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by palmotea 29d ago
> Why would buying it even prevent that, OAI is just going to accidentally hack someone else In defense of the GGGP's idea: NVIDIA could just be fighting fires to keep the bubble from popping, without even thinking that far ahead.
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by palmotea 29d ago
> AfD is not democracy. AfD is antidemocracy even if it would get elected democratically. Here's a fun thing language-game to try: expand your definition of "democracy" to encompass your partisan political positions, don&#
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by palmotea 29d ago
> AI cameras won’t be accepted with open arms like the iPhone was 20 years ago. Might as well buy an Android if it’s an Android. > For the mass market, the AI industry has a trust problem. Oh how far we've fallen! Everyone should
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> None of this makes any logical sense whatsoever. It doesn't make any logical sense to set the bar as as you have, either. I mean if someone could provide the roadmap you're asking for, it's probably already too late. And
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by palmotea 1mo ago
>> but make sure those actions are not in the interests of Anthropic and OpenAI investors. > So if the end of the world can be stopped, but the only specific action to do so helps Anthropic/OpenAI (and it's proven) you do
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Explain a path from today to the extermination of humanity in 2028 by the ASI and von Neumann replicators heading to the stars in the early 2030s without resorting to magical thinking or underpants gnomes level business plans. Engineer
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> The timing of the AI doom narrative could not come as a more suspect time....There's little hope investors could recoup the wild investments made into Anthropic and OpenAI Personally, I think we should take the doom narratives ve
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Is that really any different from our modern society other than the robots freeing the more capable or more dutiful humans from the chores? Yes it is, because our modern society is still a human society. Humans in culture society are m
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Why is humans having to work forever even when it's totally unnecessary more optimistic than utopia where work is just a vacation for when you get bored of doing human things? Because, IMHO, having some sort of meaningful occupati
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> A big part in both stories is that the boards were unwilling to actually state what exactly the CEO did wrong or why they have lost confidence - be that professionalism or not wanting to deliver ammunition for lawfare - which perfectly
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Always loved Iain M Banks' Culture series and it's very sad that he's not with us any more. If I could pick any fictional civ to live in, it'd be up there. I've never really found the Culture to be that optimis
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> He's not wrong but I think there's something the "tech people" up in arms about AI aren't saying, which is this: a lot of "tech people" were indifferent or silent as tech "disrupted" other i
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> It seems like the larger problem is he maintains access of keys and systems as opposed to the board and can boot out anyone not loyal to him ( or any other admin who could remove him). So what happens when the courts get involved? Beca
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> AI should be optimized to make all humans healthy, happy and safe without exception. No. AI should be optimized for the one true good: maximum market returns. Personally I think that will only be achieved once humans are removed from t
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> If LLMs and related technology result in a gutting of the workforce and mass unemployment the world will be a dark and terrible place. I do not trust the governments of the world to solve that with UBI or similar. IMHO, UBI is a sop to
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Computers are hard to use. People need to be able to solve problems using computers. Solving problems is fun! And perversely, LLMs actually seem better at doing a good-enough job at the fun stuff and being worse at certain kinds of dru
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> So vote for Republicans because while the outcomes are worse, at least they aren't pretending they are going to make things better? No, voting for Democrats isn't enough , because they're shit. They'll probably in
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> You think those billion people are all addicted to having a made-up friend? No, and I don't think you're really trying to understand what I think. I mean, do you actually think anyone could think ChatGPT user only use it in o
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> How confident are you in that? ChatGPT has over a billion monthly active users now ( https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-app-hits-1-billio ...), I expect at least some of those users are using it to help solv
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> This is the entire basis via which society distributes its wealth: based on a labour market derived valuation of ‘contribution’. Correction: that's not how society distributes its wealth, it's how it throws some bones to the
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Elections have consequences. Vote democrat in November and again in 2028. When someone tells you both sides are the same tell them no, it's only Republicans that are allowing Datacenters to sidestep the law in order to poison us m
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by palmotea 1mo ago
Perhaps the next administration will drop a few cluster bombs on some hyperscaler data centers. The air force needs targets to practice on, after all. Then throughout the land there will be much rejoicing and feelings of justice done, as tr
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by palmotea 1mo ago
What I meant is that it's not being built to solve any problem most people actually have. It's not like a building that's being built become some person needs shelter. It's more like some guy building a howitzer and just
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> I'm not sure how useful it is to say this, but I think a lot of people (myself included, a few years ago now) have been through this moment of existential crisis and come out the other side. Two important things you didn't
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> It’s making me want to be a lot less collaborative with such individuals. I don’t want to sit around and refute Claude text outputs all day. There are also the guys who are just blatantly meat proxies for Claude. You send them a messag
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> The comments here during the 737 MAX MCAS thing were fucking wild. So many randoms spitting out confidently incorrect nonsense. Maybe that helps explain some of the fraction of HN that loves LLMs: they found their soulmates.
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> I miss the optimism of 20 years ago. I too wish my marks were still as gullible and trusting as they were before I scammed them.
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> USB B cables are also notoriously sensitive and the slightest damage can result in malfunctions. Went through this recently with a PreSonus AudioBox. Do you mean micro-USB-B? Full size (and mini) USB-B cables (comparatively) built like
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> - We're using a vibe coded app on an iPhone that does terrain matching and target finding. And that part seems entirely reasonable. It looks like the Tomahawk cruise missile did it with an 84 lb package with a 16-bit computer with
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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Advanced machinery and safety precaution is needed to engineer a virus or a bacteria to be a bio weapon. It's not something you can do in your tool shed at the moment. I think the claim in this report is that it was a state or sem

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