plastic-enjoyer

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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> If I read this correctly, books and fiction are headed in the same direction. I don't really see how AI 'democratizes' fiction and book writing?
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I think this view stems mainly from the fact that we don’t have any big names like Anthropic or OpenAI, and that Europe is a bit slow off the mark. We do indeed have many promising tech start-ups, and plenty of talent, particularly in the f
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
While I share your privacy concerns, one should also ask how realistic such a scenario is with non-invasive BCIs due to their limited nature. It does not mean that neural tracking isn't possible with this technology, however, I would q
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
That looks rather primitive. I wonder whether the difference between low-tech and high-tech isn’t simply an aesthetic one. If the designs were adapted so that they no longer looked as they’d been designed by an anarcho-primitivist, would we
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
The problem isn't social media per se, but rather how social media is designed, and this design is driven by profits and big tech. There are, at least in Europe, no alternatives to the big social media platforms. I'm not too keen
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> China's leadership is pretty evil and clearly a danger to the world Is this how Americans are coping with their civilizatory down fall and vanishing hegemony?
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> LLMs are built for scale so they've given up on the kind of online learning / "long term memory" processes that would individualize them. I wonder if this is even desirable from a product perspective. You probably d
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
What a time to be alive
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I'd be surprised if Yuk Hui would do this, considering his works and that he is tenured.
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
This is obviously a hyperbole and you obviously know what he means with it.
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I think that technologists are doing themselves a disservice by blaming the problems within their industry on MBAs. Many of the problems we see in the tech industry, and the reason why public opinion is not exactly positive, are primarily d
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
>Charming nerd to terrifying overlord If there was this shift, it was always superficial. To a certain degree, nerds were always 'terrifying overlords'. It’s just that once they accumulated enough power, there was no longer any
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> At that point medicine will have to radically change and every tiny trace of every minor infection will have to be treated as a life threatening condition. But is this life? I'm wondering if an immortal life can be a well-lived li
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I don’t see my post as making any judgement, let alone offering criticism. It’s simply my observation that many people prefer the artificial stuff to the original product. But since you’ve brought this up, I’d argue that it’s not a question
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
You are forgiven
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I know! But a lot of people prefer the fake stuff, because they were raised on it or harbor nostalgic feelings for it. For them, it's the real deal.
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
You are right, that the city centers are often heavily commodified to the point where they do not differ from other cities anymore. However, European cities are not just the city center, you have a lot of different districts where the commo
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
You have a whole strand of German and French cultural pessimism that foresaw the convergence of mass media to the current point to some degree. > Staying with the articles example, by adding artificial strawberries flavour to everything
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> Don't act as if the cities in Europe look any different They do look different, claiming otherwise is just American cope
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
Depends on what city you live in, and what part of the city you live in.
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> Well that and people tend to seek out information they agree with rather than information that challenges their views. I don't think this is necessarily true. A while ago, I read a study which found that right-leaning people have
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
Yes, but things were more locally information-wise. Every iteration of mass media did not just merely enlarge the infosphere, it did lengthen the distance between the people who shape what you believe and the people who share the consequenc
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I think there’s too much focus on the internet and social media here. We should look back to the printing press as the origin and mass media, and trace the development through to radio and television. The risk for democracy is not social me
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
it's a cool word
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> So what does it tell us that an LLM is "stochastic"? About as much as we could glean from the knowledge that the signaling in the computer systems we happen to be using right now is "electronic". It's an intere
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> I think you have already decided that LLMs cannot possibly understand. Well, maybe you should stop thinking.
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> We've clearly crossed a threshold at which "stochastic" is no longer doing the work What do you mean?
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
Are they, though? I think what LLMs proved is that proving theorems, following instructions and solving complex problems - intelligent behaviour - does not need any kind of understanding, but only ability to recombine things in a stochasti
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
Sure, but the compiler didn't promote the assembly programmer, it basically ended assembly programming. So which side of that is the engineer on? You're assuming we're the dev who got the compiler. But if the premise is that
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
If I believe that machines or neural networks can develop consciousness, then I also believe in some kind of substrate independence which presupposes some kind of panpyschism imho because as you say things would have a potential for conscio

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