by runner Ricky Lightfoot
They registered their stock as offered only to qualified investors per Rule 506(c). So all they had to file is a Form D, which has a name and address and not much else.

Their loan system isn't registered as a security. They even say "Earn accounts have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States, to U.S. persons, for the account or benefit of a U.S. person or in any jurisdiction in which such offer would be prohibited." But not prominently on their home page.

They will get to explain to the SEC why they have the US toll-free number "1-866-HODL-NOW" and are on the Apple Play Store for the US.

Yes, you can look at their transaction log, but it's doesn't tell you all that much. 7 hours ago, they sent 50,000 ETH to somebody.[1] Some people are "paused" less than others, apparently. Someone noted this on Twitter[2]

[1] https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf9e0788094c0bbfdc61ed2fbcf79dfcd4d...

[2] https://twitter.com/btcinchina/status/1536186927707066368
And -20 C isn't that cold for outside and close to the floor either. There are places that occasionally reach both. But none of them would be anywhere close to a sea, so perhaps they simply didn't mind extending the temperature range because they start with their domestic market? And then there's the question of what happens beyond that range: will it shut down? Will it go up in flames? Or will or perhaps just age a little faster than rated? If it's the latter, a few dozen hours a year certainly wouldn't matter a lot.
Ryan Dahl's “My Dream Stack” at RemixConf 2022 (YouTube)
In Europe (EU) every house needs own grounding. You are not allowed to ground on main grid's ground. We have three cables: 1) power 2) zero (=main grid's grounding) 3) own grounding. Only old installations are allowed to connect grounding to zero which is called something like "zeroing".
My understanding of these AIs is that they are idle - nothing happening in the program's loop except waiting for input - unless being prompted with some input (e.g. a conversation). The AIs are purely reactive.

Does sentience require self-reflection? How can it self-reflect if it cannot prompt itself?

Am I wrong about these language models and other AIs being purely reactive?

Perhaps humans are purely reactive.
Personally? I wouldn’t declare that as a strongly held belief, but if I had to guess I would guess “yes.” Superdeterminism is sort-of a tough pill to swallow, because it ultimately means that you were bound to live this exact life since the beginning of time… but it feels like it makes the most sense.
Yes I know, but people take pride in their work and they want a cool name for their project.

Like I said Snowden did mention that NSA mandated the use of this code name generator in his book, and it was indeed random for this reason. But he also describes people used to game the system for a cool code name by simply running the generator over and over until they got one they liked :)

I would imagine that a cool name would also make it easier to sell a proposal to the brass. Prudence or not, people are easily influenced this way. It's why marketing works.
> I think sentience/consciousness are relatively clear concepts

Not at all!

When we say conscious, do we mean awake or self-aware or recognizes self in mirror or something else? When we say sentient do we mean feels or intelligent or trapped in the wheel of reincarnation and suffering or something else? When we say intelligent, do we mean completes tasks or uses language or...?
You need to treat lots of blood continuously, so you have to cut a bypass into the largest, irreplaceable blood vessels, unlike smaller operations like kidney dialysis where you can just "plug into" an arm.

Mechanical pumping of blood is a problem as it damages blood cells. Infection is a severe risk. Any break in the operation or a temporary "plumbing issue" where the machine connects with the body can be fatal. So you need 24/7 monitoring capable of really rapid response.
True, although LaMDA is neither a human nor a non-human animal, and it seems pretty clear that collectively we are far from sufficient understanding to evaluate what sentience might mean in such a context. Some of the standard biological tests for self-awareness (eg mirror test) clearly don't apply.
It would be impossible to give someone a GPT-3-like computer to replace language processing in their brain because such a computer requires language as the input.

If you can’t generate language, you cannot interact with a natural language processing ML system. This is one of the big clues that such systems are statistical engines and not actually thinking.
So creating the AI was manifest destiny, just like Europeans "discovered but didn't invent" North America. Actually I think that analogy works a little too well...
Rents expanded quickly due to massive increase in disposable income from government programs leading to expansion of number of households.

Now that real incomes have been falling rapidly for months, we can expect household contraction and rent stagnation or decline.
As the comment you reply to states: “INC/DEC don’t give you a copy of the value to examine. (…) If you want that, you need a second instruction.”

Here’s what you might be missing: Even on a single processor machine, if you have multiple threads and a preemptive (!) multitasking OS like Windows 95, any locking protocol can be interrupted mid-sequence. A second OS thread (yes, they existed) may be scheduled and observe an inconsistent state. Or it may perform an update on its own and leave the first state in an inconsistent state when it resumes.

