fatherzine

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by fatherzine 3y ago
inflation is emergent of interest. interest is multiplicative, which compounds into an exponential. sadly i am no boltzmann, so i can't provide a formal derivation -- challenge for the mathematically gifted amongst us.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Exactly. Use gasoline instead. See e.g https://www.macrotrends.net/1380/gold-to-oil-ratio-historica... . Over 80 years (since 1946), the ratio held stable within 10-40 range, with a few brief spikes. The variance from t
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by fatherzine 3y ago
prices, of all goods, inflate exponentially the relative value of specific goods fluctuates within a small constant in the long run, the exponential dominates the linear ---- thus the price of gold is a yardstick of the exponential inflatio
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by fatherzine 3y ago
the gold price serves as an independent yardstick for the level of real inflation. it defeats the purpose to 'adjust for inflation'. 'adjusting for inflation, prices have been remarkably stable for the past century'
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by fatherzine 3y ago
what if we already did and all that's missing is the skeletomuscular system?
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by fatherzine 3y ago
unbounded possibilities! imagine, and hear me out, asking the box: 'how do I build a box that can answer fairly complicated questions', and getting the output in an automatized way all the way from atoms, ready to be plugged into
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"create a mechanical god that will rule the planet" -- on what basis people call this 'optimism'?!
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by fatherzine 3y ago
a more apt analogy is Moore's law
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by fatherzine 3y ago
100%, extra points for fitted penname.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
They do pay tribute. Slightly obfuscated behind the financial order that comes with that 'protection'. Look up debt levels, or how ownership of strategic assets changed hands in the historical blink of eye since eg Eastern Europe
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by fatherzine 3y ago
repent
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by fatherzine 3y ago
The point is to instill fear through humiliation. Bonus if you quit on your own, so they don't have to pay severance.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
If only. How about product placement seamlessly melded into any digital interaction? BRB, prompting ChatGPT for a YCombinator funding pitch.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
they have the potential to take over the control systems of the explosive stuff. including the decision making processes of humans themselves. to quote none other than sama, oct 2023: "i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion
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by fatherzine 3y ago
also, manufacturing robots and self-driving cars.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"just like any other tool in hands of humans" -- the scale of damage a tool can do matters, e.g. civilization cannot withstand nukes being sold at walmart. and, of course, self learning will be here this decade.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"95% of the staff" -- this is Kim Jong Un approval rate territory. caution advised.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
picking the ethical option will not create financial value for key stakeholders. the metrics are misaligned. smart and wise people spent 2000 years seeking an workaround for this problem. there is none. there are only convoluted excuses.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Upper management is usually compensated with financially meaningful ownership stakes.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
This rings true, though I will throw in a bit of nuance. It's not greed, the desire of making as much money as possible, that is the shaping factor. Rather the critical factor is building a product for which people are willing to spend
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by fatherzine 3y ago
The second paragraph is veering extremely close to shamanic person worship territory -- shamans have privileged access to the otherworld that we mere mortals lack.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
not entirely sure what you refer to, but here's a possibly flawed and possibly unrelated analogy: while our nervous systems depend on low intensity electric fields to function, subjecting them to artificial fields orders of magnitude m
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by fatherzine 3y ago
there are rumors that the latest gen drones in ukraine use crude embedded vision ai to increase terminal accuracy. launch and iterate, this will only get more lethal.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
oh, these teams are useless bureaucratic busybodies that only mask the real issue: ai is explosively powerful, and nobody has the slightest clue on how to steward that power and avoid the pain ai will unfortunately unleash.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
a multimodal llm is a general purpose device to churn sensor inputs into a sequence of close to optimal decisions. the 'language' part is there to reduce the friction of the interface with humans, it's not an inherent limitat
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by fatherzine 3y ago
not sure it's fair to trivialize ai risks. for just one example, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
The only winning move is not to play. Sutskever has no clue how to contain the genie, nobody has. Why do we put our hope in some engineer or another, beats me. There are throngs waiting in the wings for their shot at ephemeral glory and ric
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by fatherzine 3y ago
such a sad painful subject. and toxic to boot. in seeking a partner the women in the article are looking in all the wrong places. humbly submitting that seeking a husband may lead to different outcomes. though that requires a level of commi
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by fatherzine 3y ago
we are reading 'panic' the same way :) fight panic all you want, but ai rendering the vast majority of humans redundant is quite a more pressing problem to fight, i would say.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
re the website name (aipanic) and the attitude that the real problem is the people reaction to ai and not ai itself. radio erevan q&a q: what should we do in case of an atomic attack? a: you dress in a white sheet and head tippy-toe to

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