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> I think you should blame the existence of authoritarian governments and not the technology. Seems odd to give them a pass. I think you're confused. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, and it's a significant cognitive
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> I wonder how long it's going to take until we have universal communication monitoring, including in real life. It's not an impossible technical challenge, it's just a question of time. Every spoken word recorded forever
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It sounds like Marc Andreessen married into an old-money family. And some of Silcon Valley's myths and justifications aren't true.
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> instead, to borrow cory doctorow's framing, it is designed to do something to me rather than for me. That's nice framing. I believe the goal of American business culture (in general) is to do a much to users as possible, an
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Yes. LLMs are the new zombo.com. You can do anything with LLMs. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself.
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The important thing is that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei become trillionaires. Everything must be decided in service of that one primary goal.
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> So you're lining them up, slowly running out of 'e's and 'f's and 'r's. You decide to save yourself some time and more importantly some of your precious few letters that you need to make last the whol
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> I've noticed my ability to get work done is hampered when I am at higher doses of my ozempic. You should be using LLM agents anyway. It's the solution to every problem.
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> If these data centres are rebuilt, you'd maybe expect them to be rebuilt in new locations behind existing _permanent_ (and seemingly quite expensive) air/missile defence batteries in Bahrain I've seen data centers that w
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> I reckon the focus on speed (and shipping to prod) over quality has also led to the increasing number of bugs. The mindset shift from shipping quality products (not just software) to shipping something that is good enough has been the
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> Domain privacy protection is a feature that Namecheap provides for all valid domains. Its included by default at no extra cost. That's not exactly true. IIRC, it's not allowed for .us domains.
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Great! Now all we need to do is develop a model for identifying and targeting AI doomers.
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> but I think that capitalism is a better contender. It's a self-healing, self-organizing system that has its own logic and seems to have escaped the desires of its human creators. Except capitalism is an ideology not a system. And
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> Copyright was never meant to be a moral framework. It was always a practical framework designed to incentivize publishing that would ultimately pass into the public domain. A practical framework that model training breaks. Why publish
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> How about ... as an enhancement of the most impressive views. I like it!
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I am pro-AI datacenters. I just think they should all be built in Atherton and the Hamptons, with the stipulation they're only allowed to be built adjacent to the most expensive residential property in the area, in the way of its mos
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> So for somebody evaluating things based on what they do at work (where they're probably quite competent) or on personal projects well within their own domain, then it's 'hey what's all the hype about?' But if y
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> That just seems like a cope unless you have actual evidence that the lower/appellate courts have misruled. No, it means lower court judges get overruled all the time and it's not like the courts and law always functions as so
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> The debt not showing up where the author wants is a reporting formality not an attempt to hide it. Couldn't you characterize Enron that way? The liabilities are there, you "just" have to look at Raptor II or whatever!
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> The whole point of fair use (which courts have so far ruled AI training is) is that you don't have to ask for permission or pay them for it. Is that settled law? I doubt it. And IMHO, AI training violates the spirit of fair use. I
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> you don’t address the ridiculous “copyright forever, nothing goes public domain” policies that got us to this place 1. You're mischaracterizing and exaggerating the policies to falsely support your point. Things go into the public
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There is no greater moral priority than making Sam Altman and Dario Amodei into trillionaires. No greater . We all may die, or be pushed into poverty, but our sacrifice will be worth it to them.
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> knowing that Apollo 11 is coded purely in assembly Of course. According to Wikipedia, it was introduced in 1966, so it's development must have been started earlier. Also according to Wikipedia higher-level languages like Fortran
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> I think this is a complex electronics engineering question that the people working at smartphone manufacturers probably looked at in depth when they decided whether or not they would lose money for getting rid of the feature. Ha!
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> If you're using off-the-shelf "hidden" encrypted volume schemes, you're not going to be evading state-level adversaries; if you can find these projects and conveniently use them, state vendors can and will write sca
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> I find it easy to envision a world, maybe 50 years from now, in which the very concept of "truth in advertising" is viewed as a lost, idyllic fantasy. Something people are nostalgic for, but feel powerless to regain. It'
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> Well said. Being told that 'you should be happy without owning' to a party that can't afford to own by another party who is actively scooping up the same resource can feel extremely invalidating. That's been a long
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> The thesis of the article is spot on. The title is weird - I don't know what's the point of bringing such an emotionally charged term into it. Unless your point is that LLMs are sentient creatures capable of suffering, but I
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> The solution is to stop treating AI as superhuman semi-living entities, as many boosters are apt to do. It's not just fanboys doing that, but "official" educational channels. Both an internal training (more like an all-h
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TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon

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