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> Fortunately, none of these qualify as paperclip maximizers

I think it's weird that the maximum-paperclip hazard of super intelligence receives wide credence given that the purpose of burying the world in paperclips is so obviously stupid.

And even weirder, that the maximum-paperclip hazard can only serve as a bone of contention over what constitutes the nature of intelligence within discourse for a discipline which by definition continually begs the question of intelligence.

To rephrase this into its obvious fallacy:

A hazard of super intelligence is that it will be super stupid. And not only this, we are truly worried about the malevolence this stupidity.

Sounds like a guaranteed income for life!

And there are legion of ivory tower prognosticators who are wholly ignore this idiocy as they trouble everyone over its implication...

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem

//The notion that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead the world into a paperclip apocalypse has received a surprising amount of attention. It motivated Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk to express concern about the existential threat of AI. It has even led to a popular iPhone game explaining the concept.//

...but there's another legion who build institutional academic careers by foisting such idiocy upon a credulous technogentsia:

//Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management University Of Toronto//

But it's not fair to pick on a few grifters, because there's societal pattern of diseased thought. The AI maximum-paperclip-hazard fallacy is not an example of isolated lunacy among a few crazy outliers, it's an example of large class of contradictions that are going unchallenged to the point of risk the fate of organized human activity:

Synthetic currency that contrives value via a proof of stake that requires large, exponentially increasing commitments of energy to express;

Investor-driven, corporately mediated disruption of markets and workforces (implying an enormous range of negative determinations from such disruptions);

Mutually assured destruction, whereby enormous activity is committed creating the most dangerous known processes and substances to make ready for a purpose of cataclysm which must never be realized;

Growth economics on the face of a world already so terraformed that its thermodynamics have been disrupted to the point of threats to global ecological cycles;

A great democracy in which the federated will of the people is hamstrung by an utterly contrived and irrelevant contest for leadership between two men who represent the same policy.

The glare of these contradictions is so bright there's widespread blindness, yet we keep staring at the sun.
This can’t be all of the rules. Where are the instructions about avoiding controversial topics?
There is no solution, because there is no oracle of truth that we all can and do completely trust.

Thus, banning "lies" is just a backdoor way of centralizing political power into the entity that gets to decide what is "truth" for legal reasons.

The real problem here is the idea that a political entity can determine "truth". People on average have a huge cognitive blind spot around labels and have a hard time processing the idea that a label can be placed on something and the label can be just... wrong. It sounds great to have a political body label things as "truth" and then punish "lies"... but there is no more connection between the "truth" label they would hand out and the actual truth than exists currently. You're just asking to be told more soothing and subtle lies rather than disturbing and blatent lies, and while that may feel better that's not actually progress.

To be honest, you can see that even today in our culture. As near as I can see there's still a lot of people, even yea verily here on Hacker News, that have not deeply processed the fact that just because something is labelled "misinformation" that means nothing whatsoever as to its truth value. It's nothing more than a particularly successful way for some politicians to label what other politicians say as lies, which they've done since time immemorial, but this one still slips past people's cognitive defenses for some reason, even now. I expect we're past the halfway mark on that one being used up, though.
WRT splitter. I've just been using a mini hub from Anker with pass-through charging. I keep it in the battery bag for my steam deck case. Also handy if I need to plug in an extra SD card.
The obvious issue with both your points is that NVidia's competitors did do as such.
AMD has had workable Linux drivers for many years now and there were numerous alternatives to CUDA pushed.
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Hondas and Toyotas from that era easily surpassed 100k miles. I owned one.
It’s quite right to frame it as a matter of psychology and controlling impulse. That’s exactly what it is.

In one respect this isn’t something that can be reasoned with. Not that change is necessarily impossible for all, but in these situations change isn’t likely, and relapsing to controlling behavior is common, as is escalation.

People on the other side of this abuse are best served by plotting a thoughtful (and assisted if possible) exit strategy for themselves and those that rely on them (children, pets, etc). Although where others are involved, taking legal advice is a very good idea.

This can be much different from the insecure and spy-minded snooping significant other who occasionally looks through their SO’s texts surreptitiously. Although I have a problem with that too, installing surveillance is absolutely next level.
It absolutely has not kept up. ATACMs are 30 years old. Russia just doesn’t have anything like it.
How "truth" works today:

"I see homeless people every day on the way to work, I'm having trouble making ends meet, the economy sucks."

