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by dsign 1y ago
I don't think AGI is imminent in a "few months"-inminent, but in a "few decades" imminent. Personally, I don't own stocks in any AI company, though I'll be affected if the bubble bursts because the world e
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by dsign 1y ago
Even following your model, in twenty years we end up with 0.95*20=0.36, that's a whopping 64% of the population not-needed. People will do their best to adapt, but the article rightly points out that even when blue-collar jobs were off
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by dsign 1y ago
I too believe social unrest due to labor market disturbances is very likely. But I will feel some relief if that's all it comes from it. AI has the potential to automate everything, including company management and civil governance, at
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This seems like a good time for musicians to start doing their own distribution. Not sure about the technical aspect; but I guess it's still possible to sell albums in iTunes? Or some other app? The problem with Spotify, Apple Music&#x
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Microsoft gets most of its money from big corporate customers. Some of those customers are obligated by law to not leak sensitive personal data to servers in USA soil, because those customers have the missfortune of being in countries with
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If the causal mechanism in Alzheimer's is not clear, what's to say it isn't about 20 or 20000 different things going wrong in ways and proportions which are very specific to each individual? I'm not criticizing basic res
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by dsign 1y ago
If CSAM through social/communication platforms were the actual problem society wanted to address, it could simply make illegal for kids to use those platforms but put the onus of enforcement on parents and schools, and impose fines on
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Came here to say this, but you did it for me :-) . I truly believe there's a more than 50% chance the vast history of hominids ends this century.
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Maybe it's not the LLMs nor the weights nor the data. But there are a great many things that can make a moat around a company: culture, talent, deals, investors, brand, press attention, willingness to boil the oceans. For the moment at
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by dsign 1y ago
I lost all of my back strength during my startup days, which ended in chronic back pain. Worst, trying to run or even a soft jog would make things worse. The thing that reversed the trend was SUP, which now I do all year round even in frigi
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by dsign 1y ago
Your comment makes me think that we have criminalized and squashed entertaining but obviously political writing out of existence :-) . Say that somebody writes to make certain ideas more visible. For example, somebody wants people to buy th
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by dsign 1y ago
It won't break the world, but it's warranted that it will break the world of people doing labor and getting paid for it. And when you think of it, even being a mediocre (or even moronic) investor is practicing a form of labor, so
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Well, US has the base near Guantanamo; I haven't been to that side but I have been to Guantanamo proper... trust me, that place is hot and has mosquitoes and two decades ago the naval base was almost as infamous as North Korea. And the
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Awesome news! I mean, they wouldn't be if I had any money invested in Nvidia (I foretold their rise twenty years ago, but then as today I was too poor to keep any investments, in Nvidia or otherwise). But, in general, I think we are go
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> In that sense life is obviously not a computation: it makes some sense to view DNA as symbolic but it is misleading to do the same for the proteins they encode. Proteins can also be seen as sequence of symbols: one symbol for each amin
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> I don't think it's necessary to completely discard the idea. However, I do think it's important, at the end of it all, to ask: Okay, so what's the utility of this framework? What am I getting out of setting up my po
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by dsign 1y ago
You may be taking things from the wrong end. Violence about having an exclusive mate could be a purely cultural construct, reinforced from childhood. I can say that I always, personally, considered the idea of controlling a person abhorrent
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The first level "why" at least is straightforward: Christianism. Even when not directly imposed, it's still the basis of the Western system of values and morals. But it's fascinating to think about the second level &quot
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>> Good English used to be one. There still is a cottage industry of people saying one should write this way and that, and by large they have converged to a common consensus of what's Good English. It has been a successful enterp
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by dsign 1y ago
I think the surveillance state is gonna stay; we have been slipping into it just so and every electronic system out there wants to spy on us, beginning with our Windows and Mac computers and even the Sonos speaker. Small mystery that police
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by dsign 1y ago
I've used it for a few years; can't complain really. Perhaps it's a bit slow, but I don't notice because I already use VSCode and IntelliJ and have enteprise tooling and Teams in my Mac, so if I were to run a piece of fa
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by dsign 1y ago
I write the sort of science fiction where people disregard science for absolutely stupid reasons, but reality has a way of undermining me. So, I'm reading that cancer research is being de-funded because people didn't like the scie
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Black Swan and Black Chickens(w.ouzu.im)
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> Interacting with real people is rewarding and can boost your energy. Not for everybody. Me and a work friend are considered "highly energetic" by our colleagues when we are at the office in person, to the point that people a
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This kinds of make me want to get a pixel and install GrafeneOS there. I'll admit that big companies may have some incentive to protect their users' privacy; but they are an easy legal target. If tomorrow the US or EU pass legisla
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And everything that we hold dear happens after that. I don't object to this explanation of the world, but I reckon it's an uphill battle convincing people that all of the living natural world, and all of human history, their cultu
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I'm made of anti-Abrahamic fermions, but in this instance I can't stop thinking of Emma Lazarus rising from the grave and striking down her own words, to instead inscribe Jeremiah 2:5 on the plaque at the base of the statue: &quot
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by dsign 1y ago
Awful idea #1: If you are one of those advanced-age president-dictator of a big super-power, you know, one of those guys that get caught in a hot mic talking about immortality, you could seal your pact with the devil by forcing anybody in y
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Cursor, is that you?
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I think we are very close to that limit. I mean, with the right set of drugs applied in the right way during the right timespans and correctly targeted, you can give a person wings and they can take flight. But all of those constraints are

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