VladKovac

there's a sweet spot, obviously if you go too low you're talking about barely autonomous people

sigh singularity hypothesis requires no "accelerating change" any eventually upward slope will do.

Max Weber's theories on Protestantism being the cause of success in America have been pretty much thoroughly debunked when you control for differences in aptitude amongst the religious sects that arrived to America in it's early history. Not to mention his work led to the founding ideas of the Frankfurt School lol.

One thing I found out from interviewing a lot (for junior-ish positions) was that dynamic programming questions are actually your friend. Since it's a "hard topic" they give you a relatively easy one that can be solved using brute force recursion with memoization slapped on top so it takes like 5-10 mins and looks super impressive.

He has Ezra Klein voice. Or maybe it's called NPR voice.

I believe the author himself said that computation improvements does make it easier to solve general AI. I think in value alignment theory there are still problems that they don't know how to do properly even with infinite computation though.

Stopped reading this comment after "Gladwell".

Contentiousness is a ~50% heritable personality trait, only slightly less than IQ.

Can I just say this was very beautifully laid out. Much simpler and more convincing than what I could have done. Thank you.

If you repeat the word "collapse" enough you can trick your brain into thinking you've actually explained something :P

How convenient that this supposed "spooky action at a distance" can't actually send information ftl. Locality is very important for coherent laws of physics. Many worlds is still the most parsimonious explanation which is why it enjoys the most support from theoretical physicists. It's literally just extrapolating what we already see in small scale experiments to the macro scale, it's staring you in the face!