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by imiric 8mo ago
This is my main concern. I applaud the effort that the Asahi team is doing, but there's no way that I would rely on a small team of inarguably passionate and talented hackers to maintain a system that uses reverse engineered software r
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Fundamentally, these are statistical models > So, of course it's going to hit loops because it's not fundamentally conscience. Wait, I was told that these are superintelligent agents with sophisticated reasoning skills, an
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by imiric 8mo ago
> trained out No need. Just add one more correction to the system prompt. It's amusing to see hardcore believers of this tech doing mental gymnastics and attacking people whenever evidence of there being no intelligence in these too
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by imiric 8mo ago
You can always make it go back and forth with "Are you sure?". The fact that these are still issues ~6 years into this tech is bewildering.
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by imiric 8mo ago
Yeah, but did you see that pelican though?
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by imiric 8mo ago
Weak fallacy fallacy. Besides, you do realize that the film is a satire, and that the comet was an analogy, right? It draws parallels with real-world science denialism around climate change, COVID-19, etc. Dismissing the opinion of an &quot
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by imiric 8mo ago
The strongest signal for ethics is whether the product or company has "open" in its name.
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by imiric 8mo ago
This aligns with my experience. It's good to have it properly analyzed. If this effect is noticeable on an obscure tech forum, one can only imagine the effect on popular source code forges, the internet at large, and ultimately on peop
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by imiric 8mo ago
You're overestimating the capability of the average human to discern fact from fiction, and underestimating our susceptibility to disinformation. This is a problem even for educated skeptics. If all your information sources are flooded
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by imiric 8mo ago
True, this has been a problem for decades, but this new technology makes the work required to spread disinformation and steer online conversations much more accessible, with far greater reach and impact. It's no longer necessary to run
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by imiric 8mo ago
That's a sensible approach, but it still won't give you 100% confidence. These tools produce different output even when given the same context and prompt. You can't really be certain that the output difference is due to isola
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by imiric 8mo ago
Many of the practices in this field are mostly based on feelings and wishful thinking, rather than any demonstrable benefit. Part of the problem is that the tools are practically nondeterministic, and their results can't be compared re
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by imiric 8mo ago
No origami can withstand the force of a UPS delivery person.
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Malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy(science.org)
7 points by imiric 8mo ago|4 comments
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by imiric 8mo ago
> billions of kids are playing with a ball; it's not that hard. Yet far less people are good soccer players. I agree, but I don't see how that negates what I said. Following your analogy, what's currently happening is that
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by imiric 8mo ago
Well, you got me. That changes everything.
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by imiric 8mo ago
Fake engagement doesn't need to be bought anymore. This person created a bot factory. It's safe to assume that most of the engagement is coming from his own creation. This includes tweets, GitHub stars, issues and PRs, and everyth
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by imiric 8mo ago
I got your poor attempt at sarcasm. I just don't think it's a good argument. The person who understands how lower levels of abstraction work, will always run circles technically around those who don't. Besides, "AI"
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by imiric 8mo ago
> I'm not making a judgment about this person [...] just stating a reasonable conclusion that the author suffered from mental illness. You're not making a judgment, but are somehow able to diagnose mental illness from a blog po
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by imiric 8mo ago
I don't see how that's relevant. I pay taxes and live in a country with a government in exchange for protection and a decent standard of living. Relying on family, friends or strangers for basic necessities is a sign that my gover
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Every human who is suffering deserves compassion, but should we deprioritise those who are suffering partially because of their own choices? Opening the discussion about who is more worthy of assistance is a slippery slope towards some
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by imiric 8mo ago
He was given temporary shelter, and later a bed in a room with 20 people. Have you seen what these places look like? Would you sleep in such conditions? Dignity and personal space is something the richest country in the world can afford f
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by imiric 8mo ago
Sure, we don't know the entire backstory, but can we agree that no person should live in these conditions? Especially in one of the richest places in the world. Everyone deserves dignity, food, and shelter. Also, can we stop stigmatizi
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by imiric 8mo ago
I will never stop being dumbfounded by the contrast of people going through this kind of hardship being surrounded by some of the wealthiest people in the world. This exists in other parts of the world as well, of course, but it's part
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by imiric 8mo ago
Good on you! Writing assembly is a good way to understand how computers work, which can help you further up the stack.
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by imiric 8mo ago
> knowing how to use ai coding assistants productively is a skill like any other No, it's different from other skills in several ways. For one, the difficulty of this skill is largely overstated. All it requires is basic natural lan
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by imiric 8mo ago
I don't necessarily disagree with what you said, but you're not taking a few things into account. First of all, most people don't think critically, and may not even know how. They consume information provided to them, instinc
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by imiric 8mo ago
> Certainly, an AI that can design weapons of mass destruction could be an existential threat to humanity. But so, too, is a system that subtly manipulates an entire world to lose its ability to perceive reality. So, like, social media a
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by imiric 8mo ago
They don't need to optimize for "love". They just need to not optimize for dark patterns and extortion. Love happens offline, not on a fucking app.
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by imiric 8mo ago
It's a truly sad state of affairs that human relationships are reduced to this clinical technobabble. Technology was promised to solve our problems, yet it has created so many more.

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