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by danaris 5mo ago
At that point, why bother to employ? If we have no recourse, no power to resist them (as must be the case in that scenario), then they might as well just keep us as pets. Or slaves.
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by danaris 5mo ago
> AI has never, ever, and never will be, about making life better for the average human. It has always been, and always will be, about wealth consolidation and control. I think here it's useful to separate "AI" as sold and
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by danaris 5mo ago
This is why we need to be unionizing en masse. There have been movements toward this in the US, but particularly in the tech sector, far too many people are still stuffed full of decades of anti-union propaganda (like the idea that the un
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by danaris 5mo ago
In fact, we now know, with a fairly high degree of certainty, that it can . There have been numerous experiments with four-day work weeks or six-hour work days that have almost uniformly shown increases in overall productivity. Not just
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by danaris 5mo ago
> "give me the information on this page in my preferred language" is the kind of task they excel at. ...So long as you don't mind it introducing random hallucinations into the information.
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by danaris 5mo ago
You speak as if the Pope can just change that unilaterally, with no cost. Now, I don't know if Pope Leo actually believes in the full equality of men and women or if he's really being a hypocrite here. It's fully possible tha
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by danaris 5mo ago
Indeed; the whole appeal of a gerrymander is essentially to trade depth for breadth in your votes, and if the vote swings just a tiny bit too far the other way, it makes your district count incredibly brittle. As for the future: yes, absolu
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by danaris 5mo ago
Duolingo used to be a very effective gamified language learning system. Then they decided they cared more about profits than providing a quality product. Now they are best known for their dark patterns.
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by danaris 5mo ago
Not if that country also legislates heavy penalties for companies that produce their goods in countries with worse labor laws.
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by danaris 5mo ago
So, at this point, you come across like someone "just asking questions" in an attempt to sow dissent and propaganda, because the antipathy of the entire right wing of the US toward all nonwhite people (but especially black peopl
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by danaris 5mo ago
Newsflash: Many European countries are, in fact, racist. The French are virulently racist against Arabs and Muslims. Most of Western Europe is racist against the Romani, as well as against most Eastern European ethnicities (yes, even though
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by danaris 5mo ago
Courts absolutely can nullify laws. That's one of the major purposes of the SCOTUS. And you think this SCOTUS would hesitate to just declare such a law unconstitutional?
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by danaris 5mo ago
> without a walkthrough or “invisi-clue” book. Or exhaustive brute-force trial and error, which was much more expected to be standard back then.
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by danaris 5mo ago
> I wish they would just have a simple fast lane for the 100% legal, non-complicated case. The explicit purpose of this is to reduce legal immigration, and reduce the number of people becoming citizens. There is no world in which the s
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by danaris 5mo ago
> For almost all devices there is no good reason to care that the nominal voltage of NiMH rechargeable batteries 0.2V lower than the nominal voltage of alkaline non-rechargeable batteries. Alkaline batteries have a steeper initial discha
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by danaris 5mo ago
I mean, there are plenty of people with the ethical chops to do so, and, I daresay, plenty who combine that with the technical chops. What's lacking is the money & power. Having/obtaining enough of those to be able to compete
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by danaris 5mo ago
That's not an ad hominem, though? Ad hominem would be if shimman had said something like "don't post rebuttals from people who are stupid meanyheads". Identifying a characteristic of the posters that affects their incen
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by danaris 5mo ago
Sorry, my phrasing there was kind of poor: I didn't mean that he had made the overall AI situation worse, but rather that the AI he made was worse for the public than a hypothetical AI that was made with a deliberate eye to ethical or
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by danaris 5mo ago
Your examples make it clear that you do not understand normal people in the slightest. And when I say "normal" here, I'm not talking about the Blazing Saddles-style "salt of the earth; you know, morons." I mean roug
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by danaris 5mo ago
To the extent that that's true, it's true because Sam Altman did it at all . It is not that hard to construct a scenario wherein an alternative version of Sam Altman pushed really hard for a genuinely ethical LLM—one trained on
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by danaris 5mo ago
I would agree if I could buy a AA battery that would power my toothbrush for a year. Or one that could be rechargeable with easily-available chargers reliably for a decade (and without having to drop 0.2V to achieve it...). Any kind of co
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by danaris 5mo ago
....I think it's a fairly widespread view to value joy for its own sake. In fact, I would say that's pretty much how normal people would say they view joy.
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by danaris 5mo ago
But, see, this is part of the problem: Most of the people I hear from who use AI say everyone they know uses AI. Most of the people I hear from who don't use AI say no one they know uses AI. It seems to me that we've got competing
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by danaris 5mo ago
> They're all using it. [Citation needed] I know many more people who do not use AI than who use it, and many more who refuse to use AI than people who are enthusiastic about it. Given your username, you are almost certainly in a
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by danaris 5mo ago
The problem is, there's an intermediate step required there: the voters will need to get rid of the Republican Party lock, stock, and barrel if they ever want to make a genuinely-socialist move like that. And that's going to be ma
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by danaris 5mo ago
> I think the main issue with LLMs is that there is no mechanism to stop them from stealing. Well, sure there is—for the people running them. If you're building training data for an LLM, you only use data that a) is firmly in the pu
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by danaris 5mo ago
> gradually and inexorably society and laws adjusted to it. But in many places, the ways that society and laws adjusted to it were to make extra clear in their local ordinances that Uber was required to operate as an actual taxi serv
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by danaris 5mo ago
I mean, sure; you can come up with some kind of justification to call just about anything "a technical reason". But there's no genuinely technical reason—one you don't have to twist yourself into pretzels over—that f
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by danaris 5mo ago
I can think of very few less appropriate places for LLMs than accounting . They can't do basic arithmetic reliably, and will confidently tell you completely made-up figures when you ask for reports. Meanwhile, existing accounting so
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by danaris 5mo ago
That's not a technical reason.

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