peepeepoopoo114

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   by peepeepoopoo114 1y ago

   It's a safeguard in addition to, not in replacement of, other measures.
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   by peepeepoopoo114 1y ago

   All democracies before the current era began as revolutions. Roman plebeians were well armed enough that the state could never become too abusive towards them. English democracy, and the entire modern idea of constitutional democracy itse
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   by peepeepoopoo114 1y ago

   Just as mutually assured destruction brought lasting peace on the international scale, widespread civilian ownership of military weapons has also been a remarkably effective deterrent and safeguard against would-be tyrants across history.
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   by peepeepoopoo114 1y ago

   Almost all of the efficiency gains have come from shedding bit precision, but the problem is that AI labs are now running out of bits to shed. The move to reduced precision inference has been masking the insane unsustainability of compute