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by haswell 3y ago
The “supreme intelligence” concerns about AI live on one end of a very wide spectrum of concerns. I don’t think we need anything approaching super intelligence for a large subset of concerns to become reality, and rest of that spectrum is f
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by haswell 3y ago
To be fair, I specifically called out the printing press, comic books, and D&D as examples of panics we got wrong. The other side of this coin is that there are indeed cases where concerns were justified, and only focusing on the situat
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by haswell 3y ago
I take issue with the framing that this is purely about causing and dismissing moral panics. Panic is a secondary effect of whatever it is that people are arguing for or against. The panic is orthogonal to the underlying concern. When peopl
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by haswell 3y ago
Which events are you referring to? The “false” panics or the “real” ones? Because when people invoke moral panic as an argument against AI concerns, it’s almost universally as a device to completely invalidate the concerns. > we managed
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by haswell 3y ago
> Or, perhaps more realistically, there isn’t a logically correct answer. It’s all just dressed up unsubstantiated opinions on both sides. I don’t agree with the framing of this. It may be true that there isn’t a knowable “correct” ans
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> as evidenced by various similar events in human history The issue is that people are jumping to the conclusion that the present conditions are analogous to the “false” panics of the past, while discounting “real” panics that turned o
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The kind of reasoning he describes has been driving me crazy when listening to various tech podcasts that touch on AI risk and social media harms. The moral panic argument comes up repeatedly: “people said the same thing about the {printing
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> I think he's saying that his "professional journey building OSS" is over. ie his day job needs to generate income. I agree that he’s saying this. But FTA: > Open source is great, but it's not sustainable. We s
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I'm struggling with the framing of all of this. I think it's clear that the author doesn't want to be involved with the realities (as unfortunate as they are) of maintaining an OSS project. There are very real issues with ent
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> Absolutely no, because if you are making first steps, you need generalize approach and not selectively target companies This is an engineering mindset. I’m not aware of any other social media platform that is currently in TikTok’s po
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by haswell 3y ago
Most of the opposition I hear to a TikTok ban/divestment boils down to: 1. If TikTok is a problem, so are the other social media platforms 2. The Chinese government can just buy data from a data broker if the ban goes through 3. Such a
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> The cars aren't autonomous at all Isn’t this just a swing of the pendulum to a similarly misleading extreme? Somewhere between “this car is autonomous” and “not autonomous at all” lies the truth of the matter. These cars have th
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by haswell 3y ago
Regarding the apps, you might want to check out this project on GitHub [0]. I came across this while doing some research about Fusion 360 on Linux and while I haven’t tried it yet, it is well trafficked and looks promising. In general, Wine
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by haswell 3y ago
I have a MacBook Air that I use for Lightroom/Photoshop so I’ve managed to avoid that issue when moving off of windows. With that said, I’ve been experimenting with various RAW processing tools on Linux because I’d love to eventually m
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by haswell 3y ago
Good enough that I haven’t had to think about it since switching back. With that said, I don’t have specific knowledge of any edge cases where that might be a problem. I’m using an Nvidia RTX 3000 series with 1st party drivers and Firefox f
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by haswell 3y ago
I was a huge Linux nerd in the early 2000s and tried my best to use it as a daily driver. But gaming forced me to keep a windows box around and eventually I got tired of the inconvenience of dual booting and Windows became primary for awhil
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by haswell 3y ago
> because cooking isn't a science and precise measurements are generally worse than useless Cooking and baking are both sciences, and have very different tolerances and methods for working with those tolerances. As others have poi
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by haswell 3y ago
Drinking more Heineken and looking good while doing it are facilitated by a phone that encourages you to live in the moment. Any businesses that succeed primarily because of direct social engagement would benefit from this, and given what s
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by haswell 3y ago
I’m somewhere in the middle on this. These communities are real, and the value of the content shared by users is real. On the one hand, I prefer the old open web. On the other, I can’t deny the existence and value of these walled gardens. T
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> The primary goal of this application will be to serve as a directory for discovering open-source projects Maybe an increase in potential contributors is a natural outcome of increased discoverability, but I’m not convinced that a n
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by haswell 3y ago
The reason NASA invests so much in hardened components and redundancy is that their hardware has to continue functioning in an environment where humans cannot intervene. The availability of commodity hardware is one of the reasons projects
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by haswell 3y ago
Individual/personal experience doesn’t generalize to all users. It’s useful to be aware of the potential for certain effects and addiction, but this is not an inherent property that impacts all users equally. May be better to frame t
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by haswell 3y ago
That doesn’t make it any less important or remarkable though? I guess I’m struggling to understand the push to trivialize it. Transformers came onto the scene and the entire space exploded. Setting aside any technical/theoretical lack
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> There's nothing particularly special about Transformers, except that it was the first architecture to scale This seems like a problematic framing. Is that not the definition of particularly special?
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On the one hand, I can see how starting the graph in 2005 feels misleading. On the other, past high rates don’t necessarily invalidate theories about the current spike. Another way to frame this is that whatever factors were leading to teen
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by haswell 3y ago
What comes next is a choice we will all collectively make. We can use these growing scandals as warnings and take corrective steps. We can take seriously the worsening trends and reorient our life’s work toward finding solutions for the nex
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I suspect the original rationale is about preserving the longevity of the backdoor. If you blow a hole wide open that anyone can enter, it’s going to be found and shut down quickly. If this hadn’t had the performance impact that brought it
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by haswell 3y ago
Let’s step away from the extremist position and there’s an interesting problem underneath. If a company or government organization is hiring engineers who will be responsible for critical code, they will undergo background checks at a minim
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Transitioning to "I know these are good ideas" to things you're doing in practice is much harder than reading, but can happen. Over time, I've come to look at reading these kinds of books like planting seeds. They give m
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by haswell 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out - I was not aware of the recent new findings. After reading through some of the recent updates my understanding is that the recommended reframing exercises (the “Learned Optimism” part) are still effective, even

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