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by DirkH 3y ago
Very valid point and very valuable question. In this regard it is clearly different from human cloning and I should have thought of that. Obvious in hindsight. In my defense though, if we can find a distinct clear line for AGI, my point s
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Worth adding that there is no contradiction in strongly believing both 1+2 are true at the same time. I.e. Evil tech companies are just trying to maintain their control and market dominance and don't actually care or think much about A
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I might have agreed with you except... Half-life Alyx. I could be immersed in that one for hours at a time. No nausea or pain or anything and very well worth finding solutions for someone to watch the pets and kid for a few hours so you can
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by DirkH 3y ago
The Alignment Problem book is probably much better. Opens with a banger of a historical backstory. I recommend anyone read the prologue to the book just because of the fascinating history it gives us and how well-written it is as an opener.
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You're falling into the trap that one specifically constructed case of a less intelligent being not being in control of the more intelligent being somehow clearly argues the less intelligent can fight back and things will always be OK.
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Standard rebuttal to this is if we banned human cloning we can ban AGI. Also China stands to gain from a ban on AGI. Anything that the CCP thinks it can't control it doesn't like. Also China gets the vast amount of its AI capabili
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by DirkH 3y ago
Prohibition comes to mind. Not sure if the analogy works, but it does come to mind as something that I believe was a pretty inefficient ban where the impetus was likewise for the welfare of people. Taxing liquor would have been a far better
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by DirkH 3y ago
Just want to point out I think there's a big difference between using tracking to "gauge interest" and using ads. You can do one without the other. In fact, there are even privacy-respecting alternatives for businesses to tra
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Speak for yourself. I don't own a TV precisely because the ads got too much. I haven't owned a TV in well over a decade. I have a cinema system I just hook up to my laptop whenever I want to watch a movie or series from some strea
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OK, you've changed my mind and I've updated more towards "banning alone is likely to be net negative to our goals if we don't also subsidize alternatives" I think given I don't use TikTok at all I am bad at int
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A better analogy might be cigarettes or psychedelics. I believe mountains of evidence strongly suggest cigs are worse for us and cause a much worse net negative harm on society via increased long-term strain on our healthcare sector. But, j
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It's not a preference though is it? Isn't this a data and evidence-based decision based on what policy-makers believe is bad for environmental and economical reasons? Imagine if all evidence pointed to train travel between cities
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So isn't the reason that Mauricio Garcia is labelled as a white supremacist because he himself actually wrote and self-identified as one? If the Oklahoma city bombers did not leave behind any jihadist or pro-Islam writing of any sort a
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by DirkH 3y ago
Your argument rests heavily on "teens WILL overwhelmingly become VPN experts" I don't understand why it can't instead be: banning will make domestic alternatives more attractive since now you don't even need a VPN t
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Has Microsoft said it is fake?
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Yea, so I might have believed you except I can ask GPT-4 to step by step explain its reasoning. It is really weird to say it doesn't understand but "I do" when the response it can give is better than the average human would g
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I mean, I imagine there are anti-genetic engineering FUD folks that go so far as to then say we should totally ban crispr cas9. I would caution against over-indexing on the take of only some AI decelerationists. Totally agree we could be wi
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This is like saying we should just go ahead and invent the atom bomb and undo the invention after the fact if the cons of having atom bombs around outweight the pros. Like try turning off the internet. That's the same situation we migh
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Your argument could just as easily be applied to human cloning and argue for why human cloning and genetic engineering for specific desirable traits should not be illegal. And it isn't a strong argument for the same reason that it isn&
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Whataboutism
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Genuine question: what would you recommend instead of JIRA?
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I don't think it is racist to highlight an aspect of a culture and how it might at a group dynamic level causally influence the outcome of something. The claim that Japanese culture causally leads to better craftmanship might be wrong.
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Picture an alternative universe where all transit was ad supported and everyone has to watch an ad before you can get on a bus. That or pay $1000 a month for free no-ad transit anywhere in a city. Except there are some people with ad-blocke
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Genuinely curious: if you bought YT premium mainly to block ads, why not just use Ublock Origin along with something like NextDNS?
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To me your view is just common sense. I find it bizarre how some people seem to be treating ad-blockers like the equivalent of stealing in the comments. It is YouTube's right to prevent me from using their site if I use an ad-blocker j