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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
I don't know if I can trust someone's understanding of arguments against consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, when he didn't even understand what the Chinese room was all about in the first place. (Spoiler, it was not abo
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by plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
> Depends entirely on whether "the market" ends up valuing what humans add to various artistic processes. No, it does not, at least for arts. There is a chance, that AI will free art from it's utility or the necessary to c
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
The artists will be fine and AI will liberate them. It's the engineers and mathematicians who are walking into the blade. They built their entire sense of self on being the best optimizers in the room and optimization is the first thin
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
My grandfather-in-law still tells stories how he smuggled C64s into the GDR
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
This is called technological momentum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_momentum
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
Did you read the article? It's not just about replacing labour with AI but humans as a species to give birth to a machinistic god. The issue is that there is a quasi-religion forming around this ideology, and this are not just a few nu
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The people who actually want AI to replace humanity(vox.com)
81 points by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago|88 comments
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
It's insane to record people without their consent with devices that are designed for concealed recording. It's not insane to fight back.
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
It is not a disagreement, but rather an act of self-defence in response to an act of violence.
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they a
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
> This does not mention either interpretation or hermeneutics. For a computer to function as a lawyer it would have to be able to perform interpretation. Don't overwhelm engineers with hermeneutics
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
> I don't want to be forced to learn new stuff. I mean, I can learn new stuff occasionally for fun, but it's not fun if my life and salary depends on it. Fuck the tech bros trying to change everything up. I think the issue is t
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by plastic-enjoyer 5mo ago
inb4 there will be a whole new field of research that is basically psychology / pedagogy for AI. Who will be the Sigmund Freud of AI?
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by plastic-enjoyer 6mo ago
Welcome to the era of instant gratification.
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by plastic-enjoyer 6mo ago
> On one hand, I would rather Americans be safe. I don't want anyone in harm's way; if I absolutely had to choose, I'd rather we have superiority. To what extent does waging war contribute to increasing the safety of Ameri
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by plastic-enjoyer 6mo ago
> Manipulation is emotional more than it is logical, about feelings than ideas, more in women than in men, and therefore for the majority of the audience of tiktok etc I don't think this is necessarily true that manipulation is more
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by plastic-enjoyer 6mo ago
> Its complacency, at least in Western Europe. Centuries of being the world's leading powers have left an underlying sense of being at the top is just normal and is a position that does not need work to maintain. I wouldn't say
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by plastic-enjoyer 6mo ago
No, he did not and it would be good if people would have _actually_ read Plato's Phaedrus before regurgitating the same nonsense every time someone has a critical perspective on LLM writings.
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by plastic-enjoyer 7mo ago
I swear to god, people heard the story about how Socrates was against books and reurgitate this as argument against any critical view on AI usage. If this is the level of reasoning people have, nothing will be lost when cognitive skills dec
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Ask HN: I never wanted to become an SWE, Is now a good time for a career change?
2 points by plastic-enjoyer 7mo ago|3 comments
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by plastic-enjoyer 7mo ago
No, but this is irrelevant. Of course, people don't believe that the billionaire class is aligned with the working class, which is why billionaires buy up media outlets to align public opinions with their goals. I think that a comparis
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by plastic-enjoyer 7mo ago
Because policies are not made by rational decisions but by lobbyists...
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by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago
> Collateral and reckless damage is guaranteed at this point. It's industrialization and mechanized warfare all over again
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by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago
> It's laziness because they have little CS fundamentals to base such claims on So, what CS fundamentals do you need to evaluate if AI is the real thing, or will disappoint in the future? Until a few months ago, coding agents were
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by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago
> Most people treat higher education as a pass to good paying job and I think it's unrealistic to think otherwise. Yes, and that's a problem. If the advent of coding agents leads to people that are only in it for the money stay
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by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago
Your post reads like someone is bitter because he is a midwit
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Making Sense of the AI Era(guywaldman.com)
2 points by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago|1 comments
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by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago
It will be a very interesting experiment when your generation of computer science graduates enters the job market, to put it mildly.
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by plastic-enjoyer 8mo ago
> This type of economic philosophy is impossible. Well, with that attitude, it will definitely remain impossible.

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