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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
Sounds very interesting and useful, I hope you find funding to implement your ideas, both P2P and online voting are top tier capabilities. > Our question is: does anyone in the P2P community still care about solving these problems? Sadly
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> No, local models will not win Win what? Money, fame? That's not the point of small models, freedom is the point. What's this occultist obsession with "There shall be only one" monopolies? Why only one? That's s
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> AI is adding value to customers who are paying for it, That doesn't change the fact that "the AI boom's profits are currently being funded by investors" > but the value is going mainly to the frontier labs and
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Sanders Calls on Tech Giants to Let China Close the Already Shortening Gap China open-sources their models, US companies can use them and build upon them, China isn't in an AI race for domination, they are simply making sure they
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Our collective wallets are HUGE. "Collective" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Are the top 1% in that collective? The top 10%? I don't think so - with that in mind, do you still think our wallet is huge enough for t
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
The error here is assuming that government's intolerance to others in post-usurping times is in the interest of the public - then it's no more than suppression of rivals, including those who might actually be willing to help the
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
Market bubbles make way more money than making things. That's why making things gets no money, only bans.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Why do you think Skynet (with its specific consequences) is a foregone conclusion? Because we see it happening in real time? Hardware hoarding, scalping and centralization. Government not in control but under. Nobody doing anything rem
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Arming themsleves how? Good question. I hope, the parent doesn't mean literal arms, that would make him a willing or unwitting troll. Skynet was always a matter of time, it's simple systemic determinism. What we can do abou
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> I always forget about the explosive diarrhea lobby. I wish, this was just a joke.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
What a bunch of miserable clowns.
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> Warren Buffet and Peter Thiel... Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results > "Competition is for losers" That's how we got where we are, losing the global competition game, high polarization, inflation, deb
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> The hyperscalers would be fine... their model for cloud compute... is highly profitable. "fine" and "highly profitable" are doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here, actually masking the quantitative reality that the
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by bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> 200 billion dollars a year on a 30 billion dollar a year business that is growing does not really sound as bad as the author makes it out to be How do you know it's not "as bad"? Whenever things got that bad a crash foll
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> I'd be more concerned about private credit socializing losses and being bailed out, than bad AI loans leading to private credit problems which then lead to the bailout. A distinction without a difference. Insurance is the back doo
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> That tax was a cost for the property owner. If the tax revenue goes away then there is a cost for no one. Wrong. The tax revenue "doesn't go away", it's shifted to the other taxpayers who foot the bill for those who
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
Reddit problems aren't caused by AI, like at all. On the contrary, a good moderation policy would only gain value from AI and benefit users. However, the main business objective of Reddit is discourse control, just like every other hig
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> The Chinese are currently building loads of EV car factories in Mexico in the hope they can export them North There's no reason to assume that China is looking North, in fact, they appear to be looking South (America) much more th
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> Treasury yields are basically a projection of future interest rates. Nope, treasury yields are in an inverse linear relationship with Fed's real interest rate. In the absence of rate hikes, the real interest rate goes down so tre
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> AI juggernaut Ah, the spherical cow in vacuum at the event horizon is a scary sight indeed, everybody should be worried, the more the merrier.
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
>> Same reason road vehicles haven't been banned despite killing hundreds of thousands every single year for over a century Whut? People and companies are always being sued and punished for injuring or killing others with cars or
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> Do you want companies to have incentives to pay researchers even if NDAs and non competes are basically unenforceable? I thought "recursive self improvement" would bring an effective abundance for everybody, any minute now, M
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> And this goes well beyond medicine. We fixate on AGI gods, while more mundane problems pile up unattended... People are de-skilling as they hand more thinking to machines. That's not a bug, it's a feature, the main feature th
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> 'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we dislike it, so let's ban it'. The abuse of the term "National Security Threat' doesn't mean legitimate
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> A super intelligence wouldn't be so obvious. Neither would a spherical cow in vacuum... arguing about something that exists only in agitated imaginations is pointless. > It would silently agree with or promote a beneficial use
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
Any "addition to tax" should still be a tax.
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> I know a lot more about chemistry and physics than I know about biology, so biological risk is still at least a "maybe" reason to be worried about model safety for me. This statement exemplifies a fundamental truth about know
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
It's not worthless, you don't have to agree with P on everything, or make it personal - it works as strictly business - only where and when appropriate.
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by bigbadfeline 3mo ago
> one of the richest Russians "The richest Russians" wanted that war, they used Putin to get it, he was selected for his nationalism and nationalism is going to ruin Russia regardless of the outcome of the present war. Neither

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