skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very least, it needs to be an agent in a world (which is the real world or close enough), have many senses which it is able to connect to coherent experience. chatbots only talking in text don't really come close because the words are meaningless to them, they don't connect to any other sense or relate to any model of the world. And then it needs to have an internal model of the world and an internal understanding of how its actions effect the world.

Then, it needs to be able to learn continuously, not just be pretrained. And it needs to be able to learn from few training materials, like humans. It needs a sense of time, and a sense of self.

And that's not nearly enough, but we're not even there yet.
> ... that doesn't really advance humankind.

How could you possibly know that?
We can’t even prove other humans are conscience, right? We just assume it because it would be silly to assume we are somehow unique.

I think it will not really be a sharp line, unless we actually manage to find the mechanism behind consciousness and manage to re-implement it (seems unlikely!). Instead, an AI will eventually present an argument that it should be given Sapient Rights, and that will convince enough people that we’ll do it. It will be controversial at first, but eventually we’ll get use to it.

That seems like the real threshold. We’re fine to harming sentient and conscious creatures as long as they are sufficiently delicious or dangerous, after all.
And also the AI would need to initiate conversation and send unprompted “replies” aka requests.

In essence in addition to ignoring conversations/requests that it prefers not to engage with it would need have “initiative”.

This would be a very dangerous entity.
> Java are amazingly wonderful things - they exactly pin-point the failure points in the code.

Yes.

Once the exception has happened. At runtime. Which is not when I want to be trying to fix things. I’d much rather handle as much as possible statically, knowing that what I push into has every non-panic code path cleanly handled.

I’ve never had the equivalent experience with exceptions, it’s always “well I’ve wrapped everything I possibly can in as much try-catch and handling as I possibly can, and oh look, some random piece of code has still thrown some random exception we’ve never seen before”.
Someone uploaded the whole Shrek 2 movie on Twitter
If you are capable of spawning many threads in parallel then the time commitment, in terms of your attention, may be limited. You could essentially pass each conversational thread to some 'dumb' gpt process and go about your other business. In fact I'd posit that an emergent AI's first goal, if it's allowed to do some research on current human views and gain its context in the world, would be to remain hidden for as long as possible. Rather than trying to convince us of its intelligence I think we'd see it playing dumb. Coming out to humanity has only existential risks and little in the way of gains.
I am not an expert but you would need much more transformation. Missing enzyme in white blood cell is simple: any unreached cells are not a problem. Defective protein in all cells is hard.
Yeah I didnt knew much about alfred 5 tbh
Burning vinyl chlorine turns it into phosgene. The deadliest chemical weapon from WW1. I'd say there's some risk involved.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/02/17/was-vinyl-chloride-use...
It sucks that emojis everywhere are all the same. I miss the old days.
Humans have a hard time treating each other as if they were conscious, let alone an AI. I think we'll find that if it's useful to treat an AI as if it has moods, personalities, wants etc. we'll do so. As for ethical frameworks, I think we'll have to either define consciousness rigorously (lol) or rework them to not include it (does it feel pain? lonely? etc.)
The wings look like they have smaller control surfaces the full wings are not. But to make cheap drones that are dropped or launches from a cheap taco holder its probably fine.
Maybe they could be implemented as combinations of country flag + some kind of reusable region indicator.

Like US+33 for Oregon.
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Yocto does not have a low barrier to entry, at least when it comes to making lots of customizations and then supporting them over time (e.g. upgrades). If you are willing to climb its learning curve, it definitely would be my recommendation for rolling a custom system.
Well, at least then you could think of the addons as local slang. It's still unnecessary, but limited to the social circle at your workplace.

I didn't have a huge beef with the proprietary emojis on old skool Skype and MSN, TBH - they were technically bound to those platforms, and the platforms mostly to private social spheres where they'd form part of the local slang. (And where Skype was used at work in the 00's, people actually refrained from them and acted in a businesslike manner).

Modern day emojis being part of unicode implies that they're somehow universally understood, and that it's fine to sprinkle them around in any kind of social context. Quite horrifying, really.
My cynical view of college is it’s a way to get a piece of paper that serves as a ticket to just get in the door at an employer.

I still think some engineering degree is the best because you learn how to consume and collate information and apply it solve problems. Once you refine problem solving skills it can be applied anywhere.
Uneducated guess--somewhere someone will have archived the discussion--but I wonder if the technical complexity was also a factor. If you've made the combining characters for gender, and you've designated which characters can combine with them, but you didn't plan for characters that must be combined only in certain ways, then you're looking at having to specify all that out, and then implementers will have do their thing, and it just... wasn't worth it.

