KolmogorovComplicity
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KolmogorovComplicity
6mo ago
The best policy is probably to a) maximally leverage domestic talent, b) allow foreign STEM students, but require that they be selected purely on the basis of academic merit and set up incentives such that almost all of them stay after graduating, and c) issue work visas on the basis of actual talent (offered salary is a close enough proxy).
That's not what we've been doing, of course. We have, instead, been deliberately sandbagging domestic talent, allowing universities to admit academically unimpressive foreigners as a source of cash, letting or sometimes forcing actually impressive foreign students to return home after graduation, and dealing out H-1B visas through a lottery for which an entry-level IT guy can qualify.
Against that backdrop, there's probably quite a lot of room to kick out foreign students and still produce a net improvement by eliminating affirmative action and tweaking the rules on H-1B and O-1 visas.
KolmogorovComplicity
8mo ago
Microprocessors, RAM, flash memory, cameras, digital radios, accelerometers, batteries, GPS... a small drone is basically just a smartphone + some brushless motors and a plastic body. You even need the display tech, it just moves to the control device.
A larger drone or another type of killbot might require more — jet engines or advanced robotics tech or whatever — but it will still require pretty much everything in the smartphone tree.
KolmogorovComplicity
10mo ago
If brain-computer interfaces reach the point where they can drop people into totally convincing virtual worlds, approximately everyone will have one a decade or two later, and sweeping societal change will likely result. For most purposes, this tech is a cheat code to post-scarcity. You’ll be able to experience anything at trivial material cost. Even many things that are inherently rivalrous in base reality, like prime real estate or access to maximally-attractive sexual partners, will be effectively limitless.
Maybe this is all a really bad idea, but nothing about the modern world suggests to me we’ll be wise enough to walk away.
KolmogorovComplicity
10mo ago
The best UI for an AI agent is likely to be a well-documented public API, which in theory will allow for much more flexibility in terms of how users interact with software. In the long run, the model could look something like your AI agent generating custom interface on the fly, to your specifications, tailored for whatever you're doing at the moment. Could be a much better situation for power users than the current trend toward designing UI by A/B testing what will get users to click a particular button 3% more often.
Whether or not her post was intended as a call to action would matter under US law, but the UK crime with which she was charged ('inciting racial hatred') has no such requirement.
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