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There are two different things being talked about here, one of which is "what effect does widespread LLM use have on a culture", and one of which is "what is the effect on a specific text of running it through an LLM".
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How would you ever know if you've been affected? How, indeed, would you know at all whether the word you get next is different from some different word next?
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Evidence is a massive problem here. As well as the extremely high threshold for US defamation; political candidates routinely tell the most absurd lies about each other.
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> The ability to suffer one's way through bureaucratic process without having to suffer through paying the lawyers and accountants and engineers and whatnot to get you through that process is a huge part of the value proposition of
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Swap that to "oil" and everyone goes "well, yes, obviously, oil is so powerful that people start wars over it". Iran has hit the Amazon data center in Bahrain. The Ukranian deep drone bombing campaign has hit refineries,
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by pjc50 2mo ago
While there is a large element of paranoia here, we're already seeing serious problems in e.g. planning consultations that people can just spam them with AI. AI makes a lot of traditional social processes stop working properly. > pu
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> worry a little more about models being trained to propagandise party lines and national interests I'd be a little more worried about this if every single traditional media wasn't already outputting propaganda for party lines
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> Do you really think that if e.g. Germany or the GB network had been centrally planned by their respective government mandated regulators and system operators, they wouldn't have put all those windfarms exactly where the market-led
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.. at a cost of about $12bn.
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Deficits only matter when they can be blamed on Democrats. Basically all the (Republican-owned) media agrees on that.
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The US has long been a bit of a dual system, with the world-leading and technology and wealth coexisting with a lot of poverty, violence, and discrimination; but this seems to be the point at which it becomes fully Latin American. Could be
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Titrating the Hitler particles out of solution. (remarkably, the phrase "particle of Hitler in every bourgeoise" comes from Trotsky rather than being original internet slang)
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.. what?
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Even if honor were real, LLMs do not have honor, and people using LLMs to write without disclosing that fact (or indeed at all, to some purists) do not have honor either. > because a stranger manipulates what they regard as their own dom
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This is conspiracy theory territory. The USA is not a vassal state of the crown in any way at all. I just note that one of the few people to face fallout from the Epstein scandal is Prince Andrew, because he's not inside the US unaccou
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As with Iran, did the "doing things" about it make the situation worse or better?
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> people are upset by certain types of enhancement error, but not others, and they can't even articulate the difference to themselves People are upset by enhancement errors that produce an image that is meaningfully different from t
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The crucial difference: in China, if a billionare might become more powerful than the government, they get disappeared and re-educated: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56448688
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Personally I think governments shouldn't just be able to order people killed, but that's just a European view. (really the difference between the constitutional law approach which only protects US citizens and the human rights app
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> PBS to hire OSS was corrupt (OSS are just a reseller of Iron Mountain) You're going to have to unpack the assumption here: are you alleging that there was a kickback in the procurement process?
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> In some countries it's well over 50%. China of course being one of them As always with these stats, I like to check whether that includes plug in hybrids, and it does. Those are still mostly dependent on fossil fuels, although the
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I think there's a lot to be said about why this didn't work out like that, using the cognitive load metaphor from the article. People like habits. If you're doing things differently every week you have to justify that among t
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I think I would use "habit" rather than "process" to describe this. Process perhaps implies a bit more intent and structure, whereas a habit is doing the same thing repeatedly because that's what you do.
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I wonder how much that's due to reverse polarization causing modern far right to copy Nazis from Hollywood or videogame depictions of Nazis, which tended to use Fraktur as a signifier.
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Fishermen are weirdly powerful in the EU for an industry that employs few people and doesn't make a lot of money. I'm not clear how that works, I'm guessing because it's a job the public understand and has macho overtone
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People aren't going to stop catching and eating fish until it is legislated against, globally.
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Either there is a first sustainable generation, or one day there will be a last unsustainable generation.
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Someone is always running mass vulnerability scans. That's a "water is wet" state of the Internet.
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I was under the impression that America had very few legal restrictions on ads at all.
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The power cost of doing this widely would be staggering, surely?

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