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by c_crank 3y ago
In the real world, left wing causes seem to be making progress by means of college students anyway.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Do you think the characters in the Socratic dialogues Plato writes about are terrible at arguing, because they speak in a normal cadence instead of scrambling through rhetoric as fast as possible?
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by c_crank 3y ago
From what I've seen of high school debates, it provides very little for the observers and encourages the students to cram as many nice sounding words in a limited amount of time as possible. Maximum slogans, minimal substance.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>I think most people would be fine with reduce work and reduced consumption (to a point) The covid lockdowns and their effects were not popular.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The intentions were not malicious, but they were poorly thought out. The way these coins either trend towards matching stock market trends or going to zero was inevitable based on their design.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Forty years ago "we" could have forcibly stopped the use of fossil fuels, killing billions of people, to spare them the agony of dying at some point in the future from climate change?
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by c_crank 3y ago
>More and more of us will find 'digital friends' that creep into our lives and talk to us on line, gain our trust, make us laugh, and tell us that 'unions are bad', or whatever the propaganda of the day is. That would
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by c_crank 3y ago
Current AIs are not limited by the amount of concurrent tasks they can perform, compared to not having bodies and being prone to making things up.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The intelligence explosion was useful to humans because humans can make more humans and command more resources. An AI can clone itself only on resources that humans make.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Litigation has been enough to put actual standards on aviation software. There just need to be one or two bad industrial accidents to make air gapping a standard practice elsewhere.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Both arguments seem a pretty clear argument for an existential threat, because as soon as you have even just a human level intelligence integrated that seamlessly with the power of conventional computing, you have something that is much
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by c_crank 3y ago
It's hard to take doomers seriously when they think that things that exist and are clearly not causing nuclear war or plagues are only a few steps from doing so. If you want to talk seriously, talk about actual problems AI is causing
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by c_crank 3y ago
The day in which Arnold Schwarzenegger robots travel back in time to kill Sarah Connor... very risky!
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by c_crank 3y ago
>At the latest, that would be when nanotech catches up to biological cells in terms of economy and efficiency. Before that time, though, I expect they will be able to make copies of themselves using our traditional manufacturing workflow
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by c_crank 3y ago
"AGIs make evil corporations a little eviller " wouldn't be the kind of thing that gets AI alignment into headlines and gets MIRI donations, though.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The outputs that LLMs produce have never had a problem with being unrecognizable, only the inputs that went into making them. It's also inherently harder to obfuscate some things. Mass firing is obviously something that is done to redu
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by c_crank 3y ago
Objects aren't an ideal tool for modeling the world, and immutable objects and variables even less so. Objects and classes often come in handy for modeling something obviously fake, like a video game. I've never thought, 'Gee
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by c_crank 3y ago
Maybe because there are a lot of times where it really is more convenient to just update a variable or print a string instead of jumping through a million hoops to show off how pure everything is? Or we just want to implement quicksort with
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by c_crank 3y ago
For when the main thrust of the program is to simulate interactions between objects. I'm not the biggest general fan of the style, but that is where it shines.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The most compelling scenario for OOP is situations where, in its absence, a developer would tend towards reimplementing some OOP concepts over time. I think it is a natural fit for game development and some other things, but I don't th
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by c_crank 3y ago
It's a good thing the greatest minds of programming have worked hard to solve this problem by giving us the even more platonic and rigid functional programming.
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by c_crank 3y ago
There's a reason Erlang works the way it does, but not every problem will make sense to solve with a million object processes communicating with each other.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I now want to work at a shop that uses fully imperative Haskell.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Let alone that the entrenched, canonical, idiomatic coding styles of most modern oop languages encourage state, mutability, nulls, exceptions and god knows how many trivially preventable entire classes of errors. Granted, most have now
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by c_crank 3y ago
C for utilities and your OS, C++ for your video game.
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by c_crank 3y ago
People universally agree that replicating NPM's dependency hell was a good idea?
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by c_crank 3y ago
There is such a language called D.
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by c_crank 3y ago
If you could guarantee the problems are limited to social media moderation, it would be no issue. But the kinds of people who cause bad social media moderation also have their pies in many other kinds of policies, and they want blood. The e
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by c_crank 3y ago
The most obvious and trivial answer is that countries implementing mask mandates have seen COVID become endemic. That masks provide 'some' impact is obvious. That said impact is negligible is also obvious. We are still waiting, ye
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by c_crank 3y ago
Indeed, the relationship of the state and business does differ in China. In the US it is more decentralized. To the person who considers the outcome of something like Weibo covered in deleted comments and only having survivors parrot narr

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