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I also grew up with some sumptuously illustrated science books, like Roy A. Gallant's National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe, and the Eyewitness Science series. And everything I could find by David Macaulay.
Do the Zizians fit in the "rationalist/EA/risk community"? Gosh and golly gee.
Yuddites and Zizians are a better example of the "narcissism of small differences" than any of the ones that Siskind propped up.
yeah, DeepSeek LLMs are probably still an environmental disaster for the same reason most supposedly more efficient blockchains are — perverse financial incentives across the entire industry.
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the waste generation will expand to fill the available data centers
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oops all data centers are full, we need to build more data centers
This is much more a TechTakes story than a NotAwfulTech one; let's keep the discussion over on the other thread:
Perhaps the most successful "sequel to chess" is actually the genre of chess problems, i.e., the puzzles about how Black can achieve mate in 3 (or whatever) from a contrived starting position that couldn't be seen in ordinary ("real") gameplay.
There are also various ways of randomizing the starting positions in order to make the memorized knowledge of opening strategies irrelevant.
Oh, and Bughouse.
Pouring one out for the local-news reporters who have to figure out what the fuck "timeless decision theory" could possibly mean.
The big claim is that R1 was trained on far less computing power than OpenAI’s models at a fraction of the cost.
And people believe this ... why? I mean, shouldn't the default assumption about anything anyone in AI says is that it's a lie?
Wojciakowski took the critiques on board. “Wow, tough crowd … I’ve learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability.”
Christ, what an asshole.
Those are the actors who played Duncan Idaho in the David Lynch adaptation and in the two Syfy miniseries. So, yeah, it's not wrong, just incomplete — though I have no idea why it only serves up those three. There's certainly no limitation to three images, as can be verified by searching for "Sherlock Holmes actor" or the like.
"When I have a disagreement with a girl, I hit my balls with a hammer. There is absolutely nothing she can do; it's a brutal mog."
To date, the largest working nuclear reactor constructed entirely of cheese is the 160 MWe Unit 1 reactor of the French nuclear plant École nationale de technologie supérieure (ENTS).
"That's it! Gromit, we'll make the reactor out of cheese!"
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SneerClub Classic: Big Yud's Mad Men Cosplay
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Yudkowsky writes,
How can Effective Altruism solve the meta-level problem where almost all of the talented executives and ops people were in 1950 and now they're dead and there's fewer and fewer surviving descendants of their heritage every year and no blog post I can figure out how to write could even come close to making more people being good executives?
Because what EA was really missing is collusion to hide the health effects of tobacco smoking.
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SneerClub Classic: got em (first posted 17 October 2021)
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Steven Pinker tweets thusly:
My friend & Harvard colleague Howard Gardner, offers a thoughtful critique of my book Rationality -- but undermines his cause, as all skeptics of rationality must do, by using rationality to make it.
"My colleague and fellow esteemed gentleman of Harvard neglects to consider the premise that I am rubber and he is glue."
Did you ever read Mad Mazes by Robert Abbott? That was a book of 20 mazes that were practically lessons in graph theory. I remember one involved navigating a public transit map where you could make free transfers of the same type (bus to bus or train to train) or to the same color (e.g., a red bus line to a red train line). Another involved using a die to mark your position on a grid; you could only move to a square if tilting the die over in that direction brought the number printed on the square to the top of the die.