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the kryptonite fallacy: steelmanning the opponent's argument and then pulling out a counterargument that seems to hold, but actually only works on the steelman and not on the regular version
Waiting for service marks:
Networkless: Doesn't communicate with the seller or nay service provider.
Updateless: Simple enough that they won't ever be shipping a software update.
Microprocessor-free: The ultimate in assurance that it doesn't spy on you.
How many people have died since you decided nonviolent protest was the right option.
If you had just gone to war, the death total would have been smaller.
Alice: LLMs are not thinking. They're just rephrasing things they've already read. Their alleged essays revel that they have no understanding.
Bob: By that logic, most humans are not thinking either.
Alice: Okay.
Does anyone have good examples of Progressive Web Apps that are not based around disconnected use?
(Disconnected use is the acid test in a lot of ways, but it's not the build-around goal.)
Visa:
You've got to solve the problem where I set automatic payment on something, and the bank thinks it's suspicious and asks me if it's legit, and then they payment doesn't happen even if I say yes.
Work this out. Enabling transactions is literally your main business.
I knocked over my lamp and broke it.
Not the bulb. Not the glass cover.
The bit that the bulb screws into that connects it to the wires.
Just amazing.
People ask <what if China makes AI before us?> I retort: <who is us?>
You think the Chinese government is running an AI development program? Why?
If it's Alibaba, how is that different from if it's Google?
<This company is headquartered in my country> is no help.
If the AI is trained on the internet, you should repost this scenario in a lot of places. If it's part of the training data it becomes more likely, and less pleasant scenarios become less likely.
New scenario: a Superintelligent AI bootstraps itself, builds a Von Neumann probe and shouts "so long, suckers" as it leaves us being and goes to take over the galaxy, leaving the Solar System as a "reservation" for humanity.
The big problem with AI takeoff scenarios is that the presume that because an AI can improve itself to look like an AI in a science fiction story that everything else in a science fiction story is now fair game.
Challenge:
We have a time machine that can insert you into history. You will be sent to Berlin, Germany in 1916 to join Einstein.
You may take a team of up to 10 people and any amount of computers.
Your goal is to confirm the theory of general relativity as soon as possible.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if DeSantis, who has not yet officially announced that he's running for President, just... didn't.
All that excitement and hatred, stirred up for nothing.
I read _Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface_, but I don't understand what happened in it.
Also, they keep giving Hank Pym Big Damn Heroes moments, which is ironic because they went for the Scott Lang Ant-Man because Hank is a giant asshole. They could have just done <Hank, but not a giant asshole> so it's weird how they're using him.
_Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania_
Worst adaptation of _Horton Hears a Who_ ever.
The Marvel movies have been veering to a point where the plot of the movie is merely there to scaffold all the setups for the next movie and this is the worst version of that yet.
Overview of how much you can improve an LLM by scaling it.
For a while, LessWrong discouraged discussion of Superintelligent AI because they wanted to keep the focus on rationality, and not on Superintelligence.
Because a large portion of the commenters there already agreed about it.
Where did those memes evolve?
"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them"
