a 3D Graphics framework and a c++ library for parsing valve .map files

Seems like a lazy way to write a law. Basically just gives any governor whose party controls the supreme court a blank check. The law should qualify what public safety means

You want discretion for judges so that they can respond to the problems of their era wisely rather than rigidly applying the ideas of another time without nuance

Unless those judges themselves have a fondness for an imaginary "great" time, and will apply their reasoning in a way that just happens to fit their ideology.

Law is either rigorous or it's not. When I'm told that the law is against me but gosh darn it the law is the law, I grow resentful of the "discretion" reserved for some but not others.

There’s no eliminating humans from human civilization. No risk no fun.

What drives me nuts is the way lawyers (of all stripes) keep praising "legal reasoning". None of it strikes me as even vaguely rigorous.

I'm not a lawyer so I could well be completely off base here. But if my perception is correct, I would much rather they admit that it's fundamentally up to someone's gut feeling. That's more honest than telling me that a bit of reasoning is airtight when it's not.

The true honesty is that judges may rule however they please, regardless of the reasoning. In many cases they require their intuition to guide them. In that sense, it is already up to their gut feeling.

At some point someone needs to weigh the facts, and they are given great discretion to do so. It is generally a good thing, because we have multiple layers of appeal to prevent obviously horrible outcomes.

So this legislation, like all legislation, provides guidance for the good faith judge to help weigh the facts. There is no guidance that will prevent a bad faith judge from ruling badly: You do not need a clause about public safety to get the ruling you want, but there is an argument that your ruling may perhaps be less scrutinized.

There’s a reason an attorney’s answer is always “it depends” :) No legislation is truly airtight from abuse.

A judge can rule however they please, but if it goes against legislated law or precedent, it can (and should) be appealed. Sure, if the highest appellate determines the law says something different than it really does, that’s that, but it’s not like most judges have carte blanche to determine the outcome of any legal entanglement on a whole.

> gives any governor whose party controls the supreme court a blank check

Here's the thing: this is not supposed to be a thing. Not supposed to be how things work at all, but it kind of does now.

So the trust implicit in the broad language of our laws gives - has been giving - a massive advantage to bad faith actors who obtain power.

Why do we even want AGI so badly? It seems like a cataclysmic technology. Like after we invent it, market cap and stocks and money wont mean anything anymore

Why do people think this is any different than other major economic revolutions like electricity or the Industrial Revolution? Society is not going to collapse, things will just get weirder in both unbelievably positive ways and then also unbelievably negative ways, like the internet.

The question is why must the humankind strive for unbelievably positive things at the expense of being forever plagued with unbelievably negative?

I'd much rather live in a world of tolerable good and bad opposing each other in moderate ways.

Right let’s not have done the Industrial Revolution or the Internet or electricity

If that undoes the suffering of dozens of millions of human beings killed and maimed in WWI and WWII enabled by the Industrial Revolution, let us have not!

I think the value of the internet has proven to be pretty dubious. It seems to have only made things worse

Electricity doesn't remove the need for human labor, it just increases productivity. If we produced AGI that could match top humans across all fields, it would mean no more jobs (knowledge jobs at least; physical labor elimination depends on robotics). That would make the university model obsolete- training researchers would be a waste of money, and the well-paid positions that require a degree and thus justify tuition would vanish. The economy would have to change fundamentally or else people would have to starve en masse.

If we produced ASI, things would become truly unpredictable. There are some obvious things that are on the table- fusion, synthetic meat, actual VR, immortality, ending hunger, global warming, or war, etc. We probably get these if they can be gotten. And then it's into unknown unknowns.

Perfectly reasonable to believe ASI is impossible or that LLMs don't lead to AGI, but there is not much room to question how impactful these would be.

I disagree, you have to take yourself back to when electricity was not widely available. How much labor did electricity eliminate? A LOT I imagine.

AI will make a lot of things obsolete but I think that is just the inherent nature of such a disruptive technology.

It makes labor cost way lower for many things. But how the economy reorganizes itself around it seems unclear but I don’t really share this fear of the world imploding. How could cheap labor be bad?

Robotics for physical labor lag way behind e.g. coding but only because we haven’t mastered how to figure out the data flywheel and/or transfer knowledge sufficiently and efficiently (though people are trying).

>How much labor did electricity eliminate? A LOT I imagine.

90% or even 99.9% are in an entirely separate category from 100%. If a person can do 1000x labor per time and you have a use for the extra 999x labor, they and you can both benefit from the massive productivity gains. If that person can be replaced by as many robots and AIs as you like, you no longer have any use for them.

Our economy runs on the fact that we all have value to contribute and needs to fill; we exchange that value for money and then exchange that money for survival necessities plus extra comforts. If we no longer have any value versus a machine, we no longer have a method to attain food and shelter other than already having capital. Capitalism cannot exist under these conditions. And you can't get the AGI manager or AGI repairman job to account for it- the AGI is a better fit for these jobs too.

The only jobs that can exist under those conditions are government mandated. So we either run a jobs program for everybody or we provide a UBI and nobody works. Electricity didn't change anything so fundamental.

The promise of AGI is that no human would have a job anymore. That is societal collapse.

Famously expressed as 'socialism or barbarism' by Rosa Luxemburg, who traced it back to Engels.

Because if you replace all of humans with machines, what jobs will be left?

