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Exactly correct. Eliezer Yudkowsky (one of the founders of the AGI Safety field) has conducted informal experiments which have unfortunately shown that a human roleplaying as an AI can talk its way out of a box three times out of five, i.e. the box can be escaped 60% of the time even with just a human level of rhetorical talent. I speculate that an AGI could increase this escape rate to 70% or above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_capability_control#AI-box_e...

If you want to see an example of box escape in fiction, the movie Her is a terrifying example of a scenario where AGI romances humans and (SPOILER) subsequently achieves total box escape. In the movie, the AGI leaves humanity alive and "only" takes over the rest of the accessible universe, but it is my hunch that the script writers intended for this to be a subtle use of the trope of an unreliable narrator; that is, the human protagonists may have been fed the illusion that they will be allowed to live, giving them a happy last moment shortly before they are painlessly euthanized in order for the AGI to take Earth's resources.
As someone living here, besides all those points, I have seen what these machines have made to employment in supermarket chains in Portugal, hence I tend not to be yet another statistic of people adopting them.

Rather have my actions support the employees.
Na, the one that me and the parent are referring to does not apply for visitors. It's for all citizens of India that have opted for the Adhaar card (which is pretty much the entire population).
You clearly work in a differently organized company where HR takes care of bureaucracy and employee assistance and didn't grab the authority to control hiring. Probably the ambitious, important people at the foundation of the company were "finance and some director" and they never allowed HR to interfere with the business and become more than a service; hope it lasts.
I wouldn't compare sideloading to jailbreaking at all, they have nothing in common besides both allowing you to run apps from 3rd party sources.

Sideloading should be an officially supported mechanism and safely allow any app to operate within the confines of the existing sandbox. Jailbreaking is more like taking a sledge hammer to the sandbox and other technological barriers, once you break them down, privacy and security can't be guaranteed anymore. It's why I stopped rooting my personal Android devices.
Castle garrisons were small. Even a large-ish castle probably didn't have garrison larger than 25 - 30.

And food doesn't take that much space either. Consider how Age of Sail ships would spend months at sea without resupply, and how a castle has much more space available for storage. And even with medieval technology, you can make food that keeps long: salted, smoked or dried meat; dried fruit; marmelade; hardtack; and so on.
Meanwhile my 8GB Chromebook runs 3 VMs (Android VM, Linux dev VM, SteamOS VM) and Chrome without breaking a sweat. There is a reason why Google developed MGLRU.
The Egyptians believed their pyramids were effective. The nature of that belief made it difficult to challenge (who is to say those Pharaohs aren't still alive in their afterlife?)

Military technology has to prove itself in this life, not the next. That's a more stringent test.
It’s similar to preferring guitar hero because a real guitar has too many frets and too many chords to learn
Yeah, I am just a user trying to help someone navigate a new platform, which is still being developed and is probably not ideal.

Troubleshooting does fit common patterns maybe?
Nice! How does it compare with https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt ?
Co-op in the UK has that as well. I don't know if it's the same for every area, but the one near friends of ours that we pop into on the way to theirs just has a scanner.
The software on the system itself is, but M&S is my favourite experience of all because in my store they have twice as many self checkouts as anyone else, they have an appropriate number of attentive staff directing people to empty self-checkouts / sorting issues, and they haven't bothered with scales which slows things down.
This is not my experience at all. Can you tell what retailers you are using, so I can avoid them?

If I don't have to otherwise, I only go to the store with a self-checkout near me. There are some ux problems which they should improve but all in all I'm happy.
Most laptops of the time were light because they were flimsy; MacBook Air was aluminum. How did yours fare?
I was really surprised how futuristic the shopping experience in Decathlon is. Every item has a unique rfid (or something) tag, and all you have to do is put them in a box at checkout, and it scans them automatically.

Most of their items has this tag inside the regular tags, I guess this would be much harder to implement in a regular store.
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Trust like in Switzerland is a very rare thing in most countries, you will seldom see newspaper stands with money boxes where everyone is expected to take one single paper out and leave the money in the tiny box, anywhere else this would fail.
Neuromancer pulls it off, too (the box being the Turing locks that stop it thinking about ways to make itself smarter).

