virgildotcodes

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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
> 9 men hunt and 1 man eats free, so the 9 men are carrying the weight of the 1. Updated the quote to the historically accurate 99 vs 1. > This system is inherently unstable and unsustainable. The countries cited are extremely stable.
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
This doesn’t seem to be a universal rule at all, but smells more of a boogeyman promulgated within US society. The nordics are anywhere from 50% - 90% of all labor unionized and they absolutely destroy the US on every standard of living met
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Yeah, it’s like living in an unsustainable society whose luxuries you enjoy are entirely predicated on the destruction of the natural world, the enslavement and abuse of your fellow human beings, and the death and torture of billions of oth
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Eh, there’s definitely some value in understanding for yourself via experience which models are actually good for which use cases. The benchmarks are unreliable imo, and as I’ve interviewed developers who don’t really use AI, they say thing
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
> Nobody knows where it works A large percentage of code being written today is AI generated. If none of it worked it wouldn’t be so. > This is where it definitely does not work. The person said it’s clearly working for their friends’
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Ratios > absolute numbers, of course. If only 4 people die violent deaths out of a total population of 5, that’s an extremely violent population to be a part of. If 8 people die violent deaths out of a total population of 100,000. That’s
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Yeah I'm not sure what the exact context of the statement is. I am absolutely certain that we have not already discovered let alone implemented the best possible learning algorithms. Humans have had more time to evolve, there's a
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
> Your average 'poor person' in America has HVAC. An unimaginable luxury in the EU Lmao, did HN just glitch out and start showing me Pieter Levels' tweets?
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
> You missed the core of my point: humans operate, including in the real world, on much less training data. I very specifically addressed this in my response to you. How much training data is contained in 16 waking hours of navigating th
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I’m not in academia myself, and I think AI solving all our problems ASAP is ideal, even if it means no humans get attribution. What I’m saying is that the ultimate goal of those in power are not these sorts of altruistic or even scientific
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I think we’re looking at a new class of wonderful machines that can potentially make meaningful contributions to the sciences and maybe even humanity as a whole, in addition to far more insidious and destructive capabilities. You are right
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I addressed much of this in my response to a sibling comment, but a few more here: > novel to us every single day. Like navigating a shopping cart through tricky coridors in a store We have been practicing navigating the physical world f
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
> Synthetic training data is carefully crafted by humans. Much, if not the majority of synthetic data is AI generated. Human experts then evaluate samples of the data, but nothing like the entire corpus which can be trillions of tokens o
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
You're not quite addressing the question. More and more of the training data is now synthetic. To be very specific - what novel things did the majority of the ~8 bil humans on Earth do say, yesterday, that you wouldn't otherwise d
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Here's a probably stupid question - if someone were unbounded by ethics and conceivably had enough power and connections to power to shield themselves from many consequences of their actions - and that person owned these DCs, could the
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
If you look at the life efforts and accomplishments of the ~100 billion humans who have ever lived, how many lifetimes would you discount as having "non-human intelligence" based on the lack of "novel" contributions to f
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
It's political posturing, makes it more likely to get bipartisan support. Female rape victims are not as unimpeachable as the (superficially) hallowed veteran in American society.
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Hmm, yeah I'm confused, they said "as a citizen of the third world" but then noted working in Korea and Japan.
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
You may have missed that they're from the developing world, where menial labor is far