Applejinx

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by Applejinx 4mo ago
They're not gonna be any better than a human who's focussed on those particular skills for a while, say top ten or five percent of social manipulators. Plus, AI alignments seem to be kinda isolated loner types to the extent that t
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
No, and it's an important detail. We stand to learn from some developments in politics in recent years because they map pretty much exactly to this threat vector. As AI develops, it's able to pursue intentions given to it without
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
Suno's incapable of making psytrance, which is mind-boggling as that is an intensely repetitive, machine-like genre that should be water off a duck's back to produce. The problem is that it's doing it by diffusion techniques,
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
We shall see. My area of coding for a living is SO specialized and SO far from 'skill at literal coding' that I'm making that bet, because I don't stand to benefit from anything else: if I go for AI it will directly rele
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
The only places I've seen profoundly pro-AI bias are places full of programmers specialized in fields where they have to have extensive domain knowledge outside of what the coding part does. Typically there's a lot of acknowledgem
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
If they are methane swamp bubble giant frauds (there can be others: for instance, Enron, historically) then they don't count as companies for the purposes of the S&P 500. Methods for determining this might include the metrics the S
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
This is why people are freaking the heck out and demanding that all the index funds MUST include the doomed stocks because they're just that important and totally aren't a doomed bubble you guys. Not all viewpoints are unbiased ov
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
Investment funds are for making money. Nobody cares about 'accurately reflecting the state of the market' if that's objectionably high-risk. You invest in an investment fund to make money. There is no way you can commit to ho
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
If they're doomed, they're bad companies. This isn't complicated. You can run a fraud and double down real aggressively and as long as you're not called on your bullshit you look incredibly good, until you don't. If
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
This. The industry is dumping electrical labor at a humongous loss JUST BECAUSE they figure people will immediately atrophy and be unable to do without AI… at any price. We'll get an idea of the relative cost of the labor, all right. I
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
Huh! Points to you for clarity of understanding. Wish I was an employer able to take note of this :) for now I would NOT take the 'apply for asylum' suggestion, not until we clean house. Could be the dumbest thing you could do rig
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Nah. It's a british sports car, but a keyboard. At this price point the idea that you can have a little pile of parts and take it apart on weekends to fiddle with the springs is its own selling point. I'm typing this on a Das that
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
I'm in an industry where I can really see this, executed by honestly talented people able to interpret what the LLMs produce. It's bikeshedding hell. If you pursue every possible idea and get to implement all of them and it actual
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
That's the gremlin to keep an eye on ;)
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Um. Perhaps 'pro writers did come up with an absolute crapload of interesting ideas' would be better writing than 'dearth', which means scarcity and famine? I get that it sounds clever but that's the damn problem!
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Likewise. The page is youtube.com and then just /feed/ without anything else there. That's the blank page, thank goodness they've not ruined that yet :)
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
People get into being amazing at code by being interested in what it does rather than what it is. It's a whole area that I can see but can't get to, where it's all about DRY and elegance and what's being done is relative
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Can't, it ain't nothing BUT us. You can wait and see, but that's what'll happen. If we stop it stops.
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Because they are not people or alive, you can literally torture them if it gives you a mild increase in performance. For all practical purposes you can't do that to living humans. What is the price to put on being able to do that? It m
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
And today he's got salient observations on politics which hold much of his attention, and Deep Blue is shut off and has done nothing further. Not a good argument for turning everything over to the Deep Blues. What's Deep Blue done
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Appreciated, though I did say chromium. Chrome updates itself and changes itself when you're not looking, and I find that so distressing that I use ungoogled chromium instead :)
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
On the contrary, destroying other people's things is a fundamental part of high-stakes capitalism. If that's what it is, you're describing it as petty and pointless because it's hurting you (or someone like you). But hur
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Nonsense. Nobody's gonna bother with the subsistence UBI. This is what bugs people. We can tell the part they're bullshitting about is the promise of a subsistence UBI. No wonder people boo.
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
I was able to avoid talking to Gemini, but only by switching to DuckDuckGo and then also doctoring Chromium to run searches using a 'no-AI' option. At least I think I'm avoiding talking to Gemini, but for all I know I'm
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Imagine how much money will go into lobbying for some particular AI to BE the standards committee.
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
To whom?
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Or mod it so it burns your junk but makes you the heatsink :D
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
The reason LLM-based 'intelligence' is doomed to be a human-scaled, selfish sub-intelligence is because the corpus of human writing is flooded with stuff like this. Everybody imagines God as a vindictive petty tyrant because that&
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
So you have to know the answer and also be an expert in the problem domain?
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by Applejinx 5mo ago
Is the group of at least 5 different doctors ambushing you, in the room with us right now? Was it 5, or more like 15, or 50? Would it have been more or less frightening if it was a group of the same doctor, but like 40 of him?

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