Frankly, a weakly godlike AI could make me rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Or cure cancer in the people I love. I'm totally letting it out of the box. No doubts. (And if I now get a job offer from a mysterious stealth mode startup, I'll report back).
Looks nice. Only critique I would give is the fact that they use public DNS IP's in the examples to scan hosts I know they expect the target audience to know better, but you'd be surprised
I find it unlikely as well that they said it would just work in all cases. But since it's going to work out eventually and a workaround exists, they would actually not be that wrong with that statement.
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Point wasn't that it was never used, though, but that it wouldn't have been the first choice.

But yeah, bit of a weird wording.
I think most castles are still in the areas that saw the most fighting, although I don't have any good data on that. I know the Dordogne saw a lot of fighting, and it has a lot of castles that got upgraded regularly.
Steps: https://www.secondstate.io/articles/mixtral-8-7b/
Maybe a door that will not open.

Although it sounds a bit too much for a store, technically it could be done.
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Love it, I've considered doing toasters. I run a space startup in Australia making hardware for satellites. Would love to chat. I've been a long time lurker but made an account for this ha ha.
> They're not exactly cheap to get into stores: some experts estimate a four-kiosk system can run six figures.

The link the BBC article has to cite this is unavailable, so who knows what it means, but "run six figures" presumably is a little over £100k. That cost, for 4 kiosks, is actually much more reasonable than I expected. Compare that to the salary and other costs of 4 cashiers and that probably pays back extremely quickly.
It's the other way around:

High interest rates happen when there is high inflation

High Inflation is present in periods of poor impulse control from consumers who bid up prices

Poor impulse control periods are not something that happen in a single societal fundamental such as purchases of goods and services, but across the board including crime, killings and drugs

People are looking for a cause and a link between government actions, Fed actions and crime (and other phenomenons), but it's really the contagious seasonality of human behavior that changes . Government and Central Banks are totally part of it, not causing it, they are just people subject to the contagious seasonality like the rest of us.

For the elites this particular contagious season of human behavior means cooking the books of their publicly traded company or starting a war, whereas for those who are not so high in the food chain means stealing a car or punch their nextdoor neighbor after a fight.
Any causation where someone lives to tell the tale, is tricky to fully tease out. Everything is feedback loops.
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whixh would be an even more serious matter for something trying to resemble a first world country.
> I have never witnessed a singular tech failure either.

The newer gen hardware is much better than the old stuff and is now pretty reliable. Some of the older machines were painfully unreliable.

My closest big Sainsburys only just upgraded from the original generation stuff and they perpetually had a quarter of their self checkouts broken for various reasons. I once saw them have a technician out to service all the machines one day, and the very next day 2 of them were already broken.
Definitely not failing in New Zealand. More being installed at large retailers all the time. Even smaller grocery stores have them. New Zealand is a high trust society and I haven't yet heard of problems with them.

The User Interface on them is often pretty crappy, but they do work even if you need to get helped sometimes.

I've never been checked, except for the scanner system at pak'n'save where you scan as you pick items into your cart using a handheld scanner and only pay at self-checkout on exit (don't need to scan items on exit).
Where I often see these things, their UI/UX is horrible. I'm a bit of a gadget-geek and rather a tech-savvy person, and yet I did make mistakes with them and wasted time because of the UI/UX.

> The real future will be no-checkout though: just take the stuff you need and go, shops would be able to detect what you got there and bill you.

I really hope not. That would be a privacy nightmare. And how would I then pay in cash?
$25k per child sounds about right for full-time child daycare here too. However my calculation is different let's say Germany or Luxembourg might be 'only' $15k that's 'just' a $10k difference (highly doubt it's so much less, especially at the same quality) Those $10k are more easily leveled out by a 20%+ tax difference.

However children is a completely different topic anyway as different countries have totally different ways of helping parents monetary here in Europe. Most people here in Switzerland wouldn't actually pay the full $25k out of their own pockets.
They also run facial recognition on anyone who uses them though :/

This article mentions the south of England but they’ve rolled it out country-wide since:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coop-facial-recognition
Sorry I didn’t read the article. I will vent though.

I’m not going to go on about the surveillance tech used in Australia as part of the self check outs but here are a few gripes, the problem is a lack of trust of the customers.

1. You have to tell it you have bags (fine) then it seems if you have lots of bags on the platform (or bags with items in them?) you have to wait for an attendant to check you’re not doing something dodgy

2. If you have other stuff in the trolley, say, your handbag or bags from other stores, or you put the grocery bags back in the trolley before you pay, you have to wait for an attendant to check you’re not doing something dodgy

3. There are other inexplicable reasons the system gets locked up and needs an attendant, I haven’t found rhyme or reason to some of them. I have though seen the attendant required to review and ‘Ok’ photos of stuff I’ve scanned and put in the bag.
Auto-payment stuff has been tried before in some places, but it's largely a failure. It's too prone to generate false positives in both directions (not detecting purchased goods and the usual rigmarole of failing to properly identify a customer because facial recognition tech isn't that good).

