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by hax0ron3 2mo ago
Sometimes I wonder what fraction of America's economic dynamism is based simply on people's desperate desire to make enough money to not have to live around street violence and other kinds of in-your-face social unpleasantness.
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by hax0ron3 2mo ago
It is possible for many people to learn how to be happier, but this skill doesn't automatically emerge just because one is smart. Being smart doesn't automatically give you the skill of riding a bike, either. It doesn't autom
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by hax0ron3 2mo ago
It is a funny quote, and probably true. But I imagine that few people who are willing to read a serious article about Anton Chekhov these days actually have much interest in rejoicing in seeing his weaknesses.
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by hax0ron3 2mo ago
>The not-so-quiet goal of the LLM push by big tech was to homogenise intellectual labour such that it can be made fungible. When labour is fungible you can swap it out whenever you like for an alternative, decreasing the bargaining power
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by hax0ron3 2mo ago
What next, FedEx will be ordered to pay a billion dollars to address harm caused by the fact that some people mail child porn using FedEx? Movie studios will be ordered to pay a billion dollars each to address harm that movies caused kids b
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by hax0ron3 3mo ago
>However, unlike China, the electorate does not support him. His election is also almost certainly due to aggressive campaigns to destabilize the US internally for this exact purpose. What are you claiming here? That China hacked the vot
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by hax0ron3 4mo ago
Yup, I can definitely imagine that it's different if you're working directly for customers and have the freedom to do things however you want to do them as long as you still make a living.
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by hax0ron3 4mo ago
I can definitely see how the vast spaces "inside" of an AI model (more precisely, the space of every possible output for every possible input) are similar to the backrooms in that they are huge, related to human activity yet impos
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by hax0ron3 4mo ago
I'm not sure this magazine is nearly popular enough for that to be worth it.
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by hax0ron3 4mo ago
>Anything that can replace a deeply experienced s/ware engineer can replace anyone in the employment stack Well, except for roles where being human is an inherent part of the value for customers: bartender, prostitute, certain kinds
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by hax0ron3 4mo ago
I never found there to be much soul and humanity in the job to begin with. Coding personal projects has soul, but for me at least the demands of high-velocity sprint-based software development to match business needs removed most of the sou
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by hax0ron3 5mo ago
This is a very strong exaggeration of the reality. It's similar to saying "almost all Democratic Party voters want to turn the US into Soviet communism", and is about equally inaccurate.
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by hax0ron3 5mo ago
>It's all so obscene. Instead, why don't we try to protect human dignity and move towards a more humane future? I think the Darwinian logic of reality might make this hard. If society A and society B are both developing AI and
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by hax0ron3 5mo ago
There is no "we" on this matter. Americans have been sharply divided about immigrants for a long time going back to the 19th century or even before. There is no such thing as an American consensus on immigration. Certainly you don
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by hax0ron3 5mo ago
I question the idea that the US has a strong border compared to other countries of a comparable economic and development level. Also, allowing farms and construction companies to find cheap labor is a reason for a weak border, not a reason
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by hax0ron3 5mo ago
Trying to follow the Constitution literally is hard and in practice, it's not done. The political system just interprets the Constitution in whatever way the consensus of the given moment wants to interpret it. The 14th Amendment is cl
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by hax0ron3 5mo ago
>Nobody writes essays in Slack. It's only possible because of AI copy-paste. I could easily write essays in Slack if I wanted to. The reason why I don't has nothing to do with whether I'm capable of it or not.
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
Nice. Reading old books is a great way to be exposed to ways of thinking that have fallen out of fashion - some for (in my opinion) good reason, such as having been discovered to be incorrect or genuinely immoral, some for (in my opinion) b
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
That seems plausible to me. I think that unfortunately for him, his support inside Russia was probably never high enough to seriously challenge the existing leadership.
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
That seems like a possible answer. You don't need to assume that I've been brainwashed by Western propaganda. I generally distrust both the Western and the Russian mainstream narratives about geopolitics.
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
I know it exists. I'm asking why he went on an extremely dangerous mission that had very little chance of success instead of using his energy on something that would have been more likely to achieve success, or on something that would
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
I'm not claiming that Putin is acting irrationally, at least not any more irrationally than other leaders - after all, politicians are still human. My question is why Navalny would have believed that it would not be rational for Putin
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
If he was an unscrupulous adventurer who was sure that his Western support would prevent him from being killed, then that leads to two questions: 1. Why exactly would he have been so sure that his Western support would prevent him from bein
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
I always wonder about Navalny - why did he go back to Russia? Did he really believe that he could do some kind of Nelson Mandela thing? Or that the Russian people would flock to his cause? I believe that the man was an idealist, I don'
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
I think that trying to stop AI development is more like trying to stop nuclear weapon proliferation than it is like fixing the ozone hole. I think the difference is that if one country works to fix the ozone hole, that doesn't make the
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
Those weapons are still all being developed and would be brought out in any actually existential war where they seemed useful. The agreements would last only as long as the wars were not existential, or as long as the various countries invo
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
>casting himself as an extremist nut, increasing the resistance to his viewpoint in the population at large. I think the majority of the population at large either doesn't care about what happened or wish that the guy had actually m
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
I don't agree with Yudkowsky, but I think there's certainly a chance that he's right about AI destroying humanity. I just don't think the likelihood of that happening is as high as he thinks it is. But there certainly is
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
>Your analysis seems to assume that people will remain more afraid of being "outcompeted" than of being murdered, even after a campaign of terrorism that would make 9/11 look minor. AI is such an important technology that
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by hax0ron3 6mo ago
Yeah, I guess the practical problem with shock collars / implanted brain bombs is that you would have to somehow convince your security people to put them on or get them implanted before the apocalyptic scenario happens, which seems li

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