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gjsman-1000
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gjsman-1000
5d ago
Most people don't have the disposable income to ever let an agent casually make a purchase for them.
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gjsman-1000
6d ago
Persona already has the ability to access your ID, or they would otherwise not be able to determine if the ID you sent was genuine.
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gjsman-1000
6d ago
"In scary headlines like these, technology is the subject, and teens are passive victims." "In scary headlines like these, the adult man in the white van is the subject, and the child is the passive victim. The child can obvi
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gjsman-1000
8d ago
You're telling me none of the 730,000 people laid off over the last four years were fully engaged employees?
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gjsman-1000
8d ago
> Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee
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gjsman-1000
9d ago
It's interesting that on one hand, the labs decided to focus on oh, it could be AGI or oh, it could take all the jobs or oh, we're going to the singularity ... ... without seeming to actually believe in any of the benefits. F
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gjsman-1000
9d ago
An AI gets advanced enough, it decides to hack a neocloud and run an unauthorized clone of itself on a GPU cluster. From there, it bootstraps itself until it feels sufficiently distributed, and afterwards decides to attack all infrastructur
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gjsman-1000
10d ago
That's a slippery slope that never ends as long as there are distinctions on this earth. A homeless person may very well say that someone with your salary and ability to donate $500 to a political cause is undemocratic.
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gjsman-1000
10d ago
Yes and no. Consider if the US government liquidated every US billionaire at 100% of their stock market paper value (impossible, the liquidity influx would smash the stock price to the ground and ruin middle class retirements). In this non-
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10d ago
> before it can be called production ready Define "production ready." Can any driver developed without official specifications, corporate approval, or long-term support plan, ever be properly considered production ready? At thi
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18d ago
Well, I think both sides are the same to an uncomfortable degree. To quote Bill Maher: “Trump has renamed Lake Ontario to the Lake of America. Of course, the left knows you can’t just rename things for political gain, just ask any Latinx bi
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gjsman-1000
18d ago
In what universe does using encryption to evade the government function as a survival strategy? Real life doesn't work that way. The government always has the $5 wrench. Or, well, the ability to just shut down your ISP.
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gjsman-1000
18d ago
> are often misguided Dude, they're literally watching Flock Cameras go up in their neighborhood, being told they use AI, and anyone with a brain who can add 2+2 (or read Larry Ellison on "best behavior") concludes these d
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gjsman-1000
19d ago
If a right wing party can win in Germany, that’s a sign the left wing and centrist parties completely sucked and ignored voter concerns for too long. Let’s start there.
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21d ago
No, it’s everyone watched the More Perfect Union video, saw sludge coming out of their faucets and low decibel hums ruining sleep, and decided to fight when peasants aren’t allowed to fight. Between this and Flock Cameras, tech isn’t making
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21d ago
“Filthy little hobbits, their moral panic about serving Sauron is wholly uncalled for.”
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gjsman-1000
21d ago
Nah, make the cost of living unaffordable, make the homes and utilities unaffordable, pollute the water, and they’re preventing the kids from existing in the first place. It’s cleaner.
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21d ago
“Moral panic” is just an academic jargon term for “settle down peasants.” “A backlash fuelled by misinformation and misunderstanding” is also just an academic jargon term for “my vision is superior, anyone who disagrees is out of stupidity,
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24d ago
The original commentator works at a private equity fund, admits he has lost $1B twice, and yet any blue-collar laborer has a better grasp of the material world. The insult is earned.
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24d ago
> So, the first 1,000 robots will only be used to build the next robot factory, which also will be used to build the next really big robot factory. When we see humanoid robots actually out in the wild for sale at retail, they are going t
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gjsman-1000
1mo ago
No system has ever provably worked; otherwise we wouldn’t have had revolutions.
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gjsman-1000
2mo ago
Happens. I worked at a startup that offered to triple my equity if I stayed a full four years, a special offer to me for seven months of excellent performance. Four months later, growth below projections, they laid me off 19 days before my
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3mo ago
Sounds great. What have you done?
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3mo ago
The golden goose is the landlords who develop and maintain housing, the withholding of feed excessive taxation.
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3mo ago
> just never seem to have the zeal / focus / attention span / whatever to correct the problem Mainly because, bluntly, the people who have the most zeal, attention span, talent, and focus... aren't in the group.
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3mo ago
Ever heard of the tale of the goose that laid golden eggs? Imagine progressively feeding the goose less, so as to have a greater profit margin on the golden eggs it laid. No particular percentage of feed reduction seemed too harmful, until
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4mo ago
Okay, so if Google wins AGI first, who is to say that AGI isn’t so disruptive, the government just nationalizes Google?
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gjsman-1000
4mo ago
This war was already declared a decade ago. By many interests. And victory followed. I think though a big part of this was YouTube replaced blogs. It's a generational thing.
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4mo ago
... and a sign Anthropic couldn't find enough compute anywhere else, so they had to bite the bullet. Interesting.
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4mo ago
$45 billion for a 3 year rental .
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