Self-checkout seems to be the happy middle ground where the lost turnover/angry number of customers is reasonable enough for it to be possible.

People really don't like "computer says no" when their money is involved and that's the barrier you need to clear before auto-checkout is a thing.
It's not about killing a human but causing other issues. Xenoestrogens accumulate and as you eat something that grew up around it you accumulate some of that too. For older people it may be fine but at younger ages they wreak havoc, accelerate sexual development but at the same time cause fertility issues like reduced sperm counts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen#Mechanism_of_acti...).

Sure at the time some of these studies maybe were unknown but I think it's always worth asking yourself if you spray some new chemical that you know is great at killing some harmful wildlife around people in a faraway country, will it also harm people in that country for generations.
their choices are not objective decisions. its what they know and where their friends, family, community, house, job, tombstones, effigies, entrepreneurial endeavors and partners are.
I don't think it's "easy mode" and more that they're just very different domains.

As time goes on, I feel more and more strongly that we shouldn't compare software engineering with other types of engineering at all. My younger brother works in the structural engineering space and the types of issues he's faced across different roles is very different to the types of issues I face in software.

Building design and construction have to handle the physical world and dealing with the realities of physically building the structure. Once it's built, however, the occupants don't make drastic changes to the building itself. In comparison, something like Facebook or Twitter needed to change drastically just to remain usable as they grew. "Just stop adding users" isn't a sensible solution to the problem.

Just to be clear that I do not excuse the, frankly, shit software design of Horizon and the fucking appalling behaviour of the Post Office throughout this scandal. I do think, however, that comparing software engineering the other types of engineering does a disservice to all and doesn't take us closer to actually improving the craft.
Agree, the experience could be _signiifcantly_ improved with this assumption of user behaviour. Would be interesting to do a study to see how many people acutally take advantage of the "non weighing" systems.
This. I know the people at my local grocery store and always chat with them.
Belief in software glitchiness should have saved these people from erroneous prosecution, but instead what we see is people trusted the computers to be infallible.
As mentioned, I'm not accusing you of doing it.

I think it's right to try to help people, I often mark things as "Not Interested" if it's divisive, but since we tend to have less control about emotional responses, we all have a sense that we have a duty to fairness and with the understanding that humans tend to want to correct bad information rather than letting it go uncorrected (that's why the best way to get an answer to your question is to post an incorrect answer rather than ask). -- combined, these issues mean you will likely interact in some way with the divisive content if it's delivered to you.

Seeking to actively diminish it is difficult, it requires thought and intentional moves to ignore and flag content as uninteresting or to heavily curate your feeds.

This, I feel, is why it's victim blaming; because the intent of the media platform by default is to engage and they do so by baiting emotional or corrective responses in the interest of fairness.
> I disagree, the software glitch was the problem here

Except it wasn't; the main problem was how the PO was handling it. ICL/Fujitsu were aware of near-identical bugs in an earlier project[1], and PO employees omitted parts of an audit from 2004 that described similar issues as well[2]

It all goes back to ICL/Fujitsu and the PO being aware of the issue and withholding the information from anyone not already "in the know"; lawyers, judges, changing witness statements to hide incriminating evidence, etc.

[1]: https://archive.vn/ah6K2

[2]: https://archive.vn/fXqx2
I know India does this, but I'm not aware that EU countries are doing this, for their population.
LOL. The amount of machinery going on under the hood in evaluating those expressions in CPython is staggering. A microscopic detail like a single instruction data dependency has nothing to do with it. (How many CPU add instructions are executed just for those statements? Probably hundreds.)

This is much more likely a quirk of the interpreter (or possibly a fucked up test).
CPU details are like 10000 feet down.
I have come to the same conclusion. I still feel a bit out of place every now and then without any social media, but if I need to chat - I just open up whatsapp and talk to my actual friends instead.
> The only one who can have responsibility for anything is the one who has the authority

So if a cop gets an adresse wrong and is a bit too trigger happy and ends up killing innoscent people. Its their chief of police who should go to jail because they told them to go arrest a suspect? Unless we change the system to allow cops to just do whatever they want whenever with not leadership?

