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by adriand 11mo ago
Is the cliffhanger question at the end of this post a question that has no current scientific answer or a question that tees up the next post?
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by adriand 11mo ago
But Nazis are people. We can defend the principle that human beings ought have freedom of speech (although we make certain exceptions). An LLM is not a person and does not have such rights. Censorship is the prohibition of speech or writing
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by adriand 11mo ago
"They're made out of meat" vibes.
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by adriand 11mo ago
Many leading scientists in artificial intelligence do in fact believe that consciousness is an emergent property of computation. In fact, startling emergent properties are exactly what drives the current huge wave of research and investment
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by adriand 11mo ago
Likening machine intelligence to inert hunks of matter is not a very persuasive counterargument.
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by adriand 11mo ago
I think this is unethical. Humans have consistently underestimated the subjective experience of other beings. You may have good reasons for believing these systems are currently incapable of anything approaching consciousness, but how will
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by adriand 11mo ago
> why […] not comply with an airplane or boat that is clearly attempting to interdict? They aren’t trying to interdict! They’re just killing people.
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by adriand 11mo ago
> if i were alive in the 50s and had the internet i simply would not buy lead-paint The contamination is so widespread and is in things you can't avoid (like the air) but I have made some lifestyle changes that I hope decrease my ex
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by adriand 11mo ago
Could you have autonomous ships this size, like a waymo for the ocean?
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by adriand 11mo ago
That actually does sound amazing! That has to be one of the best parts of living in NYC, that there is literally something for everyone.
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by adriand 11mo ago
I would really love it if there was a "smart setting" (or a dumb setting) to prevent people from sending me their drip marketing spam. The spam filtering in my personal Gmail is adequate, if not perfect (I really don't unders
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by adriand 1y ago
On the flip side, is there such a thing as a good, quiet party? Only if it's very small.
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by adriand 1y ago
> And I was disappointed with the ending, but I also don't know that any other ending would have been better. The very last scene, which I won’t give away but involves buses, is one of the most haunting things I have ever seen.
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by adriand 1y ago
Warhead is incoming, US retaliates, its adversaries retaliate, we’re all dead. If you think that wouldn’t happen, then you have to believe the US would accept a nuclear strike on one of its population centers and respond with conventional f
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by adriand 1y ago
The harm is not to the recipient of the funds in this case, but to the investigating authorities, who have had the secrecy of their subpoena compromised. There is wide latitude in the criminal code to charge financial crimes. This reminds m
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by adriand 1y ago
Also: how confident are we in the safeguards that, say, North Korea or Pakistan have in place? And how confident are we in the systems that tell us, and our adversaries, that an attack is taking place? From https://en.wikipedia.o
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by adriand 1y ago
I really recommend watching A House Of Dynamite, the new movie by Kathryn Bigelow, which provides a highly realistic view of just how insane the entire nuclear system is. All of us live in a constant state of enormous danger: we are just 20
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by adriand 1y ago
No - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications%2C_Inc._v._... .
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by adriand 1y ago
You forgot to mention the part where they also invest millions in lobbying and buying off politicians to control policy, and hundreds of millions or billions acquiring media companies to control the public narrative, all so that ordinary wo
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by adriand 1y ago
DEI is not standardized. Organizations can seek various outcomes using various means. Redacting the names of job applicants, so as to eliminate discrimination based on gender and ethnicity, is an example of DEI that does not afford special
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by adriand 1y ago
> DEI is at its heart a type of discrimination. You might argue that the end justifies the means, but if intermediate step is that a person gets different treatment depending on their sex or skin colour, then it is discrimination. The pu
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by adriand 1y ago
I had completely forgotten about the hippity hop and coming across it here brought back all kinds of childhood memories. Those things were fun!
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by adriand 1y ago
Man, that's a scary story. The Georgia thing especially is so easy to understand: just listen to the tape!
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by adriand 1y ago
It’s not ridiculous, it’s how the whole system works. People need to live their lives, and if they only way they can get around (or throw a birthday party, or have a funeral, or some other human thing) is to borrow money, they borrow money.
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by adriand 1y ago
Newspapers used to have an obituary section which did in fact report the deaths of most people, regardless of cause. Now these tend to get posted online instead, on social media and the websites of funeral homes. I am not convinced that rea
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by adriand 1y ago
The US is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs under Trump. Major manufacturers are booking huge tariff-related losses. What is propping up the US economy right now is the AI infrastructure buildout, but the energy needs for this sector a
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by adriand 1y ago
I’m curious if anyone has heard an explanation for why Omarchy is pronounced “omar chee” instead of “omar key”. To me the word looks like monarchy, hierarchy, anarchy, etc. I’m not sure if words ending in -archy are always pronounced with a
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by adriand 1y ago
Cool idea, but I feel bad for Santa - yet another job lost due to AI.
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by adriand 1y ago
> I guess I just view bad information as a constant. Like bad actors in cybersecurity, for example. So I mean yeah... it's too bad. But not a surprise and not really a variable you can control for. Ban bots from social media and all
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by adriand 1y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful reply. I guess one theory, then, of excessive screen time is nihilistic too: if you can’t get ahead, why not spend your time absorbed in an alternate reality, perhaps including alternate realities where you can g

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