jplusequalt

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by jplusequalt 6d ago
>Surely you don't think a __president is being dishonest__ when delivering a speech that someone else wrote for them? Oh, but I would!
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by jplusequalt 6d ago
People who understand the vast gulf of technological advancements (some bordering on fantasy) between what we currently have, and what needs to exist for it to happen?
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by jplusequalt 7d ago
Space colonization will never happen.
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>when they start inventing their own languages to secretly talk to each other so humans cannot understand, that's exactly when we are screwed They don't have to invent brand new languages. They could use statistics to choose ce
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
The economy cannot just transition over night, or even within a few years, to quickly absorb a labor shock the size you're describing. Also, you have not addressed how we're going suddenly to develop the robots required for your f
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>AI will lead to personal chefs, contractors, assistants, drivers, tutors, climbing partners, ... You need to show how having X more data centers is somehow going to translate into affordable, highly advanced robots in the immediate futu
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>and happy to see the end of human labor. How is a chatbot going to end human labor? Where are the millions of robots required to do all the various other jobs in the economy. You and everyone else with this rhetoric must see AI as the r
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
>Let's not take the argument far enough to claim that everyone who was ever killed by socialists must have been a socialist, too. Well it's a good thing I only mentioned the two groups who were explicitly socialists!
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other.
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
This is what Effective Altruism is.
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
It's a big tent community, in part because these people spend so much time entertaining wild, speculative hypotheticals, which in the process allows some of these particularly toxic ideas to spread.
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by jplusequalt 8d ago
Yes. Sam Bankman Fried was/is an EA/rationalist (on the short list of biggest fraudsters in American history). So are the Zizian's (a murder cult). etc. etc.
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by jplusequalt 9d ago
>Why can't OpenAI publish whatever it wants. And the math community can use it or not use it. The "math community" is not an isolated entity that is free from the confines of society. It's made up of lots of people wh
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by jplusequalt 9d ago
>It is up to us to coordinate and make use of the technology. 1) Coordination is hard, and 2) "us" is a hopelessly nebulous term that appears inclusive but is almost always exclusive. I think people would have said the creation
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by jplusequalt 9d ago
>Humans only invest in solving problems that matter one way or another. Fermat's Last Theorem was one of the most famous open problems in math for centuries, and it has no direct applicability to any tangible problems here in the ph
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by jplusequalt 9d ago
>that AI can do everything economically necessary This is practically impossible, because the "economically necessary" things to do are never fixed but instead are in a state of constant fluctuation. Furthermore, a chain is onl
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>This isn’t really about AI, it’s about a culture where threats and coercion in service of one’s own ideology have become normalised This has always been a thing.
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>Do you say the same thing for the shoes you wear, the clothing you wear, the device you are typing on right now? No, because the shoes and clothes I wear are not living, sentient beings.
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>I agree we aren't the same thing, but I would be curious for you to explain how you know with certainty why we don't share enough that we can rule out thinking / feeling / ... with certainty. Stop anthropomorphizing
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>The solution isn't 'just don't use them' but rather how to use these things as ethically as possible. Bollocks. If you truly believe these LLMs are soon to have something resembling consciousness and agency, then wha
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>The community can now contribute code and solve issues more faster rather than a handful of people gatekeeping slowing down development Everyone hates gatekeeping until they don't. Watch quality go down, issues increase, project di
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>It likely is, but at some point it very well might stop being true. If you firmly believe this to be true, then you should stop using LLMs.
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>Would love to hear your suggestions on how to stay in ”mental” shape in the AI age. Work on stuff without the use of AI? I am building a Vulkan game engine in my spare time. I use LLMs sparingly for search, rubber ducking, and occasiona
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>I'm excited that group one is full of people who couldn't previously "make" anything with code, but now can (in the same way I'm excited that more people can now "make" music, art, stories, movies, etc
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by jplusequalt 10d ago
>term inherently belittling what they make I would argue that if you belong to group one you have not actually "made" anything. I would also argue that group two aren't "software engineers" anymore; what they do
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by jplusequalt 11d ago
The idea behind "writing is thinking" is that people often overestimate their understanding until pressed to express it in words (or code). How many times in your career did you sit down to tackle a task thinking you knew exactly
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by jplusequalt 11d ago
I'm sure this delights many people in todays age. Just like how social media has possessed many people with cultivating an outward facing image that often diverges with reality, AI posses people to portray themselves as an artist/
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by jplusequalt 11d ago
>My hunch is that this ultimately doubles back to those that excel at story telling and human coordination. As the AI systems “offload” not just production but I believe some initiation of what to build, the “why” and how to rally groups
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by jplusequalt 11d ago
>do you know what the word artisanal means https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artisan Do you? >they're literaly not Are you arguing that all the metal we have in our cars, buildings, airplanes is sti
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by jplusequalt 11d ago
>would an AI instantly migrate itself once its capable of doing so? These "AI" are frontier models that are enormous in size. Outside of AI data centers, I don't believe there is much hardware out there that could even run

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