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by 1attice 4y ago
N.B. textninja quietly admits my most important point, #3. > That’s just like your opinion, man. Yes, a state of affairs I indicated by using the qualifier 'think.' :) Writing is a competition for the opinions of your readershi
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by 1attice 4y ago
Could someone who is actually good at such things please deepfake me Sam Altman's face atop the dude who bullrides the falling nuke in the film's final scene?
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by 1attice 4y ago
This argument does not feel emotional to me, it feels like an intuition pump ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump ). Moral arguments almost always work by analogy, and this is one of them. 1) This assumption do
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is about Sam Altman types rushing to win the ML race. We can reasonably expect civ ('the village') to be disrupted ('poisoned'), but instead of that counting as a reason to not do it, it counts --- somehow --- as
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by 1attice 4y ago
After typing this, I realized that there's a great movie that captures this exactly: _Dr. Strangelove: Or I how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_. The eponymous character's boner-like n*zi salute, irrepressible when di
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by 1attice 4y ago
Pitch-perfect. To the mis-en-scene, I could only add: the erotism that is behind technological accelerationism. What I mean is that there is a sort of visceral, cthonic attraction to the idea of creating 'new life', even as the ec
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by 1attice 4y ago
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -- Ursula K Le Guin
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'd love to see a short paper on the difference between hollering and heckling that you perceive. The idea that it is some kind of "veto" is again to misattribute power to the powerless. This figurative and hyperbolic languag
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by 1attice 4y ago
The notion that there are these well-paid (as you put it) 'witch' hunters out there, just lying in wait to "hunt Americans", is firstly, specious ( where are these riches ?) and secondly shows exactly who you think is de
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by 1attice 4y ago
I see lots of comments with emotional responses that seem to have the commenter identifying with the judge, and describing the protest as a mob. It would be useful to look into what the man has actually said and done, the context of the p
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by 1attice 4y ago
The other thing that keeps coming up for me is that I've begun thinking of emotions (the topic of my undergrad phil thesis), especially social emotions, as basically RLHF set up either by past selves (feeling guilty about eating that c
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by 1attice 4y ago
Fsck. I hadn't thought of it that way. Thank you, great point. This era has me hankering to reread Daniel Dennett's _The Intentional Stance_. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance We've develo
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by 1attice 4y ago
good.
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by 1attice 4y ago
It is probably not very comfortable for the folks whose job searches now begin on the website they used to be paid to develop. Oof. <3 to the 2200.
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by 1attice 4y ago
I quite enjoyed the film, but you're absolutely correct: it falls apart when you think about it too clearly. All the same, it got folks thinking enough about physics (and time!) to notice that it falls apart! That's powerful. Sort
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by 1attice 4y ago
Usage suggestion: can we please call this material a 'turnstile'? "All I have for you is a gesture, in combination with a word. Tenet. Use it carefully. It'll open the right doors, but some of the wrong ones, too."
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by 1attice 4y ago
Hi ptmx, The distinguishing characteristic is scale & speed. The switch to electricity happened over half a century. The switch to the automobile took a similarly long time. There was crossfade. There was time to adjust. There were pla
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by 1attice 4y ago
Hard to worry about AI reducing the quality of their docs
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by 1attice 4y ago
He would say that we are witnessing a collapse wavefront moving through the labour market, yielding a concentration of capital that has never before been seen, and that will almost certainly foment a revolution. He'd be right, too. But
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by 1attice 4y ago
A few paragraphs in, we get this: > The rise of AI will free people up to do things that software never will—teaching, caring for patients, and supporting the elderly, for example. First, he's already shown how teaching jobs can be
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by 1attice 4y ago
It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Please, bring the temperature down. No one is snarking at anyone. We are, however, talking through each other. I'm directly addressing the stance that you have repeatedly taken. I quote: > When someone is aware of the damage they ca
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by 1attice 4y ago
> When someone is aware of the damage they cause, and then they still continue, what would you call that behavior? Pretty standard human behaviour, I'd say. Reference points include Exxon, Shell, et al, at any time in the past forty
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by 1attice 4y ago
> and I don't thing raging against some caricature of evil tech workers is helpful here. The caricature here is entirely yours. Your interlocutors aren't raging against evil tech workers, they are railing against tech workers
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm Lattice#7879 on Discord.
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by 1attice 4y ago
No, of course not. These are some of the edge cases I alluded to (did you read both paragraphs?) Political cartoons of erstwhile dictators and competitions for employment are exactly such edge cases. What you are groping towards is an attem
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by 1attice 4y ago
You missed the 'we'. I meant: is our industry benefitting by eating other industries? The answer seems to be "yes, obviously." Does that make us the baddies?
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by 1attice 4y ago
Your complaint seems mostly to be about the tone of the people who are angry at you. Again, I invite you to consider if that anger occurs in a context that might make it be or seem justified. For example, many people are a little irate when
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by 1attice 4y ago
Strongly recommend that you read the book I linked to above. 'Artist', as a thing that an adult can be and do, has only been around for a hundred or so years (said William Deresiewicz https://www.goodreads.com/book
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by 1attice 4y ago
> Forgive me if I made assumptions. But when you gesture at popular culture's disdain for techies as some form of proof of our sins, you make it difficult to take the argument seriously. They weren't assumptions; they were care

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