TheOtherHobbes

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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
CEOs do go to prison. They go to prison for misleading investors. They don't go to prison for environmental or social harm.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
It is exactly like that, and future generations will see it like that.
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The elderly can vote, and are easier to scam. Harming kids creates harmed kids. Harming elders helps install terrible governments which harm everyone - including kids.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Spoliation requires a situation where a legal case is reasonably foreseeable. It's reasonable to ask exactly what that foreseeable legal case would be in this situation. "We will jail if you don't comply" is questionable
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
You've answered your own question. The law is hackable for certain kinds of people. If you're not one of the protected categories, it's prudent to consider it unhackable.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
It's not psychology, it's just wrong. You can point to the parts of the brain (more accurately the body and brain) that handle reason and emotions, and they're physically distinct. Also, reason is essentially a combination of
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
The difference is that the AI-made art is strikingly good . And that underlines that it's a superconsciouness and not just a bot.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Famous Design House™ decided to make a custom computer. They took a nice PC, made a nice metal box for it, and attached another box to the back. You can put things in this box, which is an unusual accessory for a computer. They also made an
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Intelligence is a lever, not a fluid. Power depends on how much force it can apply to specific points, not how much exists in general. True high-intelligence outputs (Maxwell's equations, the Fourier Transform, quantum theory) are fund
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
I don't think Warren Buffet is the last word on this. The top of the IQ stratosphere is functionally unusual. Set a room full of 130s on a hard problem. When they get stuck, adding more 130s won't help. Throw a >160 into the ro
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
More like some people simply don't notice. Or don't care to. I sometimes wonder what would happen if the population's average IQ was (the current equivalent of) 130 instead of 100. Would things be better? Worse in more comple
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
True, but a big part of Shakespeare is the rhythm, and if you replace the words with newer words that disappears. Not to say it will be a complete failure, but it does lose some of its poetry and power. And smut. There's a lot of smu
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
There's a difference between unavoidable risk and imposed financial risk, much of which is caused by the financial industry itself. Being killed by a meteorite is a statistical issue. Having your house stolen by a bank during a manuf
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
The core of the vintage remake market is "Always wanted this, still can only afford a clone" which is where Behringer lives. There's also a "Always wanted this, can finally afford it now that I'm rich" niche fo
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Korg did it right - budget off-the-shelf processor, most of the money spent on the UI, wildly optimistic prices, no nostalgic ties. The expensive part of a modern synth isn't the DSP board, it's the industrial design and tooling n
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
>But that applies to having money at all. That can't be enough to call it gambling. It is, because there's no choice not to gamble. You have to make choices, and none of those choices are risk-free. The options are on a scale
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Of course, but governments and corporations have consistently argued otherwise. In the UK's far-right media culture, Khan's ULEZ is painted as fringe extremism, not as a common sense public health measure.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Indeed. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/18/london-under...
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
You joke, but of course... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/01/fake-tweets...
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
It's either/or. Either you reward creators and inventors to keep creating and inventing and keep poverty at bay, or you give everyone enough to avoid poverty whether they work or not and reward c+i in some other way. What we have
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
There's a difference between shelves in A Store and shelves in The Store. Amazon can - and does - do whatever it wants with no consequences. If the algo has a bad day your trader account can be terminated. You'll have to battle th
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
It could be a medium/long term political quirk, because as long as RAM and GPU prices stay high the BigCos maintain a monopoly on non-trivial AI compute, and personal AI can't happen. I still can't work out if data centre man
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
It's more like "behaved", because particle measurement events are always historic. Quantum fields are statistical distributions of possible future particle measurement events within spacetime.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
If AGI had a drone army, why would it need them? Can't help wondering if they've really thought this through.
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
They do, however, need more profitability and less competition. Hence the "We're curing cancer, no, really" pitch - because within 6-12 months everyone else is going to be doing code and text cheaper and better.
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The issue here isn't (just) adulteration, it's that watermarking in general is unworkable. If all the providers use watermarking systems with different shifting logit weightings, and the keys are secret, you have to check every pr
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
Not all values of "equally good" are equally good. Writing has rhythm, or at least it's supposed to, and synonym swapping compromises it. Never mind metaphors and similes, which are even more tightly constrained. LLM writing
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The substitutions are transparent and don't change the meaning. What can possible go incorrectly?
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They are in contradiction, because the author starts by saying how much he enjoyed the Stratemeyer Content Mill books (full disclosure - I did too) and then says that if only he'd known... But he didn't. And it didn't affect
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by TheOtherHobbes 2mo ago
You're arguing web servers are conscious.

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