Avicebron

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by Avicebron 25d ago
Do we need a new MAD treaty? Maybe agree on doing something positive for once?
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by Avicebron 25d ago
People seem allergic from holding them accountable...
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by Avicebron 25d ago
Eliezer spent his life devoted to science fiction and building a cult around himself, and now him and the rest of them are trying to vindicate themselves before they fade into obscurity.
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by Avicebron 25d ago
Why don't we just build high speed electrified rail and busses. Why this rollout of electrified golf carts? My car is fast and fun to drive, that's part of it's job alongside getting me where I need to go. If I just need to g
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by Avicebron 25d ago
Yeah it's concerning hearing elites on the left looking at the current admin's model and salivating at the power. For the people, by the people, etc, etc.
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by Avicebron 25d ago
Ah yes, another way for EA people to gain financially and socially. These "embedded auditors" will be universally friends and family. Even if they staffed a government department for it, it will just be a revolving door of insider
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by Avicebron 25d ago
Well with each new thing we get the grifters, lesswrong is an AI grifter hangout.
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by Avicebron 26d ago
yes.
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by Avicebron 26d ago
I think it's fair to hold the government to account, but it's good to be cognizant of how entrenched corporatism is in our modern governance. If your "just increasing shareholder value" is found to cause damages to the p
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Indeed. If you hold your duty to your net worth above your duty to civil society, you can't be trusted with civil society. To paraphrase Patrick Henry.
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Why is a 3rd party company keeping videos of people's children? Why aren't the parents concerned about this?
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Genuine question, because "abundance" is meaningless unless you qualify what you mean. You're saying that we ask the ASI for "abundance" and everyone gets a mansion in silicon valley and doesn't need to work un
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by Avicebron 26d ago
> What should they be called instead? AI Sausage Factories maybe (cue Upton Sinclair?)? That's actually great? Slaughterhouses killing off the collective genius of humanity and grinding it into a bland paste for mass consumption.
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Destruction is easy and entropically rewarded. We've long since lost our way in rewarding and recognizing things that are positive. Howl by Ginsberg needs a rewrite. "The greatest minds of my generation were harnessed to boil the
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Lesswrong is talking about the HF incident as the "worst warning shot ever".
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by Avicebron 26d ago
I don't particularly agree with Ezra Klein or Francis Fukuyama, often vehemently disagree. But on the latest episode of Klein's NYT show it was interesting to hear Francis mention this coupling of wealth and political power being
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Not even remotely true. People loathe the surveillance state, it takes a special kind of evil to support a panopticon.
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by Avicebron 26d ago
Not a lot of people were clamoring for copilot in their outlook. But NVIDIA are giving money to labs so that they will buy their hardware. Manufacturing demand for their hardware, which is used for more AI, which eager PMs stuff into every
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by Avicebron 26d ago
> If the market grows enough they will win the bet So for this to become true there are some number of jobs that that pay $N salary are replaced completely by LLMs that do the job for $N-0.01? Is that what you mean by "market grows
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by Avicebron 26d ago
If they wanted to be taken seriously about their desire to help humanity not just themselves they would be talking about universal healthcare, actionable plans for UBI (or whatever they think would be how people retain agency and dignity po
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by Avicebron 27d ago
Money is a lot like mass, it has it's own gravity.
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by Avicebron 27d ago
Yeah, it's insane people are using the argument that we'll pour trillions on moonshot cancer research when pouring trillions into universal healthcare would probably save countless more lives. It's this kind of argument where
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by Avicebron 27d ago
We've had enough utterances from "effective altruists" to know what they say and claim to believe is a cynical ploy.
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by Avicebron 27d ago
You know how many things are asking for "~$10/mo". People don't have the purchasing power they used to, and everything has a subscription model. Firefox with DDG is good enough.
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by Avicebron 28d ago
It's sad that instead of searching things other people put up, we're basically asking sam or dario oracle to tell us the truth. The people should be furious. But we've internalized this idea that they are somehow better.
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by Avicebron 29d ago
Pretty much, corporate lobbying, corporate donations, superpacs, the list is pretty much endless. Little timmy's vote in rural nebraska isn't moving the needle. Maybe he can complain at his local town meeting about the datacenter
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by Avicebron 1mo ago
I feel exactly the same. There has to be a way to do procedural generation in a way that doesn't feel "sparse". A thought that comes to me as I type this is what if you try to co-evolve the ecosystems so it doesn't feel
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by Avicebron 1mo ago
Refreshingly doesn't feel like AI. If someone asked me "what does software engineering look like", I would point to this.
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by Avicebron 1mo ago
I agree, I just wonder how it's enforced. Just a ban on any dragnet style surveillance?
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by Avicebron 1mo ago
This feels like a performance designed to launch this guys career in some "ai safety thinktank".

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