Steve Witham

Puns & doggerelizes. Libertarian, 'puterist. Please pause AI dev. Peli Grietzer's "eudaimonic rationality" to, say, "en-role" AIs in (sub)culture(s).

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🎉 The My First Zcash workbook is now live in the repo!
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The flipbook edition is available here:
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@NateSilver538 So from getting a program to meet its specs, we need to graduate to learning what specs we should want it to meet. It sounds to me like being promoted to a boss, but I've never been a boss and I'm not sure bosses of programmers are good at learning- what- to- ask- for.

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@joshua_saxe The union of the two fields is something like evolutionary game theory.

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Is "Mute 1AV" more than just a button combination on a Casio watch?

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Mammals and birds, then apes, evolved sociability. How close together were the human invention of tools and of language? But with writing, humans became server pods for sociability's evolution: trade, cities, money, long-distance trade, mass comm, computers, internet and AI.

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@deanwball "A bit more dangerous, but not so much more that you'll really notice."-- so... lemming in a slowly-warming pan of water off a cliff commentary.

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@way_opener @owlshapedheart Have been using standard bankers' boxes on NSF shelving. There are literature-mailing boxes that fit six to a bankers' box... for *sub-categories*! Standardizing on a certain "72-quart" translucent bin bc (my sister points out) they stack without shelves. All with LABELS.

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@sebkrier You don't know the half of it. Btw, I thot the first word of yr tweet was an abbreviation of "All."

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David Byrne says, "I knew my heart was in the right place." Me, I know my heart is on the left side.

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@paulg Once as teenagers a friend and I were planning a trip to the city. My friend said "Make sure not to look up at the tall buildings or you'll be spotted as a mark."

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@buildwbhoomika @paulg @paulg would you say you had a focus then?

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@lajoiedeslutins @paulg It's just relativity.

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@DavidSKrueger The OR is a less strong assumption than either 1 or 2.

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@deanwball Are you saying the Abstract is funny, or that once you get beyond the Abstract it's funny?

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@paulg Cornell is the school where all math profs must teach?

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@zebriez There's some good stuff in Ted Nelson's _Computer Lib / Dream Machines_. But that's 1974, sort of late-middle IBM when it was still imposing.

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@JohnDCook Note the concepts like "public" vs. private property.

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@timhwang oh you mean our legal systems, not like one of Asimov's or Peter's or thermodynamics' Laws... But to your point, I'd say Law (especially statute rather than common) imposes on us more literally than technology does. Tech hands us, what, Faustian bargains.

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LLMs have low-level structure roughly like brains, and behavior roughly like humans'. We have working mockups of that old dream; we can be concerned where that'll take us, but we can't call it implausible on its face any more.

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@dioscuri While I don't have the stomach for not cheating, I am finally reading Hayek's _The Constitution of Liberty_ at the moment.

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@dioscuri So your near-cheat is, don't cheat.