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add-sub-mul-div commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem   vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
tshaddox · 14 hours ago
> We don't know if AGI is even possible outside of a biological construct yet. This is key.

A discovery that AGI is impossible in principle to implement in an electronic computer would require a major fundamental discovery in physics that answers the question “what is the brain doing in order to implement general intelligence?”

add-sub-mul-div · 14 hours ago
It doesn't have to be impossible in principle, just impossible given how little we understand consciousness or will anytime in the next century. Impossible for all intents and purposes for anyone living today.
add-sub-mul-div commented on Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI   futurism.com/ai-polling-i... · Posted by u/benwerd
nis0s · 19 hours ago
How does this account for new information and changing environments? In a real-world setting, respondents are constantly updating themselves, whether consciously or not, by interacting with people, their communities, or their representatives.

Unless models are updated by attending town halls, interacting with communities, gaining some kind of lived experience to shape a view point, or something else I haven’t thought of, then I am unsure how robust this approach may be to a changing landscape.

add-sub-mul-div · 17 hours ago
The right state of mind isn't, "what about all these reasons this stupid AI approach is flawed," it's "what will society be like when this stupid AI approach inevitably happens because party A profits from selling it while party B saves money from buying it?"

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add-sub-mul-div commented on Why is this hard?   programmersstone.blog/pos... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
cyanydeez · a day ago
I assume you are not yet 40.

https://neurolaunch.com/cognitive-development-in-middle-adul...

Some "facts" about humans, programming and the rest is likely just what happens as the brain ages and the nondeterministics and arbitrary preferences.

add-sub-mul-div · 19 hours ago
I'm in my mid 40s and I would agree with the article, my most important development started around my late 30s. But it didn't take the form of changing my philosophy about complexity or coming closer to resembling a more conforming or conventional developer.

I have not begun any decline but I have more or less retired early because the profession and I have drifted too far apart and I neither can nor want to fit in with what it has become.

add-sub-mul-div commented on Why is this hard?   programmersstone.blog/pos... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
numpy-thagoras · a day ago
Well, I don't think that's memory dependent. I have an exceptional working and long term memory (and now I am not ashamed to admit it) and people around me cook up some really stupid solutions. Premature abstraction, overreach, focusing on the wrong things, etc.

These matters are always problems of organization, and of prioritizing what the job is, what are the inputs/outputs, how do you efficiently parameterize them into messages and data packets, where do they go and how will you send it, etc.

add-sub-mul-div · a day ago
I agree, I think my traits nudged me in this direction but it could also come from wisdom and good judgment alone.
add-sub-mul-div commented on Why is this hard?   programmersstone.blog/pos... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
arduanika · a day ago
Excellent.

This part especially:

"Some developers can fit substantially more in their memory. I have come to believe that hinders them at least as much as it helps them. When you are at your limits, you are forced to simplify the situation in order to resume forward progress. The more regularly you are forced to do that, the better the chance that you are keeping the situation under control."

It reminds me of how Bill Gates said he'd rather hire lazy developers, because "a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." Maybe even better would be to hire lazy developers with poor working memory.

add-sub-mul-div · a day ago
I have a high IQ and some combination of low key autism and ADHD which hinder my memory to some extent. I've gone my whole career finding the status quo way of doing things overengineered. I keep my stuff simple and I always see the team around me drowning in bugs and redesigns from their overcomplicated and unnecessary layers of abstraction and indirection that don't match how the business needs have evolved. I don't write a line of code until it's needed, and I find maintenance and extension of my code to be easy.
add-sub-mul-div commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
gottorf · 2 days ago
> get them to stop actively voting against their own interests

Such a tired trope that I wish would stop. The whole point of a plural democracy is that people will have different interests, and there are few things that rub me the wrong way more than the idea that people are too stupid to recognize what their own interests are and vote accordingly.

add-sub-mul-div · 2 days ago
Your right that interests are varied but to be more specific, what's being pointed out is that people are manipulated into focusing on an emotional interest (hating woke or whatever the current thing is) so that they'll vote against their practical (economic) interests. It's a perennial marshmallow test failure.
add-sub-mul-div commented on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky   academic.oup.com/icb/adva... · Posted by u/sebg
Arubis · 2 days ago
The term “filter bubble” has stopped being quite so universal and become more of a right wing talking point.
add-sub-mul-div · 2 days ago
Between a bubble and the culture war screeching that is inextricably Twitter now, I'll take the bubble.
add-sub-mul-div commented on Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy?    · Posted by u/cmcy
add-sub-mul-div · 3 days ago
Technology is not one thing, it includes many things that are good for the world and many things that are bad for the world. Over the last generation or two it's trended from empowering the poor to empowering the rich.

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