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by danaris 5mo ago
And what, exactly, does "fighting back" look like in this case? Because people are already taking steps to try to poison the AI training data. They're trying to create their own art and culture in spite of the machine. They&#
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by danaris 5mo ago
That's not at all a benefit for #2—when small businesses that are thriving and making Society #2 better get bought up by big businesses, they cease to be part of Society #2. In many cases, the innovative things they were doing simply
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by danaris 5mo ago
> upvoted +5 Spot the (other) Slashdot refugee! (And why were you at the Devil's Sacrament, Mr. Danaris?)
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by danaris 5mo ago
How old a version? I've been running a much more obscure game (<150 players, down from ~1k in 2010) for some time, and it was using QuestyCaptcha back in...2008 or so, I think? Certainly at least 15 years ago. It's almost alw
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by danaris 5mo ago
The Luddites were able to destroy the mechanical looms because they were right there, in the buildings they worked in, doing the work in front of them. And, of course, because they were fairly straightforward and moderately fragile mechanic
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by danaris 5mo ago
Again, you're trying to take the Gilded Age as a prime example, when there's already evidence that shows it's not going to be that way. Gates and Zuckerberg are, to my understanding, giving away only tiny fractions of their w
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by danaris 5mo ago
Billionaires are mortal. Money isn't. When Jeff Bezos dies, someone is going to inherit his money. There's no particular reason to believe that whoever he chooses as his heir(s) will be less disposed toward funding fascism and d
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by danaris 5mo ago
Very well then, O Fount Of All Wisdom About Humans, how does one go about teaching humans to operate self-driving cars that will drive for hours at a time with no problem, but 1% of the time will encounter an issue that the human needs to r
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by danaris 5mo ago
Indeed—and this is, itself, another part of the problem, because (again, last I heard) Altman himself was very clearly pitching the "AGI" they were going to create as something that was going to revolutionize the world practically
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by danaris 5mo ago
Yeah, no, this is bullshit. You can't just apply One Simple Rule like this ("more money is always better" / "more money never makes a difference"). There is, objectively , an amount of money above which anothe
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by danaris 5mo ago
> I am debating their thought that technology should just work without any sort of instruction or learning But since that was not, in fact, the point I was trying to make, and you keep trying to put it into my mouth, I don't think
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by danaris 5mo ago
The presumption of innocence is a legal principle. This is not a legal forum. (In either the literal "this is an internet forum" sense, or the broader "place for discussion" sense.) If you want to defend your techbro ido
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by danaris 5mo ago
The presumption of innocence is for courts of law. The court of public opinion has no such rules. If we, the people, see a credible accusation against someone who seems like the type of person who might be guilty of it, we are free to call
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by danaris 5mo ago
But that's their whole pitch: Altman is, last I heard, still insisting that they're going to have an AGI—in the sense of a "strong AI", capable of ushering in the supposed Singularity—by the end of the decade. To be cl
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by danaris 5mo ago
Well, this is one of the major sources of the problem, isn't it? Executives who can't accept someone disagreeing with their Glorious Vision, like they're prophets or geniuses whose thoughts we mere mortals could never possib
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by danaris 5mo ago
It's not about having to learn things ; it's about the required methods of using the tool going directly against the grain of the way people in general operate. The classic "you're holding it wrong" was about the i
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by danaris 5mo ago
No, because what Siri does needs to be tightly integrated in ways that search does not.
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by danaris 5mo ago
This is very much a "you're holding it wrong" response. If your technology relies on humans using it in ways that go against the ways they are inclined to use them, then that is an issue with the technology.
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by danaris 5mo ago
But wasn't the BLS the organization that Trump fired and replaced all the leaders of recently, for putting out (accurate) reports that made him look bad?
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by danaris 5mo ago
If your only guide to ethics is the law, you have utterly failed at ethics.
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by danaris 5mo ago
"Socialism" isn't just "the government spending money". In order to be socialism, it has to be spending money specifically to help the people, and broadly to reduce inequality. Republicans do not do that, by any s
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by danaris 5mo ago
> What is the cost of one university expelling a liar? What is the cost to the student ? And you seem to have immediately glossed over the part where not all of these students are, in fact, lying, or cheating. > The school with only
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by danaris 5mo ago
"The industry", at least at a pre-university level, is entirely at the mercy of state and local governments for its budgets. If you want schools to pay their teachers more, you have to push for higher taxes , because that's
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by danaris 5mo ago
You're looking at it in much too black-and-white a manner. First of all, there's a difference between cheating on the big final exam that determines 40% of your course grade, and cheating on a quiz in week 3. A zero-tolerance poli
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by danaris 5mo ago
Oh, absolutely—and as I understand it, something like that has already been discovered or developed, at least in early stages (though I don't recall whether it's a bacteria or a fungus offhand). But the post I was responding to ma
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> The major catastrophe that could happen is for evolution of plastic eating bacteria like the creation of (dead) wood eating bacteria. Look at all the plastic containers etc you have in your kitchen and imagine it's just gone. Look
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by danaris 5mo ago
"Zero tolerance" policies like that are much more prone to the kind of excessive leniency in application that's described, precisely because the penalty for being found to have cheated is so very high. In those cases, the a
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New York Times Published A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre(pxlnv.com)
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by danaris 5mo ago
Yes, but during those transformations, the CEOs of the companies selling the products involved weren't actively and aggressively marketing them as being able to replace all the humans they employ . You can't have it both ways: ei
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by danaris 5mo ago
Well, you're right that our infrastructure can't sustain the AI race, but (while it's true I didn't make that clear), that's not remotely what I was talking about. Even with food supplies "weakening"—which

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