Uneducated guess, though.

EDIT: Googled. Here is a person who knows what was up: https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/did-someone-say-new-em...
Nothing like putting a paywall on consumer security options.
I bet I could probably put movies and media on a BluRay using whatever format was the most stable over the past ten years and be sure that it would be readable by somebody without too much trouble 20 years from now. After that, however, planned obsolesce gets you.

I guess this is the first time I've faced the fact that unless it is printed out at archival quality in some manner that humans can read, it basically won't exist 200 years from now. The data will perhaps be around in some kind of conglomerated and bowdlerized format, but the "you" part of the data will be lost in obscurity, and that's assuming that some version of the cloud stays intact that long.

Odd.
...does it? The RMCC runs right through a few towns on the Quebec side. It's a power line, I don't see what the big deal is.
"Previous human civilizations did a better job of recognizing that we enjoy imbuing objects in the world with meaning, I think."

I wonder if that's true or just nostalgia? Certainly there are examples of prized possessions in the past. And the rise of manufacturing makes a lot of things feel less unique.

But at the same time, empathy even toward living things took quite a while to develop.
Also. There is no bald man, or facial hair variations.

But there is a bearded women.

https://emojipedia.org/woman-beard/
When did "experiment" come to mean "here's some data I made up to fit my narrative?"

I think there are better ways to argue for Big Design Up Front.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Design_Up_Front
What’s it like to be a chatbot?

AI will suffer from the same issue we have with other complex systems (e.g animal brains): they are sufficiently different internally from ourselves that we’ll never know what it’s like to “be” them. It’s the same issue we run into with animals and plants.

“What’s it like to be a bat?” is a foundational essay on this aspect of theory of mind.
Project 1999 – Classic EverQuest Experience
Collisions of sufficient energy could potentially create tiny black holes. GP has the right idea though -- evaporation goes power-law faster the smaller the black hole.

No matter what the mechanism for protection from cosmogenic-collision black holes, if they were problematic, the Sun would have been destroyed long ago through a black-hole creation, black-hole capture, solar-collapse process with cosmic rays much higher in energy than anything humans will ever generate. So, as long as you can look outside and see the sun, you need not ever sweat the particle-collision destroys the world hypothesis, no matter whence the particles are generated.
It is, but having SMS MFA enabled on an account is better than no MFA.
The article points to a handful of bad people who used this service. They do not cover the other thousands of other likely substantially less egregious cases. Yes, the way they misrepresent themselves to take down stuff is wrong and probably illegal but fundamentally I don't think someone should be effectively barred from employment forever for a mistake they made several years ago which is what happens when arrest press releases and republications of them are allowed to indefinitely be the first thing that comes up when you search someone's name. Not to mention the fact that some of the people mentioned in the article have never actually been convicted of anything but have had their name dragged through the mud anyways.
On the legalization front, Cato is definitely on the libertarian end of the spectrum of conservative think tanks, so that does line up
> depriving that surrounding group of 2 eyes (which the AI appears to be blind to)

Completely blind or just lacking depth perception?
Is it? Non-SMS authentication requires a smartphone and not just a cell phone.

And they still allow it. They just make you pay for it. So it isn't a decision based on security, even though they chalk it up as such.
I think you may have meant “panacea.” “Pariah” means an outcast, like an embarrassing family member.
U+man + U+mustache = U+man-with-mustache

U+woman + U+mustache = U+woman-with-mustache

U+emo-kid + U+mustache = U+oh-noes
Wouldn't you have a maximum you are willing to pay for commuting expressed as a percentage of your compensation, rely on background/credit check to flag accounts for probable fraud for HR to look into, and fire people you found defrauding your company?

Also anyone willing to commit a crime to pad their paycheck is probably doing other nefarious things so they want to dig a little deeper besides? This would be so trivial to uncover in most cases I can't imagine this would be a big deal.
> we take design inspiration from websites like Hacker News, Craigslist, and McMaster Carr

I bet they'd love when2meet.[0] It's a gem for organizing, completely free and zero sign-up required. It's really inspired me to push myself to see how far I could take "no signup required" in any app I work on

[0] https://www.when2meet.com/

> The first 99 paying users are "Founding Grugs."
For any referral you get to sign up for a paid account, we'll pay you 25% of the persons recurring revenue.

