pk455
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
For how much this essay is being celebrated on Twitter, it's astounding how explicitly this section (The odious apparatus) decries China yet glosses over the US
> A coalition of the US and its democratic allies, if it achieved predominance in powerful AI, would be in a position to not only defend itself against autocracies, but contain them and limit their AI totalitarian abuses.
Sure, how about a thought on repressing its own populace with AI? I know the very next paragraph tries to cover this, but it all feels stuck in 2016 political discourse ignorant of the stench of rot and absence of integrity in American politics. This is especially ironic considering he calls this out as a risk later on: "if there is such a huge concentration of wealth that a small group of people effectively controls government policy with their influence, and ordinary citizens have no influence because they lack economic leverage"
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The proactive thoughts in the Player Piano section are quite refreshing though. Hopefully other frontier companies follow suit
Depends on your definition of a computer engineer. Dealing with strings in Python vs. dealing with character arrays in C is a world of a difference.
The decision to use Python feels like a solid compromise between giving the students a stair step to applied computer science work, while stripping away the cruft and language-specifics that would distract from implementing the more theoretical learning material
the risk to everyone else around you is the same regardless of how much you make
Also, what's your strategy around combating fraud?