smeeger

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by smeeger 1y ago
by far the most pervasive idea now is that AGI is inevitable and trying to limit or stop it is impossible. people come to this conclusion without any evidence and without thinking about it very deeply. obviously we could stop it if we wante
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by smeeger 1y ago
> everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing making human beings obsolete is not the right thing. nobody in openAI is doing the right thing. in another part of the post he says safety teams work primarily on making sur
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by smeeger 1y ago
why did i not mine bitcoin in 2010? fuck
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by smeeger 1y ago
its been craziest for multiple long years now
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by smeeger 1y ago
which metaverse poach was paid as much as these poaches?
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by smeeger 1y ago
im pretty sure that when the top companies are poaching leaders in AI for some of the largest payouts in history… we are not in an AI winter. so they were completely wrong. im guessing you are one of them.
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by smeeger 1y ago
do you remember the chorus of people on HN two years ago who said that the next AI winter was already upon us?
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by smeeger 1y ago
better than sam altman having them
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by smeeger 1y ago
the idea of mark zuckerberg being at the helm of digital super-intelligence sickens me.
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by smeeger 1y ago
yes you are indeed foolish. you took the worst possible path without considering the possibility that you didnt have to turn yourself into a pathetic sycophant in order to feed yourself.
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by smeeger 1y ago
you should never have allowed yourself to get sucked into corporate work. its the most common mistake that people make
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by smeeger 1y ago
what will they do next, revoke the patriot act?! how unpatriotic!
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by smeeger 1y ago
maybe they arent considering they commit most of the crime. they also dont celebrate juneteenth.
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by smeeger 1y ago
you live in a city and never leave it. its been noted that people in stockholm have actually collectively forgotten how to prevent, recognize and deal with frostbite because all they ever do is walk from a heated car cabin to a heated build
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by smeeger 1y ago
london isnt even cold compared to the US. i was amazed to learn this but its true… and these idiots dont take into account that most people in norway are not only driving in warmer conditions but almost always in the city… whereas in the US
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by smeeger 1y ago
after going on a long bike ride the other day… the first one ive done in many years, i felt so sharp and amazing. the combination of hard cardio and the motivation of seeing the scenery rush by you… makes cycling the most sustainable way of
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by smeeger 1y ago
ill believe it when i see it
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by smeeger 1y ago
theres cold and theres cold
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by smeeger 1y ago
no they usually start with a bunch of people celebrating something. this holiday is just an underhanded way for liberals to shove their politics down the throats of the other half of the country
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by smeeger 1y ago
first time ive seen a large corporation do something that indicated they were trying to enter the market that spacex created. i imagine honda entering the race is as big a deal for space exploration as when the first starship touched down
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by smeeger 1y ago
why have we not shot a probe toward the nearest foreign star?
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by smeeger 1y ago
you would need a ship that is also a city. a traveling space station. or probes. if humanity decided to send a small probe to the nearest foreign star, i wonder how many km/h current infrastructure could accomplish
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by smeeger 1y ago
my life is miserable even though im not sick. i would not qualify for assisted suicide. what does that mean? but if i got a terminal illness i would. so my life is motivated by the idea that i will someday achieve something that will make i
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by smeeger 1y ago
oh no! corporate profits!
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by smeeger 1y ago
saaaave the children!!!1
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by smeeger 1y ago
you are. just change a few words around and you would be reading the confidently incorrect predictions of essentially all scientists and engineers in 2010. you say LLMs wont get us there… and you personally would probably have said word2vec
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by smeeger 1y ago
hallucinations are essentially the only thing keeping all knowledge workers from being made permanently redundant. if that doesnt make you a little concerned then you are a fool. and the predictions of all the experts in 2010 is that what i
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by smeeger 1y ago
if being redundant would lead to mass layoffs then half of white collar workers would have been laid off decades ago. and white collar people will fiddle with rules and regulations to make their ever more bloated redundancy even more brazen
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by smeeger 1y ago
a quick google is apparently completely wrong
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by smeeger 1y ago
we didnt eat or hunt sheep. we followed herds of nomadic ruminant animals across entire continents. simply keeping up with them on foot would be a lot of work. let alone hunting them, moving them, dressing and processing them and then you h

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