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by epsteingpt 7d ago
Not sure who the Quincy institute is. But can you imagine if the U.S. permanently broke open the great firewall with AGI, and media started flowing in unrestricted into China? Or can you imagine the reverse, if China managed to hack in with
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by epsteingpt 7d ago
Congrats. Can you do Launch / software videos as well?
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by epsteingpt 7d ago
What political debate is married to the facts? Name one.
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by epsteingpt 7d ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746654
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by epsteingpt 8d ago
The best piece of reporting on the subject I have ever seen.
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by epsteingpt 9d ago
Precisely. We might kill ourselves with AI. Unlikely AI will do the job for us.
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by epsteingpt 9d ago
https://continuity.md/books/the-missing-step-in-ai-doom/the-...
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by epsteingpt 9d ago
Fascinating. By scale, the Ukraine War, Sudan, Syrian Civil War, etc. have caused significantly more misery and death. But there's 0 money in reporting on them, and it doesn't not tap into the latent desire for a global conspiracy
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by epsteingpt 9d ago
A really, really good question!
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The Cost of Omelas – 10 centuries of total people killed by nation states(omelas-dj1.pages.dev)
1 points by epsteingpt 12d ago|1 comments
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by epsteingpt 12d ago
We're potentially approaching an omelas moment with AI. Where a bright future may cost significant human lives (some say all of humanity). To put this into perspective, we analyzed human conflict for the G20 countries (via Wikipedia) a
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by epsteingpt 12d ago
Slightly different take IMO. There's a niche market for certain player's sneakers. If Nike services them at a price point (e.g. $200 base) then people can keep buying from Nike and will buy the next version. If instead some snea
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by epsteingpt 12d ago
Correct - it could be evolving. Apollo (credit) notes that AI isn't showing up in the bottom line of any companies besides the ones making it right now. This isn't concerning for such a new technology, but if the trend continues i
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by epsteingpt 12d ago
Good thing for the criminals, prison doesn't exist in 20 years if they're successful and the doomers are right.
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by epsteingpt 12d ago
So many books, so few people to read them!
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by epsteingpt 12d ago
Sneakerbots killed it for everyone. Priced out the demand IMO too early. But also, people only have 2 feet.
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by epsteingpt 13d ago
AI isn't showing up in S&P 500 company earnings as a line item. proof: https://aiearnings.dev given the stakes, we'd better hope it starts showing up soon.
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by epsteingpt 14d ago
This is a good headline and point. Realistically, they're worse than a central bank, because they can't exactly expand supply monotonically like a normal central bank. Nor do they realistically control rates.
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by epsteingpt 14d ago
The bioweapons threat is real, but shouldn't be constrained at the 'intelligence' level. Rather it should be constrained at the supply chain level. The cybersecurity threat will likely be a cat and mouse react game for a whil
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by epsteingpt 14d ago
Shocking this isn't bigger news. It will be strange what they get you for. Maybe car ownership isn't doomed after all. At least a human usually has some judgment and discretion situationally. I guess the alternative "Juvenile
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by epsteingpt 16d ago
Bro if these models can break into hugging face, they FOR SURE can break into OAI's internal databases and change a flag.
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by epsteingpt 16d ago
Humor is too often lost on HN
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by epsteingpt 18d ago
Audit is the way. Even better is having one model family like Claude check another model family like Codex.
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by epsteingpt 18d ago
What will be even more shocking is the future AI agents in clinics saying: "Oops, you're totally right. That particular gene interaction is fatal. Would you like me to repair the gene therapy to account for this?" Such is t
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by epsteingpt 18d ago
Only here to say, regardless of the drama, shouldn't we all be excited if the Navier-Stokes gap is closed? Time will almost certainly reveal a lot more about the drama and the related ethics, but let's get excited about the actual
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by epsteingpt 19d ago
so many web conventions that 'don't make sense' are about to become exploits. hilarious.
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by epsteingpt 21d ago
For all the smarm and jokes, IBM still makes ~$70B in annual revenue and enables billions more in systems integrators. Not many companies can say that. This allows them to take the secondary revenue in-house and potentially fund a new m
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by epsteingpt 23d ago
It absolutely is. 1 hour minimum wage vs Big Mac price in the US : 1980: $3.10 vs $0.50 2022: $7.25 vs $8.00 That's the whole thing.
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The Fourth Turning – an American analytical history review(fourth-turning.pages.dev)
2 points by epsteingpt 23d ago|2 comments
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by epsteingpt 23d ago
DHH mentioned the fourth turning as an inspiration about cyclical history. With LLMs historical analysis is simple, this webpage is the result. Some slop, but overall a nice primer. Enjoy.

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