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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9d ago
Well, there's a pretty obvious answer that doesn't require a conspiracy theory, because the influence is well documented and, in many cases, isn't even denied or concealed by those being influenced.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 11d ago
I don't think these are the smartest people in the world. Yes, they're investing 1% to 2% of global GDP. My conclusion from this is that things are going to get pretty rough when the bubble bursts. I see what LLMs are capable o
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 12d ago
Yeah, yeah, sure, I'm ignorant. In any case, I recognize unfalsifiability when I see it. So it seems there's still some room for even more ignorance beneath my ignorance.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 12d ago
Can you refute the claim that the Second Coming of Christ is imminent? It’s very convenient to put forward something completely absurd and hypothetical and then expect the other side to refute it. You can have an LLM of your choice compil
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 12d ago
Awesome!
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 12d ago
> Just because you list up some type of random technology, doesn't make it an good argument. In what way is this random? It's a chronology of the bullshit from the past few years. Also: easy to say in hindsight. The hype was
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 12d ago
Two things: 1. If you reduce the criticism to personal dislike, you’ve built yourself a nice straw man. 2. Where’s the clear evidence? I actually see more evidence that the whole thing is already stagnating and that there won’t be much more
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 12d ago
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here that many LLM advocates fall prey to. No one claims (anymore) that LLMs are completely useless. We agree that these tools can boost productivity. But there is a fundamental difference
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 15d ago
I don't think that's the only reason. Here in Germany, you can also buy that fluffy white bread—usually wrapped in plastic—that's probably made that way. But most bread in Germany is still produced the traditional way, espe
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 24d ago
> Both Altman and Zitron are the opposite of Frankfurt’s bullshitter, because they both appear to evince genuine care for the truth value of their position. I can't really judge Zitron, but when it comes to Altman, I have absolutely
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 29d ago
I am even. Source: Lifelong Prime
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 29d ago
"App development has always been harder than web development for LLMs." What do they mean by "always"? Am I old? Are there people out there for whom LLMs aren't the new thing?
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 29d ago
I do think it's part of many people's vocabulary. It's a bit informal. And it's not a word you use every day. But it's definitely a word that gets used when the occasion calls for it, just like the related verb &
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 1mo ago
(This is a reply to Der_Einzige.) Way too sweeping for my taste. There’s obviously some truth to that. On the other hand, it’s way too easy and convenient to dismiss things as PSYOPs. To my grandfather, every LGBTQ Pride event is a PSYOP
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
Riding a motorcycle is one of the things in life that puts me in a good mood. I live in Germany. Traffic here seems to be pretty orderly. I don’t feel like the cars around me are putting me in danger. I have protective gear for cross-co
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
Definitely not! They just don't want to let you have the advantage. "I have to wait here in my Ram Truck, so you'd better wait too and not cut in line!"
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
So much effort for a self-righteous framework of contempt for certain people. In recent years, I have observed several people up close who uncompromisingly focus their lives on economic success. What these people have in common is a remar
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
What's the problem with just forking them, then?
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
I'd like to see this problem solved in such a way that your group memberships are transitively applied to your access to agents. In other words: you shouldn’t be allowed to talk to an agent at all if, at a given point in time, that ag
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve lived in the city my whole life and have seen rents rise. That’s been extremely frustrating for me because I’ve been at the mercy of market trends and have worried about what would happen if, at some point, I d
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
Unfortunately, yes. One real-world example was the former Linotype typesetters. As far as I know, they had union-negotiated benefits such as job security until retirement, early retirement, or generous severance packages. It just require
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
No, of course, you can only ever be certain of that in hindsight, through a historical lens. We’re not there yet. The question is simply whether Marx’s analysis was abstract and general enough at that point to still hold up in our present d
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 2mo ago
It’s already the case that I’m no longer paid to type source code into a computer, but rather to control agents that do that. There’s still plenty of demand for human expertise and labor. It’s possible that this will change as well. What
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
You know, strictly speaking, a guinea pig isn't really a pig either. If you were expecting real physics, you should have realized from the word “social” that it wouldn't be in there. Particle families aren't really families
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
Absolutely right: they took advantage of us and exploited us, and ever since then they’ve been calling us lazy. Many people in East Germany and West Germany don’t even realize this, but what actually happened during reunification closely r
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
I see three problems here. 1) You’re misunderstanding the concept of magical thinking. It is not an umbrella term for false expectations. Magical thinking occurs when a person assumes that their thoughts, words, or actions can influence,
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
It’s a good recipe for consensus. I find it easier to reluctantly submit to the will of the majority than I would to the will of a minority. There are certainly a few opponents of democracy who feel exactly the opposite, but most people p
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
I am the son of a (Cuban) immigrant and a German woman. Once, the police asked me if I spoke German, probably because my hair is dark and my eyes are brown. Germany has a bias against “southerners”—the darker your skin, the worse it is.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
> It's a fascinating bit of biology to see a species collectively sacrifice its well being for the benefit of one man I wouldn't attribute this phenomenon to biology. But in a healthy world, there would have been an interventi
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3mo ago
> Your argument isn’t simple, it’s word salad. That’s not very nice. I can assure you that I read everything you write here with the same contempt and accuse you of at least the same intellectual dishonesty. I just wouldn’t have put it

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