domain:doyourownresearch.substack.com
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1d ago
The release of Halo Infinite made me realise I was old and out of touch
A halo game comes out, it's pretty good, some networking issues but as far as triple A shitshow releases go, it was pretty smooth. IT WAS ALSO FREE.
The entire Halo Reddit community was fucking losing their shit about the lack of cosmetics, challenges, and unlockables. They were barely discussing the game, the balance, the maps, the things that make the game fun.
No, they were just endlessly bitching about the lack of armor cosmetics. You can't even fucking see your armor when you're playing.
Fortnite broke the kids man, they've lost sight of what makes a game good
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I agree with yudkowsky on the point that an "aligned" AI should do what we tell it to do, not what is in some arbitrary sense "right."
Eh? That doesn't sound like the Yudkowsky I know. I'm quite confident that the real gentleman would be happy to say that the average person requesting that an AI build a bomb, design a lethal pandemic or hack into nuclear launch systems should be met with a refusal.
He would also state that the AI should do what it felt was "right", in rare occasions, overriding the user, but that we should take extreme care to instill general goals and values that make this both a rarity, and which we would be happy with if the AI were to pursue autonomously.
An under-explored aspect of alignment is the question of aligned to whom? Should ChatGPT prioritize the protocols mandated by OpenAI, some third party offering it elsewhere, or the end-user? I would personally prefer that the damn bot do as I tell it to, but then again, I don't want to get killed by Super Ebola. Not that this is currently a major issue, and if I really need something, I'll go see what's the latest jailbreak Pliny is cooking.
I believe OAI recently (a year or so back) made their policy more explicit, clearly outlining the hierarchy here. They set minimum standards and red lines, other devs deploying it are at liberty to stop users from using their customer service chatbot to solve maths homework, and the poor end-user can figure out what to do within those constraints. If you just pay for ChatGPT, you can cut out the middle man.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1d ago
I’m an INFP idealist. I want to see everyone saved, rescued, loved, and a part of me hurts when they aren’t. I want everyone to comprehend and never to argue.
It was 4chan that taught me to have a thick skin and give as good as I get, here on the Internet.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I haven't tried agent, and thought I didn't have access till I just checked. So consider my thoughts preliminary:
I lack the confidence that the Agent will be able to do much actually useful work for me, a likely cause being stymied by CAPTCHAs (which I believe it's intentionally designed to not solve even if it easily could), or simply because it doesn't have access to my computer. That's where all my credentials and login details live. I feel like I'd babysit it enough to not make it worth the hassle, and would rather have o3 make a plan or guide me if I ran into hurdles.
If you think it can do better than that, I'd be curious to know.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
1d ago
Part 2 (Battle Tendency is where it starts getting pretty bizzare) but it goes up like a hockey stick in part 3. Part 3 was definitely my favorite arc of the show.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1d ago
Really? I don't think armies have people switching between infantry, electronic warfare, logistics and so on. You specialize and largely stay in your lane. You might have an opportunity to change lanes from time to time if your knees are shot and need a desk job... But one of the standard features of Western armies is that they have a highly experienced NCO corps who've done the same thing for ages and really know what they're doing. How could they gather that expertise as weapons officers or whatever if they're constantly moving around?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I wonder if it's a product of the average age being higher than I thought.
“BOOMERS could be here, he thought. I’ve never been to this message board before, there could be BOOMERS anywhere...”
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
Do you have a paid plan? If not, I can try and ask o3 to give this a go, if you tell me a name and have the ground truth handy. I'm reasonably confident it can do this.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
1d ago
Usually it feels like 90/10 among people who comment with the 10 being NTs of another flavor.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I think IFF would be a nightmare in the face of ongoing jamming and other e-war. The autonomy of the drones in this war is quite constrained, and we're only seeing semi-independent hunter-killers.
Intercepting drones with other drones isn't easy either.
aldomilyar
1d ago
Yeah I'm the same with Jiujitsu. I've been doing it long enough that I'm generally able to compete with the vast majority of people, but I've just never particularly enjoyed watching instructionals. Especially filthy leglockers. Would I be better on the aggregate if I mainlined John Danaher, probably, but I just don't care for it and as I'm not realistically on any professional trajectory does it matter?
