tim333

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by tim333 5d ago
>Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books Of course what people are doing when staring at there phones is also reading about 80% of the time. It's more about the quality of the reading I guess.
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by tim333 5d ago
You'll probably find the things you can do do differ a bit on Sundays due to government regulations. Like in London where I am most shops close by 6pm. The keep Sundays special stuff does to some extent come from the Bible but there ar
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by tim333 5d ago
I guess the AI is getting good in some ways. Still a bit lacking in others.
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by tim333 5d ago
My family parlty got gassed by the actual nazis. I'm pretty anti them. But: >pretty bad taste in my mouth even to imagine using the product of someone who's suggested that Black and Asian Londoners make Britain worse You should
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by tim333 6d ago
I find the article a bit virtue signaling.
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by tim333 6d ago
Interesting is a bit in the eye of the beholder. Some people probably find maths boring full stop, some probably find all of it interesting.
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by tim333 6d ago
On HN it seems to have that. On the other hand in the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety he only gets one mention in the odd links box at the bottom of the page. I don't really get it but I
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by tim333 7d ago
AI safety is not the same as all the Yudkowsky weirdness.
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by tim333 7d ago
Russia has been making that sort of threat roughly weekly for a decade or two. It's kind of their thing. They are unlikely to nuke Europe - there's a lot of it and they only really have a couple of decent cities which could be gon
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by tim333 7d ago
It's not so much about how powerful Russia is as the attitude of it's leadership that seems determined to go attacking. It's already gone provoking with the drones at Leipzig and the like. And the place which is not overflowi
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by tim333 7d ago
I think it's a little different. Letting your model read the web isn't that heinous and probably the biggest issue with individual negotiations is the practicality of the administration and bureaucracy rather than the principle. (
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by tim333 8d ago
If China keeps training AI off the web while US companies have to negotiate with 7,383,654 different rights holders, it's going to handicap the US companies a bit.
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by tim333 8d ago
They seem unnecessarily opaque about it all. I just made one for PayPal using my MacBook which seems to have ended up in Bitwarden rather than the mac thing. But there's nothing in Bitwarden to say list all passkeys. Not sure how I che
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by tim333 8d ago
Yeah but in this case, who are what are you nationalising?
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by tim333 8d ago
Newton developed his calculus working at home after Cambridge closed down for a couple of years due to the Great Plague. I don't think he received funding for it.
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by tim333 9d ago
I got that, then updated 'Bypass Paywalls Clean'. Now if I click the HN link I get that but if I reload I get the article. Also https://archive.ph/I82C0 works
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by tim333 9d ago
My take isn't either. Stopping AI doing bad stuff is a real problem which can likely only be dealt with by trying it out and fixing problems as they arrive. Bit like SpaceX rapid prototyping the rockets - try it out, see what blows up,
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by tim333 9d ago
Teething problems with early cars and planes crashing were kind of inherent to the industries developing more than failings of individual companies, maybe.
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by tim333 9d ago
I don't think a sacrificial generation is necessary. There should be ways to sort things that are positive over all.
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by tim333 9d ago
I think mixed economy socialism where some bits are socialised and others are not may be the way forward with AI.
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by tim333 9d ago
There is "Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble" https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/s... His plan seems to be to plow ahead.
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by tim333 9d ago
There is some recent stuff on that website https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/17/wrke-s17.html >Sanders and the trade union bureaucracy join hands with the fascist right >The question of
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by tim333 9d ago
Tricky when the super intelligent robots that'll make stuff don't exist yet.
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by tim333 9d ago
I don't really get why people go on about Yudkowsky in this regard. I mean serious thinking about AI goes back at least to Turing in 1950 with his test and prediction computers would get there in about 50 years and presumably keep impr
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by tim333 9d ago
Dropbox is quite good like that - you can get back deleted or changed stuff up to 30 days old.
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by tim333 9d ago
Also, speaking as Brit, Australia and Canada getting involved might increase the argument for it being about trade and maybe travel and less about political integration, which the UK was never very keen on.
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by tim333 9d ago
The election of MAGA ten years ago changed US culture in strange ways.
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by tim333 9d ago
I think it might be https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s
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by tim333 9d ago
Apparently not. Googling, no one seems to actually do it in spite of some politicians talking about it. It seems quite a bad idea from a practical point of view. Not so much because it's socialist but it leads to all sorts of extra pap
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by tim333 9d ago
Seems pretty obvious cows are conscious in the everyday meaning of the word.

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