Tom Nicholson

Building the cognitive architecture for whatever comes next - @_mindanu - AI from @Cambridge_Uni - 20+ years coding experience

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@elonmusk If human lifetimes are extended, maybe it doesn't matter. We have AI to come up with new ideas, so necrosis of thought doesn't matter that we don't die. This is neither good nor bad, it just is

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@BurnsideWasTosh Brexit has been a shit show peddled by shit munchers

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@ai_sentience AI. Electricity doesn't pass through the brain, electro-chemical signals do.

Besides, it's not the substrate or the signals that matter, it's the information processing

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@petergyang I use git hooks to keep them consistent

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@perrymetzger @unclebobmartin Sounds like we need a human in the loop

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@perrymetzger @unclebobmartin And who sets the goal? A human I presume

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@brivael Your fundamental assumption is: humans are already as smart as they need to be, and being any smarter brings no value.

Superhuman intelligence will keep being more valuable as it gets smarter, faster and smaller.

There is no wall (economic or technical)

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@So8res It lasted for over a decade

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All the Sikhs I've known have been top top people, and would fight and die for Britain and its values at the drop of a hat, as they have before

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@JohnCoolTrivia @BuyEnglishMade They would die around 30, and live in servitude. There's a difference between gardening on the weekend and pre-industrial life

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@RupertLowe10 And what if someone is wrongly convicted and sentenced?

That's why we abolished it in the first place

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@TheProjectUnity The UK isn't built for hot weather, stone buildings. No air conditioning, our food doesn't help, we've only got one gear. It's not the heat that's different. It's the people and the culture

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@greg_ashman There is little demand for unskilled labour

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@Math_files But recursive is fine?

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@James_69cm That would mean a lot of national pride being dropped and people saying "I'm sorry what we did was terrible and we need to make sure it never happens again", and the shame-driven cultures in the orient don't allow that

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@Romy_Holland Definitely trash on the street and people behaving erratically on the metro in Korea. But it is so lovely that nothing will ever be stolen there

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@thsottiaux If it is released by any of the big three, I will try it

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@dwarkesh_sp Anything related to taste, whether visual, coding style, architecture, writing etc.

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@TateTheTalisman Listen to Bach, and I mean listen.

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@LexnLin @claudeai *weeks, takes a while to figure out