Marha01

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by Marha01 3mo ago
Transportation fueled by fossil fuels is the foundational technology of modern civilization. It is comparable to electricity or the printing press. AI will be like this too in the future.
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> This analogy is great, because your grandchildren will probably not consider gasoline to be a great technology, they'll consider it the thing that caused the wars and the famines. They will also realize that industrial civilizatio
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> If you judge on aggregate then "Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive" is nonsense. It's not nonsense. If you think so, provide one great technology that has been a net negative.
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> Do you have an argument why "normal" technology can be good or bad, but "consequential" technology is always good? Because consequential technology has many applications in diverse fields. And applications of techno
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That's conspiracy thinking. The corporations just care about the quarterly results. There is no grand plan.
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Even if it would be true (dubious), as long as those entities are controlled by humans, they will have a strong incentive to nuke any fully autonomous AI with obvious military objectives.
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Both things can be true at the same time: 1. tools like this are going to be exploited by corporations to extract money from people. 2. tools like this will provide great benefits for the average person. We are currently exploited by corpor
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> Once humans can be robustly replaced by machines, the military-industrial "meta build" will be a state with no humans, no cities, and 100% of all production dedicated to war. We will nuke it long before it gets to that point.
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by Marha01 3mo ago
I judge it in the aggregate. Overall, we have higher standard of living than people 30 years ago.
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I am only considering great, consequential technologies because AI is such a great technology. Comparing it to some niche techs would result in false analogies.
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> It has benefits for people with enough leverage (money and formerly labour) to obtain those benefits. That's pretty much everyone. Even poor people benefit from technological progress. > I'm guessing that even if the unlik
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The ability to create software accelerates technological progress, which has direct and indirect benefits for everyone. It is true that competition could have short-term negative effect on people who sustain themselves by creating software,
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I wouldn't say that leaded gasoline is a great technology like AI, it's a pretty niche tech. Gasoline in general is comparable to AI, and the pros of that outweight the cons. Modern civilization would be impossible without gasolin
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> There's actually very little difference between Russia and USA. Ridiculous statement.
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Well, you are definitely an extremist with that take.
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That is a bad outcome. But there are better possible outcomes that the doomers ignore. How about AI curing cancer? I think that alone is worth the risks.
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Yes, but the net effect of nuclear technology is still massively positive.
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> We won’t get to reap the benefits. There is no rational reason to think that. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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Yes. Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive for the human race. Including the more controversial ones, like internal combustion engines or nuclear power. Why should AI be different? I think the critics always fixat
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> you could do the same back then with multiple models and more targeted finetuning Definitely not, lol.
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> Even though you do have less greenhouse gases to trap the heat, you will be pumping more of that heat into the atmosphere, seas and oceans, warming everything up. The amount of heat pumped out by humans this way is so miniscule compare
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My code repository should host my code, not go on dubious moral crusades. Glad I stayed on Github. Their ban on nebulously defined vibecoded projects is even more ridiculous.
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How will increased energy use from *carbon-neutral sources* cause climate change?
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That future is not here yet, but my point still stands: once they are sufficiently developed (it's only a matter of time, perhaps 5 years, perhaps 20 years), your societal problem suddenly has a technological solution. QED.
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For example: the current societal problem of not doing enough against climate change would disappear if we developed cheap fusion power and/or very cheap grid-scale batteries that would remove the intermittency issue from renewables. S
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> People driving dangerously is not a technical problem. Complete bullshit. This problem can be completely solved by a technical, not societal solution: actually working self-driving cars. Once they are available, all your imperfect soci
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> Technological solutions to societal problems is one of the shortest paths to hell. This is an unjustified blanket opinion. Sometimes, societal problems can be solved by technological progress. I think you simply lack imagination if you
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It is not really inconsistent. Despite all the flaws of the current US government, USA is still a relatively free democracy. Russia is a full-blown fascist dictatorship. Russia is also a much more acute threat to me than Trump's USA, b
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> I would really love to see examples of creatives using modern AI/LLMs to make quality art Look up "The Chronicles of Bone". It's pretty good.
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> My great annoyance with all this blather about UBI and post-scarcity and new economic models is that it relies on taxing and redistributing the ~infinite profits of the largest tech companies on earth. The arrival of true AGI and human

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