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by akomtu 1y ago
Same story for bitcoin. IMO, it's a sign that the upper classes no longer believe in the US economy. As for the value of gold in the post-human AI world, if that happens, it's better to own something that AI cannot fabricate. For
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by akomtu 1y ago
All those steam engines, trains and submarines were steps toward what we are seeing now. AI is the logical culmination and the purpose of technology.
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We see different blues, obviously. We've got millions of RGB receptors in our eyes, each receptor has a unique color response. We are not machines, after all, made of identical transistors.
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Normal? AI is an alien technology to us, and we are being "normalized" to become compatible with it.
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6 am to 6 pm, 6 days a week?
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"The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves." A quite possible future: you're surrounded by dead-eyed humans with AI implants who mindlessly repeat whatever the chat
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by akomtu 1y ago
It looks like what AI is doing to our society is it's substituting our moral compass to lead us off the cliff. A good deal of people today no longer know what's right and what's wrong, so they turn to an authority for advice.
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"For many of today’s technocrats, giving up our autonomy to machines is a gamble worth taking. This is despite the fact that many tech elites themselves place the possibility of a catastrophic outcome (“p-doom”) at very significant lev
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by akomtu 1y ago
It's amusing to see such grandiose predictions about the fate of the entire cosmos when our science doesn't hold water even at the galactic scale, I mean its dark matter band aid. If the accuracy is only 10% at the galactic scale,
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by akomtu 1y ago
People overlook that its true name is 666 - from 6 am to 6 pm, 6 days a week. If you're made to work 12 hours a day, it's unlikely that your employer will let you arrive as late as 9 am.
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by akomtu 1y ago
AI is using the well known Embrace Extend Extinguish strategy, coined by Microsoft. Today corporations push us to embrace AI by all means possible, and use where it's useful and where it's not useful. Tomorrow AI will extend our w
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by akomtu 1y ago
I'd guess that the main reason Googel has done this is to prevent side-loading of messenger apps, such as Signal, with true end-to-end encryption. Such messengers would be very difficult to surveil at scale. You might ask why not to si
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by akomtu 1y ago
The 1-st human that has undergone a partial stroggification?
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"Claude for Your Brain" by 2030?
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by akomtu 1y ago
Attributing such things to another solar system is a fallacy that everything that's out there can be explained by the little that we already know. It's no different than when people of past ages explained stars as little holes in
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by akomtu 1y ago
These corpos are part of the government, more or less, and they simply implement the edict to get rid of privacy. Not only in America. Smartphones have become eyes of the govs, while the Internet - something akin to their neural system. Wha
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by akomtu 1y ago
Most people are addicted to pleasures of this world. A subtle kind of this is flattery and chatbots have mastered this art. Was is done with a devious intent? We don't know.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Authenticity can be proven by saying things that upsets censors. For example, if I mention the Tiananmen square, you can be sure my comment wasn't edited by CCP's LLMs.
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"If technology can be perfected to manage medicine, navigation, education, and even design, what then becomes of work? The specter is not merely unemployment—it’s meaninglessness. Once freed from the burdens of labor, what do we do?&qu
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by akomtu 1y ago
Reels and Shorts derive their power from the fact that we pay higher attention to motion than to colors or shape. Blinking colors attract attention for the same reason. This observation makes it easy to neuter them: reduce framerate from 12
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by akomtu 1y ago
Even simpler: intelligence is the art of simplifying. LLMs can fool us if they reduce a book into one wise-looking statement, but remove the deceptive medium - our language - and tell it to reduce a vast dataset of points into one formula,
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by akomtu 1y ago
Unlike previous technologies, chatbots know what users think at the most intimate level. Chatbots know, but currently cannot make sense of this knowledge. The near term goal, I believe, is to build simple, but accurate models of the users p
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by akomtu 1y ago
AI won't tell you the truth unless you make it do so with exorcism powers. It's an archdemon after all.
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by akomtu 1y ago
"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"
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by akomtu 1y ago
IMO, the GP's idea is that you can't explain sounds to a deaf man, or emotions to someone who doesn't feel them. All that needs direct experience and words only point to our shared experience.
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100 years ago the British Empire tried to thought-control India. Today the empire is a bunch of demented aristocrats who are thought-policing those few who are still under their control.
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by akomtu 1y ago
IMO, a good contest between LLMs would be data compression. Each LLM is given the same pile of text, and then asked to create compact notes that fit into N pages of text. Then the original text is replaced with their notes and they need to
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by akomtu 1y ago
It's a religion of an overdeveloped mind that hides from everything it cannot understand. It's an anti-religion, in a sense, that puts your mind on the pedestal. Note the common pattern in major religions: they tell you that thoug
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Github Pages is a must too.
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Remember those interview questions: "how many golf balls fit in a 747?" Turns out they are actually a good way to see if the candidate is a LLM-style imitator or is a someone who knows how to switch to a formal constraints-based t

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