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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Infinity dollars won't help if the culture is radioactively toxic and shitty. And what's "radioactively toxic and shitty"? Not wanting to slave away for low wages in bad working conditions? Business apologists like
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Anything that AI makes more efficient to produce. You can make a lot of money if you can predict the scope of that. So slop? And maybe bespoke software? Those aren't the goods that unemployed workers need. AI won't lead to ab
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> First they rushed a model to market without safety checks, and I said nothing. It wasn't my field. > Then they ignored the researchers warning about what it could do, and I... ...tried it and became an eager early adopter and e
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by palmotea 8mo ago
The difference between a social credit score and a credit score is when you criticize the president, your social credit score goes down, but your credit score stays the same.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> We used to build great things in the US and then we decided the blood price of 30 lives for the Brooklyn bridge or 100 for the hoover dam wasn't worth it. It's really not hard to build anything when you ignore any second orde
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Read and think about what you wrote. A lot of software engineers are bad at value judgements, and often feel smart by confidently taking propaganda at face value. It's kind of mind boggling that, if someone genuinely believes what
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Worth noting that this archive site has allegedly manipulated snapshotted content Are you claiming this link was manipulated? Because otherwise that's irrelevant to this discussion. IIRC, the archive.today has a grudge against som
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> In a hypothetical future with 2026 level LLMs on a (high end) consumer laptop, I still think that majority of buyers would prefer to pay 20 USD/month for a service. Just for the convenience and flexibility. $20 a month is a lot of
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Childcare is much cheaper in other countries, even relative to the lower earning potentials. Cheaper, or more heavily subsidized? It's an important difference. For the record: I'm not opposed to subsidies, and think the US ne
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Maybe there's a confusion that an "US" company should somehow be loyal to the US. This isn't the case, big publicly traded corporations work for the shareholders. They don't [owe] anything to the US graduate wh
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> There’s the scenario where LLMs get more efficient in size, and to get 2026 SOTA performance you will be able to get it from consumer grade laptop. But isn't that bad for the AI companies, too? Because then people just run an ~202
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> This. They created an innovation black hole and we will all pay the long-term consequences of it But they may get rich soon, which is all that really matters to them.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The most important cost that you didn't mention is the loss of social trust and the harm that will do to social infrastructure. This. I think generative AI will mostly generate destruction. Not in the nuking cities sense, but in
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I've literally not met one person in tech who thinks LLMs will become sentient or conscious. But I always see people online claiming that there are lots of people who believe that. I haven't met him, but a famous (pre-ChatGPT
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics " > Robert Solow, Noble Prize winning economist, 1987. Some skeptic was wrong in the past, therefore we should disbelieve every skeptic, forever.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> They're going to send the jobs where the wages are cheaper, and that's exactly what they're doing. > I read these sentiments, and I honestly don’t understand the tone. This kind of behavior is exactly what you’d e
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The company is already walking dead; they're just feasting on the corpse. Left alone they'd peter out faster. Is that actually true, or just a story used to justify the bad actions? There are a lot of meme-stories like the
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If tech talent can’t come to the U.S., American companies will go where the talent is. LOL! They're going to send the jobs where the wages are cheaper, and that's exactly what they're doing. IIRC, my employer stopped off
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The mind virus will not stop spreading, making corporations do your critical thinking is not a good path. People will become dependent on a subscription service for everyday life. Doesn't matter. Even if civilization collapses and
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> people who grew up going to Mass on Sunday know that priests often recycle old homilies That doesn't seem bad? You'd think a lot of the topics would be evergreen, and not everyone would be there for every service. So after an
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by palmotea 8mo ago
This reddit post collects some statements: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1i277vt/psa_ar...
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Editing what is billed as an archive defeats the purpose of an "archive". No, certain edits are understandable and required. Even the archive.org edits its pages (e.g. sticks banners on them and does a bunch of stuff to make
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> When I noticed it, it seemed like such a minor change, but with these latest revelations, it doesn't seem so minor anymore. That doesn't seem nefarious, though. It makes sense they wouldn't want to reveal whatever accoun
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by palmotea 8mo ago
Bypassing paywalls? It actually seems like they've got accounts at many paywalled sites. Shorter term archiving? Given the unclear ownership situation, it makes sense not to rely on them for anything long term. They could disappear tom
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It's also kind of ironic that a site whose whole premise is to preserve pages forever, whether the people involved like it or not Oddly, I think archive.today has explicitly said that's not what they're there for, and th
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> They would need to have massive accounting fraud and lose public support. Unlike Enron, Nvidia actually sells tangible goods at a massive profit, and hasn't appeared to gloat over people getting screwed over. But what happens if t
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> any hope of that long bet paying off will require one of three things: a free-market boom in workers that require commercial property for success (e.g. physical invention companies like e.g. Saildrone due to not being able to homelab r
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If you accidentally kill someone with your car, do you think you should have to pay $243m? If you have billions of dollars, and somehow can't go to prison, yes you should. If not in compensation to the victim, then in some kind of
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I can't speak for Tesla's FSD specifically, but Waymo did a study on the collision rate of their autonomous cars compared to human drivers: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/ . They found that Waymos g
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The last link is literally a man stating he could not handle the situation without FSD driving him. You're experiencing cognitive dissonance with the evidence. And I have doubts about that man's reliability.

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