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by api 2mo ago
Are you sure that works against the mythology of America? Questioning authority and mythology is very American.
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by api 2mo ago
The problem is that this kind of low-tier media slop work is what a lot of artists, writers, etc. do as "potboiler" work. It's what pays the bills. Historically art of any kind is a U-shaped market: there is low-end work and
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by api 2mo ago
Lots of devs know how to code in it, and the AI models have more training in JavaScript than any other language. It's like asking "why does everything run on Windows?" Because everything runs on Windows.
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by api 2mo ago
Anyone else think the AI environmental backlash is astroturfed? I keep looking at the numbers. The power use numbers are not that problematic. Ordering a burrito on DoorDash uses more power than a few days of heavy AI use. The water argumen
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by api 2mo ago
The dumb efforts by the US AI industry to use fear mongering for regulatory capture will hand dominance to China and others. In a few years there will be Mythos level open weight models hosted by the lowest bidder anyway.
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by api 2mo ago
This is a weak argument. Genetic engineering and artificial repair of major genetic disorders and artificial ways to boost genetic diversity are all way way easier than building a starship.
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by api 2mo ago
In Gibson’s Neuromancer AIs burned onto chips were literally discussed and called “ROM constructs.” In that case some of them were images of human minds but with no persistent state or memory. So basically a static model version of consciou
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by api 2mo ago
That project was cancelled. This is mostly about workplace surveillance. Most of the replies are large pop subReddit level junk.
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by api 2mo ago
“AI” in title gets clicks. So “AI” must be in title.
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by api 2mo ago
Every time “relentless push for efficiency destroying X” comes up I should repost this: https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.... This is a well understood phenomenon.
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by api 2mo ago
I had a thought a while back: sell large local models burned onto fused compute / ROM chips. Like cartridges for old game consoles. Slot (or probably plug into USB-C) and go. It’s an ASIC with the model wired into it so it’s very low p
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by api 2mo ago
Mobile maintains good battery life mostly by being idle almost all the time, and P2P can’t work that way. Even P2P with central server assist is hard on mobile. It could if we’d never broken the full end to end principle and put stateful fi
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by api 3mo ago
I need to qualify my "I don't care if there are quadrillionaires" comment. In theory, all other things aside, it is true. I mean, look up at the stars. For all I know there are functionally immortal super-minds out there who
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by api 3mo ago
For the people I know, the biggest things are: (1) Addiction engineering, and the fact that the tech industry found a way to transform what was supposed to be a machine to improve human education and cognition into a digital version of toba
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by api 3mo ago
Mobile is the UI/UX equivalent of… I don’t even know… a moon landing? A wonder of the world? I’m not saying it can’t be duplicated. I’m saying if you want to build a mobile platform you need to approach it with appropriate respect for
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by api 3mo ago
If they do that you’re using them wrong, or trying to use them as a substitute for thinking which they’re not. You are the one in charge doing the primary thinking and guidance. The AI is an amplifier and a search engine basically.
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by api 3mo ago
Guns have only one main function. Phones have thousands.
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by api 3mo ago
Facebook was on balance good until the algorithmic timeline.
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by api 3mo ago
At the very least I think we should seriously consider taxing advertising. It’d be almost impossible to pick and choose so just tax all of it. I think the knock on effects would be positive. It’s an almost unmitigated vice at this point and
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by api 3mo ago
The problem is not phones. Phones are fine. The problem is specific apps that make use of addiction engineering. These are bad on desktops too but the extreme portability of phones makes them a hundred times more potent. Like all risks it d
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by api 3mo ago
My experience is that AI is just that, a “mech suit for your brain.” It has no creativity or volition but has superhuman memory, superhuman speed, and superhuman context in some narrow cases. So it takes a thought and unfolds it, looks up r
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by api 3mo ago
I’ve toyed around with this hypothesis about dark music and edgy culture. The roaring 90s were full of this: dark music exploring critical themes or things like depression and addiction, lots of social criticism, and edgy offensive humor. T
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by api 3mo ago
Dune isn’t a straight hero’s journey because Paul isn’t a hero, or at least is a tragic one. He’s not Luke Skywalker or Frodo.
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by api 3mo ago
I don’t watch many movies due to time but those I do watch tend to be odd, unusual, experimental, and sometimes polarizing. A recent one I enjoyed was Rabbit Trap, a modern take on faerie lore. It was polarizing and got poor reviews. Years
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by api 3mo ago
The problem is the incentive structure. We could be doing good things with tech. The incentive is to use it to addict and destroy. Addiction and war is where all the money is, not education or health care or positive forms of entertainment
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by api 3mo ago
Stop calling them “social” media. They have not been that since algorithmic feeds driving infinite scroll replaced updates from your friends. That was more than a decade ago. There is nothing at all social about the latest generation like T
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by api 3mo ago
A Pi running macOS more or less. Not dissing it though. Killer machine for those who don’t need a lot of power locally. Also a great kiosk for some things.
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by api 3mo ago
I’m sure that hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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by api 3mo ago
Apple could dominate this niche if they decided, for a while until prices fall, to eat some margin and bump up RAM in high end models. Couple that with a new M series chip with even faster AI performance. It’s not a huge niche but it’s an i
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by api 3mo ago
Midwest here. It is insane. Private school isn’t much cheaper here. I’d have to see the numbers or I call BS.

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