DirkH

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by DirkH 3y ago
To make chatGPT analogous to coal mining automation it would have to be able to automate the thing it is doing without learning from sources online. To make coal mining automation analogous to chatGPT the machinery would have had to use som
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by DirkH 3y ago
I mean, it will last long enough for the generation who started it to get rich off of it? Right?
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by DirkH 3y ago
My parents read child psychology and based on that changed their mind on whether spankings were something good for your kids. They updated their views based on expert peer-reviewed evidence instead of relying on their own armchair theories.
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by DirkH 3y ago
Isn't there a MASSIVE difference between "you are not allowed to breed because we don't want you and think you're inferior" vs "you did a course and have worked hard and have clearly demonstrated your commitmen
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by DirkH 3y ago
Nepotism is one helluva drug. But then again so is ego. So yea, I could believe either it is or isn't true.
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by DirkH 3y ago
What country do you live in? If I visit there I'll look out for them because I see equal-area projs like never. Even the decorative one in my room right now clearly has Greenland look more than half the size of all of Africa.
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by DirkH 3y ago
As an adult I was shocked to find out how the projection I grew up with altered my perception of my poverty-stricken country. I had no idea for my entire life that it was so much larger than other countries on the map I thought were larger.
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by DirkH 3y ago
Didn't the whole "we have no moat" paper show how this is actually not the case and that the future is far brighter for open-source LLMs?
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by DirkH 3y ago
How much money do these institutions make again...? You could basically say the spirit of everything you're saying about banks.
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by DirkH 3y ago
It is stunning to me that Mastadon still hasn't come up with a simple onboarding solution to sidestep the issue of "instances" I completely agree with you. Mastadon even loses techies like me due to the decision fatigue of ha
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by DirkH 3y ago
This is interesting, but can you further explain how yoy get broad ranging social influence from focusing on ads? I don't quite get that.
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by DirkH 3y ago
I've been looking for something like this forever thanx a ton!
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by DirkH 3y ago
As an observer, I'm beginning to think you two have very different meanings of the words "social status" and if you both first operationalized it you both might find you actually agree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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by DirkH 3y ago
> What kind of feedback can you get when the donation is not anonymous that you can't get otherwise? I really can't think of anything I don't even know where to begin... This is like saying "what kind of feedback can
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by DirkH 3y ago
I'd much rather perform my acts of charity publicly for the same reason I like open source coding: to get feedback so I can do it better. Anonymous charity is more often than not even more a road towards satisfying a selfish need. It
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by DirkH 3y ago
I keep thinking there should be two upvotes. One that is just internet points and one that is a paying-upvote. That way you can interact with the site and upvote shitty memes as you normally would, but when it is time to be serious you&#x27
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by DirkH 3y ago
Don't we likewise have predictions about FLOPs, compute, algorithms etc etc that are grounded in theoretical frameworks, and every year or so we make predictions and make experiments to confirm or deny AI capability predictions? The AI
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by DirkH 3y ago
OK, read this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-im-less-than-infin... Many clear examples of it being used to coordinate in opposition to fiat because the governments can't be trusted. And it's worki
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by DirkH 3y ago
Nobody said the AI needs to be sentient to enslave us all. Highly supervised AI systems mess up all the time and we often have no idea why. It "enslaving" us or whatever the overly extreme paperclip analogy is that is the current
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by DirkH 3y ago
There was also only "a lot of theory" and zero empirical evidence that nuclear bombs were possible not that long ago. Theoretical fact-based peer reviewed literature often (though not always) precedes empirical evidence. We should
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by DirkH 3y ago
Simple example is that if governments control finance you can't coordinate if the government is your opposition. If you start sharing resources as a means of coordinating, governments can always just compel the banks to shut down your
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by DirkH 3y ago
> what would you consider to be sufficient proof that AGI is impossible? This is trivially easy? People used to believe FTL was possible. Then our understanding of physics changed and we now understand it is an impossible limit to pass.
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by DirkH 3y ago
Oh please, it's a well known proposed solution that still doesn't give us a failsafe and every Alignment Researcher ever has considered this: https://www.alignmentawards.com/shutdown Hell, so much so, that you c
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by DirkH 3y ago
"I have seen people make what is effectively this argument" And I have heard seemingly smart people use quantum physics to argue why consciousness is the ground of all being in a bad way. You know what I do? I dismiss these quantu
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by DirkH 3y ago
The paperclip maximizer is an extreme thought experiment to make a point about the the orthogonality thesis. If you think anyone actually takes it seriously as a real-world thing you never understood the example. It is used to guide discuss
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by DirkH 3y ago
I recommend LogSeq with Syncthing for your use case. I'm using that right now for both TODO and notetaking. I have syncthing set up so that it syncs my vault across 3 devices (including my phone). Very easy to set up (tho admittedly al
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by DirkH 3y ago
I agreed with you up until you casually insinuated ChillBill is racist. Like WTF? Rude. This is exactly the kind of behaviour ChillBill is talking about. Racism is a big deal. You can't just casually be throwing it in anywhere without
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by DirkH 3y ago
This just highlights an earlier point I made which is I don't get why people think the flights being banned is "over-regulating" Its efficient and simple and enforceable. Carbon taxes on the other hand would be a bureaucratic
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by DirkH 3y ago
But can't you use services that provide the exact same analytics benefit without Google's abysmal privacy policy? Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternatives include: Matomo, Plausible, Umami, Nullitics, Shynet, Pirshc, Swetrix
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by DirkH 3y ago
No, just that it was inefficient relative to taxing. Though tbh, I wonder why people who think taxing would be more efficient believe that. It seems like it would come with more bureaucratic inefficiencies and regulations trying to figure

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