The Apple Watch has an interesting vibration-based navigation. Assume you’re going straight and if it vibrates you have to turn left or right. Additionally, it has specific vibration patterns for left and right so you don’t have to look at the watch at all. I use it while driving to remind me to pay attention to turn instructions or exits.
Not to be cynical about it BUT a few safety papers a year with proper support is totally within the capabilities of a single PhD student and it costs about 100-150k to fund them through a university. Not saying that’s what Anthropocene does, I’m just saying chump change for those companies.
Sometimes I think people misunderstand how hard of problem AI safety actually is. It's politics and mathematics wrapped up in a black box of interactions we barely understand.
More so we train them on human behavior and humans have a lot of rather unstable behaviors.
> You are very off (unfortunately) about how little PhD students are being paid
All in costs for a PhD student include university overheads & tuition fees. The total probably doesn't hit $150k but is 2-3x the stipend that the student is receiving.
Someone currently working in academia might have current figures to hand.
Worth mentioning that numbers for the US are unlikely to be representative when discussing it as a whole, though might be relevant to this specific case.
In the UK the all in cost of a PhD student starts somewhere around £45k once you include overheads I believe. If you need expensive lab support then it probably goes up from there.
So about $75k for the bottom end? The quoted numbers sound about right in PPP terms in that case.
Sushi Go is fun and compact. Dominion if you have friends that like to optimize. Uno is a good one for the road. Even a regular deck of cards is great once you learn a few samples games.
Much of Amsterdam and Florence is built on logs. Basically, just drive a bunch of poles in the ground until they "fill up" the swamp enough to create a stable platform. The anoxic nature of the boggy water greatly slows the decomposition of the logs.
There's definitely a metaphor, here. You don't have to completely fill the swamp, just fill it enough, with enough stable pieces to create a platform you can build on.
The value of AI output only decreases day to day as people do what there is to do with it. Soon if it can make something it will be making it for the 10th time instead of the 1st.
So yeah, we will hit rock bottom for sure. Eventually the value of anything that is genuinely new will rocket back up because we've spent so many years imitating imitations.
The TLDR is technology is how we cope with reality and for her it was more interesting to describe this reality and how it makes her subjects feel rather than describe the technology they use to address their problems.
I saw a recent video by Zizek where he mentioned the original gray eminence - François Leclerc du Tremblay who was Cardinal Richelieu’s right hand man. During the day he orchestrated the thirty year war and during the night he wrote the most beautiful meditations. Does doing good excuse the bad?
Tune it out, come back in 6 months, the world is not going to end. In 6 months, you’re going to change your API endpoint and/or your subscription and then spend a day or two adjusting. Off to the races you go.
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