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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's true people need something to do, but I don't think the COVID shutdown (lockdowns didn't happen in the U.S. for the most part though they did in other countries) is a good comparison because the entire society was perfus
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's a combination of things... it's not just that AI feels like it is stripping the dignity of the human spirit in some ways, but it's also that the work we are doing is often detrimental to our fellow man. So learning to wo
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
You're talking about age structure, but overall population age-structure can be adjusted by immigration flows, births, deaths, etc. My point was about the total population number. You can imagine a steady-state population where the age
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
American capitalists and economic planners fret about "Japan Syndrome". To have more productivity and more consumption i.e. GDP growth, you need more people as a core driver. We don't actually need this, we could do fine with
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
genetic technology and computing technology have been the biggest drivers for a while. i do think it is remarkable to video call another continent. communication technology is disruptive and revolutionary though it looks like chaos. ai is i
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
another one that thinks they solved the hard problem of consciousness by addressing the easy problem. how on earth does a feedback system cause matter to "wake up"? we are making lots of progress on the easy problem though
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's kind of legitimate, but it's kind of sad to see some of the smartest people in society just being like "maybe AI will just give me the answer," a phrase that has a lot of potential to be thought terminating.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
> Now that China has become more adversarial Just a nitpick, but it is the reverse, the United States has become more adversarial. China isn't kidnapping heads of state.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
This is a really great piece, the bit at the end showing why IR works in smokey environments and guessing the planet's composition based on color was really good.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
kind of a weak ass attack for a state actor with confusing goals sounds more like a distraction to keep security occupied for some more specific goal
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
I don’t get it what’s the goal here? did anyone claim responsibility
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Limited terms are anti-democratic. They were instituted for the U.S. presidency after FDR won 4 terms and scared the rich into making sure that if that ever happened again, it would be more limited in scope.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
When you say "it" completed the task in 6 hours, do you mean with you in the loop or running autonomously for hours after a certain point?
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Maybe this is a gray area, but that's kind of my experience with it too. I understand what I want to happen, but don't understand the language and it produces a language specific result that is close enough, maybe even one-shot, f
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
I think it depends on the tasks you use it for. Bootstrapping or translating projects between languages is amazing. New feature development? Questionable.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
I suppose the AI can wear many "hats" simultaneously, but it does have to be competent enough at at least one or two of them for that to be viable. I think one way to think about that is roles can be consolidated.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Interesting. International payments are one of the few use cases that somewhat align with cryptocurrency's underlying value proposition of censorship resistant currency.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
I can see what you're getting at, but think about how humans are a general intelligence and we still ask them to perform specialized jobs. That said, they acquire knowledge in that position rather than being pre-loaded with everything
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Why not find a subfield that is more difficult and requires some specialization then?
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
I guess this can make sense if the startup is doing crypto, otherwise it seems like financial friction. That said, I believe the entire crypto ecosystem is just a giant scam.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
It's cool that not every law enforcement agency in the world is under the complete thumb of U.S. based billionaires.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Do you know who the U.S. allies with and funds? Every right wing dictator and criminal gang on the planet. We just don't like independent nations and left wing factions. There is extreme corruption in the U.S. as well, but we've l
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Yet somehow they've managed to eliminate extreme poverty and challenge the U.S. in GDP. Sounds like cope to me. They couldn't do that with extreme corruption like we tolerate in U.S. allies.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Don't you have a 1A right to access them so long as you are not a risk of damaging them? I've never tried myself.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
What kind of financial engineering is going on here? Is xAI about to go bankrupt or something?
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
It's really funny for how all the talk of AI safety what has resulted is precisely the exact series of steps one would take if one were to intentionally design some kind of dystopian AI system.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Mr. Moneybags is also much more likely to gate access to documents based on what they think the purpose of the research is. If they don't like your opinions, sorry, out of luck.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
The goals of this law: "So, hypothetically, in a state with a right-to-compute law on the books, any bill put forward to limit AI or computation, even to prevent harm, could be halted while the courts worked it out. That could include
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
It's hard for me to understand how stuff like this isn't in a national museum.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
I suspect that this is a very simplistic view of how R&D and the revolving door work. For example, previous Secretary of War Lloyd Austin was on the board of Ratheon https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving-door/lloyd-

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