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by trasz4 3y ago
You do realize that using VPN makes the company you're paying for that VPN gather way more of your internet browsing history than the UK's surveillance program?
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by trasz4 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the difference? How is maintaining views that go against the accepted scientific consensus different between those two cases?
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by trasz4 3y ago
AI wouldn't have antagonists with comparable capabilities? Why? Also, no, individuals are not a problem. Not after Nazis, Red Khmer, and Russians.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>Abortion is considered immoral Not praying as often as one should is considered immoral too. But "immorality" is not binary, and abortion tends to be quite low on the scale. Especially early abortion, which is specific to on
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by trasz4 3y ago
>My kids are either male or female There's your problem - you're illiterate on that subject and are not willing to learn due to cognitive dissonance, probably because of your preexisting fringe beliefs. It's no different
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by trasz4 3y ago
>People who are worried about alignment issues are worried about the danger unaligned AI poses to humanity; the harm which can be done by some super-intelligent system optimizing for the wrong outcome. Like the harm being done over the p
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by trasz4 3y ago
4) Do you believe a "rogue super-intelligence" requires the "artificial" part? Because from what I've seen, however you define "super intelligence", there are eg highly organised groups of people that are
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by trasz4 3y ago
>For Russia/China warheads we basically have no documents, and even exterior pictures are extremely rare. In case of Russia there's a new factor in that those weapons might not even be operable anymore.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>I wonder if the next step - designing a thermonuclear device given an A-bomb And then there's the theoretical possibility of designing a thermonuclear device without the A-bomb part. I remember skimming through a paper from someon
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by trasz4 3y ago
So why was the original uncensored report Secret and not Top Secret?
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by trasz4 3y ago
Sure - there definitely are Zoomers in UK, but I doubt many of them would ever recognize Target or Walmart brands.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>No, I suspect it's more the case that ChatGPT could generate it anno 2021 Why? I mean, why does it sound more plausible to you that it ever could, when we have countless examples of models lying (or rather hallucinating)?
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by trasz4 3y ago
Sometimes there is a reason to mix, when the word in one language doesn't quite match the meaning you want, but in another it does. Like, for example, in Polish "security" and "safety" are the same word ("bezp
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by trasz4 3y ago
>I guess having an AI summarizing the web would lead to less incentive to create the type of SEO junk that made searching in Google so awful in the past years. Main part of Google's business is selling infrastructure for that SEO ju
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by trasz4 3y ago
>It didn't work, but it still generated it. So neither could generate the plugin, it's just that one of them lied about it.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>Google is payed when people leave the page via a click on an ad Not really. The click rate is iirc usually around 5%; I'm not convinced this is much higher than the "noise floor" generated by a human equivalent of drunk
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by trasz4 3y ago
>People are already freaked out plenty by the idea that googles products spies on you to sell ads. The inverse is true - people continue using Google products despite being aware that they are spying on them. Doing it outright won'
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by trasz4 3y ago
Because when something is possible and the incentives are there, then it's either already happening, or will eventually happen.
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by trasz4 3y ago
But I'm not saying they are not getting paid - I'm saying they are not getting paid by Google. They might be making money on sponsored links, or being part of some content farm. Barnacles aren't aware of how they are workin
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by trasz4 3y ago
Twitter doesn't mark bot accounts as sponsored. As to how - many ways, some of them really creative. One that I remember was an account that's reposting stuff that I genuinely liked, some left-wing activist content, and only now
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by trasz4 3y ago
>AI hype guys on Twitter work pro bono. Why do you assume not being explicitly paid by Google means not being part of Google's marketing strategy? Google's whole business model is getting people to do work for free ("produ
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by trasz4 3y ago
>Europe trying to regulate AI advances coming out of America. That's just an attempt to prevent technical colonisation. An analogy would be Japan and China trying to fence off missionaries. Protestantism was about something differ
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by trasz4 3y ago
>Others in Gen Z’s top 10 include M&M’s, Walmart, Target, Doritos, KitKat, and Oreo. Makes one wonder if it's actually representative of the whole gen Z, or just some specific western subset.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>It’s like listening to a mad scientist connect totally unrelated (seemingly) events. Why a mad scientist and not a mad junkie? Or just some clueless language model, artificial or not? I think we tend to make this assumption that thing
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by trasz4 3y ago
Not a proper source, but have you ever met someone with undiagnosed ADD and wondered why do they drink obscene amounts of coffee or energy drinks? It's a self-medication; it makes it much easier to focus.
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by trasz4 3y ago
"Arriving at fascism" is fine, the problem is when it doesn't make you think and back off far enough.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>In my experience, the bulk of the community is willing to believe that we tell the truth Indeed. > if only because it would be stupid and reckless not to Not really, even if it was somehow proven. > the only value HN has to YC is
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by trasz4 3y ago
>No one associated with YC flagged this article But there's no transparency, so there's no reason to assume it's true and not just the usual corporate PR.
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by trasz4 3y ago
If you read that link, you'd know that what you are doing is anything but honest debating.
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by trasz4 3y ago
>There's also an entire industry behind climate sensationalism telling people we're all going to be wiped off the planet in the next couple decades Might want to learn the difference between terms "industry" and &quot

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