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by jprete 3y ago
That doesn't help, coding newbies can't be expected to write comprehensive unit tests to keep an LLM's implementation on the rails, and the LLM flexibility doesn't stretch all the way into deployment unless it is the act
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by jprete 3y ago
I think that only blocks them from recommendations, not search results.
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by jprete 3y ago
Android's YT app will do the same autopreview behavior if a video is roughly in the middle of the top half of the screen. If the video runs for long enough in this state, it will show up in your watch history even though you never inte
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by jprete 3y ago
As I see it, we aren't going to make such a change in time to matter, so I left it out of my comment.
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by jprete 3y ago
Product safety for consumer products seems to be directly in the FTC's domain.
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by jprete 3y ago
This was a better argument when AI wasn't making art and music. EDIT: For what it's worth, no I don't want people to have to do menial labor or whatnot. I just see no reason to expect AGI to make people's lives better if
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by jprete 3y ago
AI companies want to make completely unengineered systems with no systematic guarantee that they work or even knowledge of how they work, and then try to displace as much human labor as possible in as many critical points of control as poss
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by jprete 3y ago
All property is unnatural. What's your point?
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by jprete 3y ago
That's possible, but I don't think that would be a positive development either. Code isn't flexible or self-correcting, if you make bad code it will just break by surprise. If the only way someone can code is with LLM assista
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by jprete 3y ago
The benefit of linear TV was that everyone was on the same schedule so all the post-viewing social aspects worked better. It also helped the social aspects that there were three or four networks with all major content, so the odds were very
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by jprete 3y ago
Technological infeasibility is not necessarily an excuse for skipping record-keeping. I've heard that financial organizations, which often have strong compliance requirements, do in fact record phone calls and video chats - possibly ev
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by jprete 3y ago
That's not how North Korea works. You have access to what the state allows you.
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by jprete 3y ago
I've found it very effective to remove quick access to sites - bookmarks, browser navbar suggestions, etc. This is the last site I visit on a regular basis - I have a bunch of bookmarks of actually useful things here. I'll watch Y
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by jprete 3y ago
I personally don't think sex positivism has done the general population any favors, so I think it's quite toxic to make an app explicitly to facilitate friend hookups. It's just going to create hurt feelings and destroyed fri
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by jprete 3y ago
Tab groups are a mental shortcut so you can spend less time figuring out the nature of the tab you're looking at or finding particular tabs. If something automates their creation then there is absolutely an advantage to sites that can
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by jprete 3y ago
I cannot remember ever seeing a car deliberately drive on the sidewalk. If you've seen this where you are, then I agree that the cars are clearly more dangerous.
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by jprete 3y ago
Cyclists can kill pedestrians. It's definitely happened, although I don't know how common it is.
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by jprete 3y ago
In NYC, 90% of the times I see cyclists - typically because I'm using a crosswalk - they are violating the rules of the road. They don't yield to pedestrians, they don't stay in a lane, they don't signal turns, they don&
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by jprete 3y ago
Can you give an example where AI has potentially displaced human software engineers? I know of an example where creatives were probably laid off in favor of AI, but not clear examples for software engineering itself. (I'm not in favor
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by jprete 3y ago
Your comment isn't a counterargument - it's changing the subject to a different (although related) argument.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think a mechanistic universe is not necessarily a computation, so purely physical intelligence is also not necessarily a computation. But I'm not prepared at the moment to go dig up the alternatives to "computation" and &qu
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by jprete 3y ago
The first useful steam engine, according to Wikipedia's entry on that year: "The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley, to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England, t
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by jprete 3y ago
It seems like an article of faith to believe that the universe is a computer in the first place. Without that assumption, we don't even know that intelligence is computation.
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by jprete 3y ago
I haven't had Hue login troubles, but the quality of the light control has gone down a bit. If I tell it to turn the lights to the fireplace mode, that gets turned into multiple instructions to the light bulbs, but sometimes it drops s
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by jprete 3y ago
If the comedian starts using that ability to make people think the politician said something they didn't say, then the comedian is guilty of fraud. Also, "humans can do it" is not a reason to allow AI to do the same thing. Ge
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by jprete 3y ago
It's a start. It's too much to wish to undo the Internet becoming a giant scamming platform without something shifting. But AI faking is a new class of danger of its own since Gen AI eliminates tons of markers of authenticity that
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by jprete 3y ago
I never herd that before, thanks.
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by jprete 3y ago
The only credible reason I would see for AGI not radically changing the world is if it were limited by available power because of thermodynamic limitations.
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by jprete 3y ago
The main critique I have of your post is that it's very possible that the woman doesn't have other options. In the absence of UBI and other socialist utopias, she and her daughter will probably fall marginally further down the eco
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by jprete 3y ago
I definitely didn't intend such an implication, and I don't think it follows from what I said.

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