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by eru 1mo ago
Look at ye old timey aristocrats or trust fund kids to see that people can and do have meaningful lives even without work.
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by eru 1mo ago
My judgement is that all else being equal, I defer to people's wishes to decide what they want to do with their time. Even in AI times, you can still spend years acquiring obsolete skills. Just like people still run for fun, even thou
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by eru 1mo ago
Workers are getting hired and fired in all kinds of economic situations all the time. At the moment, overall (US) unemployment at 4.1% hasn't moved all that much since the end of the pandemic, and is on the lower end of average overal
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by eru 1mo ago
Thanks for the elaboration. (Though I'm not sure dmarinus would agree with your criterion?) > For example, remove all code from your training data, and then see if the model can code regardless. Would you accept this weaker versi
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by eru 1mo ago
Details likely depend on whatever contract you are signing.
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by eru 1mo ago
Who am I to judge what other people decide to do with their freetime. It's not like lurking on HN is morally superior.
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by eru 1mo ago
> The real problem with AI is that the productivity benefits are focused with the owners and not the workers. What makes you think so? What evidence do we have one way or another?
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by eru 1mo ago
> Society is simple the collective that forms transitively from you, your connections, theirs and so on. Where do you draw the line? Does the collective that makes these collective decisions you are so fond of have to include, say, peop
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by eru 1mo ago
I wear deodorant to get along with the humans around me. Concrete folks I can point to (even if I don't necessarily know the guy next to me on the train by name nor will see him again). No nebulous society involved that makes collecti
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by eru 1mo ago
Sorry, when I said in nature, I meant undomesticated sheep. Domesticated sheep that get lost for a while don't magically learn how to shed their coat, yes.
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by eru 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake That phrase was born as a straw man.
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by eru 1mo ago
Workers are humans. Humans don't need any system's permission or reasoning to exist. If you've ever been laid off or fired, you might have noticed that you don't cease to exist when your contract ends.
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by eru 1mo ago
The washing machine and dishwasher definitely did. I don't own a car, so I can't comment on that.
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by eru 1mo ago
How do you know this? How would you falsify this hypothesis?
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by eru 1mo ago
Might as well publish anonymously in that case..
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by eru 1mo ago
Or at least use an obscurer model from an obscure company, so they don't know who to subpoena.
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by eru 1mo ago
Austrians call tomatoes Paradeiser, from an older word for Paradise.
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by eru 1mo ago
Maybe also for leather? And in nature sheep drop their coats without shearing.
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by eru 1mo ago
How do you make 'reasonable judgements'? How do you tell whether someone else made reasonable judgements? How do you judge other people's intuition? Modelling distributions explicitly sounds nice, yes.
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by eru 1mo ago
> We, collectively, need to decide where to draw the lines on this technology and we need to decide fast. I hope you, collectively, don't start deciding what deodorants I can wear. (Like Bernie Sanders infamously brought up.) Or w
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by eru 1mo ago
Could you please elaborate?
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by eru 1mo ago
People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new? I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't t
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by eru 1mo ago
You could also have a website, not only an App.
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by eru 1mo ago
Interesting. How is ClimateGPT linked to archive.org, and why do you object to it?
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by eru 1mo ago
I wonder if they could sell you access to a bittorrent tracker? Officially it would be independent of the donations, just an extra service they sell?
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by eru 1mo ago
> So basically, humanoid robots are just good for prototyping before the big boy robots show up to do the real work. That might be our future. However at the moment humanoid robots aren't good enough in general to be good at protot
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by eru 1mo ago
They seemed plenty 'normative' to me, in the sense of professing strong opinions on eg 'I would never date a Tory voter'.
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by eru 1mo ago
Was she in favour or against neoliberalism?
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by eru 1mo ago
From what I can tell, people ARE starting these kinds of projects. They just don't get popular enough for you to notice.
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by eru 1mo ago
That's begging the question! If The Match Group is a steady supplier of startup exits in this space, that should incentivise more people to start. So we should see more people trying to resurrect old school OKCupid, not fewer. Though

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