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Comment Intelligent misalignment or stupid failure? (Score 1) 212

> It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.

Really? How do they know this is the AI's reasoning?
It looks like the system just made a stupid mistake targetting the wrong thing and they're trying to spin it as if it's so intelligent it figured out the operator was an obstacle to its goal.

Comment Re:12+ (Score 1) 334

Considering that all the atoms in the solar system were created in a supernova, power plants are "solar" powered too. Or maybe big-bang powered, for that matter.

Technically stars that have gone supernova are not our sun and therefore not "solar". You could argue that geothermal power is solar, but nuclear power comes from other stars. The hydrogen in the sun comes from the big bang, but so does everything else, so that point is a little moot.

Comment Curvature prior (Score 1) 506

Why such a strange prior? I understand that they believe that the curvature is 0, but how do they know they should drop it down so quickly? What about the rest of the prior, why does it look so strange? What would happen if they changed the prior. I'm guessing that tweaking the prior would yield greatly different universe sizes.

Comment Google googles... (Score 1) 206

was written so that millions of chicks would send in pics of their breasts to search for comparisons. In terms of pics sent in to compare the sizes of body parts, most google engineers didn't not get what they were after.

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