brigadier132

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by brigadier132 2y ago
"Society" doesn't create businesses, individuals do.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I think shareholders need more rights. A lot of the bullshit that is currently happening only makes sense because shareholders aren't actually in control of the companies they own. Think about this, as a shareholder in Airbus, how were
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by brigadier132 2y ago
This entire diatribe about stock buybacks makes 0 sense. It's just another way of returning money to shareholders, it's exactly the same thing as dividends but gives the shareholder the option to realize their gain. A business on
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> A true super intelligence would need the ability to evolve, and would probably evolve its own wants and needs. Why? This seems like your personal definition of what a super intelligence is. Why would we even want a super intelligence t
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by brigadier132 2y ago
That would be dumb and unethical but yes someone will do it and there will be many more AIs with access to greater computational power that will be set to protect against that kind of thing.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Consciousness, intelligence, and all these other properties can be and are mutually exclusive. What will be most useful for humans is a general intelligence that has no motivation for survival and no emotions and only cares about the goals
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by brigadier132 2y ago
This is a controversial study, apparently what they did to test for how exercise affected aging was they decided to control for "confounding" variables such as high blood pressure, obesity, etc. Except, these aren't confoundi
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> And learning means it will acquire new motivations This conclusion doesn't logically follow. > Fixed motivation thing is simply a program, not AI I don't agree with this definition. AI used to be just "could it solve
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by brigadier132 2y ago
They are using software that acts as a middleman / coordinator across a bunch of different landlords to fix prices
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Ok, so for every life lost that can directly be blamed on pollution from oil how many were saved due to mechanized agriculture?
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by brigadier132 2y ago
So, since I don't want to shift goal posts and I originally said deaths not murder. Even if we include all tobacco and opiate related deaths, governments are winning in the death toll game by a lot. And if we factor in pollution relate
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Why are you assuming this hypothetical intelligence will have any motivations beyond the ones we give it? Human's have complex motivations due to evolution, AI motivations are comparatively simple since they are artificially created.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I think you underestimate what can be accomplished with human level agi. Human level agi could mean 1 million Von Neumann level intelligences cranking 24/7 on humanity's problems.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> I no longer believe you are performing this conversation in good faith, No, you misunderstand what the conversation we just had was. I was showing everyone else here that you are not arguing in good faith.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I should've been more clear. I meant murders. And blaming companies that produce weapons for the deaths caused by them is silly.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Talk to me when a corporation can be blamed for millions of human deaths.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
It's not complying with Brazilian law or is it not complying with the orders of a judge overstepping his powers granted by the Brazilian constitution?
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Yes, but with research
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by brigadier132 2y ago
A country typically falls into dictatorship by breaking its own laws. A judge issuing orders without due process and threatening to jail legal representatives of a company (again without due process), kind of seems a little like a dictators
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by brigadier132 2y ago
The problem I have is when I ask it to do something that does not have 1 million examples on github from tutorials it will just output something completely non-functional. I find it good for things that are completely derivative. Like, &quo
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I've been using cursor a bit, I don't know if it's because what I'm doing is not frontend web development but the results have not been as insane as others claim. I really don't have any difficulty creating basic we
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> I would still posit that the second order marginal utility of those 20 cents is higher in hands of somebody who needs it. In the same way you talk about how that 20 cents impacts the derivative of “progress”, think about how those 20 c
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by brigadier132 2y ago
It's not about personally using the money or marginal utility. By investing the money in the stock market, you are increasing the pool of money that is going into funding businesses (directly and indirectly). Think of it this way: Ange
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Owning productive assets is a tortured use of the word hoarding. edit: Hoarding is buying assets that could be used productively and storing them somewhere instead of using them. People with a political axe to grind like taking words with n
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> thinks reality is an uncorrupted, level playing field Did I say that anywhere? > Tell that to the kids in Congo who have to dig out Cobalt for free. That's actual reality and it has arrived in the west. What does this have to d
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> This could just be a simple Vanguard S&P 500 ETF like everyone else's. The demand for shares in a company incentivizes entrepreneurs to create companies so that they can then sell the shares. So even passive investing contribu
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by brigadier132 2y ago
They are outsourcing that to Qdrant, anyone can replicate it.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
The way I like to think of it is as follows: There is a space of all possible programs that can be written. Every time you add a restriction like the borrow checker, more expressive data types, or immutability, you are shrinking the space o
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Yes, thank you, that's why I've been asking people. Do you have an actual answer or do you just have nothing of value to add?
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by brigadier132 2y ago
So just from skimming a translated version, it does not seem like Judges have the power to impose fines, ban unrelated companies that are owned by the same person, or ban things like VPNs. Am I missing something?

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