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by p-e-w 7mo ago
> I'm amazed that wasn't taken into account! Agreed. While I didn’t anticipate this myself, nor would have likely figured it out myself, I also don’t expect my claims to influence global policy. The scientists who failed to rea
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
I mean, you can simply use Linux and save yourself all those hacks…
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
I think it’s even crazier that a visible slice of the address space that is supposed to last for the rest of humanity’s future has already been allocated.
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
This is a bad argument. Established things are established. “If you don’t like what the president of your country is doing, just run for the office yourself.”
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
I fully expect that future programs for formalizing mathematics will reveal that most sufficiently complex proofs are riddled with gaps and errors, and that some of them actually led to false results. Annals of Mathematics once published
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
The same way Chinese tech companies “compete” with Western ones: By not permitting them to do business in China.
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
It’s so important, in fact, that there should be more than one such institution. People keep falling into the same trap. They love monopolies, then are shocked when those monopolies jerk them around.
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by p-e-w 7mo ago
Optane was a victim of its own hype, such as “entirely new physics”, or “as fast as RAM, but persistent”. The reality felt like a failure afterwards even though it was still revolutionary, objectively speaking.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
The Hobbit is today usually viewed through the lens of The Lord of the Rings , and The Lord of the Rings is viewed with the baggage of 70 years of post-Tolkien epic fantasy culture. Being deeply embedded in that culture myself, I must
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
Yeah, I guess the tens of thousands of PhDs who are working on LLMs full time are just collectively wasting their lives. Everyone except you is simply too dumb to see it.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
Most privacy issues with today’s technology industry are caused by companies behaving like private service providers, when in practice they are somewhere between public utilities and government agencies in terms of their necessity and inevi
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
The moment I saw the post title, I knew this couldn’t actually be true. Thanks for confirming that it isn’t.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
You’re committing the classic fallacy of confusing mechanics with capabilities. Brains are just electrons and chemicals moving through neural circuits. You can’t infer constraints on high-level abilities from that.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
And the amount of work that could be delegated, with equal or better results than those from average human workers, is far higher than currently attempted in most companies. Industries have barely started using the potential of even curre
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
> It's not a binary choice. It's not the US or China. It's the US or Canada/EU/etc. This discussion thread is very specifically about the US vs China, however.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
People already said that 25 years ago when the US started officially torturing prisoners. And 25 years later, highly qualified immigrants are still lining up to move to the US.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
China has a global reputational problem that will take decades to fix. The US has a global reputational advantage that will take decades to fall behind China, regardless of what any US administration does. Nobody sane is going to believe rh
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
> And once you are on GrapheneOS, break free from your proprietary watch ecosystem and switch to GadgetBridge Then switch back to Google/Apple after half a year when you discover that you can’t run - your banking app - any governme
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
What nonsense is this. You seem to be implying that contributing to an open source project creates some kind of entitlement to whatever another contributor attains. That’s not how it works.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
> Is it impressive to be winning at 35? No. Multiple world champions have been older than that.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
The incidents I’m referring to aren’t “errors” though. If a major article claims that certain groups don’t exist, while the same newspaper published a detailed report about those exact groups and how dangerous they are just two years earlie
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
That’s not how publishing works. News outlets (especially those of roughly similar political leaning) very rarely call out each other’s misconduct. In fact, they often seem to operate as a quasi-conglomerate rather than competitors.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
I have seen zero evidence that independent archives “keep news media honest”. In fact, I have on several occasions noticed news media directly contradicting their own stance from just a few years prior, with no mention of the previously pub
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
The failure of self-driving cars has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with regulation. It’s been demonstrated time and again that statistically, self-driving cars are safer than human-driven cars.[1] Autonomous driving is
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
There’s actually another alternative: Just don’t install surveillance in your home. Approximately nobody had it 20 years ago. Before asking which unreliable, overpriced, invasive gadget to buy, think about whether you really need any of the
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
Yes, but those are directed by humans, and in the interest of those humans. My point is that incidents like this one show that autonomous agents can hurt humans and their infrastructure without being directed to do so.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
Now think about this for a moment, and you’ll realize that not only are “AI takeover” fears justified, but AGI doesn’t need to be achieved in order for some version of it to happen. It’s already very difficult to reliably distinguish bots f
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
This is the answer. The cartels would have to be insane to poke that particular bear. They would get crushed like a bug. IIRC they murdered a single US undercover officer in the 90s and the retaliation was so bad that they themselves handed
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
> Obviously it's amoral. That morality requires consciousness is a popular belief today, but not universal. Read Konrad Lorenz ( Das sogenannte Böse ) for an alternative perspective.
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by p-e-w 8mo ago
> It's extremely hard to change the constitution of Japan. It’s easy to ignore or work around it though, just like it routinely happens for every other constitution in the world.

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