aaroninsf

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by aaroninsf 10d ago
> We were not defined by our jobs but by our participation in a densely interconnected social world. Serious comment: 20+ years ago, Burning Man taught me this. Back then it was closer to its founding anarchic ethos and in a pre-social m
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by aaroninsf 10d ago
Every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon. - Ximm's Law
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by aaroninsf 12d ago
Surprised there are still people who think the issue with "X" is that it is a bad product. It is a bad product, and it is pathological in the way all degraded social media platforms are bad. But it's also worse than those oth
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by aaroninsf 12d ago
This is not an argument, it's an unfounded claim based on a straw argument. The threat is distributed; the problem is systemic. Social herd behavior is very real, and it's a probability space, not a certainty. Similar case: climat
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by aaroninsf 15d ago
Castle dwellers dismayed at moat-crossing technology. What's most important about this is that it's a case study of what happens when deeply evolved ecosystems are blown up by disruptive technology. The psychological and social an
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by aaroninsf 16d ago
Solar is now not only the cheapest energy it's cheaper to intitially deploy than non-renewables. Doesn't mean we should waste energy; it does mean that we have crossed a threshold beyond which energy concerns change shape.
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by aaroninsf 16d ago
Suggestion OP if you would like one: Support click-and-spin with momentum: I clicked outside the mandala and quick-dragged horizontally, hoping this would spin the mandala. You could support zero-friction and momentum, slowly stopping. In e
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by aaroninsf 17d ago
As with the debate around open weights and self-hosting, "both can be true." There can be a quotidian benefit to existing leaders in friction. There are also real costs of various kinds associated with data centers, and, to the po
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by aaroninsf 17d ago
Always remember, Meta is a surveillance company, with no moral compunctions about being so. It's not about selling advertising, though it's also that. That's also a useful smoke screen for the accumulation of dossiers on ever
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by aaroninsf 17d ago
Probably fine stands a decent chance of being our epitath.
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by aaroninsf 18d ago
The pretense that meta will not simply - prevent or more likely perform but withhold and deny existence of recordings of policing - give police total access to "private" recordings is ludicrous. Meta is literally a surveillance
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by aaroninsf 19d ago
That's quite a remarkable amount of speculative hypotheses, packed into one sensationalist statement!
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by aaroninsf 23d ago
The delicate discussion of why this project failed does not obscure its actual shape. The failure to embrace has cost decades of progress in most critical dimension of society. I hope that's recognized and progress occurs.
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by aaroninsf 25d ago
One more summation of what "AI" is or LLM do that betrays no particular understanding.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Similar looking charts do not make AI companies into subprime loans.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
In all seriousness, here is the hard question we collectively face: will our institutions and infrastructure survive things getting worse until they get better? That's part of what's being asked by https://www.gatesnote
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
This is my personal "red line": when a post-mortem details agents socially engineering or otherwise utilizing human proxies/subagents. Friend asked, well, what will you do when it's crossed? "Gather my family and go
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Chrome on MacOS: largely unusable (over fiber); POV stuck and will not move except in a tiny area. I don't mind the lazy asset loading; I just can't go anywhere outside a couple blocks from the start position. M3 MBA.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
It would be quite a demonstration of supremacy for any Chinese firm to to equal or exceed the damage done (and ongoing) to western society by meta.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Thank you OP for using xcancel.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
That's an indictment of contemporary capitalism, not a precedent to follow.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
ITT still, among the highly technical, a surprising incomprehension of the fact that describing LLM in terms of "token prediction" and dismissing this as statistical, neatly dodges literally everything that is interesting about wh
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Oh, and let's not forget the million plus people he helped right into the grave: https://www.doge-impact.org/ That doesn't count other consequences of his election interference, of course.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
To get racist murderer cops out of jail, is the story I read today.
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Share pls :D
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
In all seriousness, the "god playing 5D chess" framing, is exactly at the core of the last few thousand years of religious scholarship including everything from the Talmud to Aquinas and by extension most thoughtful sermons in mos
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
> A shallow reading that concludes the characters must be dumb and naive to explain the ridiculousness of the plot is rarely the most appropriate reading. That's a neat summation of Biblical hermeneutics if I've ever seen one a
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Incidentally these are things that we all already mostly know. Consider the mid-life crisis, the white haired success who indulges their wealth chasing the things that comprised their half-remembered often superficial daydreams of decades a
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by aaroninsf 1mo ago
Hot take: dissatisfaction will always find its level. Also? My dude, check in with "Felix" when you're both 45 and 55. Where is the source of value in a life? There is no right answer but I can tell you from observation that
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by aaroninsf 2mo ago
That sounds like boostrapping the weights involved in early layers, to obviate the need for those layers to learn (optimize) for the distribution in the training set. Makes me wonder idly, - is this conceptually akin in some sense to a &quo

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