armchairhacker

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by armchairhacker 5d ago
It's impossible to judge long term effects. My only advice is to think long and deep, then do what is true to yourself. Jacob Coxon and Frances Haugen are good people by any reasonable metric, and maybe someone who stays but tries to s
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by armchairhacker 5d ago
Sometimes they are lies. Governments including Western ones have lied before (e.g. Tuskegee Syphillis), and academics have published flawed, misleading, or straight-up fabricated studies (e.g. “landmark” Alzheimer’s study). But more often,
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by armchairhacker 6d ago
The ideal personal assistant should know what you do on other websites, and your personal files etc. But it should be local.
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by armchairhacker 6d ago
But the Internet and IA aren't controlled by you. They may be censored or taken down without anyone going near you, but not the local model (as long as you have access to electricity and your hardware doesn't break before you have
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by armchairhacker 6d ago
A local model has more data than Wikipedia and the Internet Archive is way too large to download on a consumer machine. A local model works even if the Internet is perfectly firewalled or straight-up down. However, you still need electricit
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by armchairhacker 6d ago
A local model has more data than Wikipedia and the Internet Archive is way too large to download on a consumer machine. A local model works even if the Internet is perfectly firewalled or straight-up down. However, you still need electricit
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by armchairhacker 6d ago
They don’t represent the people’s will, but unfortunately many people believe in censorship, so even if they were true direct democracies we may still see some.
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by armchairhacker 7d ago
Filed by Roko’s Basilisk, the Purple Lawyer Dragon. ( https://www.lawfuel.com/judge-slays-dragon-branded-lawyers-m... )
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by armchairhacker 7d ago
Ad revenue is declining. Most creators make money off sponsorships and Patreon.
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by armchairhacker 8d ago
Do you have a model of AI that isn't in this groupthink? What does the discussion in your other universe look like?
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by armchairhacker 8d ago
In the past, but today fewer people are getting paid less this way. Would you rather resurrect IP law, or find some new way to pay creators, then finish killing it?
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by armchairhacker 9d ago
This and the WP Engine dispute are interesting because Mullenweg manages to take a conflict where he would be seen in the public eye as the justified victim, and make himself look like a power-tripping fool. Actually I think it’s a smart id
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by armchairhacker 11d ago
Micropayments
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by armchairhacker 11d ago
What about spam from other countries? Residential botnets?
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by armchairhacker 12d ago
Is it worth it to overcome network effect? Maybe just make something so useful that it is even if only people who listen to you use it, which XMPP is, and recommend it to people who are willing to try (not only because of vague curiosity, w
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by armchairhacker 12d ago
OpenAI launched 10 years ago Anthropic launched only 5, but was built from connections to OpenAI
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by armchairhacker 13d ago
What are some recent powerful startups? The only ones I've seen are AI grifters (not even useful AI) and Polymarket/Kalshi, which makes me cynical; although I've seen some decent startups that are small (i.e. non-powerful) bu
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by armchairhacker 13d ago
Because the ones who do get rewarded, just like humans. It’s alignment, but not to our good intentions.
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by armchairhacker 13d ago
I trust the AI 2040 people, because they’ll make an implementation that at least convincingly doesn’t actually put them (or anyone) in charge. Maybe we shouldn’t have AI safety, but if we’re going to trust anyone (besides yourself), who’s
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by armchairhacker 13d ago
Frontier companies should slow development for open-source, local models to catch up.
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by armchairhacker 14d ago
The worst spam emails I get are the Cloud+ subscription. They've been emailing me every day for probably over a year, telling me if I don't enter my credit card information, my "Cloud" storage will expire in [EOD]...then
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by armchairhacker 15d ago
Even ignoring politics, I’m sure there are more impactful ways to spend $18 million. Many OSS projects are underfunded, why not give some of that to e.g. Bevy ( https://bevy.org/sponsorship-pledge/ ), Unsloth ( https:&#x
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by armchairhacker 15d ago
Heres an idea: the models create and promote rage posts and brainrot on the internet, causing everyone to turn against each other, stop socializing, and elect trigger-happy idiots to positions of power. Ok, maybe that idea is a bit outlandi
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by armchairhacker 15d ago
> This demands a response from the highest circles of power and authority. What response? https://ai-2040.com is the most realistic proposal I’ve seen by far , but read it, I don’t think it’s realistic under today’s power
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by armchairhacker 15d ago
“Keep Calm and Carry On”? TIL it was rare in the actual wartime (WWII) and only became popular in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On
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by armchairhacker 16d ago
GPU prices will eventually fall, either because production increases or AI companies stop buying (maybe they'll find a better processor). Then AI lowers the very high cost and skill barrier needed to make a good VR game.
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by armchairhacker 16d ago
They did with Vision Pro, see how that turned out. But I will keep saying it, VR is the future.
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by armchairhacker 17d ago
This is a hot take, the problem is that powerful tools like surveillance are easily (and inevitably by humans) abused to suppress what shouldn't be crimes, including expressions; and even when they don't, the potential to (includi
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by armchairhacker 18d ago
The goalposts for the singularity have always been that AI improves itself fully autonomously. AFAIK OpenAI is heavily using AI but still employs human researchers and developers.
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by armchairhacker 18d ago
Let's wait until AI solves a longstanding practical problem before "dawn of the singularity" (which could be tomorrow, but still).

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