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scottaaronson.blog
Acomputer science undergrad who reads this blog recently emailed me about an anxiety he's been feeling connected to the Singularity-not that it will destroy all human life, but rather that it will make life suffering-free and therefore no longer worth living (more Brave New World than Terminator, one might say). As he puts it: This... |
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www.bltc.com
[AI summary] An essay comparing Buddhist philosophy on suffering with modern utilitarian ethics and bioengineering solutions like genetic modification to eradicate pain. |
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scottaaronson.blog
Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds that we could live in and giving each one of them whimsical names. In other words, no one has done... |
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bytepawn.com
Bytepawn - Marton Trencseni - PyTorch Basics: Solving the Ax=b matrix equation with gradient descent I will show how to solve the standard A x = b matrix equation with PyTorch. This is a good toy problem to show some guts of the framework without involving neural networks. |
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