AnimalMuppet

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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
That wouldn't kill us - or at least, not all of us. It would destroy modern life, though.
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
Couldn't read the article (ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH, Chrome on Windows). But I'm remembering something a coworker told me some time around... 1991 to 1993, maybe? Forgive me if I repeat some of what the article says -
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
I see. Well, what you propose might have the minor problem of being illegal for the Fed to do. I'm not perfectly sure (and I don't want to take the time to research this rabbit hole right now), but the Fed is deliberately differ
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
Well, the ones where they wrote out stuff to the public internet are negligence, because they didn't sandbox (or didn't sandbox competently). Hiding errors during development... eh, that one I could argue might be incompetence, ev
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
"OpenAI discloses six new incidents of their own gross negligence."
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
Disagree, fairly strongly. In 2008, four trillion dollars evaporated. In order to keep the economy from completely crashing, the Fed created $4T using QE and such tricks. The result was 15 years of flat. No inflation for 15 years. If i
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
Why specifically 26 years? I agree that Congress has been increasingly useless, leading to more and more rule by presidential decree in order to have a government that runs at all, but there wasn't a step function 26 years ago.
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
It is. But the data is talking rather loudly at the moment.
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
Oof. Private gold ownership was illegal until 1975. So, you have to hide it for 40+ years? That investment strategy has some significant downsides...
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
But not doing this would, in two years, cause (or at least allow) inflation that would cause harm, too. But Trump might get blamed in that case, because inflation would increase for the next two years, and so people would experience the pa
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
Fed independence is a really big deal . I'm glad to see that it still exists.
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
"The C Programming Language", by Kernighan and Ritchie.
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by AnimalMuppet 10d ago
The claim is that the evil labs are opening up the industry to very carefully manipulated democratic control. It's astroturf, not grassroots. I wouldn't call that "democratic control", even though it uses the machiner
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
There's a bit more to it than that. Everybody wants the government to do things; nobody wants to pay for all the things that the government is doing. (If we had a balanced budget, tax rates would currently be nearly twice as high, whi
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
I think the idea is that oil is expensive primarily because of speculators. That seems nuts to me. Oil might (just hypothetically) be expensive due to some kind of supply-demand imbalance.
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
I think I heard 3 years at a minimum (don't take that number as gospel, but the order of magnitude is roughly right as a best case). The issue is that Venezuela's oil infrastructure is basically trashed by decades of neglect an
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
Isn't the DL (which has a picture) and your face the two factors? Isn't that the whole point of having a picture on a DL?
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
A major provocation? "Oh, you deny using your satellites to supply them with imaging? All right, then it wasn't us who blew up your spy satellite that wasn't supplying imaging." That is, China's in a bit of an awk
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
Could you be a bit more specific about what you think "Bretton Woods III" is?
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
See what Clinton did? Well, he said he'd create a plan to balance the budget. And he did. It was a ten-year plan, and it involved doing very little for the first eight years, and then doing the real work in years nine and ten - that
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by AnimalMuppet 11d ago
Except that the emperor doesn't actually rule Japan - the Diet does, and you can vote for them.
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
Personal attacks are against site rules. But if you've been here since 2011, you should know that...
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
Well, yes, I'd expect a checklist to be used as part of creating the design document. If there's a separate auditing tool that also knows about the checklist, yes, that's useful. But if you're doing a spike, no, don&#x2
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
If what you said doesn't make the AI think of changing that code, why is it going to make the AI auditor think of testing that code? That's what a gap looks like: Nobody changed it, nobody tested it, but some business constrai
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
I'm looking for the places that need to be touched, but that wouldn't occur to me (and maybe not to an AI either) while I'm knee-deep in the code. Seeing where the AI touched isn't going to solve that.
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
Yeah, this. If it's slop, reject it, and tell them why.
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
The absence of a software design document can definitely harm quality, extensibility, and maintainability.
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
> At best, it helps to keep the business in sync at the expense of a much longer delivery timetable. If you're writing a software design document that slows down your delivery timetable, you're doing it wrong. (Or, more charit
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by AnimalMuppet 12d ago
> Right now the really good AIs are still locked to data centers. They can't just distribute themselves widely because they can't run at any reasonable rate distributed like that. Back up a step. Let's say there was a com
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by AnimalMuppet 13d ago
> I don’t know anyone in this field who honestly argues that if we build ASI soon it doesn’t lead to extinction. Say what? Could lead to extinction, sure. Does ? And nobody honestly argues otherwise? Baloney.

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