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by tavavex 4mo ago
> The gap is getting larger year by year, not smaller. Why? Logically it would seem that learning how to do something that's already been done would be easier than discovering it. SpaceX has already done a lot of the work and has sh
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by tavavex 4mo ago
> I'd hope lawmakers and public advocates can devise solutions that allow both safe cars and secure data practices. This is not a case where safety in one domain needs to be traded for safety in another. The reason for the cynicism
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by tavavex 4mo ago
I'm not seeing any evidence of this. Precision tools raise the ceiling. AI mostly just raises the floor. Ease of use is a focus point for all AI labs and it's what they're constantly trying to improve. Yes, an expert can juic
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Automation in the past was just about changing what was in the human's hands. Technology improved, people got faster, but there was still a balance. The people who owned the machines and the factories couldn't and didn't want
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Are there ANY institutions remaining that haven't completely succumbed to the Church of Quantity? It was already bad before AI, on the web especially, and now that it's widely used it feels like no one cares about anything anymore
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by tavavex 4mo ago
How is that better? Taxes are a cut of the profits and they mostly are spent back on other goods and services. The owners of the gambling business take the remaining majority of the money and use it to scale themselves up, remove competitio
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Atheists have existed for basically forever. I think you're referring to the 'not murdering, ostracizing and repressing them' experiment. If, like some in this thread, you think that violence, ignorance and removal of freedom
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by tavavex 4mo ago
> Seems that HN's auto-headline rewriting in this case has made a critical error :) I'm eagerly awaiting the day someone proves that P != NP and HN edits the title of the announcement post in this exact same way.
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by tavavex 4mo ago
If all the AI booster dreams come true with nothing slowing them down, the value proposition for an average human will change to, in this order: 1. At least humans can still do highly specialized physical work 2. At least humans are cheap t
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by tavavex 4mo ago
It's a common joke to reply to something with 'yes' that doesn't make sense for the question asked. When used in place of a number, it just means extremely high, as high as it will go, that no matter what number you need
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by tavavex 4mo ago
It's gotten so bad that I feel that the majority of HN blog posts on the topic of AI are partially or fully AI-generated. Even the ones that are highly critical of the AI industry. People have just spent so much time next to AI, soakin
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Of course, they're people. But no one finds themselves in this position unwillingly. At some point in their lives, every one of those people decided to spend years studying for this job, and then to dedicate a third of their lives in s
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by tavavex 4mo ago
By that definition, any form of philosophy or politics are subcategories of marketing. It's not marketing if they're not trying to sell you something for money. To address your point - the flowery and innocent core promise of the
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by tavavex 4mo ago
I wonder how most of them sleep at night. Do they think they're providing a valuable service? Do they like what they're doing? Do they think of themselves as good people?
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Have all the countless people that just want the agent to run considered not having it run AskUserQuestion if they don't want to be asked questions? If a user sets it up to run AskUserQuestion, the assumption is that they are looking f
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by tavavex 4mo ago
For more information on why I think democracy makes things more ethical, see the other reply I left in this thread. But to address your counterexamples: 1. None of your examples are countered by private organizations, they can and do make d
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by tavavex 4mo ago
I already expressed why I think that more democracy makes workplaces more ethical immediately after where I said that I think so. If you'd like me to expand on this: governments and large companies are more alike than you think. Both o
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Libraries? Where we're* going, we won't need libraries! * 'we' - book, film and gaming industries
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by tavavex 4mo ago
> There is nothing inherently ethical about co-op owned organizations nor anything inherently unethical about privately owned organizations. I disagree. Co-ops are inherently democratic. Privately owned business is inherently anti-democr
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by tavavex 4mo ago
The two departments that made these moves might not be coordinating, but if they are, I imagine that Sony's implied pitch is something like "Games are temporary. Eventually, we will take them away. Want to play? Get going then, bu
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by tavavex 4mo ago
This is hilarious. Should we stop criticizing all politicians because we don't know them personally? These are not just some guys, you know. These are the most powerful people in the world. You will be affected - everyone has a 'r
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by tavavex 4mo ago
I still don't see how you get from 'many countries mismanaged their response to heat in the wake of the climate becoming more extreme' to 'the building of the European Commission is the bastion of evil' that the par
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by tavavex 4mo ago
What? Did the EU cause the heat wave? This thread is clearly about politics, and the parent claims that Americans complain about the EU and its politics because their own have gone completely off the rails. Disparaging the EU over a crazy h
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by tavavex 4mo ago
The downsides you're listing are real things that are already affecting us. The upsides are imaginary and reliant on a very positive outlook for the future. My view is that we'll be renting someone else's server time because
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by tavavex 4mo ago
To me, again, this doesn't look like a real attempt by the people to counteract the corporations, although it's certainly sold and advertised that way. I think it's the world's biggest collaboration project between tech
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by tavavex 4mo ago
That people should be happy over this may seem obvious to commenters shuffling about charts and research papers. But ordinary people do not look at their living situation and feel overwhelmingly thankful on a daily basis that they're n
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by tavavex 4mo ago
I'm sure all the people in the world suddenly did a 180 over the course of the last year, often with no new elections held, and all the governments are merely addressing their concerns by moving in complete lockstep with the exact same
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by tavavex 4mo ago
You see, when the governments are outraged that they can't monitor all facets of communication or are disallowed from using their shiny new ways to automatically observe and categorize billions of datapoints to automatically surveil-by
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Maybe if only you ran a little faster, you'd outpace the rapid advancement of automation! There's fewer jobs now? Malnourish yourself until you're a running skeleton to get that speed advantage. More people competing for the
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by tavavex 4mo ago
Anyone else here enjoy living in the future? Look at us, we get AI megacorporations ruling the world and bestowing us with the power to use their servers for just $20-200/month. It's practically charity, and all we had to give up

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