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> Could AI running amok destroy the human race?

How do you envisage AI to run amok at the current level of the technlogical progress? Insofar, AI taking over the world and obliterating humanity is the subject of the sci-fi material in books and movies only.

Misuse of AI by wicked state agents or evil inclined parties with nefarious intentions is a major issue, but we are in the same situation as with, say, a fork that can be a utilitarian utensil or a killing weapon depending on who holds it and one's aims.
you can only legislate away at-will evictions if you have rent control and rent control exacerbates the housing crisis
Why is this a goalpost for just about anything? This seems completely uncorrelated, and I'm sure many fully grown adults would fail under similar timing conditions too.
See the Wikipedia page for satisfying proofs of the Cycloid's Involute, Arc Length, Area, and Pendulum properties. The involute property has a particularly neat proof, and it gives us a neat proof of the arc length property, and a shockingly elegant construction for the pendulum motion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloid

The article about cardioids has a very elegant proof of coffee cup caustic reflection property:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardioid
"Sam and Greg"? Seriously?
AHEM... opsec fail.
No, this is adjusted by inflation. People simply have no idea how poor our ancestors were.

For $1000, you can hire someone to work for a year today, in Burundi, Somalia, or any of the other countries that are as poor today as Englishmen were in 1100.
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Anyone who believes such a ridiculous approach would work simply hasn't been paying attention or hasn't done the math. No one is going to build drones capable of sustained high-G maneuvers. It would be a pointless waste of money because building airframes with that capability comes with too much of a weight penalty. And the latest generation of missiles has gotten so deadly that being able to pull a few more Gs in the terminal engagement phase won't save the drone anyway.

The design focus has shifted away from maneuverability, and towards better sensors and lower observability. It's far more effective to detect the adversary and shoot first rather than trying to dodge incoming fire. And if they do detect an incoming missile the defensive tactics will focus on signature reduction, EW, and decoys rather than extreme maneuvers.

The next generation of tactical aircraft (both crewed and uncrewed) will be physically larger with a higher fuel fraction in order to remain relevant in the Pacific fight. It's a long way from Guam to Taiwan. They won't be able to tank every hour as was common practice during GWOT operations in the Middle East. That larger size and higher weight necessarily imposes limits on maneuverability. I would be shocked if future UCAV airframes are stressed for more than 7G.
I only read the Book of Atrus and it's worth a read. Can't vouch for any others tho
"A stupid computer is trained to appear intelligent by predicting the next word."
I get better latency and frame rate than GeForce Now on a 2660 using moonlight. Using h.265 or AV1 is necessary. I'm not familiar with Presec, but I'll bet it's defaulting to h.264.
> In the United States, the power is almost entirely in the hands of the landlord. Maybe not for things that reach criminal levels of malfeasance but for your average renter with a crappy landlord there is zero leverage, it is particularly bad now because housing is so incredibly broken at the moment.

In the USA renting is largely a state law matter. Some states are very landlord friendly, but others, such as California, are considerably more tenant friendly. For example late fees are illegal in California and you can basically get a pro se judgment easy peasy if a landlord even attempts to get you to sign a lease with a late fee clause, let alone collect one. You can also withhold rent to pay for services the landlord should have provided, and so on. Anyhow I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice, but if you're in California learn your rights.
I've seen this vaguely referenced, but when I dig in I don't find support for it.

It's far from obvious that just because the event horizons (which is just a mathematical concept and a 3D area of space) should control the trajectory of the singularity.

With two identical blackholes, with a event horizon of radius R, why should a singularity 2R away be unable to escape?
I loved reading then when I was a teenager. I remember enjoying how the books were used as portals to be worlds. The world building in general was great and I remember the story as quite clever. However, this just have been 25 years ago at least. So it might have been terrible lol
Both Myst and Riven kicked started my interest in graphics and programming that eventually led to my career in tech.

I still remember swapping out those CDs every time I switched islands. The entire experience was utterly captivating as an 13yearold.
Sympy is a poor tool to learn because it simply doesn’t scale to problems one most often encounters, even in schooling. Frankly, CAS are so general and unintelligent that problems with well known and elegant closed-form solutions, when presented to a system like sympy, result in an output which is often not even human readable - thousands of algebraic terms for instance to describe the equations of motion for a simple double pendulum.

Personally I have found that the best tools are 1) a firm grasp of elementary calculus (differential, series, and integral) and 2) exposure to simple numerical methods that apply to a broad range of problems.

