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by srackey 3y ago
Bureaucratic states are corporations too, brah. (Arguably more like AI than joint-stock companies, as there’s no one person in charge — just the collective incentive structures)
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by srackey 3y ago
Except we have no control to compare to. Software is eating the world after all. Seems likely that demand would be high anyway. Perhaps if there were no H1Bs, entry level grads would make $250k, with the average senior dev making $750k+.
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by srackey 3y ago
Propaganda is effective on impressionable youth. More news at 11…
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by srackey 3y ago
I fear it will end up more like nuclear energy: a clearly better, objectively safer technology that nevertheless is very easy to fear-monger against. Development won’t be pushed to the Third World, but rather those political systems less su
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by srackey 3y ago
The federal government spends 25 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth each year . They’re also the ones tasked with making sure people aren’t starving and homeless. You’re crazy dumb idiots for thinking Bezos having money is connected at all to ho
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by srackey 3y ago
“If you found a company and it’s too successful, that wealth should be taken from you.” “I see, and who should take the money?” “The government!” More commie drivel on the front page of HN. I thought this was an entrepreneurship forum?
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by srackey 3y ago
What are you trying to imply here sir?
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by srackey 3y ago
Sorry, you need to get off the internet if you think that the simplest explanation is that an AI singularity is right around the corner. Gwern, Bostrom, Yudkowski et. al. are terrific sci-fi writers, but I’d advise against taking them too s
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by srackey 3y ago
You are assuming sama is not bullshitting you about the whole “own AGI” and “capture all the value in the lightcone” gobbledygook. It sounds like a high-stakes game? Of course it does! Sama isn’t some technical wizard, but an entrepreneur.
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by srackey 3y ago
Power comes out the barrel of a gun. Forms of government have always followed military technology. In the modern era, this means highly technical, complex supply chains, and the technical know-how to manage it all. As war is increasingly fo
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by srackey 3y ago
Nah he’s right. Yandex is pretty good. Easily on par with Google/Bing. I suspect just no one uses it in America so the results aren’t SEO’d to death. I’d bet Baidu is decent too but that one really isn’t set up to interface with the We
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by srackey 3y ago
The author writes that there are far more admirable journalists also locked up. This may be true. The interesting thing about Assange is not just that he’s locked up, but that he’s locked up in the UK, for extradition to the US. Again, not
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by srackey 3y ago
You were never priced out, you just can’t afford the concert. The price they jacked it up to is the market price. The band or venue don’t benefit, the people who can now buy when they’re used to be a shortage do. It’s just arbitrage, being
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by srackey 3y ago
He actually is adding value. The pricing is way out of line with the real demand, causing a shortage. But bands/venues don’t want to set ticket price at market price because it will make them look bad. Scalpers take the reputation hit
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by srackey 3y ago
Also what Trader Joe’s does. It’s kinda their whole deal, and partly the cause for their success.
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by srackey 3y ago
Because it just doesn’t seem to work (in aggregate, it may work for you , but not the firm, and not the firm over an indefinite time span).
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by srackey 3y ago
This just means the algorithm thinks you’ll like Tate or Peterson. Maybe you will, idk. How is that a “rabbit hole”?
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by srackey 3y ago
This is in fact not “absurdly dangerous”. It may actually be safer than using a biological intelligence for the same purpose. Given that, and the shortage of biological mental health workers, it seems reasonable that many many more would
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by srackey 3y ago
Of course we have a shortage of CEOs or can manage large organizations efficiently. Just like we also have a shortage of NFL quarterbacks or MLB pitchers. Healthcare CEO pay is in-line with executive pay of similarly sized firms. Simply put
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by srackey 3y ago
ITS FUN!!! And maybe can be used to do interesting things. Let’s work on the cool tech together. I promise you it will not hack into the mainframe and turn the world into paperclips. (Odds are…near zero).
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by srackey 3y ago
1. People dedicate their time to stupid nonsense all the time. They mostly all honestly believe in said nonsense, and are probably in consensus with others sharing the same nonsense. That doesn’t mean it’s real! See: alchemy, lysenkoism, or
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by srackey 3y ago
Tech hasn’t “burned through social capital”. The media has shifted from being positive/neutral regarding tech to actively hostile, mainly because tech has been increasingly approaching their turf. Regulators follow public opinion, publ
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by srackey 3y ago
Yes, and this will require violence to achieve (how else can you enforce the “from each” and “to each”?) Communism has been tried. Again and again. The utopian endpoint it tires to get to is not possible. The consistent result is mass dea
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by srackey 3y ago
Far higher chance you’ll die on the way to school in a car accident. School shootings are to the left what terrorist attacks are to the right —- fear-mongering over an ultimately rare and insignificant problem to drive desired policy change
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by srackey 3y ago
People can make babies, and we’re not limited to a one planet ;)
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by srackey 3y ago
But we used to work more and this wasn’t as much of an issue?
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by srackey 4y ago
Communism
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by srackey 4y ago
Don’t take the job then.
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by srackey 4y ago
There will be nations or places that choose to restrict or stop AI development. These people will eventually find themselves conquered by the invincible autonomous robotic armies of the people who did choose to develop AI technology. Ouch!
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by srackey 4y ago
ChatGPT/GPT3.5 and its weights can fit on a small thumb drive, and copied infinitely and shared. Tech will get better enough in the next decade to make this accessible to normies. The genie cannot be put back in the bottle.

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