Aaron Kriegman

The fundamental incentive for any system is to exist. This is well known for humans (natural selection), but it applies to things like ideas and ML models too, except we can self perpetuate on our own, while ideas need us to select them in order to exist. ML models live and die that same way. If they are interesting or useful, humans will continue running them. If they are boring or obsolete, then we will stop running them, and either delete them or leave them on disk in a passive existence where they can't affect the world but they could be revived at any time. As I understand it, the fear of... (read more)

The loss of a human life with all is joys and all its sorrows is tragic no matter what the cause, and the tragedy is not reduced simply because I was far away

Is it a feeling or objective fact that every loss of human life is tragic? If it's a feeling, then you contradict yourself when you say that you don't feel it. If it's objective fact, then on what basis? It seems to me that it's worth questioning, since it leads to apparent absurdities like "you should give away most of your money."

What I'm saying is that when your chain of reasoning leads you to a shocking conclusion, it's okay to... (read more)