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by ETH_start 1mo ago
Maybe you're right, but I've never learned as much and as quickly as I'm learning now with the assistance of LLMs. It's like a hyper-powered search engine. It not only knows what I'm looking for, it knows the contex
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by ETH_start 1mo ago
My comment on this on the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453549
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by ETH_start 1mo ago
I'm going to make an anti-capitalist argument in order to make a pro-capitalist argument. The anti-capitalist argument is that the wealthiest people in the world are not dramatically more intelligent than the average person. Bill Gates
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by ETH_start 1mo ago
Hamstringing the build out of AI compute facilities in the United States is strategic suicide. AI compute is a major emerging export industry and the United States is very well positioned to dominate it, unlike mass manufacturing. If it can
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by ETH_start 1mo ago
There's enough corruption and special interest dealings in politics to fill an encyclopedia. If we start on that thread, then the forum will fill up with politics.
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
Would Putin want Germany to cancel the shut down of its nuclear power plants as Trump urged it to. [1] The Green Movement in Europe, which Trump opposes, was best thing to happen to Putin. As far as I can see, where Trump goes wrong is the
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
Data centers generate export revenue. For a country that has struggled to export as much as it imports, that seems very valuable to its national economic health, and sabotaging one of the few major export industries, and one that's gro
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
The child abuse material problem was much worse before Twitter was taken over.
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
There's no end, because AI is deliberately not given full human capabilities. Human beings are dangerous, and no company wants to create AI that can pose the same danger. But those same capabilities that make humans dangerous also let
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
I'm always surprised by how cynical the comments on the internet are about America's technology leaders and U.S. industrial expansion.
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
Every single investment aimed at deploying labor-saving innovation has the impact of reducing the number of workers you need per unit of output. That does not mean fewer jobs, it means that jobs graduate to higher order ones that produce mo
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
"They produce harmful pollutants, which can accelerate climate change impacts and harm public health—contributing to conditions like asthma, heart disease, lung cancer, and strokes." Per kWh, natural gas plants emit half as much C
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
The end of World War II to the present is a fairly stable regime, so it can be instructive to see what changed over the course of that era. In any case, no matter what two points of time you choose, you see the role of government in society
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
It's up since 20 years ago: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1CFpQ
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
I'm not making a normative claim. I'm saying that the narrative in the article — that the private sector has taken over functions of the government and the government has been in retreat — is exactly the opposite of what the stati
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
The government has expanded by any objective measure: From 20% of GDP to 40% of GDP today From a 34 regulatory agencies/offices to 77 today. From 5 percent of occupations needing a license in 1950 to 23 percent today From zero federal
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
If it's generating revenue from an international clientele, and paying local taxes, it's almost guaranteed to be socially useful, at least from the domestic standpoint.
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
These houses are directly across the street. It looks like the data center owner should have allotted some buffer land between the facility and the property line.
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
The problem with LLM training is that it's driven by the ability to predict the next token in a large corpus of text, and the correlation between text and reality diverges as the phenomenon that the text pertains to expands in scale. W
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AI as Normal Technology(knightcolumbia.org)
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by ETH_start 2mo ago
Can you explain what you mean by this? Aren't the LLMs developing as they're trained?
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something here but I don't see what the significant security risk is from the incident. The agent broke containment and carried on with the task it was assigned. For this to pose some kind of global catastrophic
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Isn't LLM training, the development?
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Every dollar spent on AI is roughly speaking a dollar spent on the human labor that produces that AI. But I imagine there is a ceiling to AI use: how much inference a small tightly integrated team, or a lone founder, can apply productively.
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Society needs non-political checks on government power. We cannot always depend on the right laws being passed. One of those non-political checks is privacy rights. We can't give the state total transparency into our private interactio
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
We can agree to disagree on this. Even on this example you gave, I'm not entirely sure it's harmful to society. Having worked in the corporate world, there are just so many regulations that — from what I've seen — there is pe
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
So instead of instituting restrictions that will probably cost society hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars in lost economic efficiency, publicly fund development of better parental control software, and publicly fund its adopti
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
He's very clearly arguing against absolute privacy on the Internet and is saying that the people who advocated for it, which he besmirches as "tech bros", are responsible for the governments going too far now, instead of a ha
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Irrespective of the legitimacy of the arguments made, I find that the use of the term "tech bros" is similar to how the terms "far-right" or "Trump supporter" were used during the COVID lockdown era to delegiti
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
I'm looking at the second and third order effects of technologies. LLMs massively increase the surplus capacity of human civilization, and it is this surplus capacity enables resources (including human capital) to be expended on develo

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