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by panta 2y ago
The school should form decent individuals before than useful workers, and for that it's necessary to have a passing level of culture. For example, everyone should have a basic grasp of ethics (and know a bit of history), even those of
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by panta 2y ago
Only when you are not stepping on the toes of bigger capitalists.
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by panta 2y ago
I think that there is some value in that friction. It used to tell us, the readers, that the narrator believed enough in what he wanted to tell to invest some non-negligible amount of time and energy. The final effect was that it maintained
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by panta 2y ago
Maybe, but somehow their behaviour and their products and services changed. Companies are made of people, and individuals had more freedom to put value in what they did, they took pride in the quality of their work. After Friedman everythin
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by panta 2y ago
Corporate culture changed radically in the 70s adopting Milton Friedman views that ethics and responsibility towards society have no place in the private sector, and as a consequence started maximizing profits in spite of everything else.
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by panta 2y ago
Very true. Long term effects are often neglected when framing considerations from a purely economic perspective, especially when these are externalized costs, like public health.
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by panta 2y ago
I'm constantly frustrated by software that tries to limit cognitive overload. Stop treating your users as if they were cognitively impaired. In other words, write a software that also an idiot can use, and only idiots will want to use
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by panta 2y ago
So Trump supporters attacking Capitol are justified? This is not how democracy is expected to work.
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by panta 3y ago
If you develop or sell something that has even a remote potential to kill someone, it's your responsibility to apply a cautionary principle and gather enough evidence that the probability of that outcome is negligible. Otherwise that I
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by panta 3y ago
While the underlying idea that selling services on open source products is not sustainable from a purely business perspective may be true, the linked article is not particularly convincing to me, it doesn't provide strong evidences and
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by panta 3y ago
your library seems really interesting (I'd be interested in collaborating if it had a license compatible with my projects) but I've not found it mentioned in the repo. Would you be interested in clarifying the licensing terms?
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by panta 3y ago
LLM could even be seen as a form of lossy compression after all
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by panta 3y ago
a system with superhuman intelligence could easily manipulate human beings, convincing them of the opportunity to do things. A superior intelligence wouldn't ask for things obviously dangerous for humans in the immediate future, but wo
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by panta 3y ago
> But I’ve learned that whatever the output is requires as much scrutiny as a good code review. I fear there’s a lot of copy and pasting of wrong answers out there. The good news is that for now they will need real engineers to come in a
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by panta 3y ago
Fair use by a machine is a concept which has hardly been studied by legislators. Personally I'd draw the line at the human/machine boundary.
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by panta 3y ago
Then only insurance for actual accidents would make sense, but even then insurance companies could start analyzing more meticulously the individual probabilities of having accidents: do you have an active lifestyle? you pay a premium; do yo
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by panta 3y ago
It's a matter of scale. No human being can ingest ALL existing images. If it was the case that the average human artist was able to replicate any other work, without effort, probably we would have had two effects: first, we'd have
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by panta 3y ago
taken to the extreme, if complete data availability allowed to predict the future with enough precision, then everyone would pay an insurance premium corresponding to their insured negative events. In practice insurances wouldn't have
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by panta 3y ago
so that someone else can decide that if you don't have that hard work gene you are unhealthy and need to be "cured"? Nice dystopia.
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by panta 3y ago
Much more powerful entities are going to be in control. The "beauty" of AI is that it's a black box, and you can't directly check its biases. Guess who will win the people control battle? (If we are speaking of the illus
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by panta 3y ago
Advertisers will simply begin to pay more money to inject their content on those platforms, to have it end up inside LLM models. It could be even worse, because it will be less obvious that the content we'll be consuming through LLMs i
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by panta 3y ago
Excellent article! Re-ignited my intention to use freebsd.
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by panta 3y ago
> A sparse environment, no TV, simple toys, denying gifts from grandparents isn’t something noble. Providing an environment conducive to personal growth IS noble. Of course it's not only a matter of removing damaging attention sinks
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by panta 3y ago
> We got new information delivery methods that are significantly better and when going back to old methods we naturally get unsatisfied. Does that mean we are getting "dumber" as "attention deficit" memes imply or tha
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by panta 3y ago
another interested person here!
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by panta 3y ago
> If, say, ChatGPT is superintelligent, the only way it can hurt you is through insult or persuasion. if the singularity happens, the worst won't come thru direct violence. A superintelligent entity will be able to persuade everyone
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by panta 4y ago
Maybe we could create a sort of small mutual insurance fund to pay legal expenses in such cases.
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by panta 4y ago
You don't need an EE degree (and you wouldn't learn many of the skills needed anyway). You can learn most of the things you need from "The Art of Electronics", by Horowitz and Hill. It's a very complete book on the
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by panta 4y ago
It seems that Capture One is on the same trajectory sadly.
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by panta 4y ago
I'd say that the largest amount of human involvement was on the original works of art that these models ingurgitated. What came after is only statistical interpolation.

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