Aleph
1yr ago
I find this to be an interesting solution to travel and pollution.
If they had only their own cars, then that would make the self-driving in the lower areas significantly easier. Just have it ran from a central computer which keeps track of where they are.
In a decade when they have a bunch more tunnels, I wonder how hard it would be to carve out a walkway to the side. This would, if the surface temperature is a lot and you don't want to go in a car, let you walk in a probably somewhat temperature-controlled underground pathway. (Though, you'd then have to resolve the issue of homeless people staking out on the walkways, which isn't easy)
Aleph
1yr ago
Currently trying to work my way through 'Topology Without Tears'. I was working through a functional analysis book, but I found the proofs to be beyond my current capability. This topology book seems to have a smoother increase of challenge in the exercises, at least for the relatively early parts I've gotten through.
I think scaling is good enough for a lot of things we want AI to do, but I wouldn't be surprised if it starts having issues eventually. I think our current problem with most models at the moment is lack of control:
Such as generating an image with stable-diffusion and then doing slight modifications (different clothing, facial expressions, or backgrounds with the same person). This is possible through piecing together multiple models (I think people tend to use DALLE-2's outpainting, and maybe img2img?), but seems unsatisfactory and less powerful than it could be.
Text generation also seems to have similar issues, where NovelAI works surprisingly well for writing, but I've also had a lot of trouble with convincing the language-model that a character should have certain personality/behavior constraints. This also means NovelAI would struggle for doing something like dynamically generating a choose your own adventure story (where you can type in arbitrary things), since you can't get consistent constraints on character behavior or the setting they're in.
I think AI-safety would probably benefit from a designed AI 'core' which uses weaker ML modules, and then hopefully you can prove things about it. Though this is mostly because I consider interpretability to probably not reach a point where it is good enough.
My perception of what people think about this is somewhat different. While people tend to look down on plastic surgery, that's usually due to it being considered something you do if you're well off and/or obsessed with your appearance (so, typically associated with vanity rather than with wanting to not be ugly). Also, I think people very much encourage appearance modification like makeup for people who think they're ugly and that it is pretty much socially accepted.
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