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by patcon 3y ago
It would be significant if one believed OpenAI was responsible for keeping the cat partially in the bag, and now the bag has holes. In which case, the weakening of OpenAI (or simply a change of trajectory) could be very significant to this
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by patcon 3y ago
I was speaking with a woman earlier this week who just finished her master's dissertation with a focus on Sam Altman's recent influence campaign, and she was scared of how charming he was. She obviously was trying to maintain dist
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by patcon 3y ago
It sounds like we perhaps agree on most of the important things. I'm with you on new failures at each level of focus. Again, moving between feels the value. Any specific level will have failures, and only spreading attention across all
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by patcon 3y ago
> What does it mean for linguistics now that human beings are increasingly using natural language to interact with computers? Yeah, it's going to be strange. So much of our etiquette and norms and basic cultural assumption have to d
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by patcon 3y ago
> We don't know how we work. We really really don't. Amen.
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by patcon 3y ago
I live in a space where I tend to talk with ppl about research every day or two (both academics and regular citizens). In case you value communication, know that you come across as way too unnecessarily confident to seem interesting to enga
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by patcon 3y ago
I love this, but I also feel they're valorizing the high resolution simply because it's their particular interest. In some fields, what they are speaking about is called "fine-graining". Looking up at the bigger picture
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by patcon 3y ago
I say this with utmost respect (and a little bit of devil's advocacy heh :) -- I might suggest your critique is a little too self-assured. Disclaimer: Not a neuroscientist, but a biochemist *shrug* We recognize faces easily due to deep
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by patcon 3y ago
I need to resist all this regulatory resistance here, spoken amongst tech people. No, Yann. I am FULLY in support of drastic measures to mitigate and control AI research for the time being. I have no vested stake in any of the companies. I
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Why I Am A Pluralist(radicalxchange.org)
1 points by patcon 3y ago|0 comments
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AI Chatbots for Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats(blog.partykit.io)
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by patcon 3y ago
> he won't give more than 48 hours, but he's still requiring a 7-day schedule My read is that the workers want more, and the workers want 7-day schedules. They want to work 7 days when there is full work, to store up for wi
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by patcon 3y ago
bwahaha oh god, this sounds like it would be grating...!
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by patcon 3y ago
I co-organized a weekly hacknight meetup of 40-70 people. I wrote a script to make Anki spaced repetition flash card decks with avatars and names pulled from the meetup API. I would use GitHub Actions to run the script a few hours before th
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by patcon 3y ago
I hate that Rogers is doing this. The Canadian government recently tried to fund community isp and connectivity for remote communities. SpaceX seems to be helping the giant shitty conglomerate beat back the interesting projects I wish Space
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by patcon 4y ago
I'm also a strong believer in recursion being a key feature of living processes and intelligence..! A book you might like: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691145471/th...
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by patcon 4y ago
fwiw, there are two SF-is-a-hellhole narratives, and this turn of events reflects differently through the prism of each: - narrative A (looking "up"): where the upper-class technologists are the reason for the social precarity-bas
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by patcon 4y ago
You might be interested in how Little Free Library has been taken over by a misguided board of directors https://nothingintherulebook.com/2019/11/15/listen-to-the-pe...
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by patcon 4y ago
What's the "governance" failure? Though I don't use it, GitLab struck me as one of the darlings of how to run an open source company (I love all their public docs), but maybe I'm missing something?
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by patcon 4y ago
> but few people outside of them would even notice it if disappeared. Um... I don't get the impression that you are speaking from any sort of authority Look up any of their stats and tell me that's librarians and "weird te
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by patcon 4y ago
Yeah, thanks so much. I actually had regret for engaging and piling on to a comment. It was pretty tasteless on my part :(
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by patcon 4y ago
YES. The societal dysfunctions are because tech ppl, the ones who ask the laypeople of the world to allow them to fix all their problems, have built a literal dystopia of social problems in the place where they have the most actual wealth a
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by patcon 4y ago
Not that I'm saying you're definitely a bot, but if some troll put today's AI in a game loop with a goal of accelerating AI development, this is what it would say. And that easy (and perhaps appropriate) dismissal of your [pe
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AI-TDD: CLI for TDD – you write the test, GPT4 writes the code to pass it(github.com)
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by patcon 4y ago
Disclosure: left-leaning progressive Meh, ppl comparing heads of state costs with the rest of us has always struck me as incredibly reductive and point-scoring mentality. Executive functions need to get a bigger budget than the normies (or
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by patcon 4y ago
> For a coordination game like this to succeed, the consequences to any defecting party must be extreme. What's going to happen to the first major company that decides to exit the agreement? Nationalizing of their AI division, by a
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by patcon 4y ago
We're in hockey stick growth. Maybe we need to enter a period of "not getting anything done" (by relative standards) in order to start threading the needle and pulling this fraying fabric back together
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by patcon 4y ago
How about when sidewalk labs tried to buy several acres of downtown Toronto to "build a city from the internet up", and local resident groups said "fuck you find another guinea pig"?
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by patcon 4y ago
Not sure if this is an example of anti-fragility, but it made me think of that. there's def something diff about bikes for this. Get too drunk as a cyclist and you remove yourself from the situation in relatively safe way, just by not
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by patcon 4y ago
I feel differently, but can appreciate your comment as a sort of night-blooming flower, whose perspective is rarely heard from :)

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