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That's the trick part though. They are playing status games, and making particular products available to specific people. Whatever the majority of people get will be a modified, probably weakened, version of what those at higher social
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Everything is a rich man's trick. This is rich social classes claiming more for themselves. Someone convince me otherwise?
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Which words are you proposing work better for the scenarios in this article?
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Seems like this is a theme in our culture, maybe it's a world wide trend. The underlying theme I notice is unaccountability and selective application of rules, laws, norms to some people and not others. It seems to me like people with
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why not? I'm curious what you define as "property". Does property have to be physical? For example if you felt your body and your mind was your property, if someone else copied your mind and was now profiting off of that with
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yes that was it.
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Do you think that having an equal right to live as any other being must be true in all scenarios, in all cases, and all experiences? i.e. if a tree has that right to equal life, its true all the time through every possibility space of its e
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looks like we can't today. Man it would be great to figure out how to be above the law just like how these other rich people in different social classes are.
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>But if you show them a jailbreak of their model that bypasses their safety, they'll tell you that any model can eventually be jailbroken so don't worry about safety. Yes this is in line with what Anthropic said in their public
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That's a great cost-benefit ratio. Can you and I steal and do illegal things and pay the same cost?
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there's no honor among thieves.
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> At what point will we be better to support a lab that pays (some) licenses today vs the ones that pay none? Why is a lab that pays all licenses today not on your list? Is ethics and morality that low on your radar?
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I studied an ancient form of communing with trees, through treediets ( https://sacredtreekeepers.com ) where I had a ~10 day fast with tree bark tea. there's certainly sentience and life form in them, unlike ours and also abl
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I looked up stealing to ground this comment of mine: > stealing: to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice I admire Ben for being so direct. I wonder why we fetishize, herbicide and norma
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Sounds like you and I both like rebelling and challenging cultural norms, and being counter culture? I also love understanding people and find these ways of playing and being fun. If I'm not having fun, I lose interest in winning. I fo
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seems like an example of change of game design rewarding play time over community or socializing. or might be hard to connect those two together. for me, to relate to your experience, I played a army shooter sim called Americas Army in the
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seems to me that 20% of people agreeing, and the remaining 80% staying silent (or 79% with 1% vocal), leads to the abuse cycle continuing. The silent majority creates a false feeling of large consensus and inability to know the reality.
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Wasn't this the end goal in the a totalitarian state in the novels by Orwell and sort of described in the movie Ready Player One? The gist of it as I understand it is in a society where things are fake and incredibly extractive (where
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How did Apple figure this out? Isn't the solution to this to sort of evolve to a unified memory architecture, which wins in speed and cost anyway?
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Thanks. I like the idea of doing this, myself, and glad you see a value from this. Do you not worry about giving away your most intimate data to for-profit companies who have not signed to protect your data in a dignified fashion?
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maybe the irrational part is the amount of demand for consumer hardware, wouldn't the market for professional ML/AI used hardware go away from consumer hardware over time? (I can talk more about what I mean consumer hardware to
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have you heard of the word Psychosis? Personally, I think when theres this much money involved the psychosis would only intensify. I wonder how much money is actually involved?
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> The ram/gpu shortage won't last forever though Don't underestimate the markets ability to remain irrational
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you had the right spirit and a hackers mindset. so dont fret too much on others opinions of you
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Why is not a thing that people track the lies of people as they are public, and tie them to their reputation over time for anyone to find?
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Would love to know if you decide to work on this, or if otherwise, want to collaborate. feel free to email me hello@mannan.is - or maybe I'll begin work on this before you and we can share notes edit: I don't particularly care for
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Plot twist: the companies are unethically (blaming it on AI slop code) harvesting your GPU and CPU resources to generate tokens for their products consumers in a decentralized fashion. Not unlike those old monero or other crypto spyware min
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As long as a majority of the people of the living class are gullible and naive and sick, entrained behavior from the institutions and media they are made to consume, they stop seeing the misleading and false claims. Or at least they myopica
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I don't think people are happy to give it over, gullible and naive maybe?
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This happens in the US, too. Maybe with different drivers, though certainly money moves to people close to the problem. Now wouldn't it be interesting to dive into how old the extortion tactic of creating the problem you solve goes?

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