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by tim333 5mo ago
My dad went through one of those in England where it was a bit deep. The car had to have a new engine.
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by tim333 5mo ago
I spent a while sitting in Malawi pondering that. A while ago but I don't think it's changed much. In many ways it's not a poor as you'd think from the GDP figures - most people have housing and enough food and the place
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by tim333 5mo ago
I think the normal saying is "Anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands." Building a forever bridge would be challenging, especially for 5bn yrs in when the sun expands.
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by tim333 5mo ago
Reform are the new Trump like, kick the immigrants out party. I don't know if they'd achieve the operational excellence that Trump and DOGE have.
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by tim333 5mo ago
> £100k/year = bad, £120k/year via an external consultancy = good actually kind of makes sense. The £600 a day is as long as you need it and can be stopped when you don't. A £100k government employee basically has a guaran
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by tim333 5mo ago
I don't think nationalising the AI labs is happening. I agree the article is a bit odd. Alignment is mostly about making AI helpful and not wanting to kill people unless it's told to ( https://www.forbes.com/sites&#
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by tim333 5mo ago
>Take the infamous photograph of a UCLA student showing off a ChatGPT window ... at the most charitable level: the student is showing off how he used ChatGPT to cheat There's a video of the student Andre Mai talking about it. He wa
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by tim333 5mo ago
It seems to me that Musk doesn't have much of a case. I don't really fault his lawyers for not having much steam. I mean - Musk - "they stole a charity". Reality - it's still there and larger than ever. How are you
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by tim333 5mo ago
The capitalist system is kind of a tool to provide prosperity by people making stuff and so remains because people like prosperity. If AI can make the stuff it may become redundant and fade in importance without needing to be smashed. Like
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>can't really imagine what society would be like in a world where people don't have any clear purpose Do people have clear purpose now? We have a lot of examples of people who don't have to work like the British landed gen
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by tim333 5mo ago
The right to bear arms is more of a last resort against tyrants and invaders. You don't want to be shooting people for everyday politics.
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by tim333 5mo ago
The majority of people agree that taxes to pay for schools, hospitals, roads and the like are a good idea. The majority of people also don't want to pay more tax personally. I don't think there's any great contradiction there
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by tim333 5mo ago
I also got a M1 Air 8gb, bought 2021 and it's good but there's been various hardware go wrong - screen packed up, usb ports packed up, speakers knackered, battery says service. I think 10 years use would require quite a lot of fix
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by tim333 6mo ago
There's stuff I think if cool but is not really regarded as AI any more like language translation and I find the google lens thing in Chrome very handy - does ocr, finds stuff in images etc. Maybe people will like more the stuff that d
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by tim333 6mo ago
AI does potentially upend the main developed world model of spend fifteen plus years in education learning skills and then go employ those in work. If AI can do the skilled stuff it changes the economics.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Back in January (13th) when the Iran protests were going on we had Trump truthing: >Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled
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by tim333 6mo ago
It's a bit vague as to why but they produced a document >The Altman document consisted of dozens of examples of his alleged lies and other toxic behavior, largely backed up by screenshots from Murati’s Slack channel. In one of them,
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by tim333 6mo ago
Well nature follows general relativity and quantum mechanics so presumably they can co-exist. We just don't have a mathematically consistent theory as to how.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I'm sure he would have found it interesting.
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Various potential aims have been mentioned - stop nukes, regime change, support the protestors, stop support for Hamas and the like. The trouble is none of it seems planned out or able to achieve them.
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It has been in the past. I think this time is different though.
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>Do you think that people like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, or Dario Amodei really have our best interests at heart... The great thing about market competition is the bosses may be bastards but they are forced to make good products so as to co
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by tim333 6mo ago
If AI works you'll be able to make more stuff with fewer people. While that could lead to unemployment historically it's not gone that way. You get more stuff. Like agricultural employment has gone from ~70% to ~2% but the people
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by tim333 6mo ago
My thoughts were more that left/right is in the eyes of the beholder but the models tend to produce a consensus like view. Like trying now with Grok: - who won 2020, says Biden which probably annoys Trumpists - how many sexes, says 2,
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by tim333 6mo ago
I think more stalemate in Iran. Checkmate implies it's over but this will go on and on.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I would have thought a better case could be the >From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs thing might be able to be done ok with AI sorting it.
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They seem to get a lot of values, or something like that, from their training data which at the moment gives fairly mainstream views as everything gets chucked in there.
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Thanks for the info. I'll delay longer.
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The term 'humane' meaning basically kind seems a bit optimistic as to how humans are. A lot can be not very kind, especially if anonymous on the web.
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by tim333 6mo ago
>That is the internet we built. It was not an accident. It was the product of a specific ideology, written down by specific people, at a specific cocktail party in Davos, in 1996. The article is entertaining but I completely don't b

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