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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Yeah I thought my employers were good normal people too, just found out they sold to PE firm that wants to “supercharge” our operations with AI. This of course is after swearing they had no interest in M&A to get me to join. “Nothing is
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
How is it hyperbolic when it’s human history?
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Ah yes, Sam “Not Consistently Candid” Altman
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
AI- induced psychosis... "AI Psychosis" is not a real thing. People who aren't psych professionals should stop trying to make psych diagnoses. I made another comment in another thread about this that got downvoted to hell, b
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
> It will delete your prod db faster and with a bigger smile than your most upset employee. It will do this without any feeling whatsoever, without "knowing" what it is doing, because it is a predictive model and not a living b
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
This is a local proxy , it does not run local LLMs
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Unless encryption is advertised as a feature, it’s a safe assumption that vendors that host your data will have access to it, the cloud being someone else’s computer and all that.
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
When you buy a medical data collection device and it collects medical data that’s not exactly a surprise
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Livestream more things and sell digital tickets. Doesn’t do anything directly, but acts as a substitute to shift demand away. Not much point in scalping tickets to a livestream unless the supply is limited, either by an artificial cap or t
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
In poker you have some control over the outcome through your actions in the game. Your skill at judging horses and jockeys cannot affect the outcome of a horse race. Options trading I don’t really know enough to have a strong opinion, but s
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
So where you live is out of your control? The US has a ton of great hunting, your take might be more true in cities but the rats and pigeons will still be around. People still need to know how to find and purify water, how to make shelter a
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
So it’s still gambling for the other participants who don’t have that insider knowledge then. If one person at a blackjack table is counting cards, does that make it not gambling for everyone else?
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
90% of the activity is sports gambling or insider trading, there’s no benefit that outweighs the negatives
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Buying a share of a company affords marginal utility outside the value going up or down, in that you ostensibly have a vote on how the company is run
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Can you provide examples of prediction markets that aren’t gambling?
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
One distinction I think really needs to be included in any gambling bans is whether it’s a game of chance or skill. Betting on yourself is quintessentially American. I’d argue betting on someone else’s game of skill (eg sports betting) is a
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
> Its irrelevant if you can provide for yourself. The ecosystem cannot support 9 billion Hunter gatherers - period. I didn’t suggest that it could, but the number that it can support is certainly more than zero. If that’s the only choice
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
This is nothing new though; industrialization and specialization have already caused basic survival skills to atrophy in most of the population. Take the case of a massive EMP taking out all computer systems. Gaps in supply chains and power
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Which is a terrible assumption given an antipope is just a self-declared pope
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If people had to pay for it, most wouldn’t
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
If the tweet had called his friends autistic, would that be a legitimate use?
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
People would understand what he meant if he called someone awkward “autistic” too. It’s wrong to use medical terms as slang because it erases the actual meaning and disregards the lived experience of people who have been through the conditi
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Yes. I was offering examples. Again, having a difference of opinion is not a delusion. If he meant mass psychosis, he should have said mass psychosis. And again, since he is not a public health scientist or any flavor of psych professional,
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Hi Mitchell. Psychosis is a serious psychiatric condition that can be induced or triggered by AI. “AI psychosis” in this context is a misuse of a clinical term. Your tweet describes a disagreement on a value judgment that boils down to “mov
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
> They have no scalable business model that yields profit outside of raising more investment Yeah that doesn’t sound Ponzi-adjacent at all
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
I think they are saying they want to track the ideas of people who support techno-fascists like Thiel and who don't think that ideology is insane, and that it can be difficult to find them online
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Are all your comments this abrasive and obtuse? Obviously chucking a million at every grad student every year to do whatever they feel like is poor financial decision making. If the university is funding the research, they can retain the IP
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
University of Illinois is also a public school. University of Chicago is private, as is MIT.
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Not at all. Notice they said nothing about applications or acceptance rates. It is actually more competitive to get funding.
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
They have $27 billion in their endowment. They are choosing not to fund those positions when they easily could on their own.

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