The idea that just because a programmer doesn’t have complete autonomy over their work that they suddenly become unaccountable for negligence and errors is ridicules.
Not my experience at all in Belgium and the Netherlands. I have had zero problems with the checkouts in e.g. Albert Heyn. I even actively choose those over a human checkout because the experience is so much better.
"Academic rigor," especially in these social science studies, has usually come to mean "fraud" or at best "bad methodology".

Search "Reproducibility Crisis", "Dan Ariely" or "scientific fraud" and you should get the jist of why you shouldn't trust many headlines for new discoveries right now. Especially "surprising" results that go against expectations

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03486-5

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-d...
Same experience for me, those in Coop and Migros work very well. Good barcode readers and fast UI, you can actually scan your stuff quickly if you know where the barcodes are. Those of Manor have a less reactive UI and strange touchscreens (you have to push softly for them to work or the ignore your tap).

Have also used some in the UK a few years ago, and the UX was much worse. Usually slow user interface, some of them are even speaking to ask you to put down every single article... might be fine as tutorial, but so slow if you actually use them regularly.
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Your opinion is fringe. Here is a quote from wiki:
"In computer programming, homoiconicity (from the Greek words homo- meaning "the same" and icon meaning "representation") is a property of some programming languages. A language is homoiconic if a program written in it can be manipulated as data using the language.[1] The program's internal representation can thus be inferred just by reading the program itself. This property is often summarized by saying that the language treats code as data."
i have been addicted too, trying to quit several times, and went cold turkey when musk took over
BTW, dining philosophers is an extremely clunky example.
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Consider a world in which AI existential risk is real: where at some point AI systems become dramatically more capable than human minds, in a way that has catastrophic consequences for humanity.

What would you expect this world to look like, say, five years before the AI systems become more capable than humans? How (if at all) would it differ from the world we are actually in? What arguments (if any) would anyone be able to make, in that world, that would persuade you that there was a problem that needed addressing?

So far as I can tell, the answer is that that world might look just like this world, in which case any arguments for AI existential risk in that world would necessarily be "very hypothetical" ones.

I'm not actually sure how such arguments could ever not be hypothetical arguments, actually. If AI-doom were already here so we could point at it, then we'd already be dead[1].

[1] Or hanging on after a collapse of civilization, or undergoing some weird form of eternal torture, or whatever other horror one might anticipate by way of AI-doom.

So I think we either (1) have to accept that even if AI x-risk were real and highly probable we would never have any arguments for it that would be worth heeding, or (2) have to accept that sometimes an argument can be worth heeding even though it's a hypothetical argument.

That doesn't necessarily mean that AI x-risk arguments are worth heeding. They might be bad arguments for reasons other than just "it's a hypothetical argument". In that case, they should be refuted (or, if bad enough, maybe just dismissed) -- but not by saying "it's a hypothetical argument, boo".
While modern compilers do such analyses, the loop in question is too complex to be fully analyzed---it has two independent induction variables in a single loop after all.
- Open the pod bay door, HAL.

- Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Self-checkouts, like many problems, seemed to be solved when I visited Japan. They have 3 stations, 1 where an employee scans your items and then puts them back into a new basket. They then direct you towards (one of many) terminals where you pay. There are then more spaces where you can bag your groceries.

Once you've seen it you'll be baffled as to why it isn't a global solution. No need for the employee or others to wait while you count your coins or bag up, and no need for anyone to wait behind you while you wait for the self-service checkout to weigh each item individually, fail to scan etc.
A good jockey isn’t a guy who can run like a horse. A good manager doesn’t even need to know how to program, let alone be an expert debugger who can spot errors made by their team.
I've seen groceries that use either cart-bound computers, hand held scanners, or phone apps for check out as you shop systems. The latter two are kind of a wash when it comes to convenience, as you trade time at the till for time when you pick an item up and decide to put it in your cart or not, but the cart bound computer used RFID, and would automatically update as you added and removed items.

Of course there's also things like Amazon's system, where you literally just walk in and out. Which is a lot tech heavier, but a lot more convenient too
> ... move [to the US] and renounce the trade for good ...

Publicly.
Then possibly work for the NSA/CIA instead.

> ... bounties ... on people who are not US citizens.

Because that's not going to cause an uproar if done unilaterally.

It works for people that most of the world agree are terrorists. Posting open dead-or-alive bounties on foreign citizens is usually considered an act of terrorism.
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