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by jprete 3y ago
There’s a lot to unpack in the word “scene”. Every scene itself is either a needed part of a story, or a story in and of itself, except that the meaning relies on the context of the whole work.
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by jprete 3y ago
Why not both?
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by jprete 3y ago
No-one seems to have sued Unity over an even more egregious set of EULA changes - claiming that users retroactively owed money on games developed and published under totally different terms.
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by jprete 3y ago
This is exactly why I am personally intensely opposed to treating ML training as fair use. Practically speaking the argument justifies ignoring anyone or any group’s preference not to contribute to ML training, so it’s a massive loss of fre
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by jprete 3y ago
If three of you have such substantially different interpretations of the text, then it’s almost certainly bullshit.
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by jprete 3y ago
It doesn’t have to monetize well, it just has to monetize enough to make up for the tiny amount of CPU involved in putting it together.
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by jprete 3y ago
This guy seems very high energy, intense, won’t give up, into the tech, likes to build and do. Also tried different ways to learn until something got him to stick to a project. He also seems to understand self-promotion, sales, and networki
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by jprete 3y ago
No. In utilitarian EA terms it’s 100% the opposite, you should give it to the peasant because they’ll get a lot more utility out of it.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think there's a strand of EA that goes hardcore utilitarian, because utilitarianism is the only thing that is both logical and universally fair. And that specific strand of EA is IMO very very vulnerable to ends-justify-means kind
730.
by jprete 3y ago
I have only ever observed EA as completely dominated by hardcore utilitarian philosophy, so it's interesting to read the statement that EA originally was not utilitarian. Do you have any information about what EA was like in that early
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by jprete 3y ago
EA has the same philosophical core as SV at large - find everything measurable and optimize the hell out of them. The philosophy ignores that something can be valuable even if it’s hard to measure. I think the deep underlying desire is to m
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by jprete 3y ago
Interesting. The author totally skips the discussion of whether coding skills will be useful in the future - in fact, he more or less assumes they won’t be. He instead suggests that there are two other reasons and these were always better r
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by jprete 3y ago
There are good reasons to think it’s fundamentally unsolvable within the LLM architecture. The reason LLMs are good at following instructions is because they have an enormous corpus of data. That corpus powers both the comprehension of inpu
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by jprete 3y ago
Open-source models are deployed all over the place _now_ with no concern for safety. Fortunately nobody has yet managed to make a mutatable reproducing system out of them.
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by jprete 3y ago
Because they go with mass corporate surveillance. As soon as a company starts personalizing ads with some data, they’re going to be under financial pressure to personalize ads with all the data they can get .
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by jprete 3y ago
China’s government is extremely interested in restricting their AI efforts because they don’t want it to contradict the Communist party.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think you’re ignoring things like tracking through share buttons and tracking pixels on third-party sites, which make it impossible for people to block FB’s spying except through extraordinary technical means, and also that Meta has had a
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by jprete 3y ago
Building and granting access to a generative model is far more damaging to the market prospects of the infringed works, which is also a factor. Like…the whole goal is for it to be able to replace what humans do, which is about as market-dam
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by jprete 3y ago
> Perhaps it would be better if I wrote out several paragraphs describing my intentions before taking up most coding tasks I often do things like this, and if the scale of the document was somewhat larger than you describe, it would be a
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by jprete 3y ago
Thanks for answering. To me, that specific exchange is very blunt authorial voice and not at all realistic in context. (Out of context, I can easily imagine a future where AIs are plausibly sentient, and it’s taboo to talk about it for huma
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by jprete 3y ago
I’ve only seen snippets but I thought it was obviously satire. Not parody, though. What specifically is the dumb idea here?
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by jprete 3y ago
I don't think this is the bigger risk, since we can figure out that we've done this, and stop, ideally in a way that's good for all of the sentient beings involved. But it's definitely a possible outcome of creating AGI,
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by jprete 3y ago
It looks like mass copyright infringement, frankly.
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by jprete 3y ago
Failing to actively say "no" is not the same thing as saying "yes". If your point is that the law means nothing unless someone is willing to file lawsuits, your point is taken.
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by jprete 3y ago
The article weasels out at the end by claiming that companies “may be unable to comply” with requirements to delete personal data. It’s easy to comply - if there’s no other choice then you delete the model and all backups and derivative dat
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by jprete 3y ago
There’s also a lack of actual communication. Yes, an AI image generator can stick a pattern into an otherwise totally different kind of image. But there’s no communicative meaning there other than what I just mentioned. There’s no clevernes
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by jprete 3y ago
I think there are actual existential and “semi-existential” risks, especially with going after an actual AGI. Separately, I think Ng is right - big corp AI has a massive incentive to promote doom narratives to cement themselves as the only
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by jprete 3y ago
This is a very interesting proposal of mechanism for how some foods might promote weight loss. For the TLDRers: Most foods promote the immediate release of GLP-1, which reduces hunger. But it’s quickly broken down so doesn’t last long. Ferm
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by jprete 3y ago
The actual problem is that the unmonetizable value gets tossed out by PE. E.g. customer service will take a massive dive because everyone working for the clinic or whatever else will be time-pressured out of good service. Generally the prob
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by jprete 3y ago
From the outside, it's very very difficult to tell what the actual motivation is. As a kid on the spectrum, I learned very early to shut up about everything genuine in myself, because peoples' social reactions were so painful. I s

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