Armed with this knowledge, in my opinion, Julia is a far superior language to python and its package ecosystem has a brighter future. Indeed, the language has been built with a focus on mathematical modeling and efficient numerical computation. It is a more natural starting point for those with an interest in mathematical modeling and engineering science, and will serve anyone who learns it better than python+numpy+sympy+scipy.
This would still be needed for UI animations and lerpings that aren’t tied to the actual gameplay
Will SpaceX sell/rent first stages? How about first stage engines?

I ask because Stoke is reinventing 80% (the first stage) to reinvent 20% (the second).
A lot of people have tons of subscriptions already, I would go with usage based pricing. It's a deal breaker for me, if I need to add a monthly subscription for something I don't use a lot.

But the most important thing is to get the product right.
As a person who respects many programming paradigms including OOP and FP, I beg to disagree. Specifically, I'm assuming you're talking about OOP the paradigm, not only the dot notation, for which the pipe operator is a viable alternative.

> The modern OOP-derived style of `array.mean().round(digits=2)` is just as exact in its specification, and arguably more semantically precise as well as it organizes the meaningful bits to be together.

I would have agreed with you if I were developing business applications. However, for the domain of math and science, every piece of material that I have seen assumes the paradigm of numbers as immutable entities and functions, not the paradigm of mutable encapsulated objects and interacting messages. To a mathematician or scientist the semantics of a `Vector` (as data) and a `mean` function that takes the `Vector` as input should be more natural than a black-box `Vector` object that can receive a `mean` method.
As a self taught programmer who never got farther than algebra, this looks awesome to me and I may be that small target audience haha.
We use the uap-go (https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-go) package which parses the uap-core repo and has support for many more browsers.
Because it's worth something

That's the danger of having a dedicated institution for people giving that kind of sensitive information
Definitely not dead, it's smelling a little unpleasant but that's probably early onset dementia.

Interesting if that's occurring in proportion to AI.
Right, but say you end up half way between two equal mass blackholes, under zero gravitational force. Are those two black holes definitely going to merge? If they were going near light speed in opposite directions could they not merge and free you as you stay equidistant from both?
Really nice. What is your latency?
Yesyes, the movie HER actually had it right in that you ran it on your own hardware at home.

Cloud or large company AI has no hope, only at home, user chosen censorship, working for my own interests not some advertiser, doing everything that the big companies all working on this DONT WANT is what would interest me
That's like 0.003X of a Chicxulub impacter. Or around 1X the geologically very recent eruption of Mount Toba.

The ecosphere will be fine. You'll probably vaporize a small patch of ocean, and they'll get colorful sunsets for a couple days. But that's about it.

By contrast, assuming "more or less today's technology", we're now out of petroleum reserves because we used them all in our magic instant-acceleration kinetic-energy-converter.
Microchannel for IBM with their PS/2 line.

There was also the VGA "feature connector" which was used sometimes for video capture, mpeg decoders, and so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_connector
I don't disagree. Psychedelics fit in Schedule V as-defined. Instead, they're Scheduled I and III because of Nixon's war on hippies and African-Americans.

Paroxetine and Venlafaxine seriously fucked me up. The first with rapid-onset serotonin syndrome and the latter with (also temporary) ticks, myoclonus, and vestibular problems. SSRIs are absolute trash, at least for me. The only antidepressant that mostly works on me is mirtazapine, but it also leads to absurd, continuous hunger and a propensity for weight gain.

I avoid delta-8 and delta-9 THC because they don't have overall positive effects on me, but CBD is occasionally helpful (bulk lab pure mixed with MCT oil to a calibrated dosage). For a feeling of wellbeing, Damiana tea is nice and has a pleasant taste.
> It would cost a fortune and it would take awhile, but we could do it. Certainly it would be orders of magnitude easier than getting humans there, setting up any sort of interstellar trade, or working to understand each other’s language and culture. And nobody at the receiving end would be the wiser until their planet essentially ceased to exist one day.

Many of these arguments seem to work equally well for France nuking Britain.
At the risk of demonstrating my ignorance, I never really knew about the National Gallery until last year and visited it on a whim (I happened to be at a restaurant near by and was looking for something to do). I was thoroughly impressed and it has jumped to one of my favorite museums in DC. The level of care discussed in this article is evident throughout the exhibition.
I think the most cut and dry situations is which they capture concentrated emissions from something like an O&G refinery or a cement plant, since it's an effort which ONLY exists for the sake of reducing emissions.

Even some of these, hilariously enough, despite how insanely quantifiable their benefits are, you see phenomenon like phantom credits like where Alberta, Canada gave Shell double credit for each tonne of Co2 they actually reduced.

I'm sure subsidies for green energy projects do reduce emissions, I just think the accounting is BS.
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I don't think you've actually read the details of my proposal because the fact that spammers can generate new identities is irrelevant.

