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by martin-t 1y ago
Ah yes, the rudest form of agreement - downvote without justification. If you can't explain why i am wrong, consider i am right.
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by martin-t 1y ago
Can't watch the video now but partially. I don't like describing it as cycles because it is too simplistic and pretend it is inevitable, robbing people of agency. I prefer to think of society as a system where different actors hav
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by martin-t 1y ago
It would be short-termist if they had actual gains from their work other that salary. They don't. They are acting rationally given companies don't seem to value long term expertise. Now, if it was a worker- owned cooperative, that
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by martin-t 1y ago
Evolution used to work by some people dying before they could reproduce. That's how we become the smartest animal on the planet. But it no longer works, we are very good at keeping everyone alive. And there's nothing wrong with th
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by martin-t 1y ago
> Here's the story of a bank literally telling a man he was being scammed and he still proceeded to transfer funds to a fraudster. > The bank blocked a number of transactions, it spoke to James on the phone to warn him and even c
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by martin-t 1y ago
Increasingly, I keep noticing that all human-corporation relationships are a rehash of older power structures and basically struggles for power in which people gradually keep losing it until they realize they are exploited and then finally
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by martin-t 1y ago
Publishing does not and should not mean you give away all your rights. Part of the reason for writing is to cultivate an audience, to bring like-minded people together. Letting a middleman wedge itself between you and your reader damages th
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by martin-t 1y ago
In theory, yes. My guess is they would be bought by an already huge corporation, leading to even bigger monopolies. Does anybody here have an example of this happening? "Nobody knows" is kind of an indication how often this happen
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by martin-t 1y ago
And that's why it won't happen. One of the reasons huge companies don't get punished in full is that destroying them could be destabilizing to the economy and therefore hurt's the ability of the people with power to get
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by martin-t 1y ago
Like telekinesis? This comment is the perfect example of how saying something obviously wrong (or nonsensical) on the internet is the best way to get people to respond (of which I am now guilty myself). The (reasonable) GP comment has 1 rep
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by martin-t 1y ago
Weapons are for hunting, target shooting and killing people. These HR types (and many in the general population) need to understand that there's nothing wrong with the third point. Aside from the obvious case of self defense, people ca
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by martin-t 1y ago
And you know what? I still doubt they're gonna face any serious penalties, both to the company and to the execs. We need laws to actually protect normal working people, not corporations and execs. Trying to silence people with lawsuits
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by martin-t 1y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with inteligence or knowledge tests. People obviously have wildly different abilities to make good decisions. The real issue is that western societies are built on individualism and the is that
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Malware is the excuse. Control is the goal. Extracting as much money from people while providing less actual value. The saddest part is this is to the detriment of literally everyone except a couple rich owners of those companies. And every
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When you say new mathematical theorems, they absolutely can. So can infinite monkeys on typewriters, though LLMs have a much better heuristic to arrive at valid trheorems. The same applies to valid new programs. The issue I have with this i
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by martin-t 1y ago
https://en.lmgtfy2.com/query/?q=ONE+HUNDRED+EXAMPLES+OF+GPT-... You didn't have to be rudely dismissive and lie, you chose to. I would happily respond politely to a polite request. Please be mindful of your behavi
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by martin-t 1y ago
Human time is valuable, LLM time is not. If you spend hundreds of hours creating something, nobody should have the right to copy (verbatim or with automatic modifications) it unless you allow them. Human rights are valuable. LLMs allow laun
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by martin-t 1y ago
1) They absolutely do sometimes repeat training data verbatim.[0] 2) That's not even the point. The point is being trained on stolen data without permission, pretending that the resulting model of the training data is not a derived wor
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by martin-t 1y ago
This is the right approach. I only buy games if the money goes to the original creators, not some parasitic company who bought the "IP".
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How does any company manage to hire competents with this attitude?
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by martin-t 1y ago
These companies treat fines as the cost of doing business and every time they lose people's personal information, they get slapped on the wrist and laugh it off while the execs get bonuses for having someone write a tearful apology to
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by martin-t 1y ago
Because you certainly are the right person to pass judgement and destroy someone's life based on reading a few blog posts.
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by martin-t 1y ago
Or that they took sufficient care to remain anonymous.
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by martin-t 1y ago
Which in turn is maybe because they are unwilling to offer sufficient compensation. You get what you pay for but this time the tables have turned and it's a big corp getting shafted. This is not a mom and pop shop struggling to keep th
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by martin-t 1y ago
Nobody has an obligation to assume competence. Incompetence is very common on both sides. It is reasonable to assume incompetence. Given it's such common criticism and refuting it is simple, yes, the author should pre-respond. Otherwis
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by martin-t 1y ago
I hate this idea that you always have to be professional when dealing with a corporation and have to follow rules exactly, often rules made up by the corporation. (Laws are just rules too, they are enforced by violence.) The corporation sho
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by martin-t 1y ago
I understand but incompetence is so common everywhere in society that mistakes like this genuinely are the first thought people should have. I have the opposite opinion - if criticism like this is so obvious (and it is), then it's up t
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by martin-t 1y ago
It's not about being mandatory. It's about having a privileged position and using it to extract value from people. The nature of network effects is such that once a site gets as big as reddit (or facebook or tiktok or whichever),
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by martin-t 1y ago
Or... we could just make advertising illegal[0]. It would be really nice to get rid of one parasitic zero-sum "industry" without feeding all intellectual output into a slop machine which resells it without credit or compensation.
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by martin-t 1y ago
It cannot do anything on its own, it's just a (very complex, probabilistic) mechanical transformation (including interpolation) of training data and a prompt. Advertising autocomplete as AI was a genius move because people start humani

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