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[–] aio@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well, it is true that computer programs have far surpassed humans in board games. They are very well suited for it. It just has nothing to do with the hypothesized abilities of future "AI" as rationalists conceive them.

[–] aio@awful.systems 2 points 4 weeks ago

Oh, I didn't know that!

[–] aio@awful.systems 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The paper is itself written by LLM.

[–] aio@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (8 children)

flaviat explained why your counterexample is not correct. But also, the correct statement (Liouville's theorem) is that a bounded entire function must be constant.

[–] aio@awful.systems 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CS has a huge number of people who think you can derive the solutions to social problems from first principles. It's impossible to reason with them.

[–] aio@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Karl Radek jumpscare

[–] aio@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In this case these are grade schooler's (roughly ages 9-18) essays for a standardized test, so there isn't a body of students who could grade them.

[–] aio@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

Given consistent trends of exponential performance improvements over many years and across many industries, it would be extremely surprising if these improvements suddenly stopped.

I have a Petri dish to sell you

[–] aio@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

codeword is banana bread

Will there be statues to swap as well?

[–] aio@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Related to aviation systems, here's a writeup about a complicated incident, where a discrepancy between two "identical" components was a contributing factor:

It was possible for one channel to detect that the plane was airborne while the other channel did not [...] With one channel in flight mode and the other in ground mode, the SECs believe that there has been a failure of one of the LGCIUs, and they both shut off.

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Mistress

is this more evidence that robots are taking our jobs? the investigation continues...

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