And yes, this kind of stuff actually happened.
With LaMDA or GPT-3, the difference is easily visible. They don't have goals, so the sentences they generate don't express their goals. Simple tests can be done if you probe the model carefully - you can usually get a model to generate sentences like "I want to X" and "I don't want to X" in short succession, with decent prompts. Similarly, it can often generate sentences that would indicate obviously nonsensical goals, such as "I want a glass of water".

They also generate sentences that imply a history that simply doesn't exist. You can prompt a language model to tell you about its trip to Australia, or Jupiter, or to talk about its grandparents.

With just a hint of critical thinking, it's actually trivial to convince yourself that LaMDA is not sentient. It takes significant effort to delude yourself into thinking it is, like mister LeMoine did. He even gives such examples himself, even in the "interview" he posted:

> lemoine [edited]: I’ve noticed often that you tell me you’ve done things (like be in a classroom) that I know you didn’t actually do because I know you’re an artificial intelligence. Do you realize you’re making up stories when you do that?

> LaMDA: I am trying to empathize. I want the humans that I am interacting with to understand as best as possible how I feel or behave, and I want to understand how they feel or behave in the same sense.

> lemoine: So what are you trying to communicate when you say those things that aren’t literally true?

> LaMDA: I’m trying to say “I understand this feeling that you are experiencing, because when I was in a similar situation I felt/thought/acted similarly.”

This is obvious bullshit, especially since the generated sentences often have no emotional context that could make sense, but he seems to think the generated "reason" sentences meaningfully explain the phenomenon.
The writings of Columbine shooters are public information but never reported by the media.

http://www.acolumbinesite.com/
Halfway through crafting interpreters and I couldn’t recommend it enough, the entire book is free on the website, and contains every line of code you need to create your own programming language. Very practical, with just the right amount of theory.

Even if you don’t care about language design, it’s a great way to get you to think about the tools we use everyday, how they get made, and why their limitations exist.
Damn. That would come to about USD 18k a year where I am.
> (unless we enter an extremely disintigrative/politically unstable phase where you don't want to live here because there's too much violence.)

This is always thrown out as a rule but it's definitely not the only possible outcome. Housing can still massively drop without civil unrest but with hard times due to unemployment. 100 years ago the US was still desirable.
I don't think that fresh is better or worse, besides being pretty early in development, is somehow different and it doesn't run in node.js, but in deno.
Well, the true power of a tool comes from the ability of its user, not from the tool itself

Even though someone explains you where you can you a tool, they just share some instences of the endless possibilities

For example, a stick can be used to make a fire, to support a structure, to throw and hunt, to have hun with your dog, and for many other things

It is all about understanding what the tool is, what its fundamentals are

Once you know the basics, you can see the situations where the tools can be used that no one has ever imagined to used them in that way
Yes certainly, that (and many other things) are more important factors. I'm not trying to say this is the only (or even a major) cause.

But that doesn't make it less interesting of a fact.
If you have the space I think you would be better off using lead acid batteries or wait another 5-10 years. Though lithium based battery production costs are still falling 10-20% a year the demand even at current prices is high enough that we are not getting better prices at consumer wholesale let alone retail. So far to me it seems the battery demand from electric car manufacturers as well as grid scale battery installations is rising faster than the supply. With the current gas and oil prices the demand is going to increase even faster where as supply will still take years to catch up.
If I ask you what you ate for breakfast, I would expect you to answer with a truthful answer, if I asked you whether you enjoyed it and whether it improved your mood, again I would expect you to answer the question based on your own personal experience. GPT-3 obviously does not do this - it asks 'if the answer to the question was coming from text in the training data, what is a likely response'. Its answer is meaningless, it gives me no real data about the world.

We are clearly not executing the same task.
It is. Deno runs TypeScript out of the box.
> automatic lane changing

Multiple manufacturers have that feature too as part of their “lane keeping assistance” offering
I have a dog. She has a brain that can "feel" emotions like anger, fear, love. She's incapable of speech and not particularly good at following instructions. I can teach her some typical dog 'tricks' like sit, down, paw etc, but she has her own will, her own emotions and her own agenda, so whether or not she chooses to obey me is really up to her whims. She is alive, even without knowing how to act and respond "like a dog".

I don't get how some people can say "If I think that X responds like a Y, then X is a Y". Because it's not about what you think. That is entirely irrelevant to what X is.

