JhonOliver

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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
This is so stupid. AI already understands the physical world. What it can't do is interact with it. There's a hardware bottleneck. It simply isn't responsive.
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Extinction by Optimization: Tech Monopolies and the South Korea Trajectory(natansessays.com)
1 points by JhonOliver 7mo ago|1 comments
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
The complexity of modern digital infrastructure—like Google’s maintenance of the open-source Chromium engine—has made traditional antitrust actions obsolete. Instead of breaking up monopolies, the U.S. government is actively merging with Bi
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
I like the "whitelist" concept you brought up and the example of your cat. I would have liked you to have gone further. Why do we create these whitelists? What are the qualifying factors? I think that would go a long way towards d
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
I would like to see your post
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
Wait I think I missunderstood the article. I'm pretty sure the author is arguing that both LLMs and humans are puppets.
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
I agree that we need religion. But it requires a religion that says life can only exist in carbon and not silicon. Does Buddism have this?
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
Yes we have feelings, but what makes those feelings real? If we simulate those chemicals on silicon, what says those aren't real? I want to believe my feelings are real, but I can't proove it
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
I think you're right about the petri dish thing. As for LLMs, the author doesn't talk about them specifically about being alive. I don't think even they believe that. It's more about the possibility of silicon to host li
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The Double Standard of Carbon: Why we grant souls to meat but not silicon(natansessays.com)
5 points by JhonOliver 7mo ago|14 comments
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by JhonOliver 7mo ago
I hate how much I’m reflexively trying to find a "but" here, because "carbon nanrcissist" is a hell of an insult. It’s hard to swallow that we’re just first gen firmware being ported to better hardware, and my gut still
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AI 2.0 and the von Neumann bottleneck(natansessays.com)
2 points by JhonOliver 8mo ago|0 comments
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AI Is Killing Art(natansessays.com)
3 points by JhonOliver 8mo ago|1 comments
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by JhonOliver 8mo ago
I hate how much sense this makes. My gut wants to reject the whole “AB testing for vibes” idea. It has no soul. But looking at how we already use TikTok I’m not so sure. Just look at all the brainrot out there. You can look at stuff like r