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  • Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’

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  • I suppose that by that point, the AI will be running Microsoft rather than simply being a Microsoft product.

  • Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’

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  • That's not a bad way of defining it, as far as totally objective definitions go. $100 billion is more than the current net income of all of Microsoft. It's reasonable to expect that an AI which can do that is better than a human being (in fact, better than 228,000 human beings) at everything which matters to Microsoft.

  • What car do you drive and why?

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  • I concede that you're a better driver than I am because I don't think I could reliably control the car on snow even in ideal conditions, but how did you drive for years without needing to do anything sudden?

  • What car do you drive and why?

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  • 2008 BMW 328i. I bought it used back in 2011 and it still cost almost as much as I made in a year at that time, but I really wanted it and otherwise I lived very modestly.

    It's such a fun car. I have the manual transmission and the sport suspension, and I love driving it. With that said, it's not a practical car. Only I can drive it because no one else in my family knows how to drive a manual, and the sport suspension makes the car quite uncomfortable when going over any bumps. (I tell passengers "I paid extra for that" while driving through rough areas.) Oh, and forget about driving it in snow. I tried that and spun off the road several times before learning my lesson.

    This car is almost 17 and while it was quite reliable for most of that time, now it's at the point where everything is breaking all at once. I refuse to replace it because I can't justify buying another rear-wheel-drive manual-transmission sporty car (one of the very few models still built like that) either to other people or to myself, but I still want to own that sort of car. I guess I'll keep spending more than it's worth on it... I just spent $340 that way today.

  • Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

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  • I assume that employee salaries are included in the category that corresponds to the work that they do.

  • Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

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  • They're not lying but they're being misleading. Everyone who donates sees the donation page, but it's reasonable to assume that almost all of those donors don't read the "Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2023-2024/Finance" page.

  • Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

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  • The claim about the budget is true.

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    A Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told Newsweek in an email that the chart's equity section "refers to making it possible for more people to share reliable knowledge on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects."

    The email continues: "Wikipedia is built on the premise that it becomes better when more people of different backgrounds—including political persuasions—source, edit, curate and research content. Our equity goal advances that. The 'Safety & Inclusion' goal (now titled 'Safety & Integrity' in our 2024-2025 plan) is focused on ensuring that people are able to freely access and safely contribute to knowledge on Wikipedia in a changing legal and policy environment globally."

    The spokesperson continued: "The goal centers on legal efforts that protect free expression, prevent censorship and advocate for laws and regulations that keep Wikipedia accessible for all to use."

    I don't think that's where a lot of donors (especially but not exclusively conservative donors) want their money going, and I don't think Wikipedia's donation requests would lead these donors to realize that that's where some of their money would be going.

    Where your donation goes

    Technology: Servers, bandwidth, maintenance, development. Wikipedia is one of the top 10 websites in the world, and it runs on a fraction of what other top websites spend.

    People and Projects: The other top websites have thousands of employees. Wikimedia Foundation has about 700 staff and contractors to support a wide variety of projects, making your donation a great investment in a highly-efficient not-for-profit organization.

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    I suppose that "People and Projects" is vague enough that it isn't false, but I was certainly surprised when I saw the actual budget allocation.

    Edit: I accidentally posted this with an image from an episode of the Simpsons instead of the chart I meant to post. Please disregard that.

  • Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

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  • Edit edit: it’s all in the article, darnit. Sorry.

    It is? I must have missed it but I can't find any discussion of motivation even on a second read-through.

  • Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

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  • Why would people be doing this? Is it sabotage or just misguided?

  • Trump’s Wish to Control Greenland and Panama Canal: Not a Joke This Time

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  • This is a lot more reckless than I was expecting, and I didn't have high hopes. Denmark is a NATO ally. If the USA is challenging its territorial integrity like this, the ability of that alliance to act as a deterrent is going to be seriously compromised. That's bad for reasons bigger than Greenland.

    Trump is doing more damage to the security of the USA and its allies than he would have if he merely sank a couple of aircraft carriers, and most voters aren't even going to be aware of that.

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  • Some of the doctor killers surrendered immediately, but there were manhunts for ones who fled. The killers were usually caught quickly so most manhunts didn't need to be nationwide, but law enforcement considered the attacks a big deal. This guy managed to flee the country and the international hunt for him lasted over two years until he was caught in France and extradited.

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  • Yes, which is why I brought up the murders of abortion doctors. Those got a lot of nationwide attention when they happened. For example, look up George Tiller. The common theme is the connection between the murder and the controversial nature of the victim's career. Meanwhile, the violent deaths of wealthy people not associated with anything controversial might make it into the local news briefly but they won't get nearly as much attention.

  • Weird green blinking light

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  • But if you don't signal, how will the commoners know to make way?

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  • I don't agree with their conclusion. It's true that the murder of a CEO would get more police attention than the murder of an ordinary person even in less unusual circumstances, but this particular case is extraordinary not because the victim was a CEO but because so many people support the murder.

    Murders of abortion doctors were similar ideologically-motivated attacks against someone hated by a large part of the public, except that abortion doctors aren't members of the elite. These murders were still quite a big deal and received a lot of attention on the national level.

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  • Although the law does not define what a reasonable policy should look like, it says the companies should not deactivate drivers for failing to drive enough hours, falling below a minimum customer rating or turning down ride offers and deactivation should not be based on the results of a background check or driver record, except in egregious circumstances.

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    Wait what? This sounds rather extreme. I suppose Uber could have some sort of mechanism for evaluating driver performance other than customer ratings, but I'm not sure what that could be in practice.

  • Elon Musk suddenly realizes he has no clue how to govern

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  • Musk is doing the setup for a joke, because back in the day we had "Boehner loses control of his caucus." Now it's Johnson's turn.

  • I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

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  • Following Pythagoreanism and believing irrational numbers to be blasphemous. They're represented by being struck down by the gods.

  • I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 upvotes

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  • But floating-point notation also can't precisely represent irrational numbers...

  • More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD

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  • One time on Reddit, a mod of /r/askhistorians described some of the content of this sort that he had seen, and he wasn't as dispassionate about it as this article is. Just his verbal description is both disturbing and difficult to forget, so I can believe that these employees are traumatized.

    With that said, what about other careers that expose people to disturbing things? I used to know a pathologist who once told me that she had a bad day because two infants died during childbirth at the hospital where she worked. She had to autopsy them. I didn't know her well at the time so of course I assumed that she was upset for the same reason that such direct exposure to the death of babies would upset most people, but I was wrong. She was upset because she had to work late.

    Why can pathologists do their job without being traumatized? Maybe the difference is that pathology isn't something that a guy off the street just gets hired to do one day. The people who end up being pathologists usually have other options, and they choose pathology because it doesn't particularly bother them for whatever reason. Meanwhile these moderators are immediately dumped into the deep end, so to speak, and they may not be financially secure enough to leave the job even after they experience what it is.

    Can content moderation be done without traumatizing people? It isn't a high-skilled, well-paid job so I don't think filtering candidates the way that pathologist are filtered is practical. Not having content moderators also isn't practical.

    (I'm using pathology as an example because that's what I know a little about, but I think my statements are probably valid for other careers, like homicide detective, which also involve regular exposure to disturbing things.)