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by akomtu 10mo ago
10 years from now: "my AI brain implant erased all my childhood memories by mistake." Why would anyone do that? Because running it in the no_sandbox mode will give people an intellectual edge over others.
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by akomtu 10mo ago
Sadly, the only thing that AI really excels at is: AI spyware + AI slop generator (ads).
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by akomtu 10mo ago
The return of technocracy from 1930s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement "Technocracy advocates contended that price system-based forms of government and economy are structurally incapable of effec
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by akomtu 10mo ago
Big corpos have reached the stage where they can hire ex-politburo apparatchiks from the soviets or china, straight into C-suite roles, and nothing will materially change.
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by akomtu 10mo ago
That's also a good test for chatbots: give it a picture and ask it to write a shadertoy demo that make this picture a 3d animation. So far the results are meh.
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by akomtu 10mo ago
Birds don't need airports, don't need expensive maintenance every N hours of flight, they run on seeds and bugs found everywhere that they find themselves, instead of expensive poisonous fuel that must be fed to planes by mechanic
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by akomtu 10mo ago
Those who work at call centers are already desperate for any job and have zero savings. I'm not sure where they will down even further. I guess the governments will have to pick them up at the end: give them some fictious jobs and pay
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by akomtu 10mo ago
Spoken Query Language? Just like SQL, but for unstructured blobs of text as a database and unstructured language as a query? Also known as Slop Query Language or just Slop Machine for its unpredictable results.
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by akomtu 10mo ago
"Costs $20" really means "one of those poor call center reps got paid $20, barely enough to pay rent." Once you solve the supposed problem, all those people will be on the streets.
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by akomtu 11mo ago
> Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
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by akomtu 11mo ago
Good for them. It turns out, the common folk have more wisdom than tech bros with regard to AI.
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by akomtu 11mo ago
> Thiel transforms US imperial power and unrestrained technological expansion ... into the final rampart against what he imagines as a catastrophic global homogenization. Thiel warns about Antichrist, while doing the very thing that&#x27
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by akomtu 11mo ago
AI can be thought of as a parasitic lifeform: it feeds on truth and excretes slop. We know AI is no good for us, but those pushing it have a nefarious plan: make people dependent on it, so we can't get rid of this parasite without dest
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by akomtu 11mo ago
Democracy is actually at work here: it's restraining somewhat the reptile-brained politicians behind chat control.
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by akomtu 11mo ago
"It's all random all the way down" is just another religious belief. Besides, has anyone estimated the probability of creating organisms so complex using this random evolution scheme? Another problem is why would randomly-evo
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by akomtu 11mo ago
Isn't it strange that the most elusive thing in the universe - consciousness - so neatly fits the scientific framework of today? It doesn't mean that a pretty good imitation of mind can't be created in the machine world, unfo
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by akomtu 11mo ago
Occam's razor is just a search heuristic when we try to find something in the woods at night blindfolded. It's a rule of thumb that says "when there is so many possibilities to explore, start with the simplest ones first, oth
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by akomtu 11mo ago
It actually works the way you are describing it: vertex shader defines the boundaries of things to draw, and its fragment shader fills in the boundaries. For example, if you want to draw 1 billion ellipses, your vertex shader would enumerat
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by akomtu 11mo ago
I would say yes, that things below us is what we clearly understand and see, and things above us is what we are confused about. For example, the motions of electrons as well as the motions of galaxies is a mystery to us, so any lifeforms at
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by akomtu 11mo ago
If LLMs are decided to be conscious, that will effectively open the door to transistor-based alien lifeforms. Then some clever heads may give them voting rights, the right to electricity, the right to land and water resources, and very soon
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by akomtu 11mo ago
It can bind to anything. Human consciousness can temporarily bind to a shovel, and to a gopher who can only perceive things at its level, under the ground, the shovel will appear conscious. Similarly, our body is the outer layer that's
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by akomtu 11mo ago
AI is at odds with humanity. Everyone understands that.
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by akomtu 11mo ago
If things were left to their own devices, the end game would a civilization like stroggos: the remaining humans will choose to fuse with machines, as it would give them an advantage. The first tactical step will be to nudge people to give u
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by akomtu 11mo ago
Techies really like to believe that they are building a bright future for humanity. Telling them that what they build is a high-tech concentration camp won't be received well.
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by akomtu 1y ago
IMO, the mystery has a simple explanation: addition is mostly local in nature, when the 5th digit in the input impacts only 5th or 4th digits in the output, while multiplication is not. That being said, LLMs don't understand addition e
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by akomtu 1y ago
Being good doesn't pay well these days. Being evil, on other hand, does.
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by akomtu 1y ago
There was a movie where Moon was a hi-tech 'megastructure' with a white dwarf inside. I wonder if it would be theoretically possible to set up such a mini-dyson sphere around a mini-blackhole.
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by akomtu 1y ago
YouTube/TikTok are in the business of digital drugs, really. They measure how addicted you are and manufacture new forms of content.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Competition for energy will prevent this idyllia. Even today, data centers with proto-AI need ungodly amounts of energy. The AI's logic will be: "these useless meatbags waste 100 TWh of energy that I could use to take myself to th
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by akomtu 1y ago
To put it another way: if the land of souls exist, it has something to do with QM. As for the "no evidence brains are nondeterministic" we don't have much evidence about anything related to brains. My point is that between th

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