infamouscow

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by infamouscow 6mo ago
I'm pretty confident Big AI have robust filtering to prevent answering these questions. You don't have to spell it out. The problem is bad actors (i.e, power hungry sociopaths) have convinced the public that it's reasonable t
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Committee_of_Vig...
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
DAs can refuse to prosecute. But even if the DA prosecutes, the jury can nullify the charges, which is a risk. What happens when a jury finds the accused not guilty? The masses will only tolerate so much before the elite start dying. See
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
An election is two (or more) armies going to the ballot box to see who has more numbers. Nothing more.
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
Is there a Polymarket for when the first AI data center is burned to the ground?
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
As we've discovering with the Epstein releases, Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his time (w.r.t. David Gelernter).
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
If sufficient numbers of the population perceive to have lost their livelihoods due to AI, then I'd expect to see data centers burned to the ground and a lot of people swinging from lamp posts. Jury nullification solves the rest, but e
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
I'd invest in whatever is profitable when the unemployed masses burn these data centers to the ground, like fire trucks. I'd also invest in companies that make rope.
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by infamouscow 6mo ago
Owners are a minority of voters, which raises an obvious question: why does the majority tolerate it? Every serious attempt to answer that ends up admitting something uncomfortable, that democracy only functions as intended if voters are
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by infamouscow 8mo ago
I don't view that as an additional new risk. Investors are already all-in on AI, despite being one geopolitical event away from apocalypse regarding Taiwan.
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by infamouscow 8mo ago
They can also classify it as restricted data -- like nuclear weapons technology. Sure, there will be a court battle, but I don't think these companies want to take that chance. They'll capitulate after the lawyers realize that opt
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by infamouscow 8mo ago
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by infamouscow 8mo ago
The "shouting fire in a crowded theater" line is one of the most misunderstood pieces of legal dicta in US history. It comes from a case that was overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). Under current First Amendment law, the gov
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by infamouscow 8mo ago
I have a close male friend in their mid-thirties that has struggled dating since I've known him (~10 years). He is attractive, dresses well, goes to the gym, eats well, has a few hobbies, and isn't emotionally stunted nor suffer f
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by infamouscow 9mo ago
I'm excited to see what comes of OxCaml the next few years.
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by infamouscow 9mo ago
If my timelines are correct, the FSF ousted RMS before ChatGPT came out.
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by infamouscow 10mo ago
I should probably ask what experience do you have writing hardware drivers for the Linux kernel, but it's pretty obvious the answer is: none. I actually burst out laughing reading your comment, it's ridiculous. My anecdotal experi
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
This news story was read by investors and leadership inside of Microsoft. That wouldn't have happened if they hadn't derided whatever idiot decision makers thought it was acceptable in the first place.
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
Derision is legitimate way to change behavior when other avenues fail. A reasonable person that's acting maliciously can be reasoned to stop their behavior. An unreasonable person that's acting in good faith cannot be reasoned to
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
Making the same administrator error 17,000 times is not an accident.
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
This line of reasoning is genuinely stupid, it deserves to be derided and mocked. You can draw a straight line between these "mistakes" and these people violating traffic laws in such a way that they kill other motorists abiding b
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. I call people out when they say this for the abuse of language and for being a time vampire.
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
Practically, it's far easier to simply ask this at your next all-hands when they are source for questions about AI. To make this a meta: use ChatGPT to ask this as a pointlessly-long-worded question to evade HR/marketing from filt
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
If they had done this to Cassius Marcellus Clay, these criminals would simply be dead for their gross violation of civil rights.
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
I'm talking about Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_Stat...
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
This is correct. The Democrats are in a new world. They've lost a cultural and information hegemony they had for 40 years, and thus, the playbook of the past doesn't work (for a variety of reasons).
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
Bitcoin miners have also been sitting on the sidelines waiting for this too. Compute is a hard resource, inextricably linked to money, time, and energy. The math doesn't work in Sam's favor, no matter how much smoke he blows up yo
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
I’ve yet to meet a single person who claims AGI will happen without recycling the same broken reasoning the peak-oil retards were peddling a decade ago. Talking to these people is exhausting, so I cut straight to the chase: name the exact,
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
> The New York Times is demanding that we turn over 20 million of your private ChatGPT conversations. They claim they might find examples of you using ChatGPT to try to get around their paywall. Let me rewrite this without propaganda: De
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by infamouscow 11mo ago
If we were living a hundred years earlier, a lot of people would be hanging from lamp posts. The only things preventing this from happening today is knowing the FBI can do their job fairly well. Reasonable people don't want to sit in c

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