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by dsign 4y ago
Ha! I probably should get a mullvad account just to support them (even if I use my own VPN). Something that is not discussed much in Sweden is surveillance via the bank system. Banks have access to customers' transaction information
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by dsign 4y ago
It sounds like you are complaining about capitalism :-) It's not so bad. Nvidia could come and say, "hey, I'm going to lock down your GPU so that you can only use it to render polygons in my whitelisted list of video-games, a
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by dsign 4y ago
The thing I like the most about the current AI wave is the pressure is putting on computing hardware. Yes, mobile phones with long battery lives are cool and all of that, but most cool things I like are locked behind huge computational re
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by dsign 4y ago
I think Mr. Andreessen is up to something here: we can use regulation to...well, the word is not "control", but more like "intervene" in the impact of AI. Which I think we should, I for example would hate for killer dron
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by dsign 4y ago
> Isn't that really bad? The fact that we've been making a horrible abominable mistake for a few thousand years doesn't mean we should continue to expand on that mistake. What is the mistake? Why is it a mistake? Did you
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by dsign 4y ago
I think that the discussion on sentience is beyond the point. Think of it this way: one lucky morning, you open your front door and find an egg. It comes with a cute note that says: from this egg will hatch a powerful and smart entity that
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by dsign 4y ago
I'm glad that Blender is getting some CAD-like workflows, they allow to create types of models which are very hard otherwise. I had to disburse some cash, but I've been complementing Blender with Rhino 3D for a few months now and
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by dsign 4y ago
It did: ... > However, according to a study published in the Journal of Dairy Science, the diacetyl content of butter can range from approximately 0.5 to 14 parts per million (ppm) ( https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.S0022-
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by dsign 4y ago
I had some fun yesterday when ChatGPT hallucinated a bibliographic reference to an article that didn't exist. But the journal existed, and it had plenty of articles that made ChatGPT's hallucination plausible. I think that at leas
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by dsign 4y ago
It have gotten us here. Let me be alive and I'll find many ways to be original. Don't ask me to be original by being dead.
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by dsign 4y ago
It might be ethical to have no compassion for sentient beings, yes. Chicken are sentient, as are--to a lesser degree--mice and cockroaches. Even trees, in completely different timescales and ways than ours, are sentient. So, IMO, sentience
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by dsign 4y ago
I think we have grown too soft. In my ethics[^1], I should feel compassion for fellow human beings, and maybe for sentient animals. But if I give anything else that same compassion, anything else that--thanks to my irrationality--will st
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by dsign 4y ago
If you get back to fiction, don't forget to use a pen-name. You never know when a dictator, a cult leader, or a social justice warrior on the other side of the planet will find your writing not to their image of the world, and come for
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by dsign 4y ago
Unpopular idea, but I hope it's only a matter of time before we declare involving with AGI a criminal endeavor, just as it is playing with biological weapons. Because we can't all be wrong: in almost every forecast, we see AGIs ta
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by dsign 4y ago
The contents of the proposed law can be accessed here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... All of it is as bad as it sounds, but you can search for Article 7 to go directly to
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by dsign 4y ago
The irony, I was coming to write this very comment. But simply said, it's a logical idea. In a world of a million concepts, there are a trillion of possible directed associations between pairs of them, and each of them may be multi-val
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by dsign 4y ago
To any budding writers out there: please don't. I can't read any more hero stories, I've developed allergies. And, let's go a little deeper into them: a) They assume that there exists an area of comfort for characters, a
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by dsign 4y ago
Homo Sapiens, despite all its culture, it is still commanded by Nature to do everything it can to spread its genes. A (nice) side-effect of that is that we are lewd. The problem is that we loose our composure when we drink. Just playing the
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by dsign 4y ago
Homo Sapiens evolved to be uber-sexual[^1]. But at some point we decided we were only going to have a very narrow type of sex partner in a very narrow set of conditions, and doing otherwise would be a social taboo. Fast-forward, we live in
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by dsign 4y ago
As a noob, I recently went down the rabbit hole of time-setting for astronomy and space applications. It's an absolutely fascinating topic. Having the same time in two places which are very distant apart, are in different inertial fram
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by dsign 4y ago
This makes you wonder if some centralization patterns, i.e. Azure AD, are not a national security problem?
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by dsign 4y ago
There is so much stuffing for a simple idea that I'm not sure if this piece deserves its own title, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. One thing that I wonder though is how we will draw the line. If I'm writing a piec
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by dsign 4y ago
How do I know that article wasn't written by an AI?
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by dsign 4y ago
This is a nice reminder that the atmosphere is such a pain for watching stars. If light pollution for sky-watching is a problem for you, citizen stargazer, please write to your local representative and ask them to quicken those space coloni
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by dsign 4y ago
Thanks for those numbers! They are frankly scary. Six millions years of power for a single brain is one year of power for six million brains. The knowledge that ChatGPT contains is far higher than the knowledge a random sample of six millio
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by dsign 4y ago
Gasp! We must preserve the asteroids, none of that human destructiveness over there! /s
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by dsign 4y ago
I'm with you there. I started using Mathematica 22 years ago, during first year of college. I've worked as a professional Python developer for slightly less time (18 years). I've built tons of systems in Python, and none in M
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by dsign 4y ago
>> I am suggesting the LLM will (effectively) call out to a knowledge engine at training time, learn everything the knowledge engine knows, and render it obsolete. You are suggesting that the LLM would "learn" to apply the r
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by dsign 4y ago
The material proof of the allegations are so tenuous at this point that I'm way more concerned about...well, that we are about to ban the letter 'n' because it ca_ be i_terpreted as racist. For what is worth, I thi_k we shou
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by dsign 4y ago
I agree with most of what you say, except for this bit: > Too many predatory entities standing by and watching out for any such accumulation of authority/power and standing by to take it over and drain it of all its value. > Too

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