bigbadfeline

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by bigbadfeline 5d ago
OP > "The object that has been created masses rather less than a grain of rice, is smaller than a proton" Here is where I felt I was going to die... laughing.
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by bigbadfeline 5d ago
Is "AGI" the language that bothers you? Well, one has to keep his eyes on the prize and I see a bright idea which could lead to AGI, so, why not describe it as such? I also see the inspiration and hard work necessary to move that
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by bigbadfeline 6d ago
> If this is true, then you can just hire them and beat out the businesses that erroneously laid off valuable workers. Hiring requires financing, and that's reserved for monopolies only, especially now with the AI trust-like, circu
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by bigbadfeline 6d ago
> There is something very contradictory about these posts. > For example, you seem to suggest that it doesn’t benefit people but AI is can also replace workers. The only contradiction is in your words because workers are (the) people
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by bigbadfeline 6d ago
> 1. Big tech was just using profits to buy back shares before AI build out. Would you rather they buy back shares with their profits or finance the AI build out? This statement is factually wrong. AI isn't financed by profits, it&#
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by bigbadfeline 6d ago
> For some reason the anti-AI camp ping pongs Is the anti-AI camp with us in the room right now? Or is it a crude strawman to summarily denigrate any objections to certain features of current AI? AI isn't some homogeneous mass, it c
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by bigbadfeline 8d ago
> when you can just start from zero, look at what's known to be happening right now Good idea, I wonder why none of the doomers have ever done it? They've never provided a good account of their prompts and environment, their mo
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by bigbadfeline 8d ago
> I ultimately left because the org was overtaken by conspiracy theorists who couldn’t stop yelling about aspartame and antivax nonsense A textbook subversive operation.
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by bigbadfeline 8d ago
> We are human , frustration is something we feel Absolutely. Besides, when we see injustice we shouldn't be silent about it because that would encourage more of it. > when same kinda architecture is closed sourced and we celebra
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by bigbadfeline 8d ago
> " intentionally targeted building that it knew was non-military and full of civilians" That formulation guarantees that most war crimes won't be revealed as such. The militaries of the world are operating under top se
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by bigbadfeline 9d ago
> Anybody objecting to that statement is just ignorant of nature and/or adheres to the quasi-religious human superiority complex. Say we agree that a lot of things outside of humans are sentient. So what? Humans are sentient by that
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by bigbadfeline 10d ago
> Bannon is a populist, and America-first nationalist. In the European political tradition, nationalists and communists differ only in their excuses for murder, everything else is the same. A fact known also as the Horseshoe theory of fa
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by bigbadfeline 10d ago
That might be so but according to the AI pros, humanity's days are numbered, so "The biggest misalocation of capital in the history of humanity" is still correct, even more than correct. Seriously, what kind of crooks spend
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by bigbadfeline 11d ago
> I would say in 50 years max this is a solved problem. AI security will be perfect in 5 years, it's in good shape already - my agents have never hacked anybody, those lab LARP-ers better learn something about security and isolation
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by bigbadfeline 11d ago
> The Republicans took both the House and the Senate, and they passed a balanced budget And Clinton signed it, which is what matters. Now the Republicans have both the House and the Senate plus the WH , where's the "balanced
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by bigbadfeline 12d ago
Money talks louder than words. This isn't exactly a secret, is it.
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by bigbadfeline 13d ago
> what's the venn diagram of folks who support this, and who supported Brexit? Unfortunately, in the long run folks don't count, they do as they're told sooner or later - when money talks it's only a matter of time. I
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by bigbadfeline 13d ago
> If the position is that one of these models will go out of control and destroy humanity then why would having two such models be safer than one? Models don't go out of control, they generate totally harmless tokens. The people dir
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by bigbadfeline 13d ago
> I don't see how this isn't analogous to what we could do with AI. Considering the article we are commenting on, the analogous proposal would be to imprison scientists for 20 years if they dare research nuclear power - no matt
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by bigbadfeline 13d ago
> less than 5% of the world's countries have nuclear weapons Counting countries is plenty deceptive. Population is the real metric, China, India, Pakistan are all nuclear, everything added together, 50% of the world's populatio
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
NYT > A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? According to the AI creators, AI itself is the ultimate killer app - literally.
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
> What a complete and total joke. The only joke I see are your comments which make absolutely no sensible argument in support of an even less sensible cure - the magic "slowdown". What's "slowdown"? Everyone is f
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
> as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good AIs, while individuals are left using stunted AIs A real danger we're sleepwalking into. > Is AI oligarchy the future? They certainly aren&
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
> If someone is worried about AI killing _all_ humans, shouldn't they absolutely focus on that? This is more of a sound bite than a substantive argument because we can consider natural disease, biology research, aliens, climate, sup
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
> I don’t think anymore we had a massive intelligence jump. Not among the public-facing models, they're indeed stagnating. However, the development of models for military use won't be slowed down, that much is certain. > The
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
FWIW, I meant "they would have everything... including you and me" . It seems I wasn't clear enough and it sounded like "you and me... walk out the door with a copy" - obviously the latter isn't realistic,
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by bigbadfeline 14d ago
> the capability gap is underestimated. The capability gap is in the minds of the users but the frontiers' closed business models run opposite to it. > the things are kept under air-gapped national weapons grade security measures
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by bigbadfeline 15d ago
> It's horrifying, but a world in which everyone has a superintelligence is a world where that will sometimes happen. It's horrifying, but a world in which only few have superintelligence is a world where that will happen all
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by bigbadfeline 17d ago
> AI is an authoritarian's dream. Correction: Closed AI is an authoritarian's dream.
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by bigbadfeline 17d ago
> - AIs can, depending on context, pursue a task with complete disregard for humans/values Humans can do that way more and way more unhinged than AI, proven too many times by history. There's hoping AI can bring some sense to h

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