brian

what is the ideal future and how do we get there?

[brian @bmc_]

@tyneslol write your own browser and never publish the source code, maybe even write a new browser each week; this likely gives you _more_ security than running the same chrome everybody else runs

[brian @bmc_]

this is a pitch for malleable/end-user software; meta's app isn't interested in feedback because there are just too many of you and you might be lying. _your_ app can accept and believe and immediately act on your feedback

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

maybe you should be able to flag her online status as inaccurate and then the app recalibrates its onlineness-determination algorithm

[brian @bmc_]

I suppose in a sense the entire world is just the basin of Istanbul

[brian @bmc_]

I would love to see a map of watershed basins but instead it's where "the city" refers to, when someone asks you where you're from

(image source: https://t.co/sgFxTiOn3C)

[brian @bmc_]

@lu_sichu @julianboolean_ google would not have helped him make the noble prize winning discovery in this story. you are not going to google every single fact in an article to check if it is importantly wrong

[brian @bmc_]

@proales @_xjdr it was unclear to me whether the original tweet was using "git" to refer to literally git or if they meant that style of version control. if the latter, having thousands of agents collaborate on a single codebase doesn't require us to radically rethink version control

[brian @bmc_]

@MichaiMorin @BrianRoemmele 14 completes the 3x4x5 rectangular prism

[brian @bmc_]

@QiaochuYuan how are you defining consciousness here?

it is perfectly morally fine to mutilate a nintendo switch, because the switch has no conception of what is happening to it and does not experience the event in any way

once experience is happening, the question becomes more difficult

[brian @bmc_]

@lauriewired @wordgrammer you don't care whether the programs are formally equivalent, you only care whether some test suite is happy

[brian @bmc_]

@Jsevillamol AI unlocks more than scale: you can't raise a human in a 10 dim universe and then ask them for insights on all your open problems. we all share roughly the same inductive bias (eg absolutely no intuition for quantum systems) and this seems highly likely to be slowing our progress

[brian @bmc_]

@rsnous I think it's a thin abstraction layer: rather than directly creating the element, the handler, you call something which both executes and records each operation.

there's an export("file.html") which emits the saved op list to be rerun upon open

[brian @bmc_]

@rsnous I would not be surprised in the slightest to find out this is how tiddlywiki was written

[brian @bmc_]

@jsuarez I think I misunderstand bc you seem to be arguing that if some path plausibly leads to doom / human disempowerment in a few years then it's dishonest to not mention how much fun we might have along the way, and that is clearly not a trade most people would be willing to make

[brian @bmc_]

@jsuarez I don't think I understand your objection; without fear of nuclear armageddon we wouldn't have put effort into developing the game theory and coordination mechanisms necessary for successfully avoiding it by the skin of our teeth, "stoking fears" was correct

[brian @bmc_]

@DanielAntonin1 @mikeandallie it doesn't account for tax at all, it doesn't account for tariffs or other trade barriers. It looks solely at the trade deficit and uses the trade deficit itself as evidence of high trade barriers. they are not in any meaningful sense "reciprocal"

[brian @bmc_]

@doesdatmaksense it sometimes happens after I've been scrolling too long, I assume bc it's run out of good recs; it also randomly happens I assume when an important service falls down so it defaults to non-personalized content

in either case coming back tomorrow has always fixed it

[brian @bmc_]

@cneuralnetwork yeah, given that you have noticed this @cneuralnetwork I highly recommend reading about pagerank because you now have the necessary background to understand it and it is quite beautiful

[brian @bmc_]

@McScootle @Sandymann_84 @Long2007 @dioscuri @sam_atis for obvious reasons I don't want to provide too many receipts in a forum as public as this but here is a representative example. waymo got me there for the same price uber would have charged and took as long as uber would have taken

[brian @bmc_]

I have no horse in this race but if the OP is complaining about defective epistemics this link isn't nearly sufficient evidence to contradict that. Especially because the argument seems to be "this is not how _I_ would design a bioweapon, therefore lab leak is extremely unlikely" (seemingly ignoring other goals a lab might have)

do you happen to have a better link? I want to read more but this is extremely difficult to Google for 🤷‍♂��