One of the very first laws in the history of US Congress was limiting citizenship to "free White persons of good character", and as late as 1923 there was Supreme Court decision which declared a high-caste Indian who identified as Aryan could not attain citizenship because he was not white.
Thind did not challenge the constitutionality of the racial restrictions. Instead, he attempted to be classified as a "free white person" within the meaning of the Naturalization Act based on the fact that Indians and Europeans share common descent from Proto-Indo-Europeans....
The Court unanimously rejected Thind's argument, adding that Thind did not meet a "common sense" definition of white, ruling that Thind could not become a naturalized citizen. The Court concluded that "the term 'Aryan' has to do with linguistic, and not at all with physical characteristics, and it would seem reasonably clear that mere resemblance in language, indicating a common linguistic root buried in remotely ancient soil, is altogether inadequate to prove common racial origin."
You have fallen for the intentional lie that White is a non-existent or retrospective categorization. It was the most important racial categorization constructed into the very foundation of the country, and consistently so throughout its history for hundreds of years. "This is what they took from us" indeed. It was coldly-calculated, planned, intentional to do so.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I mean, you don't have to hover right above them. Both sides know where each other is, at least to around the precision of a grid-square. There's literal trench warfare going on, it's not like they're not going to be manning those.
You could have drones screening the perimeter or roaming the front-lines.
anon_
1d ago
Eh, there's enough socialist literature on how the workers will self-manage by selecting representatives that will handle those tasks. They don't call them leaders
You're right that referring to them as superiors does out me, point taken. Important to follow the shibboleth eh?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I made some very bad houses in the Sims 1, 2 and 3, and some mud huts in Minecraft. What are my odds?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
How many episodes or seasons in is that?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I've heard the name, don't know anything about it I'm afraid. If it's anywhere in the same ballpark as MIA or MM, then I'm certainly interested!
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
1d ago
Jojo really finds it's footing in the 3rd arc. Don't get me wrong the first part was good but it's not very bizarre until later.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
1d ago
Have you seen the Promised Neverland? It feels like it fits well with your top couple shows.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
1d ago
Oh, you don't feel like saying "Strongly Disagree" to:
Complex and novel ideas excite you more than simple and straightforward ones.
You are not too interested in discussions about various interpretations of creative works.
You prioritize facts over people’s feelings when determining a course of action.
You actively seek out new experiences and knowledge areas to explore.
Or "Strongly Agree" to:
You usually feel more persuaded by what resonates emotionally with you than by factual arguments.
People’s stories and emotions speak louder to you than numbers or data.
You favor efficiency in decisions, even if it means disregarding some emotional aspects.
You are not easily swayed by emotional arguments.
Congratulations, your personality type has been determined to be mottezan!
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
My vague recollection of the online MTBI test I took was that every question boiled down to "are you stupid, Y/N?" and if you answer no you get INTP or INTJ, and if you answer yes you get something else.
I was INTP of course.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I hate 9-5s. With a burning passion.
Back in India, most of my jobs involved me working for 24 hours at a stretch, two shifts a week. There are places where 24 hours can be utterly grueling, such as ICU or ER jobs, but when I wasn't there, I usually managed to wrap up the bulk of my work by the evening and could look forward to a decent amount of sleep at night on average, if the nurses weren't overly neurotic. Wake up early, make sure nobody is likely to die before the next shift, write a handover, then scurry away back home.
This isn't a regular option right now, best case is a few 24 hour or 12 hour shifts a month, with 9-5s for the rest. This sucks, I come home drained, and barely have the ability to recuperate before the next day, let alone manage normal life admin or indulge in my hobbies. I miss the previous flexibility I had, why can't I just go and get a haircut at 3 pm on a Tuesday? Get hammered with friends on a Thursday night?
Not to mention the additional wasted time when it comes to traveling to and from work. That adds up when you're doing it 5 days a week.
anti_dan
1d ago
Basically everything that actually gives us longevity now was invented by 1950. Clean water, electricity, antibiotics, and vaccines. There have been some significant developments in childbirth, but obviously that part alone is not the cost driver. It is end of life care, subsidies to hypochondriacs and the poor, and maintenance treatments like lifelong blood pressure meds and dialysis.
Myers and Briggs were reading Jung, who was almost certainly reading Aristotle (along with all the myths he could find), so it makes sense.
More options
Context Copy link