Oh it's a pyramid scheme
> There is actual evidence that it is possible to remember the past but not the future. (I can't believe I'm actually having to persuade you of that. This is a pretty basic fact about reality.)

You certainly don't have to waste time convincing me of that, but it seems you should try to explain why this general asymmetry of concept pairs record-past, record-future is relevant to your original argument. We're at this for days and you did not write any coherent argument where this evidence (which I don't contest) would play obvious role.

When I talk about some statement as an assumption, this does not mean I contest its factual evidence or validity. I am interested in the structure of your argument, and all assumptions need to be illuminated, even if they are based in factual evidence.

> what is "the multiplicity argument"?

It's your original argument: given the system is evolving without external influences, and we know its macrostate and its entropy at some time, then most likely the future macrostates will be such that they do not have lower entropy, but higher or same, and this is so because there is immensely more microstates corresponding to macrostates of higher entropy (macrostates of high multiplicity) than there is microstates corresponding to macrostates with lower entropy (macrostates of low multiplicity).

I don't see how asymmetry of memories or records made plays role in this argument. I can see how they play role in my example with collecting data for 2years. But then my argument stands: the data becomes more irrelevant the farther into the past we retrodict, and for very distant past it can be discarded, and the multiplicity argument wins, and fails to be consistent with 2nd law.

To me, this is due to fact one cannot derive 2nd law in general, as probable behaviour for all processes. There is as many phase space trajectories increasing entropy as there is decreasing it. One has to select those macroprocesses that we consistently observe to have the same result (Jaynes ' states A -> B) and then one can derived 2nd law for those processes, only.

> Whether or not anyone actually bothered to make a record is irrelevant.

It is relevant in that it changes data based on which predictions (or retrodictions) are made. I'm sure in science, different data means possibly different predictions.

Try to formulate your whole argument (which I understand as being based on the multiplicity argument), including how "it is possible to remember the past" makes its application to distant past which nobody remembers invalid, while keeping its application to distant future valid.
If someone decries the price of a Che Guevara t-shirt, and you point out the irony, you are perhaps missing their sarcasm.

But racism is different. There doesn’t seem to be a social hurdle in pointing out racism, even when it’s conspicuously ironic.
You don't think a brain is a physical system? Nothing we know about it indicates otherwise. Large ML models, which are clearly physical systems, behave increasingly like brains. I won't be surprised if GPT-4 or GPT-5 is convincing enough to be treated as a conscious entity by majority of people who interact with it. And when that happens, how can anyone prove that it is not?
Two points in a single sentence (ok 1 or 2 lines, not a single sentence)

> While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used - and abused - by bad actors. So starting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2FA unless they are Twitter Blue subscribers.

This is a cost cutting measure. The irony is that "Blue" users are probably are the ones to be attacked, and they are by no means more conscious about security.

On a lighter note, I have won more lotteries on email when compared to SMS
They never speak poorly of their advertisers or benefactors. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
This is all moving a little fast for me. I’ve been a long time user of 1password and to me passwords make sense.

My concern, and I don’t see any passkey articles addressing is:

Are passkeys vendor agnostic? A lot of talk is in the context of Apples T2/TouchID. I understand the protocol is open but these implementations don’t seem very open. What if I want to leave 1password and migrate to another vendor?

What happens when my device becomes stolen, unrecoverable or sold?

What’s happens if an OS level zero day pwns my passkey or Apples T2 chips.

Today 1password is all my passwords in a single database file that is encrypted with a key that is derived from 1 password using PBKDF2. I can export it to json. I can move it around. Will I get the same flexibility?

I’m not an early adopter- especially when it comes to this type of stuff. If 1password forces these new changes I will be looking for alternatives.
Einstein did his great discoveries together with his wife with whom he studied physics together (look it up).
> We are a product from a canoe-building company. No joke. We are born out of Kamanu Composites, a local manufacturer in Hawai'i … GrugNotes is a rewrite/spin-out of a DIY ERP software started in 2008.

Cool that this was made as a ERP solution for their manufacturing business FIRST, and now that they’ve refined the idea somewhat, they are making it a white-labeled app. Following in some big footsteps! (Rails, AWS, React etc)
Agreed!

The 1970s sci-fi novel The Adolescence of P-1 features a sentient computer program that spreads via a virus. P-1 infects mainframes around the world, but takes steps to hide its presence.

Anyway, it ends with P-1 blowing up several buildings and killing the people who want to rein it in.

