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by palmotea 1mo ago
> Quote: "The Overhang consists of the unrealized capital gains of past mathematical creativity, the latent value from connecting the dots in the existing corpus. It is a dividend of canonization. Mathematician X states problem A, m
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> If the buttons are incompatible with the absence of the feature, I'd expect the buttons not to exist when the feature is disabled. Anything else seems like a straight up footgun. It's called a "dark pattern." They
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If I were a business, I wouldn't want my proprietary business information into a hands of a competitor. But CEOs are racing to do it, and (at best) relying in flimsy contractual guarantees they have no means to verify.
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> Why is it OK if openAI does it? OpenAI has a lot of money, a lot of rich investors who want it to go to the moon, and an extensive propaganda operation.
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>> My partner left me and my social life has completely collapsed. I have nobody to talk to when things get difficult. I am estranged from my father, my mother is disabled and requires increasing medical support. I'm an only chil
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> But modern AI tools, when directed without such expert supervision, can now be aimed all too easily at the ostensible goals of the field, without any incentive to take the slow, whimsical path. IMHO, that's the whole point of AI:
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> Exactly. Bloomberg reports students who use AI perform worse That's good news! The worse students perform, the less competition AI will have in the future and the less effective any resistance will be. The ultimate goal should be
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> Is this the world we want to live in? Do you think you have a choice? It's Sam, Dario, and their investors' decision about what kind of world they want to build.
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> The legal fallout from LLMs becoming spy will overwhelm any profit from these misguided attempts at short lived contracts. Then the law must be changed to protect the profit.
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> It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters. Alignment with humanity means alignment with the tech overlords, not us. We're just N
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> You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future. That's a reasonable risk to take if there's a possibility of Dario Amodei becoming a trillionaire with his very own S
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Remember guys: Anthropic are the good guys! They care about morals, alignment, and safety! So this invasive surveillance to crush dissent must be good for us! AI is an authoritarian's dream. The future is bright! Dear leader Dario wi
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> To me it appears that individuals and large companies benefit from copyright asymmetrically, which is the core of the argument. The correct response to that is to fix the asymmetry, not blow the rights up entirely. Quoth the OP: > I
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> ...but the takeaway here seems to be that LLMs are more confident with the initial data that they see and are less likely to chose exploration over exploitation. You don't say! "That confirms the real bug: <this obviously
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> I'm worried one of the 79 year old toddlers we have these days in charge of some powerful nuclear armed country says "gee, this ai says I should attack right now, boy is it smart, glad I bought the stock ahead of contracting
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> Non-example 2: There are worries about AI-facilitated biological weapons. I haven’t seen any evidence that’s happening. > Non-example 3: I’m not interested in wild theories about AI driven labor market disruptions leading to widespr
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> Just because the AI gives you an arxiv-worthy PDF, or a Lean proof which compiles, doesn't mean it proves what the AI says it does. The AI could give you the same PDF/Lean code and says it proves the opposite, how would anyon
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> Doesn't the premise that there's something inferior about these AI solutions, imply that there is something superior about human intelligence and that there will continue to be some kind of useful work for humans to do? Not n
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> "Cheap goods" is quite a problem, as basically the US, possibly all of North America loves their cheap Walmart items. Screw how they were made... They're usually the cheapest. Replace "Walmart" with whatever la
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> In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to support and guard that production, the "freed" people are not going to do something better
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> Other TVs like Samsung are using a peer to peer mesh network with nearby devices instead. Details?
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> ??? this is unreadable lol. i feel like i understand the math behind it but the writing is so unintelligible that i dont even care about the results. Who cares, partially no one understands advanced math, and even fewer will one we rep
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> or it can not fail, like North Korea It's worth noting North Korea probably is not a failure for Kim Jong Un an his ilk, it's just a failure for most other North Koreans. That's probably a happy end-state for these &qu
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> Both unions (as legally constructed in the US) and sports gambling are cancers. What's wrong with sports gambling? No one's forcing anyone to play, and it's a highly lucrative business with lots of customers. Unions, on
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> The industrial revolution was very similar. Initially, workers suffered. Conditions were unsafe. Pay was poor. Worker rights were non-existent. Things got worse for the majority before social change caught up and imposed a more equitab
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> They're a large, mostly well-behaved grid load which lets you spread fixed costs over more units of electricity. Is that true of AI datacenters? I recently read an article that talked about one that dynamically would spin up gas t
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> And EU is a freaking horror show. In many public toilets there's a used syringe compartment as well. Truly a 5-star service. There are sharps containers in the bathrooms in my office in the US. It's to support people who have
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>> During this period, the company also reset users’ weekly usage early on several occasions to celebrate milestones, including adding another million active users across the two (now unified) platforms. > Such a casino vibe. No no
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> Why though? I’m very much not playing devil’s advocate here… but at 1 it’s like probably a bit of calming classic nursery rhymes with benign animations; maybe start to learn some counting and ABC’s by osmosis. Kids, especially kids tha
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> I assume this is satire. I hope it is, at least. How could it be satire? If you don't believe that investors' investments are the most important good-thing in the world, you must be an anti-capitalist in favor of Soviet-style

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