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by danaris 4mo ago
Why should we let these kinds of concerns dictate what happens with our cultural heritage? Why should profit be the first, last, and only consideration when it comes to deciding whether the art of today is even possible to view tomorrow?
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by danaris 4mo ago
So who gets to be the arbiter of how much time $70 is worth? You? The companies making the games? Why should they get to destroy games—gone, forever, with no chance of retrieval or resurrection—that hundreds of people put their time and lov
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by danaris 4mo ago
Everything is a partisan space now. Because the fascists made it so. Anywhere you try to declare an apolitical space is just a place where silence is serving the oppressor.
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by danaris 4mo ago
One of the major union leaders in the US—I forget exactly who; it might've been the head of the Teamsters, but this was a while back, so I don't have the details—has, in fact, called for a general strike, as soon as it can be effe
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by danaris 4mo ago
And if you want to give a really unsettling effect, you could first apply a filter like this, then add some crisp CG on top of it. Give the idea that this is something from another reality.
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by danaris 4mo ago
But that's a feature of oligarchies more than it is of democracies.
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by danaris 4mo ago
Well, and so does a chalkboard, but if what they want is a computer ...
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by danaris 4mo ago
Well, that's the thing about a bubble: it can be very possible to accurately tell it's a bubble—and the definition of a bubble is that it's going to pop—without being able to tell just when it will pop. And given how much o
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by danaris 4mo ago
> If someone wants to build a factory that can't operate without illegal emissions, then so be it. It's their money lost. All that matters is that they don't actually pollute. That's hopelessly naïve. If you let them
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by danaris 4mo ago
It will only happen if the bottom doesn't fall out of the market for AI datacenters in the next few months.
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Nobody ever, ever, wants to hear "no". Frankly, that's toddler level thinking. While there are certainly people who are rich enough and spoiled enough that they have probably never been meaningfully refused anything in t
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by danaris 4mo ago
But what's being discussed isn't usership: it's stock prices.
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by danaris 4mo ago
...Strawmen? Where in my post did I say or imply that the people you describe were not real? I wasn't saying anything about the people who believe this, aside from the fact that no, they aren't some kind of Great Person From A L
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by danaris 4mo ago
> The problem has almost never been people taking too much but taking too little. The management culture in the US (other places too, but I'm most familiar with the US) is such that any time the employee (particularly ICs/line
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by danaris 4mo ago
Yeah, that's not...that's not a good way of being. I, for example, am perfectly capable of considering "how should I conduct myself in the world?" and "how should I relate to my neighbours?" and still be ab
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by danaris 4mo ago
This is, of course, going to vary. There is a wide spectrum of Christian fundamentalists and related conspiracy theorists who believe in Young-Earth Creationism. Some of them are not only perfectly happy to state that God put partially-deca
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by danaris 4mo ago
As soon as you declare the possible effect to be effectively infinite in magnitude, you can justify any level of response to any level of risk. That's not a sane way to do risk management. You have to be able to use common-sense hu
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Of course, he said, not all humans will make it through the transformation; only a select group of people will transition to the next evolutionary stage. Yeah; as expected, this is eugenics. Any time you see some person or group saying
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by danaris 4mo ago
> This brings us to what seems like a contradiction. LLMs are bad at playing games. Yet at the same time, they’re improving rapidly at coding, a skill set that can be used to create a game. How do these facts fit together? > Togelius:
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by danaris 4mo ago
> People tend to rise to your level of trust. Yes, this, precisely. Most people want to be trusted and given autonomy, and they want to live up to your expectations. There will always be a few who are looking for ways to cheat the sy
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by danaris 4mo ago
Honestly, they're both partly right (the GP and GGP, not the techbros doing the dehumanization). What we need is for there to be no such thing as a "tech person" who has never taken a humanities class in their life. In part
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by danaris 4mo ago
Yeah; after all, if we went and gave people money when it wasn't absolutely required for living, we'd just have made everyone's lives better, made the economy more robust, and given people a real chance who were struggling,
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by danaris 4mo ago
If you keep things in the realm of thought experiments, you're allowed to say "OK, play along with my hypothetical here." Once you're positing things that will/might happen in reality, you need to be willing to acce
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by danaris 4mo ago
> Don’t play their game and call them leaders. They are management, bosses, executives. You're falling into a common trap here: the ambiguity of the English language. "Leader" means multiple different things. Yes, it means
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by danaris 5mo ago
LLMs (what's being hyped up as "AI" by the likes of Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) are not the same category of product as the kind of AI that's going to help cure cancers. Trying to conflate them, and use that to defen
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by danaris 5mo ago
There are more ants than humans in the world, too. But which one is driving major changes to the world? Just because you can point to an absolute number of open source models doesn't mean much when the models that 99.9% of the world ca
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by danaris 5mo ago
...You thought a dickover would be about three pounds?
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by danaris 5mo ago
Sure? I'm not sure how that's related, though.
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by danaris 5mo ago
That's...really not true. Farmers prior to this time, in particular, would have passed their lands on to their children, and that would have been a vital source of livelihood for them.
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by danaris 5mo ago
But your last sentence is talking about something completely different: the current reality, which most of the tech CEOs and AI boosters refuse to engage with. For those of us in the fact-based world, the idea that AI will replace most huma

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