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by bostonsre 3y ago
If there are indeed people that work on this stuff, are paid well, and this stops funding maybe disclosing it to congress is a way to get the gravy train turned back on.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
It's making me wonder about those recent "accidental" forest fires up there..
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by bostonsre 3y ago
I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future. Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
If the military was indeed involved, then it seems highly plausible that they would have been able to keep communications under control and that they would be able to repress a few dozen workers. Threats against them and their families woul
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by bostonsre 3y ago
If true, it's probably good that they were incompetent in leaking the virus and incompetent in making a vaccine to front run the virus. Wonder if that would have started world war 3 of they successfully vaccinated their population then
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Regulation would be the least bad approach I think. The current crypto currency direction is untenable currently with the massive amounts of fraud present.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Ignoring the fact that there is massive amounts of fraud and room for crime in the crypto currency space by denigrating the opposing viewpoint doesn't progress the conversation and just keeps the tribalism and fighting at the same leve
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by bostonsre 3y ago
By entertaining do you mean considering them plausible?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Yea, I'm not sure what proportion of the negative camp is negative because of issues in early iterations like power consumption used by bitcoin which is solved with newer tech and what proportion is negative due to the use cases themse
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Why do you think that the people that understand the technology generally have a negative view about it? Are "normies" just dense? Or do you think everything is based on jealousy? What community that wouldn't have confirmati
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Unless the assertions made by those interviewed in the article are true. We are all arm chair quarterbacks who only have a view from the goal line to the one yard line. There is no sense in trying to say we know what happened in the game. W
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Could it be that a tech savvy community like hn largely understands the implications of, the actual utility of and can see through the hype of crypto currency? I would put my money on hn understanding crypto currency over any other communit
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Successful conspiracies seem hard to keep a cap on when they get too big. If this is the first leak of something true related to actual materials, it could spur the few non-evil congressman to dig further and cause further leaks. If this is
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Hrm.. does time going slower mean you overclocked your cpu? Are you able to accomplish more in a given amount of time? Say typing faster? Or is it just the perception of time passing that changed and maybe your ticks are further apart so th
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by bostonsre 3y ago
In a non-MAD employment scenario, you would build them for area denial. e.g. I don't really know how far the fallout would go from some cesium nukes, but maybe if russia wants a moat that lasts a long time but they can't take over
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Why would it be a turning point if the product fails? Couldn't they just amputate and operate the business as usual?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
In a mutually assured destruction scenario, I don't think you could plausibly expect to invade the other country. The world as we know it would be over but some people would survive the exchange, maybe those in power could have a lot o
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by bostonsre 3y ago
> Don't assume they're they're to help. Don't assume they're there to hurt. Why is the assumption that they are only there to cover their own asses ok to make but other assumptions are not? We don't know wha
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by bostonsre 3y ago
I've seen a lot of people that work in AI express concerns about the impact on society as we progress towards AGI. We don't need to reach AGI for there to be a huge impact on society whether its negative or positive. OpenAI's
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Wouldn't it be an almost comical level of supervilliany for him to believe that agi is coming and to only care about his company profitting? It seems pretty plausible that agi terrifies him, that he knows it can be done by a lot of dif
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by bostonsre 3y ago
> just like it's possible every asshole who did it before him was due to a genuine desire for the good of humanity. So.. you're saying that every person that testifies before congress has bad intentions just because they testif
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by bostonsre 3y ago
The article makes assertions about Sam's intentions being negative without acknowledging the possibility that he actually meant what he said and wants regulation because he thinks it is best for humanity. I don't understand all of
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Isn't it also possible that Sam is being genuine about his concerns and his statements because he wants what is best for humanity?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
I don't think nationalizing AI corporations is feasible (doubt its legal as well) or in the best interests of the united states. It will handicap development of AI, we will lose our head start, and other countries like China will be ab
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Or.. the government could try to apply sensible regulations so that OpenAI and other corporations are less likely to harm society.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Open source is picking up steam in this space, it would be interesting to see what happens if open source becomes the leader of the pack. If corporations are stifled, I don't see how open source could possibly be regulated well, so may
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by bostonsre 3y ago
It could be, but it could also be because he is genuinely worried about the future impact of runaway capitalism without guardrails + AI.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Maybe he hit his data usage cap.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
> Should we impose economic sanctions against the UK for their human rights abuses? Are they doing this now? No. Is the CCP committing genocide now? Yes. > It was widely reported on state media. You can mention it, just like the other
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by bostonsre 3y ago
How much did the companies make for submitting the false comments? Also, no jail time and how are the people that hired them not guilty of anything? Could they have plausible deniability with saying they thought they were just buying advert

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