ecocentrik

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by ecocentrik 7mo ago
The term for this is ethical consumerism or conscious consumerism, defined as purchasing products that align with moral, social, or environmental values, acting as a form of "voting" with one's money. Virtue signaling takes p
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by ecocentrik 7mo ago
Flash should have transitioned into an authoring tool for SVG + CSS + JS but it just took a knee because so many people hated flash for all of its warts by the time SVG and Canvas moved vector graphics rendering to the browser. Flash was a
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by ecocentrik 7mo ago
I think the problem might actually be with reenforcing the red lines. The events of the last few weeks and this new deal only make sense if Anthropic was trying to find out how Palantir and the Pentagon had circumvented their restrictions t
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by ecocentrik 7mo ago
No. I'm suggesting there should be AI safety regulation to limit how AI can be used by the government. It's new tech and it pays to be cautious and restrict usage in areas like nuclear missile launch and domestic surveillance.
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by ecocentrik 7mo ago
Isn't the story here that the DOD is pressuring Anthropic and others to enable their AI for this specific use and for now Anthropic and others are saying no while the DOD threatens them with penalties. We desperately need real AI safet
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by ecocentrik 10mo ago
Doesn't this run into the same bottleneck as developing AI first languages? AI need tons of training material for how to write good formal verification code or code in new AI first languages that doesn't exist. The only solution i
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by ecocentrik 10mo ago
In the US they also get scanned and stored.
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by ecocentrik 10mo ago
Given the choice between a 2000 acre banana plantation and 400 bitcoin. I would choose the banana plantation with full confidence that I would get a better return from bananas over the next 20 years.
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by ecocentrik 10mo ago
My advice: There's always at least one crypto scammer telling you to hold through the dip.
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by ecocentrik 10mo ago
I agree. Agentic use isn't always necessary. Most of the time it makes more sense to treat LLMs like a dumb, unauthenticated human user.
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by ecocentrik 11mo ago
Mississippi? I bet it's a flyover state with a tiny sliver of road that sees massive trucking volume.
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by ecocentrik 11mo ago
Eh. Discovering how neurons can be coaxed into memorizing things with almost perfect recall was cool but real AGI or even ASI shouldn't require the sum total of all human generated data to train.
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by ecocentrik 11mo ago
Even ordering a pizza requires the cooperation of a functioning telecom system, a pizza manufacturer, a delivery person, a hungry customer...
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by ecocentrik 11mo ago
There's not that many controversial topics at any given time. One of Wikipedia's solutions was to lock pages until a controversy subsided. Perma-controversy has been managed in other ways, like avoiding the statement of opinion as
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by ecocentrik 11mo ago
There was a period of time where Wikipedia was more scrutinized than print encyclopedias because people did not understand the power of having 1000s of experts and the occasional non-experts editing an entry for free instead of underpaying
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by ecocentrik 11mo ago
What's the obsession with Burry?
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
By "real people" do you mean people who are not members of those minority groups? Or are people who can "accurately classify the facial expression of images from minority groups" not "real people"? I hope you c
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
I wasn't claiming the Turing Test was a benchmark for intelligence but the ability to fool a human into thinking a machine is intelligent in conversation is still a significant milestone. I should have said "some abstract reasonin
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
LLMs are close enough to pass the Turing Test. That was a huge milestone. They are capable of abstract reasoning and can perform many tasks very well but they aren't AGI. They can't teach themselves to play chess at the level of a
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
Nice slogan but right now in America, money is king and the law is bent to accommodate the wills of rich lawless men.
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
These enterprises might not be setup by Russia directly but they might be setup by Russian criminal organizations which have been very active in the US over the last 20 years. That nobody in the current administration seem to be concerned w
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
They ran out of illegal immigrants with prior criminal records almost immediately and their political strategy depends on the generation of new "others" to demonize. MAGA basically hates everyone, including themselves, so they wil
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
Correction: Renegotiated a prior loan as a $8.9B stock purchase.
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
Some of the worst BAs and PMs I've encountered in my career all work for Saleforce now.
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
The python hunters of Florida do all the heavy lifting for this joke. If you're not aware, python hunting is a state funded industry with the stated goal of controlling the spread of the invasive species in the Everglades. It has done
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
Do we really want to introduce more invasive species into the Everglades?
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
The UI designer might be capable of designing a simple UI but probably has no idea how to design a simple infrastructure, dataflow, logistics, corporate operations infrastructure, finance structure... You're thinking like a UI designer
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
No, that's not my experience or understanding at all. Complexity is a byproduct of building something without understanding how all the parts fit together and without having a clear vision for how it will be used. The pyramids were bui
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
I'm a big fan of barriers to entry and using effort as a filter for good work. This derma app could be so much better if it actually taught laypeople to identify the difference between carcinomas, melanomas and non-cancerous moles inst
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
No, that was sarcasm that employed a slippery slope argument. I was not seriously suggesting that the federal government will buy Facebook. I was suggesting that we should avoid a pattern of behavior (slippery slope) that might lead to the

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