ElProlactin

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by ElProlactin 5d ago
What a surprise! Researchers who have a good grift going studying how young people use social media don't want it banned outright. Instead, they want some unspecified conversation in which they have a role deciding how technology can b
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by ElProlactin 5d ago
> I'm really suprised they don't understand quite how user-hostile this is. I'm really surprised anyone thinks these companies care.
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by ElProlactin 6d ago
Being enterprising has always been a virtue in the US, but historically, there have been limits to how far you would go to make a buck, and people that pushed past those limits would be scorned by the majority. So at the very least, people
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by ElProlactin 6d ago
> The past 35 years of openness have created nearly everything we benefit from online, which has transformed the world in a mostly positive and empowering way. > We are entering a digital dark age... It's interesting (and a bit d
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by ElProlactin 6d ago
A large swath of American society today sees a movie like Scarface as an inspirational biopic, not a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Lots of especially younger people see unbridled ambition and rule-breaking as a virtue. Everything is about m
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by ElProlactin 6d ago
> I do wonder if the problem with them is that it creates an incentive to share the truth, or for very smart people to predict it.... You missed the obvious one: it creates a path for people with insider knowledge to monetize it at the e
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by ElProlactin 7d ago
It's amazing what easy access to meat, processed food and Walmart does to your brain.
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by ElProlactin 7d ago
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by ElProlactin 7d ago
Can we tokenize this or get some prediction markets going on Polymarket?
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by ElProlactin 8d ago
None of this actually stops the profiteering, or reverses the harm already done.
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by ElProlactin 8d ago
You wrote: > This risk functions as a guarantee. Except it doesn't, particularly as far as lawyers are concerned. There are almost a million and a half active attorneys in the US. Just 500-600 are disbarred every year, and almost al
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by ElProlactin 8d ago
> Human professionals put their reputation and finances at risk when performing their work. This risk functions as a guarantee. Do you know how difficult and costly it is to sue an attorney for malpractice?
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by ElProlactin 9d ago
Sorry, I've spent more than two decades living in mostly developing countries. I don't see much here from or for the 75% of the world population that lives in middle income countries that are trying to achieve high income status.
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by ElProlactin 9d ago
> An AI detector that actually works. I detect Claude.
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by ElProlactin 9d ago
> mild policies are all sensible, like expanded unemployment insurance and Earned Income Tax Credit And what about for the rest of the world? What do you do with all the people in middle income countries that don't have an economic
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by ElProlactin 9d ago
> Bold thinking on AGI from the lab that pioneered the field. The best part of technology: the people who brought you the "disruption" are the ones who promise you they have the solution to all the problems it caused.
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by ElProlactin 9d ago
> This is the kind of thing a misaligned agent (in the vein of a paperclip maximizer) might say to itself before melting the planet to make a statue of Rick Astley. Don't give these AI trillionaires any ideas for Burning Man: Mars.
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by ElProlactin 10d ago
> There’s a special place in hell for people who would buy a dog food brand only to make worse dog food… And yet countless millions of people basically say nothing about how the food they eat is produced.
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by ElProlactin 11d ago
> Why have any laws then? At this point, in the US at least, the laws give the corrupt elite the ability to deter competition and to target the people who try to get in their way. In other words, it's protection for the potentate an
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by ElProlactin 11d ago
Whether or not Dario, Sam and Elon really believe the worst-case scenarios are realistic, it's obvious that they'd like to form a cartel that they think would benefit their companies. But this guy looks... https://case.
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by ElProlactin 11d ago
> If anything will change the course of the world (for the better or worse), it will be a tech product, possibly created by someone on this forum. You seem to be missing the point. A small group of people created AI tech that they now sa
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
Here's the reality: us plebs, regardless of how tech-savvy we are or aren't, have no say in what's going to happen. There is no level of outrage that is going to stop the frontier AI labs, and the US government isn't goi
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
Just look at Meta's recent settlement. The minds and mental health of countless young people harmed. And they'll pay $17 billion, which is about one month's worth of revenue. The legal system today does not serve the purpose
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
As I said, a lot of "tech people", not all "tech people". The SV crowd was certainly more celebratory but in my experience, indifference and silence wasn't just limited to the "SV startup types."
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
> Of course none of the AI companies will suggest that they should be accountable for the illegal actions taken by agents they host, but I feel like that could be a very effective "pacing mechanism"... The problem is that the p
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
Isn't that what they're doing? "There's a better than 0 chance this thing could kill everyone in the next decade." That might be too imprecise for the HN set but it's realistic for laypeople. And none of the AI
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
I should have been more precise with my use of "vendor financing" in saying "trade credit." I agree that the guarantees are where the risk is. First, under US GAAP accounting rules (ASC 606), these are absolutely not rep
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
> He's addressing a specific claim about human extinction, and making a broader point about the responsibility of experts to make measured claims backed up by arguments and evidence. What he's asking for isn't possible in
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
I think the point of my comment went straight over your head, but just to be clear: the Houthis did not invent algebra.
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by ElProlactin 12d ago
He's not wrong but I think there's something the "tech people" up in arms about AI aren't saying, which is this: a lot of "tech people" were indifferent or silent as tech "disrupted" other indust

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