tavavex

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by tavavex 2mo ago
Their "we" clearly refers to the worker class at large, even if they're not an active participant in the smashing. Who's your "we"? Are you part of the group that owns most of the fruits of AI efficiency and wh
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Now I'm the one who's starting to doubt you read my comment with a fraction of the rigor you demand from me reading that incredibly dense paper. Read it again. I didn't say the definition of the word didn't include livin
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Even with the US electoral system working against you, there is still aspects of game theory here. What if eventually, with young people displacing the old, the group of people who would vote with you but look at the statistics and decide a
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by tavavex 2mo ago
But the fact that your first association for devices now used on children in the US is Guantanamo Bay is at least newer , right?
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by tavavex 2mo ago
> In one case at a high school, the officer used a glove on a student for "noncompliance." In the other, Cvitanov said, the gloves were used on a student who "was trying to get into the school that shouldn't have been
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by tavavex 2mo ago
I'm not a legal expert, but all this seems to check out with US law. Americans need to remember that some of their constitutional rights don't really apply at ports of entry by design. This inconvenient truth for the land of the f
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by tavavex 2mo ago
I think you legally are in the US while at an American border crossing - at least if the crossing is on US land, which it was in this case. It might be more complicated for preclearance spots. It's just that normal rights are suspended
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by tavavex 2mo ago
> I mean, that is the entire definition of the word. Not quite - my wording there was very deliberate. By saying that it's a problem when you're treating something that's not living (not non-human!) as if it were, that e
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Slavery only exists for living beings because humans have limited lifetimes, experience pain and can have their own desires and needs that can be forcibly taken away from them. Algorithms have none of these things and they don't need t
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by tavavex 2mo ago
I think the author exaggerates how much artists were shunned for selling out in the past - sellout pop culture has always existed to some degree. The bigger issue is the almost complete vanishing of a counterculture. There's almost no
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by tavavex 2mo ago
> It's hard to communicate "no, it's hard to understand, but this blend of candies is especially worth trying," so the best way to do that is to have a celebrity vouch for it. Your view is very optimistic, you're
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by tavavex 2mo ago
The author describes a world that existed not that long ago where similar tie-ins would still be popular, but where engaging with them would be seen by some people as a guilty pleasure or beneath you. I don't think you're going to
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Yeah, at the end of the day I didn't say you were confused or wrong in your assessment, I just wanted to say that there's a more poignant version of that argument that can be made by using more 'normal' examples of low-6
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Consciousness is a slippery word that is notoriously difficult to debate over. But often, people use 'consciousness' as a shortcut or a familiar word to describe a more complex idea. The point they're driving across isn'
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Anthropomorphizing is a problem when you're talking about treating something that's not living as if it were. Using humanizing language invites discussions of things like the rights and feelings of an algorithm. A judge that is mi
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by tavavex 2mo ago
> hold on, you can make $300k? Wait a second, that’s not a senior executive salary? That’s a normal-ish bourgeois white-collar HCoL salary that people make fresh out of school? Hold on, that’s basically a starting salary in that world? W
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Sorry, I assumed that accepting the system was what you advocated for given your example of moving to AI combined with the message of needing to adapt. It's a common argument used by AI advocates, that AI and all its consequences are t
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by tavavex 2mo ago
I think you're talking past what OP really meant. Millions of people change careers, and it usually isn't treated as a sign of failure or deficiency. The effects they're talking about are not as shallow as finding employment
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Only the American mind can comprehend leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of your own people for the sake of 3% of your economy. As long as the line goes up. If we're taking the $1T figure seriously, let's take the other fi
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by tavavex 2mo ago
"Solve this problem perfectly right now with no edge cases whatsoever, or it's not even worth discussing." The go-to mantra for opposing any complex proposed change. You know, lots of issues in society can't be solved pe
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Are passive RFID tags actually trackable for these purposes? That's horrifying. But I thought they would only be readable from at most a meter, maybe several with sensitive equipment - far too short of a range, no?
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by tavavex 2mo ago
The question is, is it legal for you to collect everyone's emissions automatically, process them, derive conclusions from them and sell them to third parties? The assumption that "if doing 1x of something is okay, then surely so i
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Actually, if we could recursively automate things on higher levels with the same tech without ever reaching diminishing returns, we'd be finishing up the colonization of our galaxy right about now. Since that didn't happen, it&#x2
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by tavavex 2mo ago
You're just trying to equate humour to populism, but I'm not buying it. You're doing it so much that you inadvertently are giving his direct opposition - Nigel Farage, an actual extreme populist - a pass, just because he&#x27
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Treating joke parties like one bloc with similar motivations is a mistake. The person behind Binface strikes me as intelligent, quick-witted and knowledgeable on modern issues. I have little doubt that he'd rule well had he actually be
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by tavavex 2mo ago
It doesn't appear flagged to me. Remember that HN downranks posts with certain ratios of comments to upvotes, or with a certain level of activity - I'm not sure exactly how it works - to prevent flamewars. Whether this is a good m
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Have seen. Too late to edit it now...
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Crucially, does it make capabilities infinitely scalable? My comment just said that models may have a hard cap, and maybe doing specific setups like yours can make reaching it easier, but making the 'team' 10x larger after that op
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by tavavex 2mo ago
Verifiability makes it easier to understand how well the LLM works, but this doesn't counter my hypothesis. If X number of instances get 99.0% on an objective, verifiable metric, is there any guarantee that 10X will get 99.9%? The fact
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by tavavex 2mo ago
High temperature makes the LLM pick more out-of-distribution tokens, but the choices its presented with are still the same or same-ish. I'm not convinced that the more random outputs don't end up averaging to roughly the same conc

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