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by mlsu 5d ago
I visited the veterinarian recently for a routine exam of my dog. The vet gave the exam and at the end of it, a technician handed us what looked like an invoice. The invoice had like 12 different items on it and totaled $1,400. No explanati
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by mlsu 8d ago
I love this comment. What's interesting to me is that this can be completely true (I believe it is), but why can seemingly nobody see the value and prioritize saving it. Opera is beautiful, it's one of the many things that make li
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by mlsu 12d ago
You're right. That's why I'm doing my best to give the oil companies more power and influence. They are, after all, in the best position to stop climate change!
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by mlsu 12d ago
If you actually believe that your invention will lead to the extinction of humanity, you would be acting very very differently. Namely, you would not be inventing the thing that you think is going to kill all of humanity, and probably you w
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by mlsu 16d ago
Definition of Life: Metabolism: The chemical processes inside a body that turn food or nutrients into energy. LLM's do not spontaneously do this, they are powered by plugging them into the wall. Growth: The ability to get larger and de
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by mlsu 16d ago
In my experience, reproduction and child rearing is fun, and it also is a human to human experience.
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by mlsu 16d ago
I think Tao correctly sees the problem with AI. It’s not that it is ineffective or has weaknesses. It’s that it’s not human. Like, it ought to be enough to say that the problem with AI is that it’s not human. Unfortunately, we live in a wor
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by mlsu 17d ago
This is like unphysical gibberish. I’m not even kidding. There are such things as the Landauer Limit and the earth has a finite surface area to absorb solar radiation. For crying out loud these are smart people but at the end of the day the
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by mlsu 18d ago
I don't know one way or another but there is a credible allegation that the "AGI" was training on the (very extensive) test set that these two mathematicians produced. If that is true then this seems to be, again, a case of A
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by mlsu 18d ago
It seems like there were a couple of human mathematicians that were higher on the 'solving complex problems ladder' than this machine.
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by mlsu 20d ago
Every version of the AI aligned future where the AI provides “meaning and fulfillment” to humanity also involves Sam Altman wearing a 1.5 million dollar Patek and driving a McLaren. Funny how that works.
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by mlsu 20d ago
Just about sums up the attitude. It’s not that the robots are surveilling and that would be morally wrong… it’s that people are upset by it and that impacts the bottom line. “I’m sorry that you chose to feel that way”
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by mlsu 23d ago
Think of how much money we could make if we weren't wasting so much time being creative.
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by mlsu 25d ago
Huh? What are you talking about? The relationship between the West and Asia in its current form (Asia as a manufacturing powerhouse, the West as hub of global finance, outsourcing all over the world, JIT manufacturing) all this stuff is tot
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Humans already come out aligned basically the vast majority of the time. Our whole system is run on a spectacular amount of just “I trust you not to screw me over.”
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by mlsu 1mo ago
They don’t have their own fab for CPUs either.
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by mlsu 1mo ago
This article falls flat for me. Maybe because I'm angry? >Anxiety as an emotion does not require someone to blame. I know this isn't the "hacker mindset" or whatever. But my anger is well placed and justified. It is p
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Look at how they fantasize about humanoid robots and you will understand. Why the humanoid form, with all of its engineering inefficiencies and difficulties? Because it is a thing which can be dominated. The whole purpose is domination. Eve
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by mlsu 1mo ago
The test suite is the same thing as the code, just approached from the other side. i want the code to do this --> write the code to do this i want the code to do this --> write the tests to specify this the hard part is not the code o
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Yes. After thinking about it a little more, I think my critique of thickness would be that the tail is wagging the dog a little bit here. Great art is sometimes 'thick' - it has nuance, layers, depth - because the human soul is so
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Really loved this essay, loved the irreverent style. I had a similar literary journey as this guy. I think I would take it a step further though. It's not just that great literature has details and motifs that line up perfectly, it&#x2
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by mlsu 1mo ago
I mean, airtags are doing radio stuff at a regular cadence. I've noticed they update once every 15 minutes, so they are turning the radio on to do whatever BLE triangulation they need to do 96 times per day. That's milliamps over
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Yes, they're redistributing my 401k and a good portion of the entire economy into it, with the ostensible goal of automating my job and putting me permanently out of work. Tails I win heads you lose!
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by mlsu 1mo ago
I replaced all the bulbs in my house with incandescents. They use more electricity, but I don't really care. If we're going to build ten thousand gigawatt datacenters for every corporation on earth to stuff AI up my ass I will do
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Technology is, of course, downstream of society. We have treated government with a startling glibness, a deep unseriousness. At the end of the day, the government can kill you and your entire family, and the only thing that can stop them fr
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Is this “swelling AI tax revenue” and “wealth redistribution” in the room with us right now? I see wealth redistribution alright. Not in the direction you’re thinking!
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Now I’m curious. What if it occurs when you’re like under the enemy and you can’t surface? Do you have to just chill at depth until you can get the reactor running again?
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Check out stormsurf001 on YouTube. He’s been tracking the development of the El Niño for months now. I (SoCal) kinda hate El Niño. Seems like it always means way more weather (blown out days) and most reefs around here are maxed out beyond
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by mlsu 1mo ago
He's 100x, bro. 36 hours is basically like a whole 2 week sprint for you.
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by mlsu 1mo ago
Fair. What I am trying to get at is when people talk about "intelligence," beyond academic debates such as this one that mentions qualia, they are talking primarily about value. How intelligent the thing is is how valuable it is (

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