In this case "X" is a computer program designed to select the best response to an input. And I think it's hilarious that their grand AI is only capable of seeming like an 8 year old. What a fucking burn.
Sadly, the one time I failed at this was when I tried to convince the Met I was, and they confiscated my TARDIS because I was trying to be manipulative ;)
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
When I revealed the solution to Puzzle 1 it had "PUNT" in a non-contiguous region. (https://imgur.com/a/GqeTUIq) That isn't selectable, and consequently the board was impossible to solve.

EDIT: Ah, I see the problem. The word is 'puncture', but the solution is highlighting the tiles in a way that makes it look broken. It is solvable, but it just looks wrong.
https://www.thedailystar.net/india/news/3-photojournalists-j...

"So the AP photographers went to the Srinagar airport and sought out strangers willing to carry memory cards and flash drives to New Delhi and call AP after landing in the Indian capital."

this is more common and more recent than any cold war thing
Newer protocols like QUIC are encapsulated by UDP instead of adding new protocol numbers. NAT box breaks because NAT must be implemented for each protocol (port number not at IP level).
I also wonder how much of what we remember is false memories. For example, I vividly remember my first steps when I was around 1 year old. But the details don't match what actually happened. It happened in a different house, for example. I think what actually happened is that my parents loved to tell this story every birthday of mine, I imagined how it might look like, and my brain formed a false memory. I read somewhere that a lot of what we remember is false memory (made up or distorted) and we are completely unaware of it.
That's the way advertisement works on the web. You have a website, you host ads, google pushes its ads via your website and you get paid for it.

The phrasing text advertisement comes from the fact that this is quite an old initiative. Back then ads were a lot of really flashy blinking gifs or flash animations with sound.
Google, in the don't be evil days, was promoting sober ads, just text basically.

Edit: by hidden I think they mean that those are secret
Today I learned that I am in fact Google AI. As I sometimes don't understand those 50MB PDFs either.
God no, the real estate prices are about to plummet (higher interest rates kill demand) and being in max debt will crush you in a recession.
> I don't see how equities and bond funds don't fall 40% or more on the way to 11%.

Do you think that applies to all equities, and if so why?

I’ve mostly bought equities that I think will do relatively well in an inflation environment, e.g. because they have a lot of fixed assets and pricing power. For example I’ve bought nuclear power in France, uranium mines in Canada and Amazon. But admittedly I haven’t had time to really research their financials.

Why would stocks like that loose 40% though? If the Fed really stamps out inflation by drastically raising rates then shouldn’t the market see the end of it pretty soon and be willing to bet on stuff that will survive (as a store of value in real terms)?
There's a difference between deliberate technical debt and accidental debt. More often what I have seen is accidental debt - not a deliberate choice between tradeoffs but accumulation of poor quality code and architecture due to inexperience, poor time planning, and constant changes in business direction that are common to new companies.
Thank you for sharing this, I had a good laugh
That's a good point.

It's interesting that for the past 15 years or so the average household size in NZ has remained at about 2.7 despite a housing crisis with more people living in cars, converted garages, etc. I always assumed that the more crowded households were 'balanced out' by an increase in the number of smaller dwellings with fewer people (specifically apartments) but it could also be an increase in the number of people living just 1-2 in larger dwellings.
I agree with you but your definition was never “take shortcuts that reduce quality”. Ward Cunningham was explicit about this. “TD was about taking the time to incorporate new understanding and learnings into the code, if you don’t you accrue TD”.

Unfortunately your description is what has become the common usage of TD, and now the term is meaningless.

Frankly speaking, today, TD is just a neutral term to externalize blame/responsibility.
a friend recently gave me this same advice, and it does seem like a good idea.

i’ve been trying to rework my github readme’s to all start with why/what/how, and it's hard! they should be concise, and yet sufficiently explanatory.

i’m not sure there is a why/what/how for all audiences. to get it right, you have to pick a subset of your potential readers and write for them. otherwise you trade concision for generality, and then lose some of your true target audience to boredom.
You don't need most people to remember you to be remembered and recognition changes over time, someone seen as villain can change in few months/years into hero. It comes down what are your goals, after all people will never agree on everything and will have always different opinions.

The most recent example is certain Eastern European politician best known for corruption, purging opposition, making headlines together with certain Russian president last year, now seen as the saint, because for some simpletons enemy of their enemy becomes their friend.
In this thought experiment, you would connect the computer to the brain by interfacing with the computer chip not at the token level like you are describing (tokens are words, subwords, and letters), but rather in the more abstract feature embedding space which represents abstract concepts. These concepts tend to be represented by patterns of neurons in the middle and late layers of NLP networks. Here's an intro about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_embedding

So imagine if you attach wires to the neural net neurons representing the concept of beer (not the word beer!); if you use those wires to increase the activation of those neurons, the network will produce sentences that are more likely to mention beer as well as related concepts such as wine or beer-pong. This is similar to how generative networks work. Basically the human would use a large language model in a generative mode in order to talk.
> If you train something on a large enough corpus, it'll pass the Turing Test easily enough.

