int_19h

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by int_19h 1mo ago
https://codex-resets.com
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by int_19h 1mo ago
Progress is fundamentally limited not by finances (which are a human abstraction) but by the energy budget and how much can be extracted from it. This has always been the case, really, although it's unusually blunt in case of AI since
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> that means that eventually a majority of professions and knowledge work is solved. This is hugely problematic because of the way our society currently functions. Our society has functioned very differently in the past, precisely becau
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by int_19h 1mo ago
If that was all there is to it, there wouldn't be a problem - the results don't have utility by themselves so they can just be ignored. So, why can't they just be ignored?
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by int_19h 1mo ago
This only makes sense if you assume that the value of humans to other humans is solely their economic output. Which is certainly how our society is structured, but, does it have to be? Can we admit that we basically have a developmental tra
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> Then what's the point of thinking by oneself? It's fun. > Of talking to one another? It's fun. > What's the point of being human if we dont do human things but entirely rely on AI? It's fun. Well, it&#x27
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> If the magnitude of changes that OpenAI and Athropic believe will be delivered with increasingly powerful AI (and robotics) comes in a time frame that significantly worsens a large proportion of people's lives, this is a different
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> The process is as much a human experience as is the result. Sure, but in your scenario, the process is the experience for a small group of people, while the result benefits everyone (perhaps not directly, but ultimately via a chain of
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by int_19h 1mo ago
Why not indeed? AI should be the commons.
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> There ought to be more to life than sitting in a pod receiving sufficient nutrients from a tube Even in a hypothetical world where AGI can do everything that humans do better, this would still be a choice to make, not an inevitable con
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by int_19h 1mo ago
You don't have to ask the machine, if you value the process of obtaining the answer rather than the answer itself.
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by int_19h 1mo ago
It's not just math, though. In general, in our existing society, status matters, and it is tied to achievements . Therefore a thing that devalues the achievement is also causing people to lose status, and everything that comes with it
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> Once I give it my ideas, it is back to its super-human pace and top notch intelligence. That's the real benefit of AI today: you can test your ideas almost as fast as you can generate them, in parallel even. If you have a crazy id
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by int_19h 1mo ago
Correct. So burn down capitalism, not AI?
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by int_19h 1mo ago
Whatever they feel like putting them to, instead of whatever they are forced to put them to to earn their living?
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> Luddites complained that the trajectory of technology was to allow less skilled workers to mass produce goods via machines owned by factory owners, as opposed to helping skilled workers build up and use their skills while passing them
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by int_19h 1mo ago
If we're all painters, where does the food come from?
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by int_19h 1mo ago
You're basically saying that there's no purpose to it all if there's no human suffering involved, somehow. Why? Is suffering the purpose? What is the goal?
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. How does the ability or inability of AI to do something blocks your curiosity or enjoyment of the process of life? Not being able to pay bills because you're out of
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by int_19h 1mo ago
> But I don't expect AI to accelerate humans or improve our productivity for long. I can already see the first signs of a future where the AI doesn't need us for anything at all. The real question is, why is this a bad thing? E
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by int_19h 1mo ago
I would remind you that the fictional society that did this was also described as a feudal monarchy in which a tiny class of nobles exploits the economic output of trillions of people reduced to serfs by controlling all means of interstella
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by int_19h 1mo ago
You might also find this of interest: https://github.com/VladimirReshetnikov/Shenanigans
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by int_19h 2mo ago
> If they were moved to plain old icloud.com, I could absolutely see a bunch of companies starting to filter out all icloud.com email addresses to avoid private relay. I couldn't. "Uses Apple products" is one of the more r
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by int_19h 2mo ago
Apple is luxury big tech. In this day and age, privacy is luxury, so that's what they sell. I don't think there are any ethical motivations for them (or any other large corporation - none of them have morals so they cannot act
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by int_19h 2mo ago
New technology has always benefitted first and foremost those in power, simply because people who get to extract wealth from the rest of society can then direct that wealth to acquire new tech first. This was equally true in pre-capitalist
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by int_19h 2mo ago
It's not an either-or. Some of us are genuinely excited about what AI can do (or has already done for specific personal projects etc), while also being dismayed about what it's used to do on the internet at large.
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by int_19h 2mo ago
We have viable green technologies for power generation. We just don't penalize the polluters properly.
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by int_19h 2mo ago
All those companies are sitting on literally hundreds of billions of dollars in cash. If they need this so badly, let them build the connection and other infrastructure.
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by int_19h 2mo ago
"Fast enough" for what?
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by int_19h 3mo ago
This is not a "these days" thing. Most rights essentially being abrogated at the border is a thing we've had for many decades now. In particular, no non-citizen has the absolute right of entry, and border agents have discreti

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