GPerson

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by GPerson 2mo ago
The early hacker culture in the 1970s inherited the political leanings of 1960s counterculture, so there’s nothing about being into tech that’s in opposition to class consciousness.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Do you believe Anthropic is going to cure almost all human diseases including cancer in 5-10 years?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
On further reflection I actually now disagree that a an algorithm based puzzle solver was ever referred to as AI, even in the context of video games, in which AI refers to the behavior of NPCs.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“What runs here is a plain-JavaScript port of a native C++ optimal solver I wrote.” Seems to be AI in the older sense from 10 years ago?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You’re just inventing an imaginary interpretation of what that guy said and pompously dismissing it.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
All of the effective altruists I know have started talking about personhood for AI, which is one of Jacob Tsimerman’s more plausible omnicide scenarios (not that any are that plausible give his timelines look kind of ridiculous).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I don’t think my people got my previous post but apparently a lot of diseases were on track to being cured regardless of the invention of LLM based AI. One thing that bothers me about this technology is it makes it easy to attribute all eff
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by GPerson 2mo ago
This is your comment. Is it not? Unless this is not your comment, I don’t understand what could possibly be the confusion. > There is still a vocal anti-AI crowd here. The problem is that they don't seem to be very good, overall, at
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’ve read Dario’s two long essays. A fair representation of his view is that he thinks fundamental discoveries like mRNA vaccination and CRISPR will happen 10x faster due to AI, and he hopes this means no more diseases. That’s how he goes f
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I concur with the other commenter and previously felt the need to write something similar, but since they did I’ll do it too. Somehow the messianic nature these AI people present themselves with had eluded me until reading your comment. Rea
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I felt it was obvious my post presented a deep criticism of Amodei and over-investment in LLM based technology for the purpose of curing cancer. I don’t think overexplaining the point makes for good communication when people can think for t
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I had a conversation with Opus 5 about Amodei’s belief that most human diseases will be cured in 5-10 years. It said that technically “most diseases” are rare genetic conditions, and apparently that the science of these is basically already
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It blows my mind. I know several otherwise intelligent people who consume Fox News and think anything negative said about this guy is proof of media bias. It’s a weird feedback loop where any criticism results in people trusting him more.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
My clear-eyed perspective is that AI companies and their supporters are getting away with a massive crime against humanity, so it’s probably relatively more difficult for me to contain my frustrations than the people who are happy about it.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
In my opinion anthropic doing product feature reveals is a tired topic but it hits the front page every day. This website has a clear pro-AI bias (which is fine).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
And how am I?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
How is it not tech bro centric when every third thread is about some new feature of a random Anthropic product?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
What a title. You can’t even read the content because the website is trash. Some mathematicians despair and some are overjoyed (there’s a thread on mathoverflow with a hundred AI enamored mathematicians posting constantly).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
There’s nothing to understand. Power begets power and self interests are pursued to the detriment of others partly because individuals have limited understanding of the full system and partly because of plain selfishness. You can debate how
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I just assume the worst people in the world will have all the power and push for the most deranged reality possible, and somehow routinely get surprised when it’s twice as bad as I imagined.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Can we all agree the owner of X is a cartoonish goof?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Prove to me there’s no tea-cup in outer space orbiting the sun.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Don’t you think it hurts your case to exaggerate that China is going around incinerating scientists?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Do you think people whose circumstances are favorable to them are more likely to succeed and less likely to complain?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I believe protest and criticism are corrective processes, and we shouldn’t give up.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The people I’m seeing getting really good results are the opposite. Strange.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
For every choice I make it makes a dozen choices though.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
They’re obviously the most corrupt of all time just look at trump selling his tweets for poly market gamblers. But I did misunderstand you’re right.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The most corrupt people of all time are running the show and you’re criticizing the guy who’s cynical about it?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“Arguments that llms fundamentally a part of a system of political oppression fall flat against the case of open-weight models that can be run at home on (high-end) consumer hardware.” Can anybody comment on the validity of this in 2026? Co

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