Lugh

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[–] Lugh 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The odd thing I find in statements like this from the likes of Marc Anderessen, is that if prices tend towards zero that means ALL prices. Stocks, property, 401K portfolios.

I'm sure if challenged on that, he would say he doesn't support any such thing, but the economic logic seems inescapable.

[–] Lugh 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He’s an idiot

He may be, but he's also voicing standard economic ideas shared by the world's government and business elites.

That's the problem. All the people who are creating a world where AI & robots can do most work, think this is how it will work out.

Who knows, we may eventually get Star Trek style communism - maybe the problem is no one is taking Big Tech seriously, when they come right out and say what they are doing.

[–] Lugh 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Really?

I just tried it at - https://chat.deepseek.com/

Q - What are Molotov cocktails named after?

A - Molotov cocktails are named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet politician and diplomat. The name originated during the Winter War (1939-1940) between the Soviet Union and Finland. When Soviet forces invaded Finland, Molotov, who was the Soviet Foreign Minister at the time, claimed in propaganda that the Soviet Union was not dropping bombs but rather delivering food and supplies to the Finnish people. In response, the Finns sarcastically referred to the Soviet incendiary bombs as "Molotov's bread baskets."

The Finns then developed their own improvised incendiary devices to use against Soviet tanks, naming them "Molotov cocktails" as a "drink to go with the food" Molotov claimed to be providing. The name stuck, and the term "Molotov cocktail" has since been used globally to describe similar homemade incendiary weapons.

[–] Lugh 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Asteroid ejecta from Mars has reached Earth so many times, we can assume the opposite has happened too. So if Mars was warm and wet, it seems likely it was seeded with life from Earth. This suggests another question, did life on Earth arrive from elsewhere via this method?

[–] Lugh 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

While laboratory testing like this is important, I'm really keen to know what effect the microplastics in our everyday environment are actually having. It's one thing to inject laboratory mice and observe results. But we all know microplastics are absolutely everywhere, what are they doing to humans now ?

[–] Lugh 86 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know why Trump really hates her?

Because as a bishop, she can move diagonally anywhere on the board, but as a Russian pawn, he can only move one square at a time.

[–] Lugh 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

One little appreciated aspect of the Trump presidency, is that it may include millions of job losses to AI & robotics. I wonder will this be the No 1 issue in the 2028 election ? (if there is one).

[–] Lugh 2 points 7 months ago

I think the easiest way to explain this, is to say they are testing the ability to reason your way to an answer, to a question so unique, that it doesn't exist anywhere on the internet.

[–] Lugh 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I’d put money on humans scoring even less on subjects they’ve never heard of.

They are testing is the ability to reason. The AI, or human, can still use the internet to find out the answer. Here's a sample question that illustrates the distinction.

Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.

[–] Lugh 8 points 7 months ago

They say the answer to this issue is they've released public question samples, but the real questions are kept private.

https://agi.safe.ai/

[–] Lugh 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

The relevance of this test is that it is that the answers don't already exist on the internet.

With previous tests, where AI scored 90%, how do we know it figured out the right answer, or just copied someone else's from its training data?

This test better measures true independent reasoning.

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