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by afthonos 4mo ago
People the world over: (die for the right to vote) One comedian: LOL they only killed them to make you think it was valuable. The Internet: (sagely) What a wise assessment by a wise man of wisdom.
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by afthonos 5mo ago
Agreed. My point was to question the use of “just“ to obscure an incredibly complicated process, which has been shown repeatedly to rely on generalizations that are indistinguishable from world models. Now, it is true that the world they’re
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by afthonos 5mo ago
Let me make this clear: The United States predates you, and will almost certainly outlive you. You, an individual with a microscopic lifespan and negligible influence in the grand sweep of history, do not in fact share any guilt for the thi
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by afthonos 5mo ago
Nothing about an LLM is “just”. In what precise sense do you mean it is probabilistic?
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by afthonos 5mo ago
As expected by the exponential. The Wharton study was predicting when the exponential would turn into a sigmoid.
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by afthonos 5mo ago
…yeah, that’s where you see the exponential?
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by afthonos 5mo ago
Ah, I misread the post he was replying to.
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by afthonos 5mo ago
What did you think it was pronounced as?
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by afthonos 5mo ago
I wouldn’t either if I’d missed the previous word, “reporting”.
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by afthonos 6mo ago
> How do you know? If you have access you are not unbiased, otherwise you cannot know by definition. The platonic ideal of how to dismiss any argument by anyone about anything.
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by afthonos 6mo ago
> If these claims were indeed serious, they would submit it for independent analysis somewhere. They have. 40 different companies that have all committed resources to patching their systems based on vulnerabilities found by Mythos. One o
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by afthonos 6mo ago
An interesting thing in AI history. For human history, it’s epochal.
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by afthonos 6mo ago
The term of art for losing politically is “losing”.
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by afthonos 7mo ago
The lead story was about the “useless” soldiers in a battle that was won. I think as a minimum effort one should look for an example where the battle was lost? Most companies can only wish their outcomes were as good as the US in World Wa
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by afthonos 7mo ago
As someone who at first embraced the idea of prediction markets and is now ambivalent, sending them underground vastly reduces their harm. First, because discoverability is an issue. Second, there will be much less liquidity. Third, any gai
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by afthonos 7mo ago
I do agree with this.
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by afthonos 7mo ago
No, that’s not accurate at all, and in case you are genuinely confused: 1. Anthropic should be free to sell its services under whatever legal terms and conditions it wants. 2. The Pentagon should be free to buy those services, negotiate for
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by afthonos 8mo ago
Yeah, none of this is new. I’m just saying we should acknowledge what we’re doing.
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by afthonos 8mo ago
Either human is a special category with special privileges or it isn’t. If it isn’t, the entire argument is pointless. If it is, expanding the definition expands those privileges, and some are zero sum. As a real, current example, FEMA uses
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by afthonos 8mo ago
I don’t think that’s quite right. I’d say instead that if the singularity does happen, there’s no telling which beliefs will have mattered.
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by afthonos 8mo ago
Yes, humans tell themselves stories to justify their choices. Are you telling yourself the story that only bad humans do that, and choosing to feel that you are superior and they are worth less? It might be okay to abuse them, if you t
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by afthonos 8mo ago
Don’t make me tap the “ads are cancer” sign.
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by afthonos 9mo ago
In his defense, he got it before he did any of that. Before he did much of anything except get elected, really. Which was apparently sufficient. (Everyone, including Obama, was pretty flummoxed by that prize.)
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by afthonos 10mo ago
For 99.9% of issues, we rely on trust to make up our minds. We assume people are mostly not lying. If a group of people are found to lie, then yes, maybe “look for the truth behind the actual claims” is worth it, but more likely shooting th
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by afthonos 11mo ago
The big tech companies are trying to make machines that replace all human labor. They call it artificial intelligence. Feel free to argue about definitions.
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by afthonos 11mo ago
Man, why did no one tell the people who invented bronze that they weren’t allowed to do it until they had a correct definition for metals and understood how they worked? I guess the person saying something can’t be done should stay out of
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by afthonos 11mo ago
Either willpower is fungible, in which case it doesn’t matter what you use it on because you’re using it up no matter what, or it isn’t, in which case the original point about losing willpower due to leaning on GPL-1 inhibitors for weight
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by afthonos 11mo ago
Expanding on what a sibling comment said, we live in an adversarial environment. A successful food product is one you want to eat, whether you need it or not. Willpower is important, I agree. Almost everyone needing willpower to not eat ,
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by afthonos 1y ago
Definitely not GP, but I think it’s pretty clear that whatever grit there was to have, GP did not have it. “Die an early death due to being overweight or build the grit” is strictly worse than “lose the weight without building the grit, or
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by afthonos 1y ago
It is, actually. A correct statement would be “absence of proof is not proof of absence”, but “evidence” and “proof” are not synonyms.

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