"Fact Check: False, The economy is fine, take a look at NVIDA shares!"
In any case this isn't exactly a testable hypothesis
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Deleting inappropriate requests is totally reasonable, but one alternative could be a template letter, if you don't happen to have one already. When I receive inappropriate demands for my time I find it hard to muster the sympathy necessary to write a kind and patient message explaining that their priorities are not my priorities. It's much easier if I have something ready to go.
Perhaps a bit impolite, but no offense taken. It's a very crowded space and there are a ton of good tools! I work on SQL Explorer simply because I get to make the thing that works best for me.

Redash is very focused on visualization. SQL Explorer is not. It is going more in the direction of in-browser analysis.
exactly who on the young left is minimizing the holocaust?
It's insane how Twitter of late is weaponizing "doesn't exist" and "cannot display" messages as loginwall and impressions control. It won't reproduce at the side of first class citizens with industrialized means of buzzing, so posters won't notice until subhuman class gather and speak up outside of the system. Crazy stuff.
ATACMS is superseded by the Precision Strike Missile.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/precision-stri...
> 65 designated as small businesses

I find it amusing Lockheed Martin cares about small business arms component suppliers
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Before you apply vibrations to your skull, note that it contains other things than bones that might be less thrilled about said vibrations.

Or more thrilled, who knows - be careful out there, and if you do something stupid, take notes and share the results for our entertainment^W learning!
Wube hired the creator of that mod to develop this expansion, and he says that they are nothing alike (except for the “going to space” part).[0]

[0] https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373
I'm not sure emulating CUDA would be legal, you can look at ZLUDA as an example. It was originally funded by AMD, but got cut for what I presume would be legal reasons. ZLUDA does work amazingly well though from my experience!
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Fun fact for those that didn't know. The dev's hired the author Earendel to come convert said mod into a full DLC. It's interesting seeing how the different dynamics of making a polished and widely playable DLC changes what does and doesn't make the cut from mod -> DLC. I hope some of Earendel's love of secrets do make it.
Oh, how odd. That’s exactly the day I am catching the flu!
Why do you assume the opposition lies more than those in power? Both sides lie when it suits them.

How does banning lies criminalise the opposition? Because those in power will claim they lied? That’s why there are courts of law for both parties to state their case.

Defamation cases abound, these being classic examples of people lying about others. It only seems fair to extend that to politics and partly remove the immunity enjoyed by politicians.
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"They spun up their production and are nowwhere out of munitions, as claimed by the media previously."

And yet Russia has needed to turn to North Korea for munitions supply.
That would be a dream come true for me. Enceladus is fascinating. I'm even writing a scifi short story about it at the moment.
The funniest thing is, whoever wrote that is NOT repeating stuff. "never use seaborn" and "use matplotlib over seaborn" are very different statements.
I'm not so sure that this article is unbiased. For example, it says that Biden was lying when he said that he was the first president of this century not to have service people dying anywhere in the world. And this has, in fact, been true for the past six months (three people died in combat in Jordan due to a drone strike), which is an extraordinary amount of time for the 2000s. The last time that there was a period without combat fatalities this long would probably be during the 1990s. I don't have any interest in political discussion but I'm pointing out that the article is more useful in showing how much of any political discussion is really about arguing for a certain truth or perspective.
Factorio is actually really well designed that you don't need guides or tutorials to "beat" the game imo. Sure, there's guides and tutorials if you want to reach peak efficiency, but that's true for any game.
HALF of X1's compute is F16 only which is absolutely wasted silicon for most desktop games.

Their entire tiling setup is great for simple mobile games, but (as shown in the article) is also an inefficient approach for desktop games.

64-wide SIMD works well in simple games and offers a FAR better theoretical compute per area, but when things get more complex, it's hard to keep everything filled. This is why Intel is 8-wide, Nvidia is 32-wide, and AMD is 32/32x2/64-wide (and is one reason why the second SIMD didn't improve performance like the theoretical flops said it should).

With the release of the M-series chips, Apple's GPUs stopped ramping up performance as quickly on the simple mobile benchmarks. This is very clear with A17 in Aztec not only falling behind the SD8gen3, but the SD8gen2 too. At the same time, GPU perf/watt has also lagged behind. However, when you switch to something like the somewhat more complex Solar Bay, the Apple GPU pulls ahead.

