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by roenxi 5mo ago
If "convenient lawcraft" is the new slang for "words have meanings" then absolutely. Insurance company employees talking about insurance is practising insurance. Nobody wants them to practice medicine, the question is wh
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Probably. But not helpful. Being rational and correct is a low bar, it is likely that all sides of any given debate a rational and correct to some extent. Someone dumping their entire life savings into a casino can be said to be rational an
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> I'm not seeing the comparison because what you're describing is not at all an internal or emergent process. And (1) that process isn't an autocomplete because it isn't reliably text->text. It could be visual->
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by roenxi 5mo ago
If that is the argument though, current AI aren't just autocomplete - because we could reasonably show an AI an image or a video and have them call a tool rather than return text. That'd be comparable to a pre-language human.
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> I’m pretty sure everyone was quite aware the sun doesn’t shine at night whenever the previous rules and regulations were written. And because they knew, the regulations I've heard of set some sort of statutory price that consumers
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by roenxi 6mo ago
> ...while 31% of Gen Z now report feeling outright anger toward the technology... 31% seems remarkably high. Here we seem to be running up against the limitations of statistics. It is hard to interpret whether this is a scared-and-angry
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by roenxi 6mo ago
The reasons that jump out at me are that, as a society, we're setting up to produce a more stuff with less effort, provide higher quality advice to everyone at an absurdly low cost, revolutionise research and it looks like we're g
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by roenxi 6mo ago
Going by the article the authorities in Japan decided that she didn't need an official punishment, so in this case they don't seem to think it matters what her charge was since there wasn't enough evidence to make a case ag
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by roenxi 6mo ago
If you want the logical approach; the premise you're suggesting you want people to argue from is faulty. The argument kicks in at a slightly deep level. Age verification is unrelated to allowing children to watch porn. Someone needs
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by roenxi 6mo ago
> It has been funny to watch people’s attitudes on copyright change ever since ChatGPT blew up. I doubt many individuals actually changed their opinions. Just that a large crowd of previously-silent people decided AI is a threat to them
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by roenxi 6mo ago
They might? If they don't and it is trivial to identify the beneficial owner, why is it necessary to create a requirement to disclose? The practical experience is that people are quite bad at this sort of requirement, that may well be
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by roenxi 6mo ago
We seem to be disregarding the cohort of people who like articles with some visuals more than a text-only article. They exist. Probably not HN readers though, if we're being honest. Adding some images quickly and easily would make them
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by roenxi 6mo ago
More even, something AI is quite bad at is combining different imaginative elements. Compare the AI dinosaur in the article to the commissioned dinosaur. The commission has a vibe created by the eye expression and the glasses. I'd mayb
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by roenxi 6mo ago
One of the lessons of philosophy is that once you adopt any particular value system, almost all philosophers either become immoral or caught up in meaningless and trivial quibbles. This sort of alignment work is quite interesting because it
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> (The techbros hate it for a different, if related, reason - they aren't nearly as successful at capturing regulators, astroturfing and controlling discourse, and otherwise taking charge of that second entity as they are with the h
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by roenxi 6mo ago
> Is this hypocritical? Most people would say yes, but in your framing it's not because we've backed up to the least specific articulation of an underlying principle. It's a species of the motte and bailey fallacy. I'
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by roenxi 6mo ago
That's fairly well understood. If people get wind that the CEO isn't necessary they'd be out on their ear in short order. I don't think I've ever met anyone who'd shed a tear for the CEO losing their job. Excep
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by roenxi 6mo ago
Old value: Producing high value software. How to do it? Focus on writing code. New value: Producing high value software. How to do it? Focus on writing specs for code / identifying needs. I expect there are a lot of hypocrites in the m
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by roenxi 6mo ago
I suppose. Although if NZ manages the sort of vigour and industry of Venice back in the day I am going to move there.
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by roenxi 6mo ago
> I’m highly doubtful about this - it seems to be an excuse to disestablish the BSA, rather than a genuine basis for the decision. The title of the piece is "Government to disestablish the BSA" and the domain is .govt.nz. I thi
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by roenxi 6mo ago
We've got LLMs that seem to be smarter than anyone I'm talking to day-to-day and one useful model of them is just "compression". Compression is turning out to be a pretty key operation in intelligence and understanding (
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by roenxi 6mo ago
> The only reason why this is done in the first place is because the number of electrodes in the dish is pitiful and has no chance of describing something as complex as Doom. This sounds a bit suspicious though. If we're confident t
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by roenxi 6mo ago
Not sure what the downvotes are for on this one. It depends a lot on what "genuine care" is supposed to mean. If you want to interpret that as a subconscious feeling then you're right. Feelings aren't normally controllab
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by roenxi 6mo ago
I'm just going to quote myself here: > (a friend of mine died slamming their car into a tree) Autonomous cars can run headlong into concrete walls and still be substantially better drivers than humans. There is no inherent contradic
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> but you have no idea what actually goes on behind the curtains, which quantization levels they use and so on. That would take something close to a global conspiracy of every technologist lying continuously to keep the tweaks secret. If
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by roenxi 6mo ago
I believe you, but that really highlights how dangerous small regulatory overheads are. One - quite reasonable - frame on what you're saying is that there was no problem with Cruise except they failed to engage with the bureaucracy pro
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>Also a school zone is one of the most basic things the car should be able to handle. If it can’t do that, it’s not ready for public use. Humans don't always follow the law driving through school zones. And when humans speed through
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by roenxi 6mo ago
Well ... yes. By that logic it is the case. It applies to humans too - if a human slams their car into a concrete wall then the human was still driving the car. They did a bad job of it, but they were in fact driving. A car being driven aut
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by roenxi 6mo ago
I wasn't planning to answer but question marks sometimes bug. Sorry for the delay. > Taking this as true (it very evidently isn't), then since Europe already has declining birth rates, the logic step would be to prevent migrati
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by roenxi 6mo ago
Yeah but that response is stupid, irrational, makes shortages more likely and discourages people from taking action when they need to do something different right now . In an emergency situation, people who can provide more of something th

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