cwkoss

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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think summer 2023 is likely to have more protests than 2020: - Food prices are highly correlated with societal discontent. Need bread, circuses alone insufficient. - 2024 election cycle is starting to ramp up, society will be thinking mo
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Stable Diffusion A1111 and other webUIs are moving so fast with a bunch of OSS contributions, seems pretty rational for OpenAI to decide to not compete and just copy the interfaces of the popular tools once the users validate their usefulne
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Wouldn't electronic voting just create a means for the ruling party to deliver the result without releasing evidence of vote tampering? I don't understand what you think electronic voting solves...
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I agree, but still needs an ending! Will this be a story of triumph or tragedy?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Weirdos will make demand for pictures of celebrities peeing, supply is only limited by the credibility of attribution.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It seems like all the problems with AI generated text are already existing problems that AI may exacerbate. A lot of people talk about them like these are new problems. But, humans have been making garbage text that lies, gets facts wrong,
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by cwkoss 4y ago
isn't llama in the wild now?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I wouldn't call that 'low cost'
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Lol, "Not by AI" badge can be officially used on works that are 10% AI.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
- Deceptive advertising - Removal of advertised features - Broken UX / Failure to deliver purchase successfully (I think that last one is going to be increasingly common as people spin up a bunch of thin-clients over GPT-4 and other AI
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think a lot of platforms would change the terms of their digital products if they could not use the term "Buy" otherwise.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Alternately (or additionally), I'd love for regulatory prohibition of implied ownership of these sorts of items. Ex. if access is revokable, it's illegal to use the word "Buy" alone - have to use "Rent" or &quo
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Stop giving democrats a pass for doing nothing. Look at how ineffective Buttigieg has been on rail safety re: east palestine. Tribalist myopia enables this status quo.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I don't know why spoilers are relevant to this thread
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> We don't blame victims of other crimes Humans blame victims so often they've created a specific term for it - "victim blaming"
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Zelle has all of the downsides of cryptocurrency without any of the upsides
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Are there any non-peptide molecules that we know interact with the oxytocin receptor? Might be too heavy to have much smell.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Once we can simulate sentience demand for compute will be effectively infinite. Bespoke server hosting could have intentionally intermittent internet connections to make the residents feel like they're living somewhere secluded and pri
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by cwkoss 4y ago
That's valid. I think we could eventually make digital beings that are more moral than ourselves.
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I have no confidence they've achieved an acceptably low false positive rate.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> functionally all information is polluted by the possibility that it's completely hallucinated or built on something hallucinated. This is already true of human curated information, not sure its really something new.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Who's to say that humans have more moral value than digital beings?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
the alternative looks like robocop slum skyscrapers to me
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I want my retirement occupation to be managing a 'nest' of AI agents (several server racks) where the agents engage in commerce and pay me rent in exchange for compute time. Like cyberpunk beekeeping.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Depends whether intuit lobbyists can successfully rent seek on tax AI
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by cwkoss 4y ago
How many months until the public recognizes that GPT-4 is more competent and trustworthy than many of their current political representatives?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Dollars do that to a much larger extent
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> I use it to defend myself from exploiters how do you use it for this?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I wonder what the minimum volume of a pound of feathers is in relation to density of brick. Can feathers be compressed past the density of brick?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Enables storage and transaction of value without indirectly funding the war machine

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