Marha01

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by Marha01 6d ago
This is only the case because streaming services today are so cheap and convenient. Jack up the price, or decrease the convenience, and see people sail the high seas en masse again..
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by Marha01 6d ago
> There are other reasons to dislike LLMs and fear or hate what AI is doing to the world. But people who feel something was "stolen" from them, who now close their blogs and turns repos private because LLMs - they're just
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by Marha01 6d ago
> You ignore the legal situation here. AI ultimately steal. If that can be proven in court, people and companies will be held responsible. Why should any fan on Free Software care about that? Information wants to be free.
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by Marha01 6d ago
> Is a social contract being broken? Yeah, kind of, but the problems that that contract existed to solve are no longer a thing. Creation is now easy and commodified. Exactly. The reason why we have rules and laws is because they make soc
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by Marha01 6d ago
I don't think it will be ever-increasing. It might last a long time, but sooner or later supply will increase to meet the demand (or the demand will drop, or both) and hardware will be cheap again.
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by Marha01 7d ago
> AIs are outright terrible explainers even when they do have a watertight logical argument I think this only applies to cutting edge mathematics (novel proofs of hard problems). I have seen it reported more than once that such AI proofs
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by Marha01 12d ago
Eh? Such houses are now common, at least here in Europe. I live in one! Entire walls were manufactured in factory, then brought on site and assembled. But the house is not from bricks, the structural material is wood and oriented strand boa
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by Marha01 13d ago
> Did not give more power to everyone. At best you could say that it shifted power from landed gentry to industrialists. Even that switchover was less of a change than you'd think. Compare the standard of living in 1850 vs. 1950. Ev
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by Marha01 14d ago
> Jail-broken Fable level LLMs can mean constant hacking leading to public desertification of the web (best case). A jailbroken model that can hack a website can also easily fix the vulnerability that allowed it to hack it. There is a li
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by Marha01 14d ago
Human-level AI hosted locally will give everyone much more power and wealth than they have currently. I don't care if I will be shut off from Musk's Mars lair. And Musk has no reason to care that robots take good care of me here o
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by Marha01 14d ago
> The process you're cheering on gives more power to the powers that be who are the problem. That's not necessarily true. Technology gives more power to everyone. The rise of factories historically did not give more power to th
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by Marha01 14d ago
> The anthropic principle applies here: anyone warning about an existential risk will by necessity never have precedent to point to. We have precedents of people warning about existential risks in the past, when the warnings turned out t
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by Marha01 14d ago
As long as it's enough to afford my current living standard, I don't care. Let Musk own the entire Mars, as long as I receive enough to live relatively comfortably and don't have to work anymore. And if I don't receive e
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by Marha01 14d ago
Open AI models are just a few months behind closed models, and the gap is actually getting more narrow.
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by Marha01 14d ago
And you are assuming they don't remain in control. Which of you is right? We don't know yet, but I don't find the arguments of card-carrying doomers any more convincing that those of card-carrying singularitarian utopians. Hi
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by Marha01 14d ago
> Replacing people leaves no room for people. I am much more than my job. If I receive basic income, please replace my job ASAP! And if I don't receive a basic income in a world where AI is capable of replacing all human jobs, then
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by Marha01 17d ago
> So is exposure to the sun, at the right times, in moderation, with appropriate but not extreme protection okay? Depends on your personal risk tolerance. For majority of people, probably yes: the benefits (especially the mental ones) wo
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by Marha01 17d ago
> This right here, or at least the thought of this, is why in the not so far future, businesses can't (won't?) be using these LLMs services. Or they can simply turn off the setting that allows OpenAI to use their chats to impro
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by Marha01 18d ago
We are living in the future.
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by Marha01 18d ago
> Getting a light tan feels amazing. Your whole body feels warmer. You know what feels even better? Not getting skin cancer. > Vitamin D Easily obtained from supplements.
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by Marha01 20d ago
> the most significant results outside America mostly involve (impressive!) distillation, which means their progress is conditional on progress of the big closed source models. I don't think this is true. Distillation helps, but Chi
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by Marha01 20d ago
> A world where people just have their whims catered to is not a utopia. We have tons of sayings and idioms about this, e.g. "no pain, no gain", "only the hard stuff is worth doing", etc. I somewhat get the point, but
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by Marha01 20d ago
Wrong. AI companies is still legally liable for anything their models do when they operate them. There is no special exception for them. But the fact is that not every potential crime results in litigation. Many crimes are only prosecuted i
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by Marha01 21d ago
> next token prediction Saying that LLMs just produce the next token is like saying that human brains just produce the next electrical impulse. If the algorithm that produces the next token (or electrical impulse) is complex enough, it c
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by Marha01 22d ago
Your dog cannot program an app or solve a math conjecture, though.
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by Marha01 22d ago
> To me AGI has always meant sentience. Sentience and intelligence are different things. Many humans and animals are pretty dumb, yet they are sentient. AI is intelligent, but non-sentient (hopefully!).
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by Marha01 29d ago
> Would you say that about Amazon who supports the US regime, which is in the business of bombing Iranian schoolgirls? Is that less terrorist? Strictly speaking, unintended collateral damage of civilians in a war does not fulfill the def
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by Marha01 1mo ago
Is it more expensive that designing an entirely new font?
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by Marha01 1mo ago
> If you're not even familiar with how LLMs work, perhaps you should restrain yourself from confidently talking about this topic until you educate yourself. You're only spreading misinformation. I am very familiar with how LLMs
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by Marha01 1mo ago
> We do know, that the ceiling is below AGI. And it's not a matter of opinion - LLMs can not achieve AGI due to their design. [citation definitely needed] > And it doesn't matter how many or how severe bugs they can find, be

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