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Un-untitled.
Something less depressing.
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siikr DNS expired
Is Google strapped for cash or something? Apparently they sold off their DNS business and customers to Squarespace.
Have you tried o4-o5 yet? Seeing a lot of knowledgeable short timelines skeptics being shocked, saying it’s insightful for automated AI research, and generally updating hard toward Kokotaljo-style views.
My personal timeline has had white-collar AGI at 2028, with error bars that comfortably accommodate Kokotaljo's. So o4 hasn't made me update much. I don't much see the point of trying to predict this sort of thing by landmark though (outside of like, foom take-off existential risk). We need to start thinking and arguing and fighting about how to restructure society three years ago. Setting aside…
siikr down :(
Hmm, seems like one of the nodes is misbehaving. Will look into it later tonight. You can use https://siikr.yggdrasil.cat/index_local.php in the meantime, but it might require either waiting for your blog to transfer over from one of the other nodes or a reindex if your blog was on the node that went down.
A common phrase in English is “No ifs, ands, or buts”.
A common phrase in English is “No ifs, ands, or buts”. Programming languages have borrowed from natural language the concepts of not , if , and , and or ; approximately retaining their English meanings. I therefore petition that all programming languages adopt but as the common terminology for error or exception .
You tryna start a fight rn or something?
argumate : antinegationism : argumate : argumate : argumate : wondering how to use A* search with gradient descent given that it requires a heuristic of how far a partial solution is from the goal 🤔 an admissible heuristic, which is to say an underestimate of the distance remaining to the goal, where the more accurate the heuristic the better the search performs, but the search breaks if the…
You cannot. You may convince yourself of this by simply getting too creative in your choice of…
argumate : argumate : argumate : wondering how to use A* search with gradient descent given that it requires a heuristic of how far a partial solution is from the goal 🤔 an admissible heuristic, which is to say an underestimate of the distance remaining to the goal, where the more accurate the heuristic the better the search performs, but the search breaks if the heuristic ever overestimates…
Did you know?
If you have fun/interesting/funny ideas for siikr’s random “Did you know?” text, you can submit them to my ask box and I might add them. This is an exercise in pure creativity for its own sake. I will not credit you for the text / content unless crediting you is somehow integral to the entertainment value of the text / content. Constraints: 1. Any required text / content must fit…
someone’s stealing your Twitter shower thoughts
Good.
Wait hang on what?
phaeton-flier : vren-diagram : phaeton-flier : vren-diagram : The guy who did the first designer babies is on Twitter and he constantly posts stuff like this. Sad to hear the guy who did the first designer babies also has bad opinions eh, ‘Bioethicist’ views: • 18% — paying organ donors is OK • 63% — all extensions of life equally good regardless of length • 66% — someone’s life…
can’t search any new blog :(
So, weirdly enough everything seems to be working fine now even though I didn't do anything aside from set the hub server to maintenance mode. I was vaguely suspecting a daylight savings time issue causing some coordination problem between the hub and the spokes, but then I remembered this present ask from a month ago. Are the blogs you were attempting to search still unsearchable?
I can’t siikr some blogs (including your own and @multiheaded1793’s)
Yeah it's been unreliable for me too. I think one of the nodes is having a hard time while pretending it's fine. Looking into it.
dumb clarification q on the “dedicated” part of “Get a dedicated Ubuntu Server instance up” in the siikr hosting instructions: does this mean I shouldn’t use an Ubuntu server I’m primarily using for other stuff (but has leftover capacity for Altruism) to host Siikr?
You can use an existing Ubuntu server, it's just that it will be more of a pain to set up / require you to have some idea as to what you're doing. The main stumbling block you're likely to encounter is that the setup script presumes you're using nginx and that it's fine to install particular versions of postgresql and muck postgresql user permissions. If running a dedicated server instance on a VM…
Thoughts on “Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs”?
I think we need to stop worrying about how to make AI safe and start worrying about how bad things will likely still turn out even if AI is safe. If we can motivate people to gently pump the brakes on development of AI in light of those (extremely legitimate, worrying, and in my opinion ultimately just as terrible for 99.9% of people) concerns, then we might, as a side benefit, even buy enough…
Do you condemn the Zizians
I realize my stance on this may be somewhat controversial, but I'll have to speak my conscience here: I am of the opinion that murder is generally a pretty bad thing to do, and one really ought not do it. The Zizian opinion on this matter, as I understand it, seems to differ from mine. I suppose we will have to agree to disagree. Presumably, from different sides of a jail cell.
found siikr today and saw the self-hosting instructions and i was wondering, how much disk/mem/bw is required to contribute meaningfully? i have a couple of small vms in the cloud, and plenty of compute i could set up on slow home net, but not sure if either of those setups is worthwhile.
Slow home net isn't ideal, but for vms in the cloud like 512MB of RAM and a puny virtual CPU should be sufficient. The main thing is a persistent domain name and disk space. The more space the merrier.
Are you a Zizian
I am not and for the last time stop trying to recruit me.
[Siikr bug report] It seems that spaces are now acting as AND connector instead of as OR connectors as they are supposed to.
That's how they've almost always been. Try capital OR to disambiguate.
can’t search my blog since I changed usernames
which url are you accessing via?
staff pretty much said they arent going to expand the search features to pre 2017 at least not anytime soon so …
Has anyone tried asking them really nicely?