SuoDuanDao

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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I had Chatgpt write a book for me on a topic I had wanted to write a book on but didn't have time. I'm essentially rewriting it paragraph by paragraph, but having a draft to work off is invaluable.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I'd say the legal profession is a likely pattern for how things will go - lots of demand for the people already at the top, but that added productivity plus automation of tasks typically done by junior people means fewer ways to get in
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I'd love to get your feedback on a project I've been working on to 'sonify' DNA sequences. When played fairly quickly it sounds a lot like jazz to me, but I don't have a high musical intelligence so I'm not con
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I'm reminded of a quote from Pirates of the Caribbean: "One good deed does not excuse a man for a lifetime of wickedness!" "But it seems enough to condemn him!"
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
On the other hand, if power in the US was as centralized at the time as you seem to suggest it should be, federal marshals would have simply enforced the escaped slaves act over abolitionist state's protests.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
sounds like a sound argument, nonviolence isn't ignoring violence; You don't win a knife fight by declaring it a spirited debate; Darwin had a point; etc.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Brie Larsen's charecter being shoehorned in at the 11th hour is the most widely-cited example. But personally, the way the secret police (SHIELD) is cast in the most favourable terms possible is much worse. The political stance called
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
but it seems that only happens at the cost of shitting on people who are like them. Who would have expected this could lead to depression?
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Part of me wants to be hopeful, part of me just does not believe we're at a point in history where an organization like Disney can make good art.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Got any tips for optimizing for attitude?
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Sure, but isn't zooming out to that 'big picture' perspective a very different skillset from the focus needed to write functional code?
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
"Isn't most code boilerplate?" belts out the choir/peanut gallery/greek chorus
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your last sentence - but if churning out boilerplate is something any old engineer can now have an AI do, won't it up the chances that someone previously overlooked makes a brilliant call about what prob
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
counterpoint: As a new-ish manager - who despite its impact on my pay would like to live in a world without middle managers - it's been my unfortunate experience that a lot of people don't work as well when there's zero press
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
executing the code it's recommending tends to cut the bullshit pretty quick.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
chatbots are not all that similar to ICBMs. Information warfare exists in an ecosystem where individuals have a huge amount of control over what gets in or out - defenses to malicious information can't be overwhelmed the way an ICBM ov
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
One bad actor can lock down any attempt to counteract them. Four Billion bad actors will be in an arms race where everyone can decide for themselves what protections they want to enact. This is basically the free speech argument again. A fe
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
cheaper erotica making young people even less likely to date is probably a real danger. I already tried to supplement my dirty-novels sideline with chatgpt output, alas it's more moral than I.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
it would mitigate the risks of bad actors using it against everyone else. Open source technology would be weaponized, but not asymmetrically so.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I don't think it's that simple - inflation is also especially beneficial to debtors which is more of an upper middle class or professional/managerial phenomenon. The truly rich would likely have a cash buffer that gets eroded
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I guess there's a reason Donatello has much more notoriety as a ninja turtle than as a renaissance artist[1] [1] https://xkcd.com/197/
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
If you consider a corporation to be an AI that requires real-time training data from humans, AI is already harvesting us for batteries. I've heard the opinion that that's what the Matrix was actually about.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
That's not how Lockean ethics sees it, and if results are what we care about they're a pretty effective worldview to hold - assuming we want a free and prosperous society.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
This is the basic tactic of fascism - government power circumvents the freedom guaranteed by the open market, corporate power circumvents the freedom guaranteed by the constitution. It may be necessary to revisit the fascist question - we c
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
I would rent a house for a month in the area you're considering and ask the local people what they think. Some economies (particularly tourism-heavy ones) are better set up for integrating new rich neighbors than others. Nova Scotia&#x
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Anecdotally, my employer in telco consulting is hiring dedicated coders - first time I've seen that in this industry. We may finally be seeing a diffusion of programmers into the wider economy after the high tech companies spent some t
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
If the test-making entity writes the test so that the weaknesses of LLMs are brought to the fore, students taking the test will need to know how to compensate for those weaknesses when they're using them as a tool post-graduation.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
So long as the LLM teaching the kids and whoever is testing the kid's learning are rivalrous entities, that seems like an easy problem to get around.
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
>How is it linked to Marxism? I've heard it convincingly described as follows: Woke ideology (AKA Social justice etc) is a pared-down version of Marxism the same way Marxism is a pared-down version of Christianity. Woke ideology is
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by SuoDuanDao 4y ago
Great point. That's one reason I'm increasingly a single-issue voter focused on UBI.

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