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by tavavex 19d ago
> it's not like it's not known It's not known. Ask the average person that owns a smart TV if they think they're being listened in on. Or even what kinds of data they think their smart TV collects. I could bet you any
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by tavavex 22d ago
Why not? You can do anything if you find an RCE, and automatically finding exploits and backdoors by letting LLMs act unsupervised seems like what everyone's interested in these days. The payload would quietly set up the required softw
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by tavavex 22d ago
No, we have something that's less apocalyptic right now. You're talking about abuse, I was talking about the automation of abuse that's faster and more pervasive than anything individual bad actors could've done in the p
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by tavavex 22d ago
OpenAI is rightfully being shamed for being so hands-off and reckless with their 'experiments'. But the real scary thing for me is that they still had some tooling to hold them back, as evidenced by the need for technical workarou
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by tavavex 22d ago
It doesn't matter how much it makes. If the system finds that you've financially damaged someone, you aren't asked to just pay back the exact retail price of one unit. It can account for the overall damage to the owner, your
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by tavavex 22d ago
Your reasoning makes no sense. Laws are not indicative of how dangerous being outside is, the only indicator is getting into danger. The child did not get into any danger. The point you oppose still works - "they" made you (Americ
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by tavavex 23d ago
But what are you trying to say about the greater argument? The parent had two parts to it - make merging as difficult as unmerging, or make unmerging as easy as merging. While you're right that the wiggle room for making unmerging a
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by tavavex 25d ago
I think he's constantly trying to time the peak (of AI improvement, of compute capabilities, of profitability) and keeps having to readjust his predictions every time it's proven wrong. Timing the peak is a fool's errand unle
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by tavavex 25d ago
> We have people telling us the next recession being imminent all the time. Others told us that NFTs were key to the future of art. That's quite the conflation, and a very subtle way to tie a claim that's still unresolved to on
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by tavavex 25d ago
It's almost impossible to predict how much demand there will be in that scenario because the world would be a very different place if that system was the default. And with things that are relatively cheap to make, such as professionall
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by tavavex 25d ago
I think the author is getting his wires crossed, his religious beliefs are affecting the way he reasons about technology by providing narratives that we shouldn't assume are true. It's especially evident here: > We're so m
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by tavavex 25d ago
You're the one being "hilariously melodramatic" here by first inventing something the other person didn't say and then patting yourself on the back for taking down that imaginary argument. Any sufficiently large robots w
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by tavavex 25d ago
Correction: remember what party was leading before they had to fight a far more popular opposition, before they became the recommended choice of the US, before they tried to import the American culture wars into Canada and before they infam
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by tavavex 25d ago
I'll elaborate on my opinion. I think that asking for a single universal rule that seemingly impartially decides how to display certain names shows that I conveyed what I meant too indirectly. Asking for a universal rule on map labelin
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by tavavex 25d ago
Why do you think it's called 'Lite'? Are you going to argue that Google did us a favor by benevolently removing functionality?
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by tavavex 26d ago
I'm also Canadian. The nuance here is that this is not an average contested border or naming issue that mapping companies rightfully treat very carefully. There is no actual dispute between two peoples or two nations, or anyone, on wha
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by tavavex 27d ago
The province of Ontario is named after the lake, not the other way around.
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by tavavex 29d ago
Being the Task Manager Guy became his whole brand. Any time he's brought up, the Task Manager topic is sure to follow. No wonder he's doing more Task Managers. It's so pervasive it's kind of funny.
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by tavavex 29d ago
You picked a really bad analogy is what I'm saying. We're not debating imperatives, we're talking about ways of interacting with the world. From what I can see, humans have more ways to interact with the world around them tha
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by tavavex 29d ago
The alternative to democracy is wealthy guys who can buy their way into anything being done forcing their will upon the "worthless" rest of the populace, as you called them. If only billionaires weren't held up by the monste
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by tavavex 1mo ago
Baby replication (creation, actually, I don't think anyone has ever copied a baby) is not what humans do as their only function that enables them to do anything in life. LLMs are literally token predictors. You can debate over the &quo
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by tavavex 1mo ago
We already live in that world, and the sky hasn't fallen so far. Even in the worst case scenario, the world isn't going to be as horrifying as the alternative, because people react to the proliferation of scams, they will not keep
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by tavavex 1mo ago
Fun fact - the default Windows 10 wallpaper was actually shot on a real camera in physical space[0], making it one of the exceptions. It's disappointing that they went back to 3D renders in 11, but it was probably done so they could ma
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by tavavex 1mo ago
While it does make a difference, their willingness to quietly integrate watermarking features into what people saw as simple apps for doing simple tasks is unnerving. It only takes a small change for them to start baking your identifiable i
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by tavavex 1mo ago
'Care' is a human concept. Robots, even extremely advanced ones, will not necessarily come bundled with aspirations. Giving a robot the capacity to care and want change, if it's even possible, would be extremely dangerous. It
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by tavavex 1mo ago
> There's been plenty of good sci-fi written about this Can you recommend me some? I feel like my brain still can't fully internalize the world these people are pushing for.
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by tavavex 1mo ago
Is that really a surprising trait to expect from a venture capitalist persona? As we go on, especially as most of the simple problems get solved, the system everyone blindly trusted has turned to uphold generally positive trends has turned
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by tavavex 1mo ago
You can, of course, distance yourself from their world and work on things they would never see as valuable. However, you can't check out of the most grand game we're playing, the game of life and existence. Those people desperatel
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by tavavex 1mo ago
> my dream is to remove the many tedious tasks from the software engineering job Which doesn't go against what I said, it's just an extremely micro-scale view that ignores everyone else also owning the same tooling. The first c
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by tavavex 1mo ago
The AI booster dream is that of job erasure. Even if one 'put AI into everything' fanatic gets her job now, it'll be ultimately meaningless because their ideology is that of permitting our irrelevance as well as ceding jobs a

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