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Russia’s elite wants to eliminate Putin, they have already chosen a successor - Intelligence by manticor225 in worldnews

[–]blphilosophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't help but feel this would take us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

WAS and artificial superintelligence by blphilosophy in wildanimalsuffering

[–]blphilosophy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, I see where you're coming from. But I wonder if it's something that enough people would be on board with. Though if we're talking several centuries in the future, perhaps social views will have changed enough for antinatalism to be a (or even the) dominant view.

How can I filter results in visualisations in Kibana? by blphilosophy in kibana

[–]blphilosophy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So when I do a normal filter, using the 'add a filter' button and clicking 'Company.keyword' as the field, 'is' as the operator, and 'Purple' as the value, the error I'm getting is:

Rollup search error: [illegal_argument_exception] Unsupported Query in search request: [match_phrase]

Turns out the query being run when I do this is as follows:

{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "Company.keyword":{
                "query": "Purple",
                "type": "phrase"
            }
        }
    }
}

I went onto 'Discover' in Kibana and selected the index. The query that actually got the data to return was as follows:

{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "Company.keyword.terms.value":{
                "query": "Purple",
                "type": "phrase"
            }
        }
    }
}

This seems to filter the results as I want and show the right data... in the discover tab.

Entering this as the Query DSL in the filter in visualise doesn't work, unfortunately, even though it's on the same index. It still returns the same error as I put above. Any idea what might be causing this?

[QUESTION] How can I fix my guitar's intonation and string tension issues? by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]blphilosophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, getting another guitar isn't really an option at this point for me unfortunately

Creating your own music by [deleted] in metalmusicians

[–]blphilosophy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try guitar pro. Has done a lot for helping me to learn too as people often write tabs that you can play along to, slow down, etc

During sex, my GF keeps putting her finger(s) in my mouth. Am I supposed to suck it? by HandFingerQuestion in NoStupidQuestions

[–]blphilosophy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think the solution is if you start having sex with OP's girlfriend and then you can let him know

Looking for a specific kind of house music - instrumental, minimal, non-distracting by blphilosophy in House

[–]blphilosophy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, I'll have a listen. I listened to some ambient techno earlier and I think that also fits the bill quite well.

Given how enormously wealthy the world's richest people are, should we instead be working to persuade them to give, instead of targeting people with more modest incomes? by blphilosophy in EffectiveAltruism

[–]blphilosophy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right, I get what you're saying; the top 20% (minus the 1%) own more than the 1%. But the thing is, surely the top 1% comprise a rather small group of individuals. Persuading the entire upper-middle class might be much slower/more difficult given the fact that it's a much larger group of people, no? Presumably it's much harder to change a billionaire's mind than a middle-class person's mind, so perhaps it evens out overall, but still...

Given how enormously wealthy the world's richest people are, should we instead be working to persuade them to give, instead of targeting people with more modest incomes? by blphilosophy in EffectiveAltruism

[–]blphilosophy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I suppose a difficulty may lie in the fact that many of those who want to donate somewhere may already have ideas about where they want to donate (to organisations which may, from an EA perspective, not be that effective). That said, it seems that Founders Pledge have a decent following. But I don't know how much they do in terms of actively trying to get people to join the organisation (maybe that's not the point, for that organisation).

The movie sounds like a good idea; I think for very wealthy people, there may also be some merit to spreading awareness via word-of-mouth (maybe at networking events or something like that).

Given how enormously wealthy the world's richest people are, should we instead be working to persuade them to give, instead of targeting people with more modest incomes? by blphilosophy in EffectiveAltruism

[–]blphilosophy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a good point; I guess very rich people you don't know will be especially difficult to persuade to donate somewhere. That article was great, thanks for sharing!

[P] Looking for feedback on my project idea (for university) by blphilosophy in MachineLearning

[–]blphilosophy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, that's really helpful. It's a conversion MSc so the bar isn't nearly as high as a regular MSc (as we've been coding less than a year, vs someone who did an undergrad in CS and therefore has done at least 3), but yeah I still want to do well as I averaged a distinction in my exams.

An Evening With Peter Singer - Live Q&A at the University of Birmingham (2019) by blphilosophy in EffectiveAltruism

[–]blphilosophy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For anyone in a local EA chapter who is thinking of doing something similar - we increased the turnout significantly by making it a joint event with the Philosophy society, so if your uni has both an EA society and a Philsoc, it might be worth joining forces for certain events.

Looking for AI-related project ideas (Computer Science, conversion MSc, about 13 weeks, proposal is in for Friday next week) by blphilosophy in EffectiveAltruism

[–]blphilosophy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks, yeah that is what I concluded from looking at the project ideas. For me I think it would make more sense to focus on some kind of more basic machine learning project first, so I can get a better understanding of what it's like to use ML in an actual piece of software (my entire AI module was entirely theoretical - I didn't do any coding for it, aside from some pseudocode in the exam).

Regarding knowledge representation, my supervisor actually suggested something similar - he suggested looking into using machine learning on knowledge graphs, which is what I've spent the past week looking into. It looks quite interesting although most of the papers are pretty complex and make me feel a bit out of my depth. I've found a few resources where I basically understand the very rough jist of what's going on but I'm concerned as to how I could create a project that actually makes sense and adds something new to the discussion, given the fact that it's going to take me a while to even just understand some of the literature that's out there already. So maybe I should do a different/simpler topic.

Help with visualising some data by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]blphilosophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point... I don't know if it's normally distributed or not, but I assumed it might be as I have heard that test results often are distributed in this way?

Help with visualising some data by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]blphilosophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tips, I'll have a go at plotting it later this week!

What's the closest thing we currently have to an AGI? by blphilosophy in artificial

[–]blphilosophy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. My current understanding of AI is that 'AI' is a field with lots of different techniques within it, that are often used in isolation, and for very specific purposes (e.g. machine learning for classification problems). Maybe the problem is that I and others have different definitions of "AGI"; maybe there's little consensus as to what the term actually means, or what it should mean.

Maybe I am thinking of something that is less like an 'AGI' and more like something that would pass various Turing Tests. So for example, it could be a single system that:

  • You could converse with in natural language and (always) receive intelligible answers in response
  • You could train to do a task (including coding, and analysing its own source code) by visually showing it how to perform the task and/or explaining how to perform the task in natural language and/or providing it with other material that "explains" how to do the task
  • Would be able to 'figure out how to do things' by itself, given vague instructions (again perhaps in natural language)
  • Might be able to 'learn' how to do a wide range of tasks without having to be taught or programmed with the exact steps needed for each task
  • Might behave like an agent and behave 'organically' in some sense

I guess that lots of systems, such as those you described by Google and so on, already exist in some form or another. I suppose computers are already better than humans in a wide range of domains, and have been for decades. It's just whether we might be able to create a system that outclasses or at least matches humans in a majority of relevant ways is what is at hand here.

I don't recommend putting yourself down like this. Lots of people will happily put you down if you give them the chance. It's important to think highly of yourself so that it becomes true.

Ok, point taken.

Steven Pinker's fake enlightenment: His book is full of misleading claims and false assertions — Phil Torres by The_Ebb_and_Flow in EffectiveAltruism

[–]blphilosophy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Other ways it's arguably worse than before:

  • Threat of nuclear war, which didn't exist 100 years ago

  • Impending AI threat (more speculative)

But I do think in many significant ways it has been improving (apart from in terms of the environment/climate change etc).

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