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721.
by kiba 3y ago
I am taking their mission statement seriously even though I am seriously skeptical about AGI. But they don't take their mission statement with any seriousness.
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by kiba 3y ago
We don't know what will be at the end of this. It seems that the OpenAI folks are endlessly pursuing the technology of AGI without actually working on making sure that AGI benefit "all of humanity." They haven't even art
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by kiba 3y ago
I am more concerned about people abusing AI technology to generate spam, fake, and trick people, resulting in an almost entirely useless internet and polluted information space. Maybe it's for the best that we start meeting each other
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by kiba 3y ago
Sure, but not everybody's going to do that. It's a very small lever to affect causality.
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by kiba 3y ago
The infantry man is basically vulnerable to everything on the battlefield and yet they remain indispensable as ever.
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by kiba 3y ago
Bit of a strawman isn't it? Donate ten percent of your income now, and increase it as you go up in income is what I seen from some effective altruists. If you don't save people right now, you might actually save less people in the
727.
by kiba 3y ago
As I find myself often saying: Why not do both? Improve your friendship network and improve resilience.
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by kiba 3y ago
Open AI is an organization supposedly dedicated to AI safety research. It's not a business that's about making $$$ (supposedly). Altman doesn't even own shares.
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by kiba 3y ago
Altman is supposed to be following OpenAI 's charter. Quoted from the company website: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. [1] The Op
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by kiba 3y ago
Viewing things like exercise and diet as a non choice is insanely dis-empowering. I want to know that I can choose to change if its important to me, I don't want to feel powerless to genetics or the society in which I was born. It&#x
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by kiba 3y ago
Aging being preprogrammed is only one hypothesis. The other hypothesis is that the evolution only selected for what work and reproduced. Note what work and reproduced is only a minimum bar.
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by kiba 3y ago
"Gaining ground" is not really particularly a meaningful metric if you don't take a look at its magnitude and the attrition on equipment and manpower. It is in any case a full brute force approach that bellies an enemy that i
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by kiba 3y ago
Movement is very important to our health. People who don't move as often just die younger than those who don't. I don't know how it would impact our evolution long term.
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by kiba 3y ago
We basically licked the problem for food production but the issue is distribution. We now have specific terms for genocide, and varying amount of labor rights, such as non-free versus free labor, characterizing levels of deception, coercion
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by kiba 3y ago
It would also be incorrect to say that we're not sophisticated or developed. That's just false humility.
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by kiba 3y ago
That's only true if you hold the environment to be negatively correlated with quality of life. It's not automatically true that having cars increase the quality of life.
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by kiba 3y ago
You can't make difficult choices you want unless you understand and trained to manipulate your own mind. A society can't become healthier, even if they are willing, unless they understood the steps they need to take to become heal
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by kiba 3y ago
trains are exclusively fixed point-to-point. many cities are not constructed for walking and/or are 110 in the summer. respectfully, screw walking. Changing society is hard isn't an excuse to continue the status quo, nor some ed
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by kiba 3y ago
Middle housing is illegal? Where is that or rather what is that then? Middle housing is a type of housing density that sits somewhere between high rises and single family housing. Vox media has a good article on it.[1] but you might find
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by kiba 3y ago
I hope I'm just misreading sarcasm there, but they are very much choices and that itself should be empowering because people can just as easily make a different choice. If choice is so easy, anyone can pick up a textbook about mathe
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by kiba 3y ago
Religion is supposed to be about guidance for people and how to live a good life as a part of the whole. Dealing with ethical codes, coping with the human condition of stress and suffering, familial and social bonds etc. It's all jus
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by kiba 3y ago
Perhaps for some things, but, for example, holidays far away are a choice, buying a large house is a choice, buying lots of clothes is a choice. Buying a large house is a 'choice' in the sense that much of middle housing is ille
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by kiba 3y ago
Not Just Bike has a good video on it.[1] Of course, if you don't think youtube videos can't ever be credible sources, then I am not going to be able to convince you of anything. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by kiba 3y ago
Walk more. Drive less. Get rid of parking minimums. Easier said than done of course, but that's politics for you. We have very good reason to reduce environmental pollution now, because pollution literally kill people, and not some obs
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by kiba 3y ago
It could just easily shows that people don't have choice. After all, state and local authorities decreed how much parking there should be and how zoning works. Meanwhile, the feds provided funding for an interstate system in which high
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by kiba 3y ago
You think that reducing number of cars will not reduce the standard of living? Being forced to ride a bike in a snow is surely an improvement unwashed masses are yearning for. Of course. If you ever drove downtown during rush hours, it is
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by kiba 3y ago
We can use less cars and use more trains. Energy efficiency is also an addition in the crease of available energy source, since said energy sources can be deployed to more productive, less harmful processes. Walking is also good, and it wou
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by kiba 3y ago
It can also be true that improving energy efficiency will be good, and forgoing harmful energetic activity is also good, such as reducing the number of cars on the road.
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by kiba 3y ago
Walking would improve lifestyle of most humans on Earth.
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by kiba 3y ago
The analogy of the past doesn't mean that the same process will happen. The industrial revolution after all was unprecedented in the history of human civilizations until it happened. Nobody had a roadmap on how it will all play out.

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