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by scotty79 2mo ago
That might be an interesting parallel. Maybe code becomes like legal documents. Binding but inscrutable, full of small mistakes and not really tailored for human ingestion.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> Hardly, it's quite a clear relationship and exercised constantly - if you do the math re: share classes and look at what a corporation actually does. Look at the stock market. Out of billion trades maybe one is related to actual o
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> Though it's being argued that you could still be responsible for it without looking at it? Works for ToS and software and media licenses. Allegedly.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> Shares are proxies for ownership/control. Connection between shares and ownership is tenuous at best and rarely exercised. > What you are proposing is literally what China does to ensure CCP control of all businesses. 10% is no
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by scotty79 2mo ago
Shares aren't a real thing. They are paper invented out of thin air with intent to pull the money out of capital market. There are already many rules about what you have to do be allowed to sell them to the public. Adding a rule that 1
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by scotty79 2mo ago
Possible. But by looking at other industries Chinese don't seem to need to be forced to innovate. They just can and do. Unlike the West they seem to be on the way up and it seems like sky is the limit. In the West, the interests of the
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by scotty79 2mo ago
They innovated a lot.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> Is this guy really, truly, seriously arguing that we first decide to care for an animal, and then because we care about it, we believe that it's conscious, able to feel pain and other emotions? That's just so incredibly stupi
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by scotty79 2mo ago
Consciousness is not some maximal unattainable goal. Consciousness is level zero. It's single core, single threaded CPU running one program on narrow subset of data fed linearly. AIs won't ever be closer to consciousness than they
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by scotty79 2mo ago
That's the entire question, isn't it? IF you model a mind, have you just modeled it or actually built it?
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> Whether or not something is conscious (has subjective experience) is independent of whether humans care about it. I'm willing to consider that consciousness is like art, mostly in the eye of the beholder and objectively defining c
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by scotty79 2mo ago
TOS is and will ever be just a "pretty please".
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> The fact that AI models can be so easily distilled and replicated is such a stroke of luck. Why shouldn't it work though? It's just models teaching other models same way humans are.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
You should put it on bootable USB stick.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
To clarify, information can be created at will, in automated fashion. If you add two random numbers and calculate the result and those happened to be numbers noone else ever had idea to add you created a new piece of information. Template i
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> As a person with IBS I basically cannot peacefully go outside in EU. Try Poland. Basically every restaurant needs to have a toilet and every one of those must be made available to passers by, not just customers. They are clean and plen
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> The main idea of EPR is sensible: businesses that place packaging on the market should help finance its collection and recycling. Wouldn't it be better to put the burden on packaging manufacturers?
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by scotty79 2mo ago
I'm not sure if this brings you hope, but let me try ... What the rich want is not to be content. They want to get richer. And it's terribly hard to extract money from other rich people, because they want to get richer, not poorer
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> but "proving a conjecture" might have a lower intrinsic complexity than "putting together a good joke" Might earwax be soon worth more than gold? Experts say: No! What? No. > "Pre-coded algebra" was th
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by scotty79 2mo ago
It's very easy to detect, since you tell the model what time it is.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
Computers were never good at math. They were good at pre-coded algebra. When LLMs started to get popular, they really were stochastic parrots. I was fully aware that they were completely useless (except perhaps for poets) until they can do
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> training LLMs on everything humanity knows so far? That's not all of what we are doing for at least a year, possibly few. LLMs are trained increasingly on generated inputs. Soon human sourced material is going to be rounding error
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by scotty79 2mo ago
If you base your trust towards a thing you intent to inject into your body on the niceness of some website and clumps of letters that appear on it, you should think long and hard about your life because you must have made at least five grav
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> The attacks on Khan here personally irked me. No good deed goes unpunished.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
Selling devices that owner can't control in full shouldn't be legal.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
It's fine to not be happy about it, but denying what's happening is a completely different thing.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
Reality is the same behind the polite facades both in the East and the West. The problem with the West is that being rich mostly excludes you from being put in prison for being not liked by the powerful. Excuses are also irrelevant. You can
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by scotty79 2mo ago
> The only interesting part of this story is that this particular machine form factor looks pretty much like a human That's the whole goddamn point of this. Fast stable autonomous bipedal locomotion was out of reach of human technol
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by scotty79 2mo ago
I'm ready since I was born. I'm including the times when people were better than machines at anything into Middle Ages. I hope I'll live long enough so I can see civilization finally exit them.
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by scotty79 2mo ago
You won't scare me into compassion for people so different than me that they might as well not be carbon based.

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