When it comes to disputes about AI coding capabilities, I think a lot of people who either don't follow AI capabilities developments or who aren't particularly capable coders might be missing some context, so I wrote a post wherein I try to get an AI coding tool to reimplement a...
I've been doing some thinking on AI safety's awareness problem, after a quick search I found that this post summarizes my thoughts pretty well. In short, AI safety has an awareness problem in a way that other major crises do not (I'll draw parallels specifically with climate change in my...
When it comes to disputes about AI coding capabilities, I think a lot of people who either don't follow AI capabilities developments or who aren't particularly capable coders might be missing some context, so I wrote a post wherein I try to get an AI coding tool to reimplement a feature in my game then closely study the output to demonstrate how well it's able to do that.
Working as the programmer on a game, I would get bug reports from artists playing through themselves, often including their own hypothesis as to what was causing the issue. These issues were all obviously real and required immediate diagnosis, but over time (for issues with non-obvious causes) I learned to take the artists' "helpful" speculations as indicators of where not to start looking.
Come on out to the ACX (Astral Codex Ten) Montreal Meetup! This week we'll be discussing the first finalist in this year's ACX book review contest: Autobiography Of Yukichi Fukuzawa
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Venue: L'Esplanade Tranquille, 1442 Clark, possibly second floor balcony, possibly in the outdoor area.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 6th, 2024, 1:00PM.
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Come on out to the ACX (Astral Codex Ten) Montreal Meetup! This week, we're talking about Jon Blow's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization".
Two shorter highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeAMiBKi_EM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEn2HPGXwj8
Summary: Jon Blow talks about his hypothesis that, as technology grows in complexity (in all areas, but he dives deeper on software as a specific example), deep knowledge of that technology among top experts gets harder and harder to maintain, which can lead to a slow decline in a civilization's ability to improve upon and eventually even maintain infrastructure based on that tech.
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Come on out to the ACX (Astral Codex Ten) Montreal Meetup! This week, we're talking about Anarcho-capitalism.
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Venue: L'Esplanade Tranquille, 1442 Clark, possibly second floor balcony, possibly in the outdoor area.
Date & Time: Saturday, June 8th, 2024, 1:00PM.
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Come on out to the ACX (Astral Codex Ten) Montreal Meetup! This week, we're talking about Etienne Fortier-Dubois’ book review of Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs.
You can find a summary for this reading as well as potential questions (all written by Massimo) for the meetup at the end of this post.
Venue: Ye Olde Orchard Pub & Grill, 20 Prince Arthur St W.
Date & Time: Saturday, February 3rd, 2024, 1:00-5:00 PM.
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I second The Mind, seems to be close to what you're looking for as described in your other comment.
Yeah, I'll admit I am more iffy on the fiction side of this argument, Hollywood isn't really kind to the reality of anything. I was actually not aware of any of these movies or shows (except superintelligence which I completely forgot about, whoops), it does seem things are getting better in this regard. Good! I hold that climate change still has a much stronger non-fiction presence though.
Yeah, I think this gets at a crux for me, I feel intuitively that it would be beneficial for the field if the problem was widely understood to be important. Maybe climate change was a bad example due to being so politically fraught, but then again maybe not, I don't feel equipped to make a strong empirical argument for whether all that political attention has been net beneficial for the problem. I would predict that issues that get vastly more attention tend to receive many more resources (money, talent, political capital) in a way that's net positive towards efforts to solve it but I admit I am not extremely certain about this... (read more)
I've been doing some thinking on AI safety's awareness problem, after a quick search I found that this post summarizes my thoughts pretty well. In short, AI safety has an awareness problem in a way that other major crises do not (I'll draw parallels specifically with climate change in my analysis). Most ordinary people have not even heard of the problem. Of those that have, most do not understand the potential risks. They cannot concretely imagine the ways that things could go horribly wrong. I'll outline a few reasons I think this is an undesirable state of affairs, but on a surface level I feel it should be obvious to most people... (read 996 more words →)
I’m unsurprised people who first learned about cryonics from Wikipedia have an unfavourable view of it, their page on the subject takes a fairly negative slant. I vaguely recall something about an editor having it out for the field.
If you’re considering places to move outside of the the US then it’s worth knowing that north america is pretty bad when it comes to urban design and car safety. Here’s a video on car crashes in the netherlands, I recommend this guy’s channel in general for comparisons with that country, which is quite sane relative to the US and Canada: https://youtu.be/Ra_0DgnJ1uQ
I also hear japan is pretty good at urban design and safe public transport (trains especially).
Have you heard of the conlang Toki Pona? I'm not super familiar with it and it's community since I just learned about it recently but it's only got 123 root words, I've heard it claimed that you can learn it in a weekend, and (from my limited perspective) it seems quite popular in the wider conlang community.
I try my best. It was interesting to see Claude grepping through my files, it's impressive that it managed to locate the relevant camera code despite it being in the stage update function (though fortunately for it the update code was all in one place). I'm also impressed that Claude Code can write Odin... (read more)