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by observationist 6mo ago
How about The Million Dollar Mythos Month Some of these AI trends are starting to look more like gacha game moneysinks than productivity tools.
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by observationist 6mo ago
What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation? I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simula
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by observationist 6mo ago
/tinfoil time 60 days, long enough for the US to exploit the vulnerabilities discovered by Claude Mythos, short enough to plausibly be bureaucratic corporate awfulness by Microsoft when all is said and done. Basically freezing you and
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by observationist 6mo ago
Adtech Money. They've got GPUs, they've got the infrastructure, and they've got the advertisement platform, and the point is getting AI that can exploit the adtech and create a flywheel effect, maximizing return from the data
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by observationist 6mo ago
It's a good harness, sir.
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by observationist 6mo ago
Ah, so screw the Amish, too. And anyone who doesn't want 24/7 tracking or to be permanently connected and available. Those people suck and shouldn't be able to enjoy baseball. The audacity of the guy, depriving all those scam
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by observationist 6mo ago
The point isn't protection from attacks that target children, it's gatekeeping content to keep it away from children. Providers are more vulnerable to attacks, overall, because of that gatekeeping, because of ht inevitable use of
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by observationist 6mo ago
Grabbed up as much ram as they could, nearly no questions asked, at above market rates in some cases, ramping up the perceived demand and decreasing supply significantly.
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by observationist 7mo ago
Apple and Sama didn't do the consumers any favors this year.
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by observationist 7mo ago
On the other other hand, they can put whatever they want in there, and because they've forced everything into arbitration with "third party" mediation and carved out their own little niche of the justice system, they'll
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by observationist 7mo ago
Most regulation is more or less suggestions to prevent widescale exploitation, to give the system a means of holding bad actors liable after the fact. They aren't deeply considerate, domain competent, principle based policies designed
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by observationist 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur 30 minutes of grainy 80s footage in those links - I think it's better to provide at least the wiki link in any sort of discussion forum. If you're on discord or a c
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by observationist 7mo ago
Combinators are math, and a little like Lisp - building functions from primitives and operations with the ability to apply them, where even the notion of variables are functions - functions all the way down. The y combinator is this: λf.(λx
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by observationist 7mo ago
I'm not sure - being able to take something like a casual response to a post, and then changing it to iambic pentameter with the easy button could be a great way of learning how to do that off the cuff. Though I’m unsure, this notion c
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by observationist 7mo ago
Companies need to put more care into who they trust, and maybe incentivize skin in the game. If leaving for a competitor means you lose equity, agency, ownership, or some intangible, that can outweigh bigger paychecks. The market should be
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by observationist 7mo ago
For sure - culture is a huge component. Government is unique in that incompetence and laziness and all the shitty behaviors that get people canned in the real world don't have an impact on money coming in. In some places, revenue incre
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by observationist 7mo ago
Some government employees do. Lots of local, state, and federal departments fall under more or less permanent bureaucracatic institutions, and while they might follow the lead of an elected official, often those officials are far more cerem
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by observationist 7mo ago
People given a tiny amount of power with no consequences for misusing it, inflicting their power on people for no better reason than that they can. Government is parasitic, with no market feedback, so people that would normally get weeded o
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by observationist 7mo ago
No, they should leave it. Make it as onerous and tedious and annoying as possible to set up a new computer. 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop. It's time - Linux has never been better or easier to use than it is right now.
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by observationist 7mo ago
https://sandatlas.org/desert-sand/ Ask and ye shall receive.
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by observationist 7mo ago
They don't change the prices, they just modify the amount of compute allocated - slower speeds and fewer tokens, they can set everything in the background to optimize costs and returns, and the user never realizes anything has changed.
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by observationist 7mo ago
Arxiv and the internet do more for science than Elsevier. They're rent-seeking middlemen, having lost any of whatever their purpose might once have been. I think the worst part is, Elsevier could still serve a purpose and make money by
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by observationist 7mo ago
AI X that can solve the tests contrasted with AI Y that cannot, with all else being equal, means X is closer to AGI than Y. There's no meaningful scale implicit to the tests, either. Kinda crazy that Yudkowsky and all those rationalist
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by observationist 7mo ago
The evolution of the test has been partly due to the evolution of AI capabilities. To take the most skeptical view, the types of puzzles AI has trouble solving are in the domain of capabilities where AGI might be required in order to solve
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by observationist 7mo ago
You (briefly) have an antiproton in your possession around once a day, assuming you get an average amount of sunlight. Some days, you might even have two!
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by observationist 7mo ago
Not giving Apple money means no Apple hardware. I've gone decades doing it and haven't regretted it once. I've turned down work because it involved having to work with Apple devices and software. It's really, really eas
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by observationist 7mo ago
I'd love if everyone switched to Linux and the walled gardens just died, but the most realistic outcome would be Microsoft and Apple having to up their game and improve their respective products. Right now they're driving hellbent
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by observationist 7mo ago
It wasn't a formal model or a theorem, it was an observation about reality. Humans are indeed gradually being overtaken on almost all fronts by AI. But by all means, if you want to take issue with Moravec's framing of the issue, f
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by observationist 7mo ago
To address both points - there appear to be no individual, well defined tasks that humans can do that you cannot train a machine to do. Some tasks are inefficient, uneconomical, and other impractical, but there appear to be no tasks that in
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by observationist 7mo ago
Hans Moravec introduced the idea of the "landscape of human competence" , a topology representing the peaks and valleys of human capabilities. Art, writing, coding, game playing. Elevation corresponds to cognitive difficulty, and

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