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I've spent a lot of time in Latin America. I've met a lot of people from developed countries there. The ones who fail badly are the ones who go there expecting to get a local job earning a local wage and hoping to fit in with th
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Let me translate that from newspeak for those who aren't read in. If truth destroys the planet, it is no longer truth because truth is something that is useful for getting people to do things that benefit humanity in the long run. We
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It's amazing how surprised everyone was that the whole thing worked phenomenally well. It went against a century of "expert" advice. It literally did the exact opposite. The purpose of the system is what it does [1]. [1]
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Let me guess, the solution is ban guns and pay higher taxes. That is the solution to literally every single problem in human history according to western sociology. Then you get some guy like Nayib Bukele who cuts the Gordian Knot of socie
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I think this is one of the reasons that Google Plus failed. It's like if North Korea set up a social network. Nobody would post cause post the wrong thing and get executed.
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Google Voice too. No human tech support. It's kind of weird how having no human to talk to can be a good thing in these high security matters. No social engineering attack surface.
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This is a good point. However, how do I get better feedback than "everything you do and feel is ok as long as it's not criminal," and "improve your diet, sleep, exercise and consult with a professional" for everyth
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I have been doing this with local LLMs that are "unsafe" using some basic python. I write a diary entry and ask it "Tell me some uncomfortable truths about this person." as the prompt and it roasts me. I then ask it, &q
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Isn't it much better to get a Mac Studio with an M2 Max and 192gb of Ram and 31 terraflops for $6599 and run llama.cpp?
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In this thread, we will see the method of reasoning where people decide conclusions that are unacceptable and then proceed to dismiss as false by definition all facts and data that lead to any one of those unacceptable conclusions.
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Hanlon's razor lets every single first degree murderer off the hook, or any other of the many crimes where you have to establish intent to convict.
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You just got to bribe a few key AI researchers to completely control the future of humanity, lol.
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Just because the ancient Romans didn't understand lightning didn't mean it didn't exist.
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It's an invitation to confabulate rationalistic nonsense when the correct answer is to just say "we don't know the nature of lightning yet." That doesn't mean we can't come up with theories, but they have to b
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Arguing that an AI chatbot is conscious is like ancient romans asking "Is a really big fire the same as lightning?" They both burn down big trees and can kill people. Thus, they must be the same! A time traveller would tell them t
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This is a propaganda story. They just use generic 4G modems and SIM cards. Western processors, FPGAs etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136 Chips from 1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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They must have to use an uncensored AI. If the agent is acting as a criminal in the simulation and trying to figure how to best execute his schemes agains the other players in the SAGA simulation, that's probably going to hit all the
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Funny how in the 90s security was an enterprise feature and now better security and cryptography than we had in the 90s is on every $15 android phone.
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The way to counteract AI influence is to view the world as Bayesian and incorporate many different opposing views. I read both Russian and Western views of the Ukraine war on Telegram channels for example that regularly contradict each oth
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As a developer who is good at object oriented design, architecture, and sucks at leetcode stuff, I have been able to use it to make myself probably twice as productive as I otherwise would be. I just have a conversation with GPT-4 when it
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Sounds like Twitter pre-Elon where 80% are woke commissars and 20% actually make the site go. That's a big pattern these days where a small group of people make everything work and generate enormous wealth then you have this huge over
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According to some reports, there are enormous amounts of "gold hydrogen," that is hydrogen in underground deposits, that's just waiting to be extracted: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134760-500
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The other insane thing is studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be reversed by fasting. Fasting is problematic to the medical industry because it is zero cost. "Some studies found that patients were able to reverse their need fo
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AI, like the Internet will produce a good amount of economic value, so it's not something that will be a total waste. Sure, there will be a lot of waste, but quite a bit of productivity will come from it.
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Then the AI says, we've figured out with 98% certainty that you're going to be alone for the rest of your life. Would you like to learn more about MAID?
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If you put in a fictional story that in the future computers could generate any image, but would refuse to make images of Lincoln as a white person, people would tell you you were an absolute lunatic confabulating paranoid fantasies that we
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"The association between coffee consumption and dementia was non-linear (Pnon-linearity = 0.0001), with evidence for higher odds for non-coffee and decaffeinated coffee drinkers and those drinking >6 cups/day , compared to lig
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Over-reliance on prison seems to have worked astonishingly well for El Salvador. If your metric is murder rates then it's probably a world record in terms of change in murder rate from the highest in the world (106 per 100k in 2015) t
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If someone commits fraud in a patent application, someone has to be liable. You can't just say "The computer did it all by itself."
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I'll consider you right when global oil production goes above 2018 levels. My beliefs are falsifiable. Your stance though is not falsifiable, and is thus ideology/religion. Please tell me if there is some sort of empirical data

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