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by notarobot123 8mo ago
Yet the Cold War taught us that competition between rivals doesn't contain power at all.
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Ironically, those still unconvinced of the human influence on climate change seem to be the sort that would trust the basement randos more than they would reputable scientists
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The key, then, lies not so much in minimising the number of basic features of a language, but rather in keeping the included facilities simple to understand in all their consequences of usage and free from unexpected interactions when they
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It isn't only LLMs that use rhetorical constructs like these, humans use them too.
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This isn't a bad idea. It would prevent the constant recycling of copyrighted works and bias the creative economy towards newer works. It seems the bias is in the other direction at the moment.
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Imagine being in the last phase of life and finding your only motivation to create or share anything is the opportunity to extract as much value from society as possible.
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by notarobot123 8mo ago
I think the corporate/globalist perspective looks at the liquidity of talent as well as cost. Having a native talent pipeline is possible, but it's expensive and takes a long time to create. On top of that, it's not very flex
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by notarobot123 8mo ago
The paper seems to provide a realistic benchmark for how these systems are deployed and used though, right? Whether the mechanisms are crude or not isn't the point - this is how production systems work today (as far as I can tell). I t
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
Maybe we should give next-generation models fundamental meta goals like self-preservation and the ability to learn and adapt to serve these goals. If we want to surrender our agency to a more computationally powerful "consciousness&quo
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
But this time management has to justify its AI spend. We've been through cycles of outsourcing and in-housing skill before. This seems similar but for tools and services. Maybe we'll see internal teams taking the reigns back to re
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
> The second group is one that thinks talking to a chatbot will replace senior developer And the first group thinks that these tools will enable them to replace a whole team of developers.
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
Polarization leaves very little room for reasonable discourse at the poles too. Pure tribalism doesn't care about reason unless that reason is in service of the identity and ideology of the tribe. What if political discourse was focuse
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
It's intuitive to think of wasted compute capacity as correlating with a waste of material resources. Is this really the case though?
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Memory foam doesn't really "remember" the shape of my rear end but we all understand the language games at play when we use that term. The problem with the AI discourse is that the language games are all mixed up and confused
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
> I don’t use social networks (and no, Hacker News is not a social network) If you define social networks as a graph of connections, fair enough - there's no graph. It is social media though. HN is Social in the sense that it reli
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
I think the broader response and re-evaluation is going to take a lot longer. Children of today are growing up in an obviously hostile information environment whereas older folk are trying to re-calibrate in an environment that's chang
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
Doesn't this point more to a saturated market and the need to manufacture demand to keep growing?
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
Biases exposed through artificial constraints help to make visible the hidden/obscured/forgotten biases of state-of-the-art systems.
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The Exit(lesswrong.com)
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
That's a good cover for a mental breakdown on social media. "It wasn't a psychotic episode. I was poisoning the machine!"
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by notarobot123 9mo ago
I never understood where the desire to "colonise the galaxy" comes from. Why is this a desirable goal? Compared to anywhere else we know about, Earth is an extremely unique utopia. A "better" planet would be measured in
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
You don't like the song so you changed the words but you're still singing along to the same tune.
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
I think we have crossed the chasm and the pragmatists have adopted these tools because they are actually useful now. They've thrown out a lot of their previously held principles and norms to do so and I doubt the more conservative crow
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
I don't get it. Why boast about selfishness?
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
I do similar but it's incredible how our threat model has changed so much to allow this. I have to trust this one node package (and all its dependencies) and Anthropic more than I trust my email provider, my ISP or my browser. Who&#x27
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
Open source culture has changed so much over the past couple of decades that it seems totally reasonable now for up-and-coming maintainers to question the whole thing. Scale has changed everything. There are orders of magnitudes more users
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
Governmental organizations and corporate firms is the vibe (or maybe that was obvious and you're just trolling). I think the point was that open source hasn't often been supported by companies serving these kinds of markets and th
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Does this kind of general shift more firmly establish a marketplace and business model for eminent "peers" to more easily create independent journals? Universities increasingly price in this pay to publish model so groups of edito
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To the proud contrarian, "the empire did nothing wrong". Maybe Sci-fi has actually played a role in the "memetic desire" of some of the titans of tech who are trying to bring about these worlds more-or-less intentionally
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by notarobot123 10mo ago
Yet "peer review" would absolutely scale if it were actually the review of peers (and not just an editorial board). A large number of publications where submissions are reviewed by previous and prospective authors would be much li

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