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by advael 3y ago
All change is destructive. No matter how bad something is, someone depends on how it is right now. Someone will at the very least be inconvenienced by it changing The fact is, no company actually primarily exists to employ people, and peopl
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by advael 3y ago
Without extremely aggressive changes to how we handle situations like this, it seems unlikely A fine is a price, and there are basically no laws that put financial, let alone criminal liability for people behind the corporate veil or seizur
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by advael 3y ago
I think that while labor regulations like this can sometimes create little bubbles of prosperity for a middle and working class, they will inevitably pop. It's just too weak a lever with which to correct the disparity in power between
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by advael 3y ago
I'll buy that, but still doubt that materials costs is anything close to a driving factor in shortages compared to, say, zoning/new construction policy
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by advael 3y ago
I think this article is a great example of how technical people have become so intoxicated by the relatively few instances in which an advance in technology has genuinely solved an entrenched social or power problem by making a new thing po
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by advael 3y ago
I mean. "AI" has meant "whatever shiny new computer thing is hot right now" in both common vernacular and every academic field besides AI research basically since the term was coined...
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This assumes that prediction of world events tracks stock performance well. Predicting the performance of stocks requires also predicting a lot of the noise in factors like the error in prediction made by other investors, what marketing mov
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by advael 3y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I'm pretty sure it's all a lot of internet denizens can manage on difficult topics so I've met it frequently enough to find it merely annoying rather than exhausting. It's occasionally fun to use it
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by advael 3y ago
Is this some kind of mantra? Seems kind of anti-intellectual and borderline culty. "There is no argument" I still think generative AI is an exciting technology but the tech hype wave brainrot makes working in this space such a slo
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I mean I am sure I'm not the first person to have this insight - as I said I view it as baked into the definition of "externality" - but I'm also not pulling it from any specific source I can consciously recall
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by advael 3y ago
I think it's worth making a distinction between values and methods in many contexts, including here. Alignment enabling collaboration across value systems or sometimes even priorities can be much harder to achieve, and some would say u
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by advael 3y ago
I'm not sure if I agree, but this model would predict an interesting pattern where a disproportionate number of successful startups that grew went through an early phase of ideological/personality purging at the "small"
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by advael 3y ago
I agree with everything you're saying here Also, in reading your post I noticed a normal human tendency that makes me wonder if hiring by interview doesn't inevitably introduce a small but pervasive organizational tendency toward
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by advael 3y ago
This may be a useful workaround, but it also forms the strongset argument I've yet seen so far against claims that LLMs do something like "understanding" or "an underlying world model". Maybe models knowing the same
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by advael 3y ago
I do think the paradigm of intellectual property is fundamentally broken, but you can't claim we're post-scarcity for knowledge when vast swaths of the economy are knowledge work and economic viability is still a requirement to li
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by advael 3y ago
I'm not really sure who is supposed to be the contrarian in this particular instance of that game in your view, but here I feel that this person neither is trying to punish me for contrary views or express any of their own, but is mere
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by advael 3y ago
I view this as obvious but I guess that doesn't go without saying. The two cultures I've characterized actually share a commonly held strong belief that there exist metrics or heuristics that can replace the need for fluid critica
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by advael 3y ago
Dang we sure are getting hung up on semantics rather than substance today, huh?
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It's here used as shorthand for "not merely a social illusion constructed by the person it is acting upon" Some power derives from charisma, force of personality, or social fluency. But lots of power, from the perspective of
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by advael 3y ago
If something is considered an externality by some system, decisions that prioritize it are by definition hard or impossible to make within that system. In other words, to change that, we have to rewrite systemic priorities to some degree
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by advael 3y ago
This has a kind of silly sleight of hand I've unfortunately come to expect in psych research. This seems to try to study power while controlling for... power? It can definitely be interesting to see how the personality one projects can
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by advael 3y ago
lol okay I'll admit upon reading it again that that was a more verbose way to make that point than it needed to be How about "prioritizing robustness and other kinds of long-termism need to be at least somewhat protected by the sy
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by advael 3y ago
This is a good evaluation of the way risk posture can inform design decisions, but I think it sort of ignores the elephant in the room: A short term strategy wins more on average in a competitive context, especially when existential risk is
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by advael 3y ago
Knowledge-seeking versus goal-orientation honestly doesn't map one-to-one here, though it's probably correlated. Like I would say that is a better distinction between engineers and scientists than between both and good salespeople
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by advael 3y ago
As far as I can tell, "AI safety" as implemented in chatbots is the same kind of figleaf as "safety" is in every other corporate tech context - be it content moderation, third-party app policies, or even the premise that
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Good to know it has a well-known name
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This actually strikes me as an example of a political decision creating a stickiness to academic formal standards (as others point out this has become a policy for various organizations' approval of findings). Since the "replicati
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The value of illegible intuition is inherently somewhat illegible itself, but also hard to overstate
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Fuck that. Pardon my language but that's a falsehood I am so sick of hearing repeated, and the only reason anyone believes it's an inevitable tradeoff is that this belief has been imposed on us by proprietary software ecosystems t
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When I talk to scientists and engineers and just generally people who value improving their accuracy and reasoning ability in some capacity, I share with them the assumptions that I think can be fairly called the intellectual norms of acade

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