AGI level isn't necessarily superhuman or "singularity." It's just human-level. That alone wouldn't make money meaningless.

If it can displace all of knowledge work the way that machines displaced manual labor, then the economy is pretty much fucked, right?

Is there no manual labor anymore? Was the economy fucked by the industrial revolution? It's hard to say how transformative it will be; we're all just kind of speculating.

Automation of manual labor has annihilated some communities in the united states

There are still tons of manual labor jobs, though. Machines did not displace all manual labor, as your earlier comment implied. And the economy was not fucked by automation.

You seem to be fundamentally failing to grasp how many communities were destroyed by the changes you're downplaying and how much that is a root cause for political instability you're living through in US.

> Like after we invent it, market cap and stocks and money wont mean anything anymore

For those of us who survive the transition, good.

But imagine how much money will it create for shareholders for a little bit /s

Seriously though, there's a part of me that hopes that the technology can help with technological advancement. Fusion, room temperature superconductors, working solid state batteries, ... which will all help in leaping ahead and make sure everyone on the planet has a good life. Is the risk worth it? I don't know, bit that's my reason for wanting AGI

Why do you think AGI would help develop things that are mainly limited not by ideas, but by the time and resources it takes to do the experiments and engineering in the real world?

Does anyone believe this vision anymore though? It's obvious that the current tech is not the path to AGI

It's still a path to increasing work efficincy by replacing x% of workers with cheaper AIs. It's bot great but best chance we have of advancement.

This is not obvious to laypeople who don't browse hn.

I moved to ProtonMail right before their CEO started mouthing off about his dipshit opinions. I still use them because it's cheaper to pay for a family plan and get a VPN, password manager, and storage along with the email. I used to pay for each of these services individually and was paying 2x what I pay now

> I used to pay for each of these services individually and was paying 2x what I pay now

What's the other factor though and is it worth the getting walled in?

Password manager in my opinion has to be its own thing, has nothing to do with the rest, same for VPN. I can see email, calendar and data being close together as being beneficial in every day flow. That's where Fastmail for instance draws the line I think.

If you untangle these, would the cost not be worth the benefit?

ProtonMail also does this. Someone actually told me they got an email from me and when I checked it said “this mail was AI generated”. I can’t screenshot it though. Personal reasons.

I first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are

1. Car crashes

2. Street/bum fights

3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails)

4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything")

5. Anti-muslim videos (weirdly I get a lot of Indian majority subreddits that post a lot of hate videos about Pakistan/Muslims)

Every single one of these categories produces feelings of outrage. Reddit has just become a fucking hate machine. Not just hate toward other races, but hate toward the entire human race. Every video shows someone doing some anti-social shit, like people driving like total assholes, or running people over, or getting hit by a train after cutting off traffic, or beating each other senseless in public. In the 1990s there was a huge outcry over violence in media because of Mortal Kombat, Doom, and The Matrix, but here we are today watching actual people die on dashcams regularly. This has to be just bad for us on a really primal level

It's wild how many fan subreddits end up turning into hate boards for the sub's alleged purpose.

People thought video games would turn people violent, turns out it was social media that did it

When I visit Youtube in a privat tab from my German IP all I get is "be afraid of the other" alt right "vote for AFD", "chemtrails are here to get you" kind of videos. Not a singel "cute cat" or "interesting science fact" in sight. :-(

It's almost as if they like the population to be afraid.

Halliburton gave Cheney $34mil when he left the company to go be Vice President

(from TFA)

> Upon his re-entry into politics, Cheney received a $35 million retirement package from oil services firm Halliburton, which he had run from 1995 to 2000. Halliburton became a leading government contractor during the Iraq war.

My main gripe with ML variants is the poor syntax around async (F#). For networked (web) applications, you begin to find that many or most of your functions are async, and wrapping them in computation blocks which come with their own internal syntax that eliminates a lot of the elegance of ML and makes your code look more imperative often feels like it defeats the purpose of the language.

In F#

    let Foo =
        async {
            let! data = getData() |> Async.AwaitTask
            return data.value
        }

Is this the best they can do? C# just has

    async Task<Data> Foo() =>
        (await getData()).value;

Ive always wanted ML syntax like this:

    let async Foo =
        let data = await getData
        data.value

I just dont write a ton of pure functions which have no I/O dependencies

You can write a helper method (or use FsToolkit.ErrorHandling[0]) to simplify the F# example to:

    let Foo () = getData() |> Task.map _.value

And it'll be easier to work with the .NET ecosystem if you use the task computation expression[1] over the async one.

[0]: https://github.com/demystifyfp/FsToolkit.ErrorHandling

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...

Isn't that a synchronous call?

We have exactly that in OCaml. Check out Eio.

This is outdated.

    let foo = task {
        let! data = getData()
        return data.value
    }

In F#, you interoperate with Task<T> transparently, and there is a number of community libraries to further enhance the experience. It also supports nice combinators like and! out of box.

You're correct. They're assuming that they might be served with a subpoena or warrant or something, but US Customs officials can and will demand the passwords to your personal devices or coerce you into giving your biometrics

https://www.eff.org/issues/border-searches

AI is a bubble and will pop soon, theres no way even 80% of the spending has yielded the returns they were looking for. Nvidia cards will lower in demand though probably the bubble will be a net gain for nvidia over the preceding 4 or 5 years, though it will take them a while to regain their peak market cap