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by int_19h 24d ago
It does let you do that, but only on platforms where they can enforce HDCP. So e.g. Edge on Windows or Safari on macOS work fine, and I think Chrome recently joined the list too. But not on Linux.
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by int_19h 26d ago
Herbert did genuinely believe that people overly relying on machines is problematic insofar as it "trains the mind" to think like a machine, and in the process loses the indeterminacy that he believed to be an inherent and valuabl
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by int_19h 26d ago
> These two things are surely related eh? Not really, no? If anything AI is the tech that is the most likely to disrupt this economic system beyond the point of recovery. > What's the difference between these? The difference is t
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by int_19h 26d ago
Killing things is literally the sole purpose of guns, though. And even then we still need them because sometimes you do need to kill someone who's trying to kill you, which is not morally wrong. The question, again, is how they are u
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by int_19h 26d ago
The investors don't manufacture those higher quality goods and services - their workers do. The investors collect economic rent from the worker's outputs.
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by int_19h 26d ago
> It’s a bit of a self-serving argument, don’t you think? I would call it more of a self-selecting one. Anthropic is basically hiring people with that mentality. I'm pretty sure that most of them do sincerely believe it, too. I&#x27
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by int_19h 26d ago
That is not a counterargument to cloud inference though. You can also run open weight models in the cloud, and it's still cheaper. So privacy really is the only motivation to run on local hardware.
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by int_19h 27d ago
You can have abstract trust in democracy over autocracy, but this is not an abstract question - these are the actual choices. Does it really matter if the person who will use AI to fuck us has a "democratic mandate" to do so? We
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by int_19h 27d ago
I have something like that running locally for my agentic harness (which includes cross-model messaging). There's a dedicated "product manager" session for it, and all other PMs are instructed to report issues with the harnes
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by int_19h 27d ago
I strongly disagree. I'm working on a semantic model for Lojban, heavily AI assisted, using multiple models. I have basically all popular frontier models doing research and panel debates. Astra and Fable are both noticeably ahead of ev
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by int_19h 27d ago
I don't think you can ever make a case for it on cost savings in general. Inference is very obviously the kind of problem where things are cheaper at scale, and this is still true for smaller models. The only reason to run locally is p
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by int_19h 27d ago
The difference is still vast, it's just that the smaller stuff is "good enough" for many things now.
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by int_19h 27d ago
This is very misleading. There is no Chinese model currently that is on par with Fable or Astra. Kimi K3 is pretty good, but it's not that good. Furthermore the Chinese models in that class are appropriately large. K3, for example, is
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by int_19h 27d ago
On chemical weapons, most large state actors have got rid of them. Not because of any moral reasons, though, but simply because they don't actually work all that well in modern conventional warfare. This is then framed as an ethical
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by int_19h 27d ago
Honestly? I'd rather al Qaeda have access to something like Fable, than the US government. The US government has capacity to do immensely more damage.
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by int_19h 27d ago
Anthropic specifically is basically saying that they believe it's even more dangerous if someone else gets to AGI before they do, so they have to either stop everyone or not stop themselves. I personally disagree with that take - a
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by int_19h 27d ago
> the rent-seeking parties How do you think billionaires become billionaires?
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by int_19h 27d ago
Given the scale of the buildout, I think it would be sensible to mandate that, for every data center built, the companies doing that must also subsidize a new green power plant somewhere (not necessarily the same region, but where it makes
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by int_19h 27d ago
> People show up and make decisions. They should then be able to leave and assume those decisions will be put into action. But this isn't the case. In every representative democracy around the world, including ours, the bedrock prin
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by int_19h 27d ago
OP specifically said "we don't need to solve hunger and poverty and work balance, and etc, by a round-about make-super-intelligent-AI" though. And I don't know how you get robot farms without that.
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by int_19h 27d ago
Of course it is, because our society is pretty much structured to place sociopaths on top. Why is it at all surprising that any technological advancement is going to be used by them in a way that doesn't benefit the rest of us? But i
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by int_19h 27d ago
You can still pursue understanding of things, full automation doesn't preclude that. What it does is make it a choice rather than a survival necessity. The latter is where the "suffering" comes from.
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by int_19h 27d ago
We still are automating the process, it's just that the automated part of the process covers much of what we regularly do.
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by int_19h 28d ago
> Sure, the next step is complete regression to feudalism, but they aren't thinking that far ahead, They are though! They are literally building castles for themselves already.
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by int_19h 28d ago
ju'i .atencon. ju'i ro tcurista .e ro naltekno lukpipyprenu .i le kompymacni na se pilno fi lo nu selfingypoksi kei .e lo nu mijgrabi .i va'onai frili fa lo nu cnapygau le spinyverka kei .e lo nu blovyfuzli kei .e lo nu popko
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by int_19h 28d ago
Of course they don't, but if you choose to use a work of fiction as an illustration, it comes as a coherent package (assuming the author did a good job at worldbuilding) - you can't just take the bits you like and ignore the bits
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by int_19h 28d ago
During the Butlerian Jihad, the people involved in it didn't know that ten thousand years of slavery would be what they are choosing, so we don't know how bad it actually was. The way Jihad presented in the oblique references in b
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by int_19h 28d ago
I did; the above is my conclusion. AI itself is a highly positive technological development in terms of how much human suffering it can alleviate.
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by int_19h 28d ago
> can't believe there is a class of software engineers who wake up everyday and tell themselves, "today is the day I am going to automate the rest of my job". The whole point of software engineering is automating processe
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by int_19h 28d ago
People do exactly that with every vandalized Flock camera. It sucks that our democracy is really mostly just for show and thus such measures are required, but yes, we absolutely can decide such things if we really want to.

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