augment002

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by augment002 3y ago
Tech Bosses in this case meaning Elon Musk, who has proven himself to be completely unprincipled and untrustworthy. Every time he talks about valuing truth and free speech, he is lying.
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by augment002 3y ago
It’s pretty simple. Side-loading can be exploited by social engineering. Two very bad consequences for me if sideloading were easy: 1. There would be no safe product to recommend to my aging parents who would be vulnerable to social engi
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by augment002 3y ago
> LLMs are more impressive than humans and animals in that they only have access to text to build a world model from a tabula rasa. They don’t build a world model at all. They make inferences from text. Considering they have been traine
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by augment002 3y ago
> but also ways to minimize the chance of negative effects and to constructively handle them afterwards. This is inaccurate. We can reduce the risk but not make it ‘minimal’. Also, we can’t always provide ways to constructively handle
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by augment002 3y ago
It’s not clear that the two aren’t one and the same. MDMA treatments for PTSD are not ongoing medications. Generally they are just 3 sessions of assisted therapy producing a huge reduction in symptoms. If we can reduce the level of trauma
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by augment002 3y ago
> The state mucking around in private industry to achieve political and national security goals and wage information warefare is as American as hamburgers. Ludicrous false equivalency. The USA doesn’t have laws preventing its citizens fr
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by augment002 3y ago
The obvious counterargument would be that having a real treatment for PTSD and other fear related conditions would likely ameliorate the social issues. Yes, taking guns away would reduce shootings, but so would helping people who are so fea
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by augment002 3y ago
The US is many different states. If you think California and Kentucky are the same, I invite you to visit.
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by augment002 3y ago
It has to be a significant part of the total because it’s being used as an argument against introducing new treatments for PTSD.
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by augment002 3y ago
TV and movies don’t reflect reality.
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by augment002 3y ago
It’s not clear how this is relevant.