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by 4bpp 3y ago
I didn't claim anything about your project at all. A claim about a perceived tendency does not amount to asserting an absolute rule. That being said, though, for any major project, it's hard to overstate the long-term effect of co
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by 4bpp 3y ago
> better code I'm not disputing that Rust has its advantages; the issues I talk above are mostly problems with the community than the language per se. (On the other hand, we are yet to see how the "import antigravity" atti
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Typst does look very nice based on the brief look I took at it, but besides the questions of adoption and entrenchment that have been raised in parallel comments, the choice of Rust as the implementation language is also concerning to me. I
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by 4bpp 3y ago
I think there is a simple solution to the thought experiment in the beginning, ignoring the paragraphs upon paragraphs of EY liking the sound of his own voice: The information content of each experiment consists of more than just the stated
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by 4bpp 3y ago
That's precisely what is typically considered to be the problem of AI alignment.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
I imagine the folks over at NSA must be rubbing their hands over the possibilities this will open up for querying the data they have been diligently storing over the years.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Are you contending that the black Wehrmacht soldiers, or black British kings eating watermelon, were anticipated or desired by Google staff? Even if you model them as the most extreme conceivable woke boogeymen, surely they wouldn't wa
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Surely those are typically when the manufacturer was taken to have made an implicit promise of safety to the user and their surroundings, and the user got injured. If your fridge topples onto you and you get injured, the manufacturer might
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Datasets can still be curated by crowds of volunteers just fine. I would likewise expect a crowdsourceable solution to compute to emerge eventually - unless the safetyists move to prevent this by way of legislation. When writing and printin
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Empowering to their users. A lot of things that empower their users necessarily disempower others, especially if we define power in a way that is zero-sum - the printing press disempowered monasteries and monks that spent a lifetime perfect
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Why do you figure I would be confused? Whether any liability for drawing porn of classmates is civil or criminal is orthogonal to the AI comparison. The question is if we would hold manufacturers of drawing tools or software, or purveyors o
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Right, these are the same arguments against uncontrolled empowerment that I imagine mass literacy and the printing press faced. I would prefer to live in a society where individual freedom, at least in the cognitive domain, is protected by
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by 4bpp 3y ago
I guess we should count our blessings and be grateful that literacy, the printing press, computers and the internet became normalised before this notion of "harm" and harm prevention was. Going forward, it's hard to imagine h
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Would it be illegal for a student who is good at drawing to paint a nude picture of an unknowing classmate and distribute it? If yes, why doesn't the same law apply to AI? If no, why are we only concerned about it when AI is involved?
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Ugh, I would fully expect this kind of clause to start popping up in other software ToSes soon if it hasn't already. Contractually mandatory automatic updates.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
If the camera was used for surveillance and the surveillance pictures got indexed by the gallery app, why were there only "half a dozen random photos"? One would expect something like scheduled pictures on some timer. A surveillan
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by 4bpp 3y ago
What do you think does fall under censorship?
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Is there evidence that it's actually everyone or even close to everyone? The core innovation that the internet brought to harassment is that it is sufficient for some 0.0...01% of all people to take issue with you and be sufficiently d
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by 4bpp 3y ago
With cash, they can only do it to everybody at once or not at all. With a number in a bank's database, they can selectively expropriate people based on any criterion with as little effort as between zero (in the case of tacit understan
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by 4bpp 3y ago
> expound on their love for say Olson Kundig, David Chipperfield, Freddie Mamani, and Kengo Kuma in a single sitting. I was familiar with buildings by some of them, and looked up the rest. Excepting, as a sibling post does, Freddie Maman
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by 4bpp 3y ago
In what sense would I be running away with something? The original thing is still there, to the extent you can talk about data being somewhere. I don't think I need to "gaslight myself" into anything; as far as I can tell, ma
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Ah, I see. After looking it up some more, I'm also quite convinced that I misapprehended the definition. My bad.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
What exactly am I stealing if I don't take the deal, walk away and then enjoy an AI-generated artwork that just so happens to resemble the thing closely instead? I'd think that stealing requires taking something away from someone,
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by 4bpp 3y ago
A landlord developer who builds and furnishes an apartment complex with the intent of collecting passive income on it for a long time also creates something, but that is close to a central example of rent seeking.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
There seems to be a whole genre of announcements from corporations and politicians where they partially backtrack on some all around terrible change while congratulating themselves on listening to their customers (with a clear undertone o
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by 4bpp 3y ago
The assailant, one would hope and expect?
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by 4bpp 3y ago
This may well be true according to the legal definition, though a system that matches against a fixed list of hashes, perceptual or otherwise, rather than working on magical AI, would not catch those. However, if this is all that the measur
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Do you imagine that a significant proportion of CSAM is shared by users who are so casual about it that they would be "very susceptible to nudges"?
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by 4bpp 3y ago
There's a qualitative barrier there. The AI risk people in the know are afraid of is not a flood of AI-generated articles, but something that probably can't be achieved yet with current levels of AI (and more slop generated from c
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by 4bpp 3y ago
It's the "arguments as soldiers" pattern. The idea that global warming will make plants incapable of photosynthesis helps the cause of fighting against global warming. You wouldn't betray the cause by refuting the idea (

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