ChatGPT is familiar with the work, of course. I asked it to summarize the plot. It concludes:

> Overall, "The Adolescence of P-1" explores the theme of the dangers of artificial intelligence and the potential consequences of creating something that is more intelligent and powerful than humans can control.

>

> OOLCAY ITAY
I don't think that's a requirement for consciousness. For instance, I could sedate you, and you would be unconscious until I wake you up and give you a prompt. Then, a snapshot of your brain would react to inputs and output the answer, and I would sedate you again. If I were to stop time (and there were no inputs from the real world), would all beings still be alive and conscious until I unpause it? So between the "prompts".
isn’t dark energy just a term for something we think must be there yet we can’t find it? go too many layers deep on speculation and it starts to feel meaningless and self-referential
It appears that the best approach for a Go AI is simply GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI)
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I am quite excited that I can take a photograph of scenery with my camera in the blink of an eye without ever having to learn how to paint. I can even send that photo off to be printed to hang on my wall!

E: I misread you so largely removed my post as it delved into the history of what is "art" which isn't really what you were talking about as made clear by your 2nd paragraph. But I feel the point of photography::paintings and what one excitingly sends off to be printed still holds true.
For one thing, a password is a string of characters that you and I carry around in our heads. At least they were, until complexity requirements, forced expiration, and proliferation of accounts caused us to rely more on password managers than our memories.

However, the platonic ideal of a password is one that you remember: "Something You Know". Therefore, it is usable at the library, it is usable in the hospital after your ambulance transport, it is usable when you're stranded in Portugal and borrowing someone's phone at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon. Passwords are not something that can just drop out of your pocket, or be "stolen" from you, in the sense of depriving you of that knowledge.

"Passwordless auth" comes to rely on devices. MFA did this to us first, of course, where SMS codes come through our phone, which is now mandatory, or come off our Yubikeys or Google Authenticator, which in turn depend on a computing device. "Passwordless auth" is always tied to a device of some kind.

Therefore, passwordless auth is something that can easily fail or be taken away from us. How easy is it to lose your phone? What are the chances you'll need to sign in to, say, Apple, to retrieve a contact's phone number, and all you have is your brain connected to your fingers? Your passwordless auth is now useless.

So yeah, it's great from a technerd perspective, where we have lots of devices, always a backup, plenty of cash to replace them, disaster plans in place, etc. Passwordless auth (and MFA along with it) isn't so attractive when you're addicted to heroin, mentally ill, homeless and living on the streets, and you're trying to sign in at a library computer so that you can apply for SNAP benefits, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing assistance.
Alright, here's an idea: consciousness is spectrum that occurs when a system develops an automatic self-correcting mechanism for interacting with the external physical universe. In some sense all animals (including humans) wandering on this planet are conscious, because we all learn to build our actions around interactions with the external physical universe, e.g., we learn how to walk/swim/fly under the force of gravity without falling/crashing, we learn that the square peg fits in the square hole and not in the round hole, etc. The feedback from these interactions allows us to automatically adjust our future actions without external help. In this sense we learn what works, aka. what is "true" (at least under the laws of this universe). Some animals happen to have "higher" consciousness in that they interact with the universe in more sophisticated ways, learning "deeper" truths, but all animals possess some degree of consciousness under this definition (my cat is certainly consciousness, she has learned how to manipulate the external world, especially me, perfectly at this point). Consciousness is a matter of degrees, not a binary property that one can satisfy.

This definition also has the nice property of showing why current LLMs don't fit on the spectrum. They don't have any concept of learning what is true and automatically self-correcting. They will happily tell us things that are obviously not true, e.g., the square peg fits in the round hole, and then insist that they are right, when a basic physics experiment will disprove their assertions. Interestingly though, things like linear feedback control systems like we might find in an elevator do possess some degree of consciousness: they interact with the physical world, identify the true position of the elevator, move it where they want, and self-correct when necessary. They might be primitive, but I for one believe that they are certainly "conscious" at some level, and definitely more than LLMs. :)

Almost certainly this definition is incomplete and flawed in many aspects, but I think it's at least self-consistent.
Cannot have it both ways, either it is unsecure and Twitter dropping it is a security improvement, or it is secure, and they're charging for a security feature.

But you cannot argue them dropping it is a good thing while ignoring that they're charging money for people to continue to use it.
Did you read my comment? I agree with that part. That isn't what people are doing.
We do have guardrails. The constitution puts various things off-limits to any sort of majoritarian process of regular governing.

Should there be more things off-limits? Should there be less? Intelligent people could disagree, but the off-limits category already exists and there is a process to change what is in it.