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by 4bpp 4y ago
The "shoggoth with a smiley face" metaphor for LLMs has gained traction far beyond Yudkowsky's bubble. It even has a KYM article now: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-art...
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Since the point seems to be lost on some of the early commenters, this appears to be a cheeky PR by someone unaffiliated with Facebook, suggesting that they put a magnet link to (what seems to be) a leak of the model weights along with the
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Is there a problem with corporations that have no intention to contribute source code back to the public adopting zero-GPL policies? It seems that this conveys more of a disadvantage upon them than the presumed alternative (they use GPLed c
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by 4bpp 4y ago
It's not clear how many independent sources this actually reflects. All that we, as members of the general public, have to go by is a low-quality video, and a bunch of "soandso said that soandso said that soandso saw..."-type
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by 4bpp 4y ago
For them to relicense it, they would need to hold the copyright to all the code. Do the Signal authors actually have it?
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Well, part of the point of the GPL (under which the official client is licensed) is that you can't really prevent people from doing that. Of course the party operating the servers has the discretion to ban users of modified clients on
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by 4bpp 4y ago
The individual human in your comparison is arguably cheating, as they are probably vocalising (or otherwise expressing, for people without inner monologue) several thoughts inside of their head before actually deciding to say anything. Conv
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> It is difficult to understand where the HN vulpephillia comes from. I imagine it is in part backlash, fueled by political impulse. Mozilla's appointment of Mitchell Baker and subsequent course of Firefox development have taken on
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Even if we conveniently assume that all the people of the future smaller population have it in them to do the jobs AI is not yet good enough at (and none of them are would-be copywriters because that's where their skill ceiling is), su
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Does your operating system run from a disk? Congratulations, you have a disk operating system, also known as DOS. Are you playing your videos on a system you have at home? Congratulations, you have a video home system, also known as VHS. Di
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by 4bpp 4y ago
The problem with running a colony of 20k in Antarctica is a human/political one, not a technological one. We have been running one of over 2k on Spitsbergen, which is not terribly different in terms of climate and accessibility, for a
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by 4bpp 4y ago
It's not necessarily about the ends never justifying the means; some of us just have arrived at the impression that the same means of deception and authoritarianism are being justified so often by a variety of ends that perhaps their
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by 4bpp 4y ago
That's not incompatible with it being a conspiracy, though. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by 4bpp 4y ago
A conspiracy whose conspirators believe they are doing a morally good thing is still a conspiracy. In fact, in one or another way this is probably the case for most conspiracies - as they say, nobody is the villain of their own story. Does
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by 4bpp 4y ago
What is the pragmatic and non-conspiracy answer you are imagining? As I understand it, a group of people coordinating in secret to take actions that the public would not let them take if the secrecy were broken is pretty much the definition
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by 4bpp 4y ago
If you define being hurt via the subjective mental state, then the statement indeed becomes trivially true, as you point out - but then it seems quite misleading to have a single word ("hurt") cover objectively measurable physic
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> You can’t be the one deciding if people are hurt or not, it’s their call. Are you trying to suggest that this is a dichotomy? It seems to me that the common-sense position is (used to be?) that neither the person performing an action n
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Can you gain deeper understanding without first gaining superficial understanding, though? And if not and our current method of imparting superficial knowledge breaks down, wouldn't there be a pipeline problem because much fewer studen
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> Could you please elaborate, why its "short-sighted"? Because it's barely been a year since we've gone from people confidently asserting that AI won't be able to produce visual art on the level of human professi
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by 4bpp 4y ago
The idea that the AI will compete with you by copying your unique style seems like exactly the sort of short-sighted conceit that I alluded to in my post above. As an artist, would you be much happier if, rather than the AI copying your sty
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by 4bpp 4y ago
I'm not in AI and my GPU barely runs games from 10 years ago, so I'll pass. To be more precise, though, I think that it _seems_ that their protest won't matter, but the one way in which I see that it may (the second out of th
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Surely, if the next Stable Diffusion had to be trained from a dataset that has been purged of images that were not under a permissive license, this would at most be a minor setback on AI's road to obsoleting painting that is more craft
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Well, as long as you are in fact consistent about the position that it is "(essentially) a message board that is used to sell advertisements", with the presumable implication being that it is unimportant, replaceable and/or n
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by 4bpp 4y ago
There kind of is, insofar as you will need Cloudflare if you don't want anyone willing to rent some botnet time to have a veto on your presence and most likely need MasterCard/Visa to pay for your colo. Both of those are subject t
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> What kind of speech aims to prevent people from being exposed to certain viewpoints? Any speech that argues for certain viewpoints to be banned, or tries to incite people to action that would reduce the spread of those viewpoints (e.g.
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by 4bpp 4y ago
"When all you have is a hammer..." The problem doesn't seem to me like one that can be or should be solved (primarily) by turning the amount-of-moderation knob in one direction or the other. I think that the philosophical bas
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by 4bpp 4y ago
When all the biases one is asked to acknowledge and account for are biases against one specific political movement and its symbols, this is an isolated demand for rigour ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/
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by 4bpp 4y ago
This leaves me wondering what percentage of a typical service industry worker's salary is usually spent on tipping, and whether it couldn't be the case that if they stopped giving and taking tips entirely they would be better off
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by 4bpp 4y ago
It's interesting to compare this to the propaganda landscape of WW2 and especially WW1, when the British pushed a comparable line about the inherent sadism and civilisational primitivity of the Germans. Unfortunately I'm having tr
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by 4bpp 4y ago
If I read the article correctly, this doesn't quite rise to the level that I outlined in the post you are responding to; they haven't actually identified an ancestral form of the virus that exists in a wild population (thus relyin

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