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by 4bpp 3y ago
To continue contributing to climate change takes very little: you need some guy willing to spin a stick for long enough to start a fire, or to feed and protect a flock of cows. To continue contributing to AI, you need to maintain a global m
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by 4bpp 3y ago
It does to me; your quoted sentiment amounts to a concrete claim that can be argued for or against, and does not insinuate that the position of the speaker's opponents is due to something that everyone in the discussion would be bound
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by 4bpp 3y ago
This is a spectacularly polemic framing that can only serve to score points, not advance civil discussion. In other domains it seems that our society has come to terms with the idea that systemic discrepancies in attainment can't just
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by 4bpp 3y ago
The whitepaper in the Github repository elaborates further on the mitigations point, as follows: > We will award this point for any clear, but potentially incomplete, description of multiple mitigations associated with the model’s risks.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
It seems to be a stretch to include some of the evaluation criteria under the heading of "transparency", in particular the risks and mitigations ones, as they wind up being more of an assessment of compliance with a particular pol
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by 4bpp 3y ago
People tend to approve of direct democracies up until the point that they vote for something they don't like (in European settings, this will nowadays most likely be some anti-immigration measure like the Swiss minaret ban). Then all t
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Most of the times this argument is fielded, including this one, it is formulated in the shape of an appeal to a general moral principle. I don't see what this principle is supposed to be: as my analogy shows, there is clearly no genera
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Have human artists done so?
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by 4bpp 3y ago
> this issue would have arisen when using capture-by-reference I understand - but in those languages capture-by-reference has to be an explicit choice (by writing the &) rather than the default, which highlights the actual behaviour.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
I don't know, my feeling is that the issue really is with how closure capture was interpreted when imperative languages started implementing lambdas. What was happening in Go seems to either amount to default capture by reference rathe
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Network effects mean that most internet platforms form natural monopolies, as a hypothetical scenario in which there are dozens of video websites with idiosyncratic communities, rules and technical constraints would add friction that most i
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by 4bpp 3y ago
If the flaw in AES is subtle enough, they may be (justifiedly?) convinced that nobody else's capabilities will suffice to discover and/or exploit it - or, at least, that they have enough of a grasp of what everyone else is doing t
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Monopoly power seems secondary here, with the real problem being that there are sufficiently many people now with a totalitarian impulse to forbid others from engaging in speech they dislike that overrides almost any other principle, and no
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by 4bpp 3y ago
It seems like this issue could also be sidestepped by simply not silently pulling updates, especially in the case of something like browser extensions where the extension is sandboxed (so the potential negative impact of not immediately get
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by 4bpp 3y ago
In what sense were the capitol rioters "openly fascist"? I have not seen any meaningful political group in the US trying to own the label; it is only ever applied to political enemies.
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by 4bpp 3y ago
> The essence of freedom of speech has always been the ability of the common or marginalized folk to discuss and criticize those with power and privilege - the state, the landed, the majority. Attacking marginalized minorities is not the
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by 4bpp 3y ago
There is some kind of hilarious circularity to this. It's almost comparable to founding a publicly-traded company which asserts that its principal source of profits will be shaking down doubters through the legal system, and then suing
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Well, sure - now apparently we've established that you can in fact turn cities into ruins and remain on the right side, and are just, as they say, haggling over the price. Ask the Russians, and they would tell you that to leave Bakhmut
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by 4bpp 3y ago
Are you, or anyone you know, arguing against its actions in any forum that is Russian-operated and overwhelmingly pro-Russian in this war? Few people have a taste for deliberately exposing themselves to overwhelming social disapproval and h
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by 4bpp 3y ago
This level of destruction appears to be the outcome of modern urban warfare against an entrenched and motivated defender every time. At https://news.sky.com/story/the-battle-for-mosul-how-the-reca... and https:/&
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by 4bpp 3y ago
I would be surprised if it were (a clean split between academics and teachers). However, it seems like your link at least isn't at odds with the idea that there may be a clean split between those who seek to optimise for the declared l
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by 4bpp 3y ago
I would be a bit cautious about taking teachers' word for what works and what doesn't work. Every critical piece on reading instruction on the US seems to make it pretty clear that teachers have a strong emotional and political at
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> Now consider that if the planet is a burnt out carcass that can't support life beyond bacteria that the project of technology maybe didn't serve us humans too well in the end. Sure, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't s
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Are you saying that a particular assertion made in the article is factually wrong, or just that making some assertion or using some term to describe the condition of, say, Yanomami society, is immoral in your eyes? In the former case, it wo
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by 4bpp 4y ago
It doesn't seem clear to me that there is actually a greater risk from cars now than our generation grew up with, considering that traffic deaths have actually steadily been going down in the US since the '70s [1]. The same way th
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> I would be concerned if I see a kid walking alone without any clear purpose/destination, but even then, an isolated incident is not going to be a call to CPS. Do you realise how threatening this sounds? You are all but implying th
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by 4bpp 4y ago
A project that has been generating a lot of buzz lately (CPU-based inference for Facebook's LLaMa model that works on commodity hardware) has attracted contributions from a tech/activist celebrity ( https://en.wikipedia.
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by 4bpp 4y ago
The big difference between this and the past when elderly care as a familial obligation was the norm, it seems to me, are medical advances, particularly of the type that makes returns to investment diminish less. 200 years ago, the protagon
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by 4bpp 4y ago
What is your operational definition of "hostile to human life" here? What's the most recent period (based on our best knowledge) during which the planet met that definition?
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by 4bpp 4y ago
There are always people who go through mental contortions to justify to themselves that their own side is spotless. However, in this case there is a common and much more valid objection that the framing is hypocritical, or at least based on

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