myrmidon

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by myrmidon 9d ago
I don't think so. A very large part of the total AI risk in my view comes from selfreplication/physical independence, and that still seems decades away. But deaths caused directly/indirectly by rogue AI could happen much earl
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by myrmidon 9d ago
Black people being supposedly "inferior sub-humans" was one of the primary justifications for their treatment.
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by myrmidon 9d ago
Ability to think/reason.
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by myrmidon 9d ago
Slave owners certainly convinced themselves that those were not "real people". This article is exactly the same; all it talks about is how inconvenient and dangerous it could be for AI to be granted rights, while the core assumpti
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by myrmidon 9d ago
That is wild. I strongly believe that any definition of consciousness that excludes all animals is unusable BS (but people love to argue about consciousness without defining it at all, anyway).
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by myrmidon 9d ago
Thats the thing though: If the core part of your ethics argument is just using dehumanizing language to justify why it's ok to maintain the status quo then your argument is bad. Comparing specifically to pro-slavery perspectives makes
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by myrmidon 10d ago
No, my position is that "black people/women/animals should do repetitive work so I don't have to" does not qualify because it doesn't make you sound like a deluded eugenicist. It might be a bit spicy from a lef
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by myrmidon 10d ago
"People should handle repetitive labour" is not an outlandish take. Most employed people are, in fact, required to perform such labor regularly.
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by myrmidon 10d ago
I have a very simple benchmark for arguments on AI ethics: Substitute black people/women/animals as subject (instead of AI). Does that make you sound like a well-known moustache wearer? Then your argument is bad and needs work. Th
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by myrmidon 10d ago
Completely agree. My view is that a lot of people like to "pretend" (even to themselves) that they have an enlightened worldview, but this does not actually run very deep and is not really true, and any discussion on mind/con
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by myrmidon 10d ago
Is the ability to form and retain long-term memories a necessary precondition for rights in humans though? Incinerating demented people is highly ethically questionable (even if you could be sure that the subjects have no memories left and
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by myrmidon 11d ago
I personally see two effects that are very detrimental here: 1) "Quality brands", where you pay a premium to get high quality/durability products, are economically incentivized to "sell-out" (cash in the brand name
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by myrmidon 12d ago
An underappreciated fact is that the Japanese/German renewable push starting in the early 2000s contributed a lot toward the global state of solar power now. Solar programs/subsidies there is how a lot of local (and later Chines
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by myrmidon 12d ago
No, that does not follow. Any other argument against <ridiculous apocalyptic supposition> is perfectly fine, just not the "it hasn't happened before" one.
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by myrmidon 16d ago
Sure, but do you actually do this every weekend? I mean obviously there are people that consume a lot more movie entertainment than the average, but I'm personally getting nowhere close to 70 seasons per year. Bingewatching occasiona
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by myrmidon 16d ago
It's an arab loan word for ~"price list" (originally strongly suggesting an import-duty-like meaning). The same word exists in e.g. German or Italian, but mostly just means "pricing scheme" there, like in the articl
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by myrmidon 16d ago
Buying breaking bad on DVD is <3 months of netflix subscription (no ads). So if you watch <2 seasons per month on average, you already come out ahead, and this is assuming only a single subscription. People tend to wastly overpay for
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by myrmidon 16d ago
Sadly there is no realistic approach to get there (even assuming fantasy-levels of technology). Chemical rockets are currently the only thing that allow sustaining such accelerations briefly for human-size payloads, but the low exhaust velo
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by myrmidon 17d ago
Just replace the model with a human student. "Training" on textbooks => fine "Training" with unpublished notes from another professor, then publishing something on that exact topic with a similar approach without givi
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by myrmidon 18d ago
Depending on the education/age of new recruits, you might not have seen much of the, younger, lower scored cohort, because the sharp performance drop only really started after 2018 (so the oldest affected people are around 22).
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by myrmidon 19d ago
Modems becoming super cheap is gonna be a big problem for this, because those make it even harder to prevent such snooping. Just imagine having to jam the devices in your own home just to stop them from profiling you. Better pray to your de
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by myrmidon 19d ago
There is a comparison with "zstd -19" on the Silesia corpus, showing better compression ratio for bzip3 (47.2 vs 53MB) while being ~5 times faster (and using only half the memory). Even if the examples are highly cherry-picked, it
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by myrmidon 19d ago
There is no way shipping alone explains the difference. I would suspect the majority comes from higher (VAT) tax level; possibly also some indirect overhead because Europe is a more segmented market, and needs a bunch of localization at the
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by myrmidon 19d ago
Not counting China (and South Korea) because they joined the "industrialized" club much later than the rest, but so far it is looking good, and I'm somewhat hopeful because their demographics make war an increasingly risky pr
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by myrmidon 19d ago
My view is that France tried to hold on to Indochina unjustifiably for almost a decade after WW2. So they get the blame because the US could have hardly escalated a proxy war without proxies. Not saying America is blameless though, but I do
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by myrmidon 19d ago
There were leaks before the Manhattan project even concluded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs Sure, non-US nuclear arms would have most certainly happpened either way, but exfiltration did presumably at least
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by myrmidon 19d ago
With all due respect, but I'm not letting some newfangled comic taint/monopolize a perfectly usable name that's been used to describe many-headed-thing (water snake) for over two millennia.
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by myrmidon 19d ago
I'd argue the US only got dragged into lots of conflicts because of its role as de-facto global hegemon. A lot of wars it did not really start; if you blame the US for Vietnam (instead of the french), you also have to count South Osset
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by myrmidon 22d ago
Why? I feel it kinda implies what the approach is. Could definitely be worse, strongly prefer this over just giving the thing a random-ass name like Laguna.
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by myrmidon 22d ago
Any externalized cost that you tolerate as regulator is already an indirect form of subsidy in my view. E.g. allowing a mining company to dump tailings in the next river is exactly the same as paying for proper disposal with tax money (from

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