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by martin-t 10mo ago
Word filters are only the beginning. LLMs are being phased in to flag and filter content based on more sophisticated criteria. I read somewhere that chinese people used the ability of their language to form new meanings by concatenating mul
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I don't know but I don't think so. The closest I know of is an article exploring why there are is no research into just riots: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/445638/ I follow lesswrong from a distance and they a
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There's a web post and a web post. The source I linked is written by a historian[0] - a guy who actually studied how this kind of stuff happens. You'll also notice that his post uses a fairly high standard of proof - using 2 diffe
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> Rather from numbers in my opinion. Because for now more people means more violence. If you control more people, you control more potential violence. So if your enemy controls more people, you need to either amass more people in your ca
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> Our license plates started with “Gan-A,” the same as the provincial capital. We laughed at people from other cities like Jiayuguan (“Gan-B”) or Jiuquan (“Gan-F”). Even as kids, we joked, “We’re still number one.” Because our grandparen
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While I absolutely agree that in the current state of things most western people are so well off they can't even imagine what it means to actually be oppressed and suffer, I can't help but notice that the current state of things c
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Incompetence is a taboo. It shouldn't be. I think it should be perfectly OK to make value judgements of other people, and if they are backed by evidence, make them publicly and make them have consequences for that person's positio
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So progress is always good, no matter how many people's work you exploit without their consent? You have a nice car, can I just take it and use it myself? Why is code any different? Is slavery OK too? A much more interesting problem is
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Some sad irony: just like saying the wrong thing is more likely to get you a reply, using a poor title gets them more engagement.
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> LLMs are an improvement. Unless somebody is using them to generate authoritative-sounding human-sounding text full of factoids and half-truths in support of a particular view. Then it becomes about who can afford more LLMs and more IPs
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> I don’t understand why any company would want the liability of holding on to any personal data if it wasn’t vital to the operations of the business, considering all the data breaches we’ve seen over the past decade or so. They're
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1) Your lack of proper punctuation makes some sentences hard to read and it comes off as disrespectful. 2) Generally, people use the > character for quotes. You use " and that's fine but your third quote is not an actual quote
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The point is it's not free, you're exchanging time, attention and data instead of money. In fact, you're exchanging them at a rate you are not informed about which means you are disadvantaged in this exchange. It would be fre
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> its free as you paid zero dollar What about other currencies? Do you only count state-issues currencies? Have you heard about barter? > but that just not possible in current time Why not?
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You can't. So don't advertise it as free. It's just lying, simple as that. People either pay with their data, their attention or their money. Companies should be required to be transparent about how much revenue each of these
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Because it's extortion just like paying the mafia for "protection" from themselves. See, ads are not a pro-social service. Their fundamental goal is not to inform and facilitate mutually beneficial exchange of goods/serv
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How about the other perspective? The current modus operandi for tech companies is to offer something for free or below market price, gain a userbase, lock them in and destroy competitors who don't have cash to burn, then alter the deal
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I asked specifically how _you_ think it works because I suspected you understanding to be incomplete or wrong. Telling people to use a statistical text generator is both rude and would not be a good way to learn anyway. But since you think
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> Human time is certainly valuable to a particular human. Human time is valuable to humans in general. When you apply one standard to yourself and another to others, you say it's OK for them to do the same. Human time or life obviou
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> Xanadu I've heard about it in the past, never really looked into what it is. It's now in my to-read list so I'll hope to potentially read about it this century... > I absolutely love your attention to detail Thanks. I
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This is the first technology in human history which only works if you use an exorbitant amount of other people's work (without their consent, often without even their knowledge) to automate their work. There have been previous tech rev
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> I don't think it's even reasonable to suggest that 1000 people all coming up with variations of some arbitrary bit of code either deserve credit There's 8B people on the planet, probably ~100M can code to some degree[0].
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> What justifies treating human output differently? Human time is inherently valuable, computer time is not. One angle: The real issue is how this is made possible. Imagine an AI being created by a lone genius or a team of really good pr
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> shows intent to obfuscate the origins Good point. Reminds me of how if you poison one person, you go to prison, but when a company poisons thousands, it gets a fine... sometimes. > it takes away the one payment that free software au
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> if 1K people have done similar things ad the AI learns from that, well, I don't think credit is something that should apply. I think it should. Sure, if you make a small amount of money and divide it among the 1000 people who dese
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And this is just the stuff you notice. 1) Verbatin copy is first-order plagiarism. 2a) Second-order plagiarism of written text would be replacing words with synonyms. Or taking a book paragraph by paragraph and for each one of them, rephras
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The whole "reproduces training data vebatim" is a red herring. It reproduces _patterns from the training data_, sometimes including verbatim phrases. The work (to discover those patterns, to figure out what works and what does not
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Programmers are willingly blind to this, at least until it's their code being stolen or they lose their job. _LLMs are lossily compressed archives of stolen code_. Trying to achieve AI through compression is nothing new.[0] The key inn
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I am surprised by the comments about GH CI. I first started using CI on GL, then moved to GH and found GH's to let me get things done more easily. It's been years through and the ease of doing simple things is not always indicativ
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The underlying issues are: 1) People don't really vote based on logic and sound reasoning. They vote based on what sounds right to them. If they're unhappy with something, they vote for somebody who also claims to be unhappy about

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