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by GolfPopper 5d ago
It's worse than that. Advertising is a vector for dumping who-knows-what into our minds. Would you let random corporate sponsors put whatever they wanted into your food after you'd already put in the work to choose what you'r
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by GolfPopper 6d ago
A great quote, thank you for sharing. It captures much of the five stages of denial (summarized below) in a much pithier form. There's nothing in the bag. The cat will never get out of the bag. It wouldn't be a problem if the cat
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by GolfPopper 6d ago
Sam Altman in July: "We are in the singularity"[3] Anthropic's alignment lead two weeks ago: "What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement"[2] The media, last week: "AI c
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
One of the things that keeps circling in my mind when it comes to LLMs and similar transformer architectures is they are technically very impressive, and some of the things they can do are amazing, but there seems to be a compulsive need b
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
Presumably by the Deep Ones.
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
They are low hanging fruit. This is the sort of thing it ought to be good at, and it's not particularly surprising that it is. But it is also not what is being promoted by LLM advocates on the public stage. Investors are not puttin
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
So they're saying there's one tomb, that seems very real, that conceals a hidden entrance to another, larger tomb complex? Okay, sure, explore away. But I'm not coming along, and if you find any jeweled skulls don't tou
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
LLMs are not being promoted as "this can help write code faster/better/cheaper" (for the sake of argument presuming that they really can), they're being promoted as "Cortana" (. And their underlying econom
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
To meet the threshold of " insanely useful "? The Sagan standard is, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I can see that some people can make some use of them. (This is true of almost everything.) Wheth
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
What is useful about nearly starting a war based on incorrect output?
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by GolfPopper 8d ago
What is it insanely useful for ? (Besides convincing investors to sink more money into LLM-related companies? Because that is the one thing it does seem to truly be good at.) LLMs generate text output that appears to be useful, but regul
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by GolfPopper 8d ago
If LLMs are like humans, then OpenAI and Anthropic are like slave traders.
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by GolfPopper 9d ago
A very recent xkcd touched on this: https://xkcd.com/3298/
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by GolfPopper 10d ago
This is probably just a personal quirk, but I despise spiral bindings. I hate the feel of them. They never hold together. They catch on everything and come apart. Pages get torn far more easily. They make the books - if you can even call sp
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by GolfPopper 11d ago
> There are very few good arguments for putting anything on the moon Farside radio telescope: https://www.colorado.edu/project/lunar-farside/
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by GolfPopper 12d ago
> The actual break from "corporate profits" is to not engage with the corporations products at all. This is difficult to do when corporations control elements of the public sphere and the proceed to run them in such a way as t
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by GolfPopper 12d ago
"We" need protection from, or "OpenAI and Anthroptic's dreams of profits" need protection from?
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by GolfPopper 12d ago
On a similar note, the Large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) are structures in Earth's lower mantle that are hyothized to be remnants of Theia (the planetary-scale body that collied with, resulting in the formation of the Moon):
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by GolfPopper 12d ago
Thank you, and SahAssar for doing the due diligence here. Like many others, I have at least a passing interest in cryptography, and I'm confident I'd never even heard of this before.
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by GolfPopper 14d ago
A giant for-profit corporation based in Silicon Valley, funded by titans of finance, and in bed with the government is about as "traditional" as it gets.
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
This is bad news for everyone (well, except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhoid godlings), but it certainly makes the communities who've successfully opposed data centers seem ever more justified in retrospect.
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
It's been coming "soon" for years now. On the one hand, I confess that the "AI skeptic" position (which is where I place myself) seems a lot like "Global Warming skeptic". On the other hand, every instin
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
The most recent one I've seen floating around is: disgruntled person asks LLM how to wipe out humanity; said LLM cheerfully explains how to design a custom array of highly-contagious, slow-onset, high-fatality viruses; LLM then helpful
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
I am very, very tired of what I see as the pretense of AGI or anything like it coming from LLMs. I think the biggest risk from "AI" is that chasing the delusions spread by Sam Altman (and others - he's at the front, but very
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by GolfPopper 16d ago
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by GolfPopper 16d ago
And the wage slaves lose even more freedom and autonomy.
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by GolfPopper 17d ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/977/
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by GolfPopper 17d ago
Eclipse Phase cargo culting, in hopes the Titans show up?
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by GolfPopper 17d ago
This is true for so much of the human/corporation interface. I think it is so frustrating because it forces us to confront some major cognitive dissonance: we increasingly live in a world that isn't designed for us. It's desi
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by GolfPopper 17d ago
> We’re basically sharing everything we have with these companies/AI systems. My sense of the word 'share' is that it traditionally involves agency by all parties involved. There are a lot of words in English for descri

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