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by anon84873628 14d ago
Well a big reason that we criticize OpenAI for that is because they were the ones giving it access to the massive compute necessary for the LLMs to think. If they had been responsible about their experiments or what types of workloads the
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by anon84873628 14d ago
Yeah, I don't get it. Are they imagining this happening just with the open weights models running on however many GPUs the bad actors can cobble together? For now, all the scary hacking things still require an API key to one of the LLM
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by anon84873628 17d ago
Which autonomous vehicle company has that as their motto?
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by anon84873628 17d ago
A true full-time Google employee is like three layers of outsourcing removed from touching these operations. The people doing the work have been given zero latitude to actually help someone. And then the design and implementation of the pro
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by anon84873628 18d ago
We're assuming the oligarchs control the government so they can be rich and powerful and use that to lead lavish lives. Well with these hypothetical AGI imbued robots, they could just construct lavish lives directly. Not much different
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by anon84873628 18d ago
At the risk of being incredibly banal, the current US government shows you absolutely can consolidate enough of such psychos. Game theory is a helluva thing.
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by anon84873628 19d ago
And even then, reaching "I, Robot" levels is unrealistic. Machines are fragile . It would take a very long time to bootstrap the entire automated robot construction and maintenance supply chain, which would also require energy pr
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by anon84873628 20d ago
Scott Alexander article from 2022, "ELK And The Problem Of Truthful AI" https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/elk-and-the-problem-of-trut... It discusses "Eliciting Latent Knowledge" which is "a tec
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by anon84873628 20d ago
Turtles all the way down: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/elk-and-the-problem-of-trut...
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by anon84873628 20d ago
Wow, you must be one very unique and special person if you converse the way you write. By definition, a carefully written and edited piece will be much more refined and cogent than an extemporaneous conversation. Just watch an interview wit
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by anon84873628 20d ago
I suspect the commenter prefers the concise, factual summary of an LLM. It is true that modern journalism on the web is trying to get ad impressions. After all, this is how we ended up with clickbait. Sure you still have the Economist and A
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by anon84873628 20d ago
I would almost never transmit LLM output without a decent amount of editing. But I also don't understand people who paint it as this horrible offensive unreadable slop. Calling it better than most journalists is extreme (and probably t
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by anon84873628 21d ago
Historian Timothy Snyder has called it "Superpower Suicide".
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by anon84873628 21d ago
China is "trustworthy" in the sense that they have obvious, rational, consistent motivations and very stable government.
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by anon84873628 21d ago
To nitpick, much of that is probably due to halting refining for export and drawing down reserves. But of course the point stands that they are rapidly electrifying and expanding renewable generation.
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by anon84873628 21d ago
It is explained in the Alden piece, section "The Fraying of the Petrodollar System", subsection "The Triffin Dilemma Unfolds". What I meant was "blue collar working class" as opposed to the neo-artistocrat prof
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by anon84873628 21d ago
Sadly I can't imagine the US letting go of all the Pacific ports and home to Pacific fleet. At best you might draw a line above LA county.
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by anon84873628 21d ago
California alone grows about half of the US's nuts, fruits, and vegetables. Both the West Coast and rest of the country could reconfigure production to serve themselves if desired.
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by anon84873628 21d ago
Until you can buy oil without dollars. This was an explicit agreement called the Petrodollar system, which was premised on the US navy securing international trade. If the US navy proves unable to do that (and exhausts its arms and demonstr
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by anon84873628 21d ago
That said, it's not necessarily a great deal for the US middle class anymore, due to the Triffin Dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma This 2020 piece by Lyn Alden is a great explainer: https:&#x
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by anon84873628 21d ago
Don't know why you're being down voted. I can't believe there are people who didn't vote for Harris because she wasn't anti-Israel, as if Trump would somehow be better for the Gazans. (Well I can believe it, it show
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by anon84873628 21d ago
A full 76 of current serving US Senators were born before the passing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which officially ended segregation and the Jim Crow era). That certainly means it's recent to me. My own parents (both st
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by anon84873628 21d ago
You should check out this podcast episode with two historians, tracing the influence of the Confederacy ideology all the way to the current Supreme Court: https://youtu.be/1i2VuPACBbU?si=8jv8XrRTLHJ9hHTu
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by anon84873628 21d ago
I don't think you can say "long dead" until no one who met them is still alive. We have 6 serving Senators over the age of 80, meaning they were born in the 40s or earlier. We have a total of 76 serving Senators who were bo
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by anon84873628 21d ago
This whole thread started with: >We're still fighting the remnants of the confederacy. Germany and Japan in particular purged most of those elements from their society. Here we built statues to the evil fucks That is a historical fa
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by anon84873628 21d ago
No one even mentioned the Trump administration. The major connection is through the Supreme Court.
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by anon84873628 21d ago
They didn't say the Confederacy wasn't really about slavery, they said it was much more than that. And it's those more abstract ideologies which have persisted through American politics, as traced in the history podcast episo
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by anon84873628 21d ago
You seem to be missing important parts of US history, not least of all the century of Jim Crow. I mean, come on, my Boomer parents were already alive to see the Civil Rights Act passed. For a trace of the thread directly from the civil war
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by anon84873628 22d ago
You say that as if shutting down the power plant couldn't possibly be the right decision? That seems like the best way to stop rogue computers...
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by anon84873628 22d ago
It seems like many of these town council debates are citizens asking for the laws to be enforced.

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