FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 1y ago
The more I learn about AI, biology and the brain, the more it seems to me that the difference between life and machines is just complexity. People are just really really complex machines. However there are clearly qualitative differences be
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That's a good point, but the nuance matters and understanding why matters too. Without being too specific about the who, I think your concern boils down to: 1) authoritarian leaders like crypto that they create themselves because it&#x
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Have you ever heard of the great depression? Do you know what consumer banking was like in it's first ~50 years?
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When I see these interactions play out, I can't help but suspect the people who see crypto only as a scam haven't studied history. I see a lot of crypto as a scam, but immutable distributed ledger technology sure seems like a soci
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
And then you made me laugh as well.
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Yes, well said. This is what I noticed as well, though it me a few years to work it out.
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No, lol. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of stories like these.
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That explains a lot...
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I've raised from angels in Vancouver. There is definitely a VSE hangover culture there. During the grind I had some strange experiences. One involved an argument with the prospective investor over the share price. In their view it had
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It's more feasible to think of the risks in one narrow context/use case. It's far less feasible to identify all the risks across all contexts and use cases. If we rely on the LLMs interpretation of the context to determine wh
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Yeah I am not sure. I can usually tell the difference from speaking to someone for a few minutes, especially a few conversations spread out over time. I don't know about at scale... The people who have been victimized and haven't
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Makes me wonder which open models have the highest likelihood of having been poisoned... One risk is that a model is poisoned by its own trainer by accident because the training data is poisoned, another risk is that the model trainer poiso
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Exactly. I'm surprised they didn't point this out more explicitly. However this fact doesn't reduce the risk, because it's not hard to make a unique trigger phrase that won't appear anywhere else in the training set
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I agree with you. Further, it seems to me there are forces at play recently trying to put people at odds with each other over as many dimensions as possible. What I'm not sure about is whether this is some sort of organic mitosis like
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
By “victim mindset,” I mean a persistent framing of one’s group identity as powerless, perpetually wronged, and excused from responsibility, often leading to distorted perceptions of agency and accountability: Groups that embrace perpetual
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Assuming that the wikipedia article that I see is the same as the wikipedia article that you read, I'm struggling to follow your logic. In your other comment you mentioned women's suffrage. The women who pushed for suffrage did no
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It feels like you keep taking a less than respectful interpretation of my comments, and if it happens again I'm not going to respond to you anymore. Is your issue with the way I framed victim mindset or my point that a major risk of AI
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For the record I'm all for changing the status quo. I'm pro people getting involved and doing their part to make their lives and the lives of other people better. What I'm not for, is people not doing those things, and instea
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
That's fair and I agree. My original comment didn't precisely capture what I meant, which is more so the majority of focus is on being upset about things outside the individual's control. A victim mindset is built on the vict
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You don't already see this playing out with social media? There are so many paths towards this type of outcome: - eliciting negative emotions is one of the most effective ways to get and keep peoples attention. - foreign states buy pla
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Or what about a persistent influence towards a victim mindset? Convincing people to be dissatisfied with everything outside their control and sabotage everything within their control. That sounds like a recipe for hell
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I spent time thinking about your comment offline. Our expectations are always rising, so we will always be unsatisfied. Right now it still requires a lot of human labour to meet all people's basic needs (food, housing , safety, etc). A
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
It seems to me that: - on average, complexity is increasing. - most patterns in how civilization is arranged oscilate over time - what's happening right now is most likely an artifact of right now (economics, power structure, culture,
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I imagine that how the students behaved and what "seems fair" is heavily biased by the cultural context. I agree that 22% redistribution seems about fair, but I'm biased by a lifetime of rates of taxation. Something I'm
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What if manifesting complexity is the purpose of the universe?
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Yeah I misremembered. I also only brought it up because of recency bias, and didn't put the time or thought into the point I really wanted to make. I brought up a case of where LLMs can automate tedious work that people do poorly and i
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
You are completely misrepresenting the concern conveyed in the comment I replied to. Here is a link to what I was referring to: https://share.google/OqtzHog4CXqJDqsoU Also, replacing manual labor with innovation is what mak
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Persistent negative thinking. I'm pretty sure someone posted a study just yesterday about how long term PNT seems to correlate strongly with dementia. You know you can choose to not always assume the worst about everything, right?
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Anecdote: Someone I know works for a municipality in digital transformation. They have a public facing website where local residents can report things to the municipality, such as potholes, water system issues, noise complaints, etc. The UI
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
How about this: Regulation is a controlling mechanism that puts constraints on what people can and can't do. Some constraints will enable more things to happen because it reduces certain risks (e.g. property rights and laws against ste

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