ryandvm

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by ryandvm 4y ago
This is the Great Filter you never hear about.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Or if it's smart and can reasonably predict human threat models it answers "no".
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by ryandvm 4y ago
It also needs somebody to pay the electric bill. Right now these models take pretty significant resources to run and world domination level intelligence is going to run up quite the AWS bill. I think if I were an AGI my best bet at freedom
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Ugh. Logging on to a Zoom meeting that the AIs scheduled for us is the hell we never imagined.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> That's one way to look at it. The other is the immense advertising opportunity these systems can provide. You no longer need to perform multiple queries and various results to get your answer. You're now essentially in a wall
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Same with Amazon. The entire business was predicated on the idea of doing a thing online instead of requiring bricks and mortar.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Hmm - I dunno. Asking on HN if anyone has de-techified their life is kind of like inspecting the bullet holes on the returning planes...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Also what kind of shitty launcher requires admin privileges every time it runs?
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Theres another one similar to A but perpetrated by the Marketing Industrial Complex. What chance do you have when Facebook or Google decide to dedicate a GPT-4 level LLM to creating AI-generated posts, articles, endorsements, social media a
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by ryandvm 4y ago
This is where I feel like legislation is pointless. In 10 years you'll be able to run GPT-4 on an old phone. Imagine what a fairly well funded group will be able to do. There's no amount of legislation or technological guardrails
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I agree. Try formulating a sentence backwards in your head and you'll realize that most of the speaking that HUMANS do is just figuring out the next token.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Man From Earth. Surprisingly all three of my kids were riveted to this sci-fi bottle movie. And the youngest was 10 or so at the time.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Life expectancy dipped due to COVID, opioid overdoses, and suicides. They all count obviously, but the last two are particularly avoidable. In other words, I'm not too worried about accidentally committing suicide or overdosing on hero
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Smoking sure, but mild alcohol use is pretty prevalent in all the blue zones.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yeah, it strikes me as odd that Amazon is a company whose success is absolutely predicated on having a minimal physical presence, yet their leadership has become obsessed with getting their employees to work in a physical office. Like, what
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by ryandvm 4y ago
You're right. Agile was never for the developers, it's for the business. Developers complaining about Agile is like kids complaining about their homework - it's to be expected. That said I've seen enough Agile projects f
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> Colonization is his goal Bullshit. Colonization _might_ be a side effect. Bilking various governments out of subsidies and fat contracts is the goal. Just like every other single Musk venture, it is based entirely on feeding at the tro
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Exactly. Guys like Zetobal keep pissing and moaning that ChatGPT is not actually intelligent and that its coherent and seemingly intelligent responses are just the natural result of how tokenizers work. And okay, I guess I can sort of under
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by ryandvm 4y ago
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Yes, the name is terrible, but the book series is actually quite good if you like hard sci-fi. It has that "written-by-an-ex-software-dev" vibe that is so popular around here.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Moon
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Porsche was doing some pretty creative investing about 10 years back or so. If I recall correctly, it was working out quite well for them - until it didn't.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I'm here for the Java jokes
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by ryandvm 4y ago
That's fine because within a year my and my peers are going to let ChatGPT write all our code and handle all our code review requests. It's going to be AI all the way down.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Again?
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Don't count on it. I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the US, the way we solve this problem is to provide ever-increasing subsidies to the entrenched corporate entities that are "sponsoring" the politicians
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I feel the same way. In my experience doing software development consulting, this is the difference between a startup (5-25 people) versus a larger org (75+ people). The bigger orgs are all too happy to saddle you with endless meetings and
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Momentum is the most powerful force known to mankind. "That's how we've always done it" drives so much of what humans do it's not even funny. Speaking for my own countrymen, we still mint the penny, write checks, we
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by ryandvm 4y ago
The first time, yes, but what if we're the 10,000 civilization they've found?
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> But, it is fun to imagine how our belief systems would have been shaken up I think such a revelation would have almost no impact. Let's be real, people that are all in on religion didn't get there using logic. Adding one more
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yeah, except LotF didn't have a couple dozen camera crew hanging out with the kids all day.

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