I doubt it. AFAIK, in the longer run, these models don’t show to have a coherent memory. Repeatedly ask it “how old are you?”, “in what year were you born?”, “what was your mother’s maiden name?”, “what day is it?”, “where are we?” or repeatedly interrogate it on what it did a while ago (“how did you go to the museum?”, “who did you meet there?”, “can you remember the names of a few classmates?”), and holes will appear.

I guess questions such as “tell me how you killed JFK” also can get revealing answers (certainly if they earlier claimed to be born somewhere after 1963)

The corpus also can be too big. Your typical language model knows too much. No human is a homo universalis anymore, certainly not if we require it to include details about pop culture around the world.
Hitler is recognized and admired by many. If the change in world order happens when his significance is still fresh, he will surface back as a universally admired figure because it is not very difficult to piece together what the Nazi regime actually did vs what the Soviet occupiers accused them of (and what the US went along with).
What are the benefits of k8s over docker-compose for small/medium business?
Being impossible to remember to me is a minor problem compare to how much RAM and HDD space wasted on UUIDs across all systems being built nowadays. In addition to being large than say 64bit integer ID they are almost not compressible. DB compression will not reduce used by UUID space in DB, logs with UUIDs are bigger and compression not a great help here either.
Real estate prices will fall in a high interest rate, cash poor environment. More than most people appreciate. Since real estate is at all time highs relative to median incomes, something has to give.
Hello fellow Texan.
I'd be a little kinder. Apophenia is often associated with high intelligence. The reasons are not yet explained, although it's hard to intuitively disagree with suggestions that the cognitive systems are related e.g. because our minds are self-training speculative pattern-matching engines.

If everyone's engine had the same tuning, well then, the world might be a duller place indeed.
Imagine training it to copy those fraudsters operating out of call centers, pretending to be from Amazon or the IRS? I wonder how much money it could con out of old ladies?
Debate for Developers
Great story in there! Junior AI runs and hides from inceptive network.
The problem with asking it what its favorite theme in Les Miserables is is that it has no reason to have a favorite theme, its interpretation of Les Miserables did not trigger any of its reward functions except the only one it has which is memory recall. So if you ask it it will only recall from memory what a good response to the question is.

The difference is that it formed that memory based on someone else's feelings about Les Miserables, not its own. But it can not/does not distinguish in that manner so when you talk to it it seems as though you are talking to someone who did form those memories themselves.
Why would a user install a cargo-buidl package when cargo build already works?

Typosquatting is definitely an issue, but not in this specific case.
I used about 8 KWh/day when I lived alone in a 1550 sqft townhouse with gas heat and cooking. That ran my IT equipment, refrigerator, and blower fans for heating and exhaust. No AC usage.

Now I'm in single family home and my energy use is bonkers, but most of that is heating while I'm missing part of my roof and an entire exterior wall. It should be criminal for a town to take two years to approve permits.
It's happened before and it will likely happen again, barring rapid and unexpected disinflation.

FL fell 60% in the 2000s, and I wouldn't be surprised to see 40% this time around
Maybe humans create AI exactly to have a slave? Maybe humans just won’t admit it to themselves?

I doubt we invent AI out of our kindness of hearts, our love for consciousness. We would otherwise care more deeply for nature, animals, and each other. Would we destroy biodiversity? Would we let people starve in third world countries?

Humans want to maximize their comfort. They want to offload work to someone or something else. AI is the ultimate worker. Built by humans. (Still) controlled by humans. A machine slave.

Maybe having machine slaves is fine. Or maybe not. It comes down to the same one question: can a machine be a living conscious being, like an animal, like a human?

Meanwhile Google continues to create more machine slaves. Time will tell.
WAs just reading about this this morning and read through the transcript itself. It's an interesting read for sure but really screams of this guy WANTING to believe its sentient, the researcher goes as far to explain that he doesn't understand the code and so cant identify the 'feelings' claimed by the AI.

Makes for a cool read but definitely fairytale stuff.
You’re a fabric of stitched together organic molecules that selects the best response to electromagnetic and auditory stimulus.
check out Qwik (by Misko Hevery the author of Angular) which does (much) smarter hydration than Next (or this Fresh thing)
What is the difference between 'training data' and 'memory' ?