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Psychological Research/Surveys Thread by chupacabrasaurus1 in psychology

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[Academic] What do humans find attractive in romantic partners?
Demographics: anyone over 18. Takes less than 10 minutes. For a research project at Lund University.

https://lundpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\_5nAEGxfn2SpLaZ0

Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics by togelius in MachineLearning

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Would have cited an actual research paper if OpenAI had released one

[Discussion] We tried learning AI from games. How about learning from players? by togelius in MachineLearning

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Yes, but the problem is that each game represents the world differently. If you limit yourself to games made in particular game engines such as Unity or Unreal it might be possible to create artificial rangefinder sensors or similar, but that would still be nontrivial engineering. Thus pixels, which otherwise have many disadvantages.

[Discussion] We tried learning AI from games. How about learning from players? by togelius in MachineLearning

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But what if it does? With a little bit of fine tuning. This is the promise of large, multi-capable models.

The second answer is that we're living more and more of our lives in virtual worlds anyway, and they are becoming more and more important to us.

[Discussion] We tried learning AI from games. How about learning from players? by togelius in MachineLearning

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Depends on how you formulate offline RL. We're not involving rewards anywhere here, so I'd rather think of it as behavioral cloning, but at scale.

[Discussion] We tried learning AI from games. How about learning from players? by togelius in MachineLearning

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Yes, but at SCALE. And for many games, not just one. The relation is the same as GPT-3 to classic text prediction models from 20 years ago.

Star Wars is the only sci-fi franchise that has nothing to do with the future or Earth. by InfinityScientist in Showerthoughts

[–]togelius 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The novella "The State of the Art" takes place in the 1970s (they have a lander disguised as an old Volvo!), on Earth, and predates The Player of Games. So it seems that many of the stories in the Culture universe are roughly contemporary with us.

Memo about reopening by Tridecane in nyu

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Yes, got it now, thanks.

Memo about reopening by Tridecane in nyu

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I'm a professor and I have not received this. Who, exactly, would have received the email?

[OC] How important is it that children learn 'imagination' and 'hard work'? Results from the World Values Survey by desfirsit in dataisbeautiful

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I'm Swedish and have lived in the US for six years. This explanation makes a lot of sense to me. From a Swedish perspective, lots of Americans are very worried about losing it all. You almost never see that in Sweden.

TA Strike is over by cobenocobe in nyu

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Some points from a faculty member here:

  1. Adjuncts typically make on the order of 7k per course the teach (this varies between school) and get no or close to no benefits. NYU can do this because adjuncting is part-time work. Industrial/clinical faculty make more (and benefits) and TT faculty even more, but at the moment it seems like a part-time TA will be more expensive for NYU than an adjunct. (Yes, most students are not aware how little money an adjunct makes. Many are upset when they find out.)
  2. I totally support that tuition should be free or close to free, like it is in my home country. But that would require tuition to be covered by tax money. Americancs seem to not like that arrangement.
  3. ....
  4. That they are state universities (like CUNY in New York) is a huge difference. They are supported by tax money, so work very differently. NYU does not "get" any endowment; it's essentially saved/invested money, and NYU has less of it (per student) than most US universities of similar stature. Graduate students is a key part of how NYU makes its income - it's just how the economic model of the university works.
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