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by brookst 3mo ago
It’s such willful blindness though. Why deny that there is a huge gulf between autocomplete and sentience? It’s like saying cars are glorified bicycles because they’re sure not airplanes.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Doctorow is one of those people who makes money from what he believes, so it’s very unlikely he’ll ever change his beliefs.
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by brookst 3mo ago
AI is already improving itself. Most / all of the coding harnesses are AI-written. And yet… there are still people telling AI how to improve itself. IMO there will always be a level of abstraction at which AI needs guidance. Perhaps
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by brookst 3mo ago
The quotes around rationalist should be mandatory.
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by brookst 3mo ago
They can take bribes as effectively as any other department. Actual review of robots is presumably out of scope.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Can you point me to the statute that makes it ok for humans to learn from copyrighted work, but forbids AI? I’ll wait.
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by brookst 3mo ago
We’re all distillers now.
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by brookst 3mo ago
…then yes, you will have a harder time being heard. That was kind of my point. You can say whatever you want. Ensuring that people hear it is something else entirely and does often require money, influence, contacts. I’m not saying it’s mor
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by brookst 3mo ago
True, the metaphor breaks down because the act of buying insurance doesn’t change the likelihood of being in a wreck.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Probably leads to long term site death as fewer new people have the patience for that, and older users age out/die. Who’s going to keep coming back to post one 40-char comment every two days? It’s a real problem. Being able to pull in
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by brookst 3mo ago
But I would expect they would at least use post-training to discourage identifying as the wrong company.
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by brookst 3mo ago
I don’t find Sonnet usable at all. Especially for the price. I’d much rather get half the usage of Opus.
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by brookst 3mo ago
So does AGI just mean infallible?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Agreed, that was a really fallacious point. It’s like saying buying car insurance didn’t pay off because you didn’t get in a wreck. Not that I entirely buy missiles == insurance, just that the unused == wasted framing is too simplistic.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Yep. Classic “giant series A, company gets amazing office space” vibes.
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by brookst 3mo ago
How does that work when hundreds of people are working on a project, with a few new people joining every week? It boggles me that anyone would argue against standardization, or believe that “just get hundreds of people to agree today and to
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by brookst 3mo ago
If AirTag is a CD, Tile is 8 track.
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by brookst 3mo ago
You’re getting at the distinction between the right to speak and the right to be heard. There are tons of time-and-place limitations that make perfect sense. I can’t interrupt a city council meeting to give a speech about, well, anything no
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by brookst 3mo ago
I’m a fan of technical facts coming from technical analysis, not armchair speculation about motives.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Not a fan of whaddaboutism. It’s much easier to switch browsers than operating systems, especially if you have apps that require windows. Besides, there is no obligation to be equally outraged about all things.
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by brookst 3mo ago
What system allows you to blindly trust things?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Are those actually deployed at scale yet?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Many apologies for giving the impression you got. I should have said: after reading the screed, a quick scan of its assertions and rhetorical techinques made it clear that it’s it serious thinking. I am sure a rigorous analysis would turn
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by brookst 3mo ago
Thank you for this bit of well-grounded reasonableness.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Huh? I’ve bought maybe 100 books this year. They’ve probably all been trained on. How, exactly, did my purchases somehow go to the model companies?
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by brookst 3mo ago
So, how do you feel about phone books?
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by brookst 3mo ago
I’m always astounded when someone literally argues against nuance. I think that AI companies should, and often don’t, pay for training material. I also think that perpetual copyright has so weakened IP holders’ moral position that especiall
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by brookst 3mo ago
Totally agree that if the economics changed, the economics would change.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Explain to me how “every gets 5 minutes, 24/7, regardless of load” is remotely compatible with your statement? Are you imagining this a fixed MRU where duration scales with usage? Becasue that is not at all what Anthropic documents: h
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by brookst 3mo ago
So basically the “information is free, encyclopedias are expensive” phenomenon from the pre-internet days? Collection, collation, and distribution have more and different qualitative value than the sum of the individual bits.

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