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by mlsu 2mo ago
You are diabolical.
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by mlsu 2mo ago
Sure. I should have been more precise about what is 'real intelligence' here. What I mean is that blindsight's scramblers are aliens that cannot share human values. Their structure is completely different to ours, their quali
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by mlsu 2mo ago
Everything that claude writes fits into the same aesthetic structure. The aesthetic is that of an expert slowly revealing an insight to the user. The actual content doesn't matter. - "Introduction that rephrases your prompt."
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by mlsu 2mo ago
I find it interesting that innumerable people just like the ones quoted in this article were able to lead rich lives and find happiness, despite the absence of these material things. Take the first quote. If only we had music on demand, &qu
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by mlsu 2mo ago
It seems very easy. Always on spy camera installed for the express purpose of dragnet surveillance? Illegal. Film child’s baseball game? Legal. I find this attitude I find kind of tiring. Gosh it’s just sooo hard to figure out the differenc
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by mlsu 2mo ago
There is a concept in safety called the hierarchy of hazard controls. There is a ranking of hazard mitigations from most to least effective. 1) remove the hazard 2) replace the hazard with something less hazardous 3) isolate the hazard (gua
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by mlsu 2mo ago
Why punish S.E. Massengill? It’s the parents, after all, who willingly allowed their children to drink sulfanilamide. Hell, if the children simply closed their mouths when the spoon is in front of them, they’d be perfectly fine!
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by mlsu 2mo ago
The class you’re thinking about is not made up of workers.
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by mlsu 2mo ago
Yes I love this comment! GPs are awesome. Prompting is conditioning, that is what it is. The visual of a GP (like the thing you get if you google image search “Gaussian process”) is a great metaphor for what prompting an LLM is doing. The o
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by mlsu 2mo ago
It’s true across the board. How to get good results with coding using AI? Be a good coder. How to get good financial advice? Be financially literate. How to get good medical advice? Be a doctor… Makes ya wonder: where is the intelligence co
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by mlsu 2mo ago
The liberal arts education was originally conceived to educate the leaders of society. That is where the free-minded pedagogical angle comes from, it's explicitly privileged. The idea was that if the leaders of society learned what it
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by mlsu 2mo ago
I love driving around when there's no traffic. It's only natural that I should have the right to restrict the number of cars on the road. Oh, you want to buy a car? Too bad -- it's my right to preserve my driving experience,
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by mlsu 3mo ago
It really does seem like they should have been able to do an incremental rewrite with FFI. Could have easily done it with AI too.
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Absolutely true. But China’s industrial dominance is also the government immiserating its people, just in a different way. Domestic consumption in China is famously low, work culture is famously bad (996,etc). And this is because of what th
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by mlsu 3mo ago
This is why capital accumulation, of the extreme kind we see today in the USA, is wrong. Not because greed is a sin (although, it is, and most of these guys are going to burn in hell), but because it turns the country into functionally the
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by mlsu 3mo ago
I went on a backcountry camping trip last year and was stargazing as one does. Kept seeing satellites. Was cool at first (used to be a rarity) but it got more and more annoying. And for what? So that we can have more internet? Oh that’s jus
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by mlsu 3mo ago
For the general consumer, they were basically right though. Most people don't use laptops except for work. The primary computing device is the phone, and phones have basically become become mini-ipads in form factor since that ad aired
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Ah, but you forgot private equity, that's about $2473 of profit per ride that needs to be accounted for. This high cost is what we must pay to keep our economy dynamic and efficient.
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by mlsu 3mo ago
An infant begins to mirror the emotions of his caregiver at 3-4 months. He can distinguish his own body in a physical mirror at 18 months.
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by mlsu 3mo ago
I like this reply. I think you and I use AI the same way and probably have a lot in common. But I read things more cynically than you do. Things to ponder: Read the GPT Live announcement. Why do they want to make it more life-like, if not t
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by mlsu 3mo ago
What would you call it? Anti human, corrosive, powerful, uncanny... but not evil? I am fully encountering this, believe me. My conclusion is that it's evil.
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Human beings require interaction with other human beings to identify the self. It is impossible to live without others. Read up on solitary confinement sometime - enough time without human companionship will drive any human being (except th
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by mlsu 3mo ago
The extent to which it's true is the extent of the evilness of the technology. Go search the phrase "ai boyfriend" on reddit sometime; imagine what it will be like when society is fully baked with this shit. You're talki
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by mlsu 3mo ago
I'm sure you'd have no problem in solitary confinement. Why not make life easy?
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Yes, every minute you spend texting or talking to a chatbot is a minute that you'd have spent talking to another human beings. Literally the only important thing in life, the basis of all value, the formation of self-identity, comes fr
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Safety critical embedded just doesn’t need as many lines of code. Your typical embedded codebase is small and long-lived, and if you’re spending a fortune to do verification and validation on a piece of code, the bottleneck is not the progr
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by mlsu 3mo ago
I have read this article already and "reality has a surprising amount of detail" has become a phrase for me. But, I read it again today because the writing is so good. This guy is a gifted writer.
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by mlsu 3mo ago
I'm not a Marxist, far from it. I think the best possible thing is the free market. The problem here, is that the wealth is concentrated so much that the markets are no longer free. I have 20 veterinarians in my town. That means, if my
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Arguably that is worse. If a criminal misuses his own resources to commit crimes and then you take that away from them, it only affects him. The companies should be liquidated still. That would put the incentives in the correct order.
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by mlsu 3mo ago
Man you guys are so close. "Somehow." Indeed, it is a mystery. 0.01% of the population has direct control over something like 50% of society's resources. Society moves to enrich them, at everyone else’s expense. Curious that.

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