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by palmotea 2mo ago
> But it ain't cheap. So people really don't get to try out AI and form their own opinions.... > I also think people are mad at the world. Times are tough for many. Hearing about a job-killing machine doesn't exactly in
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> By June 1996, after three years of hard work, id Software had completed their next title, Quake. As for their previous title, they were going to release both a shareware version and a full version of their game. Since it used a mere 22
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by palmotea 2mo ago
You also have the innate right to be off base, btw. It's sarcasm, and the main tell is I'm not even bothering with pretense; just serving up the dystopia straight and acting like that's good. But one of the "fun" th
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> if there’s less work to be done for everyone to have what they need, that would be considered a benefit by governed society Not necessarily. It's not going to be evenly distributed. It's not like today, but everyone works 4 h
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Though a lot of that was a political choice to outsource to China and similar. We've had a lot of new tech since 1900 - cars, electric motors, internet, computers and the like and I'm not sure it's led to inevitable unem
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> Lets suppose everyone in the world miraculously loses their jobs to AI, who is paying for it? How? What are they selling? The paying/selling part will be transitory. Right now the people paying for it are investors, and they'
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by palmotea 2mo ago
https://xcancel.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1643320904930275328
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly simplified view and notes that “Many people outside this bubble think of regulation as something that constrains cor
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> “I have repeatedly argued for strong antitrust enforcement to keep industries competitive, especially Big Tech.” > Has David Sacks actually called for stronger antitrust enforcement? Not that he has total control of this administrat
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> Totally agree these won’t go to consumers but even after a crash I’d home they are able to be sold for parts and not just to landfills. If this all goes into the trash that would be even more tragic than it already is. I'm not an
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> The age of humans comprehending things is coming to an end: our brains just won't have the capacity to make meaningful contributions to science, math, or technology. Ask yourself: is that really the world you want to live in? It&#
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> it is so easy to lose all humanity in the doubling down on each other and thinking it is all one big frat party. all of us should be guilty to be part of the perversion, but since everybody is involved none of us are. SV has poor align
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by palmotea 2mo ago
>> The models are trained on data that encodes hundreds or thousands of years of turf battles and office politics. The model is shaped by the script of ‘Succession’, the history of the English monarchy and the Chinese Communist Party,
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by palmotea 2mo ago
I believe it was coined by non-engineers to describe the obnoxious behavior of engineers who arrogantly disrespect other's expertise and assume they're better than non-engineers (when the reality is the engineer doesn't know
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> This is, perhaps, the reason the AI labs are talking so much about AI replacing people's jobs. It's not arrogance, it's to make sure our leaders are thinking about this now instead of when it's too late to guide the
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> I mean, if one has a solid physics + engineering background, he is potentially equipped to solve many problems from other fields. If you've got engineer's disease, those "other fields" include things like psychology
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> this is happening anyway, so they may as well make the money while they still can. There's got to be a special name for that kind of treachery. I suppose "collaboration," but that doesn't have a nasty enough ring to
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by palmotea 2mo ago
>> It’s much easier to say someone else’s job is going to be fully replaceable by AI when you don’t actually know what they do. > Too true. This isn't limited to AI, either. That's so true there's a term for it: engi
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> The AI researchers I know often say they expect the AI to replace their own jobs. Are they expecting the equity they get in some AI company will save them personally from economic ruin, so they're fine with that outcome for everyo
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> You don’t even need to start a business to be a capitalist, just buy capital that can earn you money. Step 1: be rich. > That can be as simple as putting a portion of your savings in stocks or as proletarian as buying a lawnmower an
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> If you know anything about libertarian cranks, this doesn't make any sense and smacks of projection. They're not "satisfied with the status quo" qua political structure or economy. I didn't say anything about &
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Or his companions need to get better. I interpreted... >> You are tasked with keeping ahead of a pack of hunters who want to take you down -- and not only will your companions leave you for dead the moment that happens, the group will
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Propaganda for what, exactly? The status quo. Framing things in this way is something I first encountered in libertarian/capitalist propaganda (when I didn't know better and was basically a dogmatic libertarian). The message
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Is this a variation of the old "don't fucking complain about the status quo, you have a telescreen, not even the kings of old had a telescreen watching them! How dare you question the titans of industry, whose minion's dilige
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> the future is a nice place to be, if our bikes still had pedals we couldn't hang them at the wall after commuting It's not hanging, it's levitating. And modern phase-shift technology lets its handlebars sit comfortably i
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> (the ratio part of your comment was super confusing to read) Basically, we need to get the the point where people rarely encounter anything but slop. Right now on that site 1 out of every 6 models is slop, it would be better if 5 out o
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by palmotea 2mo ago
We need to increase slop tolerance to speed AI adoption, and the best path towards that is to increase the availability of slop while simultaneously gaslighting people about how good it is. Eventually people will accept slop and buy it or i
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D assets, found that one in six models uploaded to the site these days is AI generated, but that AI generated assets account for only $1 out of $90 in revenue on the site. These numbers show that AI
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Some see it as the road to dystopia, other see it as the road to universal basic income, and a less laborious future. A less laborious future is called mass unemployment. We have none of the sociological or ideological infrastructu
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> LOL. Conveniently, electron is everything other than the kernel. Also, as much wasted RAM as an entire second instance of chrome that shares nothing, but oh well. Well, with RAM being so cheap, why bother trying to trying to be memory

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