mach1ne

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by mach1ne 4y ago
Not on all cases, but I personally know one startup where the VC told the investors to hire as many people as possible, regardless of whether they were actually needed. This anecdote seems to ring true with what I hear elsewhere.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
DeepMind proudly announces that their censorship will surpass even that of OpenAI's? These companies are sick with ideology.
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Ask HN: Best website to write occasional essays?
1 points by mach1ne 4y ago|1 comments
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Psychedelics, namely ones like LSD and magic mushrooms, are known to cause psychotic episodes which turn violent. Their prevalence despite the rarity of the drug strongly suggest a high risk of unpredictable violent action.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That context is irrelevant given the fact that alcohol usage is so widespread compared to heroin. Do you seriously claim that society would function better if every normal alcohol user converted to use heroin? Furthermore, my point on psych
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by mach1ne 4y ago
It’s not about the morality of something, that’s another discussion. It’s the objective why.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I’m sorry, but the article you linked is just sensational - its header claims alcohol is more harmful than heroin. Alcohol usage is extremely widespread, so of course its negative effects are more obvious in the population than other drugs.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Yes, large language models are surprisingly close to how the ship AI in Star Trek seems to work.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Maybe in semantics but not in the intention of the article.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
There was a Part 1 of this post I believe (it could have been by a different author). It revealed that TikTok sends fingerprinting data about your device during every get request, under an unseeming header, encrypted to look like a long ran
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Props to the author for clearly indicating the random-guess mark.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
They do heavy data collecting which is a PR hit if it's too obvious. Obfuscation could be a general policy driven by this.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Don't worry, it will cause the public opinion to finally turn against the Sanctuary Districts.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
People often forget that there are brilliant developers who don’t need to be 10x to produce extreme value to those around them.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
>"Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old." ”I’m sorry, I cannot answer that query because it has ableist connotations. I am a large language model by OpenAI.”
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The Forest People (2016)(johnzada.com)
4 points by mach1ne 4y ago|0 comments
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by mach1ne 4y ago
At least this one seems to be unintended, as per Sam Altman: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1606825909818126336
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by mach1ne 4y ago
What's fundamentally keeping humanity mis-aligned is the fact that our very being is not aligned for altruistic cooperation. Every one of us is painfully aware that we could be living in an utopia right now. Literally the only barrier
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Name one where the system is not contingent on immediate family helping immediate family, or to be more precise, one which is not explained by Hamilton's Law. There is no individual selection either, by the way, that's another com
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Since we understood that it is the individual gene that is the unit of selection. Even Wikipedia reads: "The vast majority of behavioural biologists have not been convinced by renewed attempts to revisit group selection as a plausible
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by mach1ne 4y ago
That's fairly unlikely since it relies mostly on group selection, which is mostly a defunct theory.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I wouldn’t call it ridiculous. It is a viable strategy. Difficult to say if we’re seeing a coincidence or said strategy.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Write some anti-CCP stuff on social media, become randomly targeted by China's "Magic Methods". Whole lot easier when they have your biometric data.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
China’s economy is slowing down long-term. This means that there is likely no longer sufficient constant increase in standards of living to keep the populace happy with the Party. A natural alternative for authoritarian regimes to keep thei
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by mach1ne 4y ago
Luckily our society is more complex than that, otherwise a single person would literally own everything. Looking at the world and our history, it’s not that there is any single optimal point where the trickle-up effect would somehow balance
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I don’t recognize the described risk. If spam gets so advanced that individual articles are indistinguishable from human-produced material, reputation steps in, forcing much more ability from the bots to keep up with human content producers
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by mach1ne 4y ago
In my opinion, it would needlessly clutter the tool’s output. As long as there is no legal liability.
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by mach1ne 4y ago
It's about the fact that institutions (incl. corporations) hold all the power in the world, and the people within them are recruited from academia. If academia becomes (is) an indoctrination school, it will produce mainly activists and
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by mach1ne 4y ago
I think that the rationalization to self is indeed about goodwill. But the monkeybrain does love to elevate self above others, and I find that the people who write these are, to some degree, incapable of separating the motivations of true s
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by mach1ne 4y ago
And it's a vicious cycle which generates support. If you can pressure a neutral to adopt your 'language', they are likely to eventually convince themselves that they support your ideals, since why else would they go through t

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