[HN Gopher] Project Ideas
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Project Ideas
Author : apsec112
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-06-29 14:45 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (ftxfuturefund.org)
| temptemptemp111 wrote:
| grangerg wrote:
| Remember back in the day when we used to use the word
| "algorithm", instead of "AI"?
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| AI/ML is so abused these days, we stopped using them entirely
| while pitching our Startup even though we wrote two home-grown
| algorithms already. It has become an addendum, "We also wrote
| our own Machine Learning Algorithm and we train them against
| 1-million acres of high resolution satellite data."
| mirntyfirty wrote:
| It's kind of absurd that a number of the algorithms being
| used are remarkably simple and are being compared to sentient
| consciousness by people with minimal academic background and
| datasets that don't contain the value for the proposed
| solution.
| boredemployee wrote:
| weird, no one is complaining about your statement, that AI
| is not sentient!
| marban wrote:
| Most AI in reality: switch(i) { case x:
| break; case y: break; default: }
| meesterdude wrote:
| I think it's fair to say the problem space AI operates in is
| one of case statements and not general rationalization. The
| magic of "AI" is in working with subjective data to identify
| the best case to use.
| djfobbz wrote:
| I think I've seen this AI on GitHub's status page!
| mhh__ wrote:
| I was going to make a joke about mimicking that behaviour
| using a perceptron with certain weights but then I realized
| there's no side effect so they can all be zero. Perfect.
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| #5 Biological Weapons Shelters: I wonder how many of these
| already exist that are just classified. Or if an alternative is
| just to invest in SpaceX or some other team with a vision of
| making humanity a multi-planetary species (or long term self-
| sustaining space habitats)
| throwaway1777 wrote:
| If our bioweapon strategy is anything like our COVID strategy
| it's nonexistent.
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| our = US? I think FTX's concern is humanity broadly so I hope
| some country somewhere has a decent strategy. I know a few EU
| countries had lots of bunkers, no idea if any of them have
| been made into bioweapon bunkers
| seoaeu wrote:
| For some reason I get an almost misanthropic vibe from a lot of
| these. Maybe I'm missing some context where they support
| eliminating global poverty and such in parallel, but it feels too
| much like the subtext is that they don't feel that all the
| suffering and injustice in the world matter long term.
| paulpauper wrote:
| I don't think it's enough money. If they fund a lot of projects
| then it means each one may only get tiny amount.
|
| Solving big, difficult problems will require a lot.
| mellonaut wrote:
| Looking at their grants page1 this organisation has committed
| only a single grant under $50k and various grants over $1m,
| where does 'tiny amounts of money' come from?
|
| 1. https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/#grants
| abecedarius wrote:
| from https://ftxfuturefund.org/apply/:
|
| > Do you have a limit on how much funding you'll provide to an
| application?
|
| > No.
| UmbertoNoEco wrote:
| Half of these projects are so general that are laughable, a
| quarter is so ambitious that a small prize would play 0 role in
| the potential development of the solution.
|
| Less:
|
| Solve world peace.
|
| Create "dynamic" organizations.
|
| Establish a colony in Titan.
|
| More:
|
| - Increase by Z the yield of X staple in Y country within the
| next 5 years.
|
| - Integrate 1 million people to the Internet for less than 1
| USD/month/person.
| bismuthcrystal wrote:
| Your "more" section lacks a purpose. You mention price of
| "connection" without additional details. One could argue that
| the main benefit of the internet, both ways communication of
| information worldwide, can be fulfilled with very low bandwidth
| and today can already be priced at 1 dollar per month per
| person. What happens when we allocate resources to enable 1
| dollar per month per person internet with megabits of bandwidth
| and this group of people use it to consume social media and
| streaming (aka "old days television") old day long?
| withinboredom wrote:
| > can be fulfilled with very low bandwidth and today can
| already be priced at 1 dollar per month per person
|
| I can promise you that basically the entire internet (with
| the exception of this particular site) doesn't work at "very
| low bandwidth."
| bismuthcrystal wrote:
| I believe you. I just recently tried to browse Reddit. The
| bloat is unbelievable.
| arisAlexis wrote:
| The whole idea is for you to come up with a project, that's
| whythey are general. Not sure why people need detailed
| instructions to innovate and get funded.
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