> Unless you have a true, irreplaceable need for a 16GB model

I need to `npm install strip`

Why not the standard 1,2,5,10?

Probably because he wanted equidistant tick marks, and this way, each label is also the unit for the major ticks in the section that follow it.

Writing is a good (and necessary) tool for thinking.

Not all writing needs to be published.

Most shouldn't.

I thought it was good from the first episode!

And the woman (from buffy) (don't recall her name).

And of course Elias

Amy Acker. She was from Angel, not Buffy.

:heart:

Indeed she was!

TIL he was an avid gamer!

This is a great story about the Oblivion mod he worked on: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-...

In his Usenet days he was also active on the newsgroups about the game Thief, he played that a lot.

His daughter is (or at least was) a game designer.

You can see the gaming influence in several of the books. In particular, a big part of Snuff was inspired by the goblin caves in Oblivion (IIRC had had a mod created that made the goblins peaceful, and he also contributed to the Vilja companion mod), and you can see his love of the Thief games in various parts of Night Watch and Making Money.

Earlier in time, Interesting Times has a parody of Lemmings.

Seahorse :seahorse:

I'm glad they finally closed that gap in the newest emoji set. I love the details on the tail!

You also have three distinct concepts:

– country (geographically defined territory with something binding it)

– state (political entity with sovereign authority over a territory)

– nation-state (a state in which most people share some common identity)

Yeah, this is sometimes really interesting. For eg Scotland, Wales, NI and England are technically all different countries. Just like Aruba (and other Carribbean/island micro nations) which technically is still in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

People keep calling Scotland etc countries but really let's be honest everybody else calls it a federal state. There's really no huge sufficiently large functional difference between Wales and Niedersachsen, Kansas or Alberta. It's as if Nordrhein-Westfalen had their own world cup football team, it's nuts.

I love the terminology that we end up with. Scotland is a country within the UK, which is also a country and also a sovereign state.

Games like EU4 do have multiple views of the map for this reason. There are so many ways you can subdivide and draw borders differently. Language, culture, religion, imperial, etc.

My reader mode says 6–7 minutes, so, yes.

TFA could have been two sentences:

He warns that AI might cause serious problems: power failures, job losses, and greater social inequality.

He believes AI might improve our lives, but governments must make sure it is safe.

Why did he start a research direction that 50 years later "might turn out" to not be a good idea?

That's a relatively silly question, don't you think?

No it's a completely serious question. The goal has always been to replicate human/biological thinking processes in software, and now that this has been more or less achieved he's suddenly not happy about it. There's been plenty of opportunity to actually think about "what if all of this actually works" but they chose not to.

For one thing, we haven't remotely achieved that. GenAI is a statistical model, it cannot think or reason. So one reason he might lament the status quo is because it has people thinking we have achieved AI when we haven't. But also, it wasn't apparent until recently that even if the tech did work as promised, it will be an awful thing because humans will use it to bad ends. I don't think it's particularly blame-worthy that he didn't foresee that 50 years ago.

I don't think we need to have the "can AI really think* debate for the millionth time, anyhow it's safe to say that we have progressed towards the goal far enough that Hinton thinks it's a problem.

>So one reason he might lament the status quo is because it has people thinking we have achieved AI when we haven't.

I don't think the article allows us to infer this at all.

>But also, it wasn't apparent until recently that even if the tech did work as promised, it will be an awful thing because humans will use it to bad ends. I don't think it's particularly blame-worthy that he didn't foresee that 50 years ago.

No, really, that would be extremely naive, we can expect better from scientists.

Sounds like sour grapes. He worked on it for a long time but he doesn't own a trillion dollar company. Missed the boat?