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by j_timberlake 1y ago
On a positive note, if you eat non-meat alternatives, you both avoid funding more factory-farming and you also help fund better non-meat options. You can't make much difference, but it's not like this is the only thing going on
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Nothing is ever "correctly priced". It's just more obvious with certain markets. Best example of this is when people say they want to pay "only their fair share of taxes". That's just, not how taxes work...
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
I'd always hoped they'd bring the price down over time as economies of scale kick in, but man did that not happen. What a shame.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Holy shit, AIs just got a gold medal on the math olympiad and you guys are STILL spamming this shit in every thread. I don't even know how you can reach this level of inertia on a topic, did you short Nvidia stock or something?
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
"worth celebrating for" The correlation between "companies make smarter AI" and "our lives get better" is still a rounding error. Many people will say "don't worry, tech always makes our lives better
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
If you want credit for getting predictions right, you have to predict something that has less than 100% probability to happen.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Gwern used to be great to follow, but he fell off hard. His ego doesn't match his (known) accomplishments, and he hasn't had anything original to say in awhile. RIP Gwern and Google+.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Nekopara and Sabbat of the Witch are safe... for now. Hopefully they don't know about the little-sister route in Making Lovers.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
They went after no-name games instead of Summer Memories or Treasure Hunter Claire? Weak. They should have at least aimed at Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Can you name a single job like this? It's much easier to name jobs where the accuracy doesn't compound, like daily customer service chatbots, or personal-tutor bots, or news-aggregator bots, or the inevitable (and somewhat dubiou
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
"there is no feasible scenario in which the majority of people are unemployed" Try not to ever forget you said this, you'll find it hilarious in the future. The value of typical human labor never stops falling, while the cost
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Yeah that's called Neoclassical economics, I don't doubt it's true. The question is whether the "shortages, abuse, or other issues" are worse than very-high unemployment scenarios in futures where the value of human
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
They haven't solved the biggest question: "Would landlords raise rents to take the UBI for themselves?" This study was always way too small for that. We'll probably only find out for sure the hard way.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
It's a proposed solution to mass unemployment scenarios. If the government wanted to give people money right now, it would just lower income taxes. If you have a better solution to mass unemployment, feel free to share it with the rest
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
I'm having trouble understanding, do you think people are going to stop buying iPhones because Siri isn't as good as ChatGPT? Do you think Apple users are going to flood over to the Pixel phone to use Gemini? What is this train-w
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
The sane way to do this (if you wanted to) would be to give the AI a debit card with a small balance to work with. If funds get stolen, you know exactly what the maximum damage is. And if you can't afford that damage, then you wouldn
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
The AI isn't going notice the latest and greatest hot new deals that are slathered on every page. It's just going to put the thing you asked for in the shopping-cart.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
I mostly agree with this. The goal with AI companies is not to reach 99% or 100% human-level, it's >100% (do tasks better than an average human could, or eventually an expert). But since you can't really do that with wedding p
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Create a burner account for email/calendar, that solves most of those problems. Nobody will care if the AI leaks that you have a dentist appointment on Tuesday.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
"a human making those mistakes again and again would get fired" You must be really desperate for anti-AI arguments if this is the one you're going with. Employees make mistakes all day every day and they don't get fired
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
"It feels like either finding that 2% that's off (or dealing with 2% error) will be the time consuming part in a lot of cases." This is the part you have wrong. People just won't do that. They'll save the 8 hours
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Lots of people saying this is ridiculously false, I think it's ridiculously true: Of course there are more ethical uses for your money than traveling, including thousands of legit charities you can write a check to right now. Tourism
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Googlers told me that appearing obsessed with climbing the career ladder is an expectation of SWEs, though not a strict requirement. Being a good liar seems like a huge plus.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
This reminds me of the book Animal Farm, except the corruption here is done by people too incompetent to keep their hand of cards hidden from view. A real power-coup needs to be fast and decisive, and this group is instead just setting the
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Yeah that was it. I always figured I could have regained reputation with the corrupt guards by doing evil things, but by that time I was ready to move on to Dark Age of Camelot.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Your post doesn't contain a single prediction of a problem that will occur, dangerous or otherwise, just some vague reference to "the baby might get thrown out with the bathwater". This is exactly what I'm talking about
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
Literally every single anti-AI comment I see on this site uses a form of the word "hype". You cannot make an actual objective argument against the AI-wave predictions, so you use the word hype and pretend that's a real argum
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
In this game, there was a city where I did so many quests for the guards that my reputation with the "corrupt guards" fell low enough that they would kill me on sight. Playing a good-guy character got me killed, and then I couldn
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
How is this any worse than using disposable paper towels with images on them.
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by j_timberlake 1y ago
If food prices went to near zero, healthcare and housing would mysteriously get more expensive until people could barely afford them even with cheap-as-salt food. The opposite is probably true too: if food prices went up, all of a sudden he

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