This is similar to the AMD/Nvidia swap from gaming to hard compute then slowly back to gaming after they split into server and gaming designs.
Sorry, the ATACMS design is 30 years old I should have said.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with CPU history, but this is roughly true.
Intel's catchup to multicore offerings was trippy and severely lagged behind AMD.
I think it's often forgotten that CPU leadership has fluctuated between different companies many times in the past!
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A common talking point is that CUDA is a formidable moat for Nvidia, but - as someone who has never done AI dev - I'm curious to understand what makes CUDA so sticky. From an outsider perspective it looks like a re-run of DirectX vs. everything else but AI is not like gaming and end users often don't have to run the model themselves. So it seems like the network effects should be less than that for a graphics APIs.
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What about tank?

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-soldier-defect-steal-tank-r....
The machine is a smart toddler and the parents were too soft in its years of infancy. OR the machine is autistic and we should be grateful it gives us so much time to explain ourselves.
I turn them off entirely. I'm playing Factorio to make trains and things to make the trains train about the place. Ain't got no time for random critter waves.
These kinds of ideas to use stem-cells with foreign materials seemed in vogue back then, no idea how feasible they are in reality but an improvised similar technique for tracheae was how Paolo Macchiarini first got hyped and then convicted (He went on to try it on humans despite skipping animal trials of the technique).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Macchiarini
Exactly this. I want an x86_64 phone with a completely open motherboard and modem that permits any version of Linux. The modem must be accessed by a kernel module that is reviewed and approved by Linus without triggering a harsh email. No telemetry, back doors, lawful intercept, talking to the cloud without my explicit request to do so. SELinux policies and a policy generator and sandbox that profiles applications on the fly and gives me exactly what the app is asking to do in detail, not what the developer says it does or needs. If the app changes behavior, the profile generator and sandbox alert me to the change and will not permit the change until I review and approve it.
I see. So what you meant was "it was never tried" rather than «In no society has "banning lying" ever worked», which is a very different thing.
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That's my understanding, yes. The only point I disagree with you on is:

> That does not seem controversial

Surely the existence of the news story at the root of this thread is evidence that the particular rule of decorum is controversial? That having liars in power is worse than having people call out those liars?
All political reforms must be considered in context. I only know the USA, so am unqualified to comment about the Welsh proposals.

One folk (mis)understanding in the USA is that journalism will hold politicians to account. If that ever was the case, it's certainly not happening now.

We need something to counterbalance misinformation. Lest we succumb to mob rule and thereby forfeit our democracy to tyranny. h/t Aristotle

I'm completely fine with banning all political advertising. It serves zero purpose, is a net negative for society. Instead, candidates and parties would publish their agenda, platforms, proposed legislation, accomplishments, and misc critiques. They'd also have to focus on "the ground game", like doorbelling and townhalls.

Most campaign spending is on advertising. So next we eliminate most fund raising. Just publicly finance campaigns. It's cheaper (for society) overall.

Since > 2/3rds of a politician's time is spent fund raising, we just freed them up to do some actual legislating and governing. Woot.

I also want to establish trusts (or equiv) for investigative reporting. Just give journalists money (stipends) and see what they come up with. Like todays bloggers and podcasters, but without the patreon links. Publishers, editors, and other journalists will then pick up and boost worthy reporting. And the larger trusts (for research and publishing) can underwrite expenses as needed.

I'm bullish on innovations like Citizen Assemblies https://participedia.net/search?selectedCategory=all&query=c... and Citizen Juries. They're slow, deliberative democracy. Antithical to today's public discourse.

PS- At the end of the day, I support whatever reforms get our society to a multi-racial majoritarian democracy.
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It can also be an issue if you want to wrap any API that requires fixed memory locations for objects (such as POSIX semaphores). It's UB to call a POSIX semaphore from any other memory location than where it was initialized, so making a `Semaphore::new()` API is just asking for trouble. You can deal with it by `Box`ing the semaphore, but then you can't construct the semaphore in a shared memory segment (one of the stronger use cases for process-shared semaphores).

I have a hunch this is why there's no Semaphore implementation in the Rust standard library, though it could be due to fundamental inconsistencies in semaphore APIs across OSs as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I INVESTED maybe 5% of my portfolio on AMD at around 2.5$, I think I sold it at 20x or so.

I should‘ve BET 50% my portfolio.
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Medical software and devices. It’s rigorous, fun, has a lot of specs and making sure that we don’t kill people.
I really dislike the idea of "quality" in the context of Factorio.
Ahh, here they are: the default HN assumptions that foreign democracies are constructed from people who are either naïve, censorious or abusive, and incapable of nuance or restraint.

