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Triple Dragon
September 3, 2006
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Julia set using square orbit trap. The formula used was
f(z) = z^3/(z^3 + 1) + c, c = 0.18 + 0.68 i
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“Triple Dragon” Parameter File
> ... It starts by stepping into a shallow pool of golden light.
> ... Together they act as both a choir and an audience
I think I'm not the target audience.
I guess they are going to need to sign up a lot of people, to train on their scans + their medical outcomes. So the article is talking to people who will get enthused by it, which is more difficult after the question of 23AndMe data sale.
The risk is humans using AI to control / exploit / coerce / injure other humans. The risk of AIs being given enough agency to threaten humans comes after that - they'll only have the agency we give them (being "alive" or "conscious" is not the near-term risk).
The article lists diplomatic actions which might help to manage the risk, starting with "An agreement between America and China" - they all sound like impossible dreams.
We had ~80 years of relative peace and prosperity in which to construct a framework of unity to face challenges like AI (and global warming, which until GPT I thought was the bigger risk); international unity is weaker than ever.
In geopolitics and defence, capability of other nations is the concern rather than intention; the capability curve of LLMs is heading off our charts.
We're backed into tight corners on nuclear proliferation, global warming, and I can see LLM-enabled conflicts (cyber warfare, infrastructure terrorism) pushing us over those other edges. Our democracies seem weakened, and I expect LLMs will empower those using social media to create conflict and control opinion.
We're familiar with the cycle of inventing new technology which benefits people, then seeing how long before people invent ways to misuse it. There is a possibility here that LLMs could be used to solve the problems we are juggling, but I struggle to imagine that people won't misuse it even faster.
The article is a start on thinking and talking about managing our risks. The best outcome would be it is so well managed that, like the Y2K "bug", people say "after all that hoopla, nothing happened". I'm not seeing a smooth path to there.
Related (posted just 2hours before this article) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086833
"Blimps lifting quantum data centers to the stratosphere? (newatlas.com)"
"... blimps, to lift quantum computers to the stratosphere. There, at an altitude of about 20 km (12.4 miles), temperatures are in the -50 °C range (about -58 °F) and would be cold enough to allow the qubits to function correctly."
I have drafted a photo gallery app in Rust / Tauri, using a JavaScript framework in the frontend.
The backend can read directories and files directly, and because the backend and frontend are in a single process, the backend simply passes a file handle (path string possibly) to the frontend. In contrast Electron has to send the image file between processes. I started with Electron and I think that was the point I shifted to Rust / Tauri; seeing the images display immediately was a revelation.
Rust / Tauri has the advantages of a desktop app, and I have the option to use the frontend as a web app also.
This Python binding (pytauri) is interesting too - I have colleagues with Python functionality they want to surface on the web, and this would give the possibility of running as a desktop app also - good for large datasets.
A search for : "character studies of old farmers" yielded good results.
The results are drawings / engravings, which may reflect the balance of the collection, and perhaps this subject is more used in practice than in marketable oil paintings.
Since this is a semantic search, using a vector embedding, it will handle meanings better than a text search, which would handle names better.
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Fractal Domains Exploring fractals with your Macintosh
Triple Dragon September 3, 2006 Click image to see full size
Julia set using square orbit trap. The formula used was f(z) = z^3/(z^3 + 1) + c, c = 0.18 + 0.68 i Downloads and extras “Triple Dragon” Parameter File
Copyright © 2011 Dennis C. De Mars
triple-dragon.zip : 1058 3-Sep-2006 20:06:36 Triple Dragon DMrsFra2...
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Paul's image is a nice rendering of an attractive fractal.