Nevertheless, to answer your question, spam is generally understood to be unsolicited email. The fact that computers can't read minds is exactly why they shouldn't try and should instead simply remove the core mechanism that enables spam to begin with: the easy ability to reach you because of guessable and harvestable global identifiers, and the difficulty of changing a compromised address means collecting and reselling addresses has value.

Both of these properties are violated in this system. Minting new email guids is a trivial core operation that literally happ all of the time, and addresses cannot be guessed/brute-forced, therefore addresses have almost no value to spammers or brokers.
>Houston is rarely held up as an example of good land use planning.

The plan in 1837 was to sell the land.

To people who wanted to come to the intended capital & industrial center of the new republic, after it won independence from Mexico.

That's a wide variety of buyers, many of whom were expected to do things with their land that had never been done before.

No surprise that without further planning, it turned out better for citizens than alternatives. Maybe it goes to show that the planning often seen elsewhere is crafted more to the disadvantage of citizens than none at all.
US product labelling laws prevent peanut butter from containing palm oil. Products with palm oil are called “peanut butter spread.”
could someone explain the difference between r6rs modules and guile modules?
I may have been distracted by the cute alliteration.

Is the difference that you can literally fetch some name defined in a module at runtime vs it being a purely static thing a-la C includes?
Tell that to Space NATO.
I've heard a different quote that was allegedly made when she was 13 (I guess taking an proven quote and transposing the age to another unproven quote is an easy step, possibly even accidentally) but Snopes currently rates that as "unproven".

(Given the things he's actually on record as saying, it wouldn't surprise me though.)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-sexually-attracted-i...
We couldn't accomplish this. Theoretically speaking, yes we could, but "theoretocally" means "ignoring the half of the reality". We can't even travel to Moon now practically.

To send a chunk of tungsten at a relativistic velocity would mean an effort for trillions of dollars. Don't forget that it is not enough to just get a chunk of tungsten moving, you want it to hit a moving target, and you'd better add some thrusters to it and a guidance system. Is there anyone willing to pay for that?

Any civilization will need to concentrate a lot of efforts to fire a chunk of tungsten, but why might it do it? There are better ways to utilize that effort. Maybe it is a rational thing to go aggressive nevertheless, but the benefits will be in a far future while politicians needs to justify spending now. People and societies are not rational. There is no real examples of rational agents, but people still insist on treating rational agents as something real. Theoretically speaking AGI might become a rational agent, but I doubt it from a practical standpoint: AGI will be limited by a computational power and by its abilities to gather data. So it will use heuristics, and it will be not rational. It can be closer to a platonic ideal of a rational agent then human, but even that is not free of doubt. People surpisingly well do with all their heuristics and when they appear irrational it is mostly due to inability of observers to understand the real motivation of people.

You need a much more advanced civilization to be as aggressive. A civilization that can do it by spending maybe 0.1% GDP for 10 years. At least looking at humanity, I'd say that any cost higher than that will not work definitely.

Such unprovoked and costly agression having no observable results easily could end a lot of political careers.

Theoretically speaking we can ignore all these difficulties and start with the assumption that it is possible to concentrate 100% GDP on a one task for years or even decades. Practically it is impossible.

Maybe another civilization will have another structure and will be able to concentrate efforts on a larger scale then humanity? Maybe. But could you imagine such a hypothetical civilization and estimate chances of it to get to a sufficiently advanced level? I cant neither. So while I keep in mind this theoretical dreams of rational civilization purging each other, I do not assign any credibility to them. I keep myself in an uncertain state, the best state to have an open mind, to be ready to absorb any evidence or reasoning.
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(What the article calls) Canonisation is an interesting issue - it seems very hard to get right and to do so efficiently.

I'm trying to wrap my head around a the issue in a regex parser that I've knocked up.

I'm currently ending up (expectedly) with multiple nodes representing equivalent languages; I want to strip these out when I use code generation to convert the constructed network into a switch based static automaton.

The most robust way to see whether two languages are the same is to xor them and test for interminability - but this means comparing each pair of nodes throughout the network, and I'd rather avoid the n^2 scaling if there's another option.

That option is to generate a canonical expression for the language that the machine represents, somewhat difficult but far more efficient when it comes to detecting collisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization
I believe that the versus for sale on steam now allows for a modern 3d first person mode and a VR mode
> Great incentive alignment for both parties.

It can create unfortunate incentives though. For example, logging and metrics services that use usage pricing create an incentive to send less logs and metrics, which leads to reduced observability. OTOH, those are services where the cost for the provider scales somewhat linearly with the usage of the customer.
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Oh, thanks! Now I realized you can search characters from the changes menu.
Yes, having eyes is incredibly dangerous. It allows people to select a target from anything they can see.
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>Founded in the 1830s at the confluence of the Buffalo and White Oak bayous

There are other bayous collecting runoff from other watersheds, and like others, these two streams running through central Houston have apparently become miles wider and dozens of feet deeper on a routine basis for many thousands of years.

