aero-deck

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by aero-deck 3y ago
Cowardice.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
engaging w/ someone is different from discoursing with them. "engagement" is what social media companies say they provide - but really they just offer "discourse".
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by aero-deck 3y ago
> the public's inability to engage with epistemological problems on systemic scales The public's inability? What about everyone's inability. No one deals well with epistemological problems on a systematic scale, not even t
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by aero-deck 3y ago
dunno what "TFA" refers to here, but it seems like we're heading into a argument regarding epistemology, which is not a discussion that HN handles well. IMO "truth" is distraction here because what is at stake here
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by aero-deck 3y ago
We want an an appropriate degree of emotional engagement with discourse, which is 1-1 with how much discourse is happening. People being too angry is caused by people discoursing too much and vice-versa. There are opposite problems associat
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by aero-deck 3y ago
Because there are actually multiple "arenas of discourse" and people will simply switch the "marketplace" they're using. It's technocratic hubris to think that there is just a single such arena and that all the
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by aero-deck 3y ago
right - like how the stock market behaves nowadays w/ quant traders - which then motivated people to construct darkpools of liquidity where the real trading happens.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
No one has ever cared about factual accuracy except for the military. All other social benefits of "facts" trickle-down from there.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
The chilling effect may actually be a good thing, given that discourse these days is overheated. There's a weird magic trick that social media companies have played on people to convince them that the text and images consumed on their
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by aero-deck 3y ago
Tech can start out as an extension, but what people fail to understand is that it can become slowly become autonomous over time, kinda like how a party gets out of control and people start putting holes in walls. I think technologists rarel
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by aero-deck 3y ago
It's really arrogant to think that any argument for a moratorium must be based in lack of information.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
all the correct observations about averages aside, quantity!=quality
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by aero-deck 3y ago
and we're just soooo much smarter nowadays than we were 1000 years ago...
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by aero-deck 3y ago
Denial of what? That AI is as important as AI-fans think that it is?
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by aero-deck 3y ago
This is list of ways that Pope Francis behaved differently from how a narrow section of catholics would prefer for him to act. Sucks that catholicism seems to be too difficult for people to swallow. There is always a temptation to dumb the
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by aero-deck 3y ago
I'd love to see demographic data on sedevacantism, but it's probably pretty difficult to gather. It def seems like the phenomena is enabled by the internet, and demonstrates the same kind of ideological radicalization to be found
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by aero-deck 3y ago
Seems like this is more about millennials getting old than it is about the internet changing. Especially since it embodies millennial's FOMO + fragile sense of self.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
I suppose it makes sense that I'd find sedes on HN, since this place is mostly about hubris.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
you're ignoring religion.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
The whole trajectory of history would have been different if a butterfly didn't flap it's wings. The bomb had effects, but it didn't change anything. We still go to war, eat, sleep and get afraid about things we can't co
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by aero-deck 3y ago
cool - so AI is gonna dramatically reduce the number of emails that get misunderstood... still gonna still be sending those emails tho.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
Opinion falls into two camps because opinion falls into political camps. The right-wing is tired of the California ideology, is invested in the primary and secondary sectors of the economy, and has learned to mistrust claims that the techno
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by aero-deck 3y ago
I think academics are much, much more naive than we like to think. The same trick that pharma played on doctors is being played here. Just because you can do fancy math doesn't mean you understand how to play the game.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
It doesn't matter who wrote it, it got picked up, had a good argument and affected market opinion. The execs now need to respond to it. Humans also don't grasp that things can improve exponentially until they stop improving expone
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by aero-deck 3y ago
We have an LGD on our hobby farm and figuring out socialization is really hard. Despite raising her in the barn among goats, I did give her a fair amount of affection and now she is very people-motivated. What I realize now is that if you w
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by aero-deck 3y ago
that means there's no money in making foundation models - the economics are broken.
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by aero-deck 3y ago
Disagree. What you have in mind is already how the masses interact AI. There is little value-add for making machine translation, auto-correct and video recommendations better. I can think of a myriad of use-cases for AI that involve custom-