TapWaterBandit

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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
What makes you think AIs will have interests that align with each other more closely than they align with humans?
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Possibly but I am more concerned with how doomers are viewed by the public. Doomers gonna doom, but if the public don't take them seriously then they are irrelevant. If they want to stick to their "the end is nigh!" shtick it
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Let's not forget how many crimes are committed with vehicles. Not just the terror attack style seen in recent years, get away cars for various crimes, scooter drug dealers, boats used to smuggle all sorts of stuff. Far too dangerous go
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I think this is one of the upsides of the chaos at OpenAI recently. It has really shined a light on how many of the people most fervently obsessed with "safe-AI" really aren't clearheaded or rational thinkers and are prone to
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
There is no inconsistency here. You can believe that AI has serious risks while also believing it is overall worthwhile to develop and create it. I'd rather have someone like Altman leading the charge on bringing AI to market as it is
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
They got rid of the clowns though. They went from having a board with lightweights and insiders to what at least initially is a strong initial 3.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Lmao yea the conspiracy theorising behind a lot of this stuff is so poorly thought through. Make billions, live a life of luxury, then end life living in underground bunker drinking your recycled urine. Bill Gates plan all along!
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Not just the billionaire type though, right? We are discussing staff leaving with him for that very reason. And he did VC fund-raising before that for early projects too. Give his Wikipedia a read. He is clearly a very savvy businessman and
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> How would you even onboard and meet payroll in a week for a non existent entity if you suddenly had even half that number? > Answer is that won’t happen. The point being most sane people will wait around to see if anything really ch
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
On the other hand having virtually the whole staff being willing to follow him shows they clearly think very highly of him. That kind of loyalty is pretty wild when you think about how significant being a part of OPENAI means at this point.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Depends what you mean. Legally they might be in the clear but guarantee when you fuck around with billions of other people's money, it gets more complicated that that.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
While this may be technically true, the reality is that when you take $10 billion from a company there are strings attached. Consultation on a decision of this magnitude is one of those strings. You can choose to push ahead anyway after thi
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
The last thing the West needs is to allow China to gut another manufacturing sector. 1/3 of global manufacturing is already in China and they are far and away the single largest manufacturer in the world (comfortably beating the USA as
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I am still erring on the side of skepticism around AI "taking all jobs with computers" but have to admit that seeing the progress has made me doubt my position a bit. Even if it doesn't take ALL jobs and only relatively low l
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I think it would make sense to learn web development and use AI alongside it. Seems like no matter what you end up doing working alongside AI tools will be a part of the job so the experience with it will be useful. If AI advances to the po
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> Nobody else besides Amazon can get a random product to my door in under 12 hours. If I buy the product direct from the manufacturer I often get charged shipping. That situation could be easily argued to be a monopoly. Why do Amazon hav
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
At least where I am it is still cheaper than alternatives because wages at those options have gone up as well. The exception is family-run stores where wages are kept low by roping in unpaid labour from family or outright exploiting immigra
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I agree with this. China outstripping the USA honestly seems inevitable to me barring state control of the economy crippling their development. So somewhat ironically, if the USA/West wins their political battle to liberalise China, Ch
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I'm trying to imagine the context where there is a property in an area with high sales pushing the price of land tax up but this property isn't worth a similar amount for being in the same area. If people are buying in an area and
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Interesting question. I think in this scenario there'd be a couple of options: 1. The land is worth a lot. If that is the case, you should be able to sell it reasonably easily. 2. The land is worth very little. In that case the tax wou
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Ah yes of course, describing people as parasites has a long history of leading to positive social change/movements. I can honestly only assume you are trolling me at this point if you're bouncing between calling people "Devin
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
"parasitical to his parents and contributing nothing to the human experience." This is nasty language however you put it and you're certainly talking in a way that makes me think that you DO think you are "better" t
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
On the one hand I agree, bumming off your parents/state/etc is mooching and shouldn't be applauded or tolerated. On the other hand, so much work that does occur these days is incredibly frivolous and debatable if it adds soci
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
This is a bizarre hill to die on.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
This is the more interesting page of that website imo. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/megadeals Shows the companies that receive subsidies and how much. I will note that Tesla isn't close to being the largest
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Far too defeatist an attitude and a poor comparison that plays directly in companies that want walled-gardens hands. Fortnite is an immensely popular game people search for to buy, whereas malware etc are almost by definition not something
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Am I misunderstanding something or couldn't this just be made an optional setting? So users can lockdown the ability to install stuff if they want without overcoming various hurdles (maybe allow users to add customised message so if a
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Exactly. Worrying about second order effects here considering the current situation is like saying: We're worried that removing our heel from the throat of the user might allow all sorts of things to go down there, some of which might
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Amazon removing 1984 on people's kindles all the way back in 2009 was a wake-up call. Digital media/content is open to revision in a way that physical media/content is not. I have swung back around and now buy many physical b
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Immigration is clearly an undeniable part of the problem. I am in Australia and when immigration was halted during covid rents declined in many places, often substantially. Now we are full-tilt on immigration again and rents are soaring. It

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