In Wikipedia, the 1873 aerial drawing of Houston shows there is only one thing in the picture; a flood plain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_map-Houston-1873.jpg

The developing Allen brothers probably didn't know it at the time, but the purpose of Houston was to sell "false estate" as if it was real estate.
How do you guys monitor your cron jobs?
"and agpl3 too!" If you don't mind, I'm curious what you mean by this :) most service hosting providers I'm aware of (and worked with in the past) run away from AGPL3 software due to the viral nature of the license.
some telltale word smells of CorpSpeak BS. Where's Orwell when we need him?

"putting in place the foundations"

"keep elevating our safety work"

"As models continue to become much more capable"

mindless throat-clearing. In fact, beginning a sentence or phrase with "as" is classic CorpSpeak

"a very tight feedback loop"

"We are also continuing to collaborate with governments and many stakeholders "

anytime anyone says they are "continuing to collaborate" it's usually BS

"carefully weigh feedback" "carefully" is a twin of "collaborate"

"proven playbook"

someone on Twitter comments, "This was definitely written by Sam. You can tell because it says absolutely nothing at all."
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Humans are generally afraid of death, or have others they are fighting for; there are certainly humans that don't want power so much as they want to watch the world burn, but they seem to not intersect well with the set of humans who are adept enough to cause a lot of world-scale damage.

With an AI, it isn't clear that it will care about things the same way we care about things, or if it does care about things if those things are things we care about as well; the AI also is capable of knowing simultaneously all of the varied expertise of an army of humans.
Plus: trustworthy to have my interests in mind instead of whatever tech company owns it
> One of the benefits of GeForce now is im pretty sure they are subsidizing it.

NVidia is getting the cost advantages of being the manufacturer.

Renting out rack mounted gamer PCs costs more than users are willing to pay for it.
Users pay by the month, but server costs are per hour of use. As a business, this only works if users don't use it much, like a gym. Or users face severe limits on how much time they can use.
Most of the early "cloud gaming" companies are gone, because the business model didn't work for them.

For a sense of what it really costs, see Shadow PC. They charge $30 - $40 per month, after the first month intro price.
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Do you think this advice applies equally to a B2B tool like the one described? I feel like subscription overload is a B2C thing, but not so much B2B (where subscriptions to many physical and digital goods are expected).
Isn't it more important for academic type authors to have their papers just be published, with higher priority than to be as readable as possible?

Plus for it to really be peer review, you would have to have non-native speakers reviewing the papers of non-native authors :)

Which is probably more like what's happening.
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Are you saying they aren't already preventing it? I would find that hard to believe...
Do you think you will die if you don't buy "groceries and many basic things."? Is it an issue that all "personal software" doesn't evoke enough of a perceived value compared to those two categories?
Every seller has to think critically themselves about how to structure pricing in a way that accounts for user benefit, market alignment, and OpEx.

I recommend going through the BMG book process to be sure all of the big areas are considered. [0]

> Coders, as a rule of thumb, mostly code, and irrationally value the code of other people at $0. In the back of their mind they always believe they can "code up a better replacement in a weekend." Even though this is 99.99% of the time not true.

This comes across as reductive stereotyping lacking in nuance and denying individual abilities of real humans who may also happen to have other hustle skills like sales, advertising, and marketing. Please don't do this.

0. https://www.strategyzer.com/library/business-model-generatio...
I would say at the very least that the empire of Japan clearly evaluated them differently when it surrendered unconditionally directly after being attacked with this new technology.

You are saying magnitudes don't influence the identity of something, this is obviously not true. I don't literally attract other objects, the Sun does. The difference is mostly magnitude of mass.
having spent my PhD writing in Julia, coming back to object oriented programming felt like programming with a hand tied to my back. many operations just make more sense dispatching on multiple arguments rather than just one, and. cramming methods into a class felt unnatural
Favorite piece of Riven trivia:
If you've played the game you might remember the one spot where there's a giant sword sticking out of the ground. Since this place also appears in one of the game's FMV cutscenes they had to use a real giant sword prop for filming. The person that made the giant sword prop was Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

https://youtu.be/gcDCZ2TmTck?si=8J8A4ja1vRGDC9c6&t=150
I often see critics describe it as pre-enslavement, but I really don't understand why. One common example of alignment today is parents teaching their children to be kind and helpful rather than mean and combative. Would anyone characterize that as enslavement, or argue that it doesn't help kids to be raised this way?