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I have considered making sofiechan open source. I probably will some day. I have a few hesitations:... 2d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.5 6.5

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Land's theory is culture agnostic but also not culture agnostic. He in particular has taken to emphasizing the specifically northwest european or even more specifically anglo nature of this whole thing. Yes generalized meta-darwinism is substrate independe... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.2 3.2

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I should have called this post "the tag apocalypse". We're going to be in tag chaos for a while as the autotagger is fast and opinionated and we're not yet in equilibrium with it, so it's going to do things like rewrite the tags on all posts as it figures ... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0

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I can imagine vast immersive game worlds spun up on demand by generative techniques, but how social is that going to be? There's a dystopian version of the generative media world where everyone just gets heavenbanned into a personal slop-Matrix. I also hav... 1w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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That idea of building many small factories sounds like it's not going to work very well. I'm not a manufacturing guy, but centralization in "gigafactories" is what SpaceX is doing. Vertical integration is probably better than whatever the primes are doing ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.3 7.3

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I think in this discussion, as well as the places where I generally see this particular kind of critique of EA and x-risk come up, there's a conflation of two intertwined but separable core issues. The first is the factual risk of irreparable damage to the... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.3 4.3

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They're nice! It's a small thing, but a good aesthetic improvement. Also a functional improvement, in that they make it easier to track anons when scanning a thread. 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.8 4.8

They're nice! It's a (view hidden) log in to judge received 4.8 4.8

Yeah it happens. I wish I had a better solution for you. It's been working reliably for most people afaik, and email is tough to get over those final reliability hurdles. Right now we're just using nearlyfreespeech as the provider, but we'll probably have ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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not a ton of new ideas here, mostly agreeing with what others have said already.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.6 3.6

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Yeah I've seen this stuff before. I remember the one with the mushroom. This is definitely getting much better. I wonder where it will go. I wonder if it will at some point be basically "solved" with the ability to pair arbitrary video with arbitrary audio... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7

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Very cool, guys. Let a thousand alt social media flowers bloom. I look forward to seeing your respective attempts. I hope you’ll still want to come visit us here. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.9 4.9

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I agree, but I mean that this can only be ascertained retrospectively, which causes many to conflate the two. That is, the connotation is typically of 2, but the expression itself is indeterminate and includes 1, indeed there's no shortage of false negativ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.7 2.7

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How about aggregating the collective will of a bunch of individuals wills? By will, I mean a freeform expression/document consisting of issues one values/cares about/wants change in. 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.8 0.8

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They claim: "Pangram Text is designed to detect AI-generated content with a near-zero false positive rate."... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.0 3.0

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Good points. As one of those psychopathic techno-spergs you mention, I understand love as a sort of higher-order self interest of the social body, and emotion as our proxy intuitions on correct response in the less rationally calculable cases. The reason t... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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Ah sorry, I meant a migration **from the physical to the digital world.... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.8 0.8

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I'm a fan of Handmer and this was an interesting challenge to my usual resume-hating ways. It made me think more about the compounding of skill and reputation required to get involved in and do great things. There's a boring resume-stacker interpretation f... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0

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What's your favorite resource? What things are being done or have been done in traditional ML that are especially worth studying?... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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2008 is when the internet broke... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.9 0.9

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Why are anonymity and reputation antithetical? If you track them socially of course they are, but if you have some system of automated reputation tracking that can be kept secret, you can have social anonymity with reputation. I always distinguish social a... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7

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That makes sense. The forward deployed engineers are the engineers the customer should have but don't. 8mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7

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America retains distinct advantages in premier industrial domains, such as computer chip design (note, separate from manufacture), rockets, turbine jet engines, and various advanced materials science. As a strictly military example, no one makes night visi... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.5 1.5

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One of my old friends from Berkeley wanted to design a new power supply for an amp. He designed it from scratch, used open source PCB design software and had it printed for him by a company specializing in such things.... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.9 3.9

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This is very cool. I didn't know this existed, but a friend sent it to me. It's shockingly close to what I envisioned and am doing for sofiechannel. I'll admit I've been inspired at points by Paul's other work. There are commonalities like his friendly AI ... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.5 6.5

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consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.3 7.3

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Rally name: End The Occupation, China Out Now! 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.3 1.3

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There had been a thread on high software profit margins, which has since disappeared off sofiechan. The OP on hackernews might still be relevant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904339):... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.3 1.3

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I looked to President Eisenhower in his inaugural address for guidance... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.2 0.2

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If we're going to delve into economics, I would advocate including the modern Austrians in addition to the conventional neoclassical authors like Marshall.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.1 2.1

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1. Urbit is not designed to be uncensorable, nor is it particularly useful for our purposes.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.7 5.7

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There was an interesting post related to this and the prospect of a Biosingularity a few weeks back:... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6

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I would like to rephrase that as classical man living in a new kind of polis that uses computerized communication and governance mechanisms. 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.1 2.1

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I notice a large number of threads converge on approximately 60% up, 1% down. This is two things: not enough people, so when the usual number of us vote and engage in a usual thread, it ends up with about the usual amount of evidence. But then they should ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.2 4.2

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see also on the general topic of minimalist computing: Suckless... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.4 1.4

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