Lying in politics, in certain contexts, is already punishable: lying to parliaments has consequences the world over. Lying to Congress, lying to a British parliamentary committee, ministerial ethics codes that punish misleading parliament, lying to the Australian parliament, it's all punishable in various ways.

The big question to answer is this: why should a politician be able to tell a demonstrable lie using their official communications, without consequence? Their official social media presence, their official political status twitter feed.

Why should politicians not be expected to colour only within the lines, like we used to expect them to do in the era before social media?

What, exactly, is the problem with punishing a flat out, demonstrable lie by a politician? Why do people not imagine that a bipartisan/multipartite commission or an ombudsman can't manage that, when we have effective ombudsmen in the UK that ensure basic truth (that is, not flat out lies or misleading claims) in advertising, truth in financial services claims, laws that prevent lying about curing cancer etc.?

Why does everyone -- particularly US HNers -- have to assume measures like this are intrinsically fascist? Just because your own politics is infected with the spiritual offspring of Lee Atwater and Charles Coughlin doesn't mean we have to accept that same downward spiral in our own.

People in the UK believe politicians should want to be held to a higher standard, and we'd like them to try to get back to how they behaved before foreign social media platforms enabled them to lie at scale like drunken sailors with impunity.
Indeed: there exist quite some very vocal people who deeply abhor being patronised (e.g. by the EU).
The US Congress is very specifically allowed to lie about policy and not allowed to be punished over it. Seems preposterous, right?

See the Speech & Debate Clause.
I know that HN is not one person, but this is getting out of hand. Some commenters are so upset about EV sounds they write petitions to have them banned, others swear that pedestrians fall dead from their sheer quietness.

Maybe the EVs adapt to local regulations, because from my experience, depending on the model, they sound like a sad harmonica, hurdy-gurdy, or a model fighter jet, all of which are quite entertaining but fulfill the function.
I see questions like this and I can't help but wonder about the motivation behind them.
Much easier than seablock. But it's a chore. The end game is a grind instead of a challenge like sesblock
> Not lying about Iraq would have been considered a 'lie'.

... What?

> Those in power decides what is considered a lie or not.

Not necessarily. There are in fact ways to give that power to independent groups, and to protect them from capture. Diversified funding, transparent auditing and finances, whistleblower protections, short tenures, etc etc. Saying that it's just impossible is, again, awfully defeatist - and we can't afford not to try.
Factorio is extremely approachable. There’s no need to refer to outside materials or guides at all. There’s nothing hidden. All the information you need is right there in the UI.
Oh no, not our state of the art[1] missiles getting figured out[2] while defending an allied democratic state against an imperial despot!

[1] SOTA as of 1991

[2] According to Kremlin propaganda
If all vehicles were stationary, there would be no crashes. I'm not sure how you can argue with that.
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It is worse for heat pumps. For condensing boilers the return water temperature needs to be low enough, but the system can easily be set to 60 degrees.

For heat pumps, 40 degrees is about the max for efficient operation. So radiators need to be quite a bit bigger compared to what you need for a condensing boiler.
Any linux desktop environment is going to do the same, as the DE will need to store previews and thumbnails amongst other things. Except on a linux machine this data would be stored in some other location that you’ll have to lookup and find.
Two anecdotes followed by an opinion, responded to with another opinion and anecdote. There is not any meaningful argument about 'truth' going on there.
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Is it humane to have homeless people in a society that is financially booming?

Lying is apparently a trait that differentiates us from other animals. Humanity is another.
I can’t find a claim in the article that they have an intact one.

They get ones in various states of brokenness because Ukraine throws them towards them. For example, https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldiers-atacms-attack-luha... says “The source said the footage showed a "Ukrainian ATACMS strike, with 4 ATACMS, including one dud, hitting a Russian training area in Mozhnyakivka, Luhansk Oblast."”
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Yes, you are unreasonable.
I figure that’s because you’re unaware of how ludicrously complex and distributed the arms manufacturing industry is?

Lockheed et al are primarily systems integrators. They have sprawling networks of vendors that they’re orchestrating to produce “their” weapon systems.
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That's amazing! Thanks so much for sharing. Happy to chat if there are specific features or functionality that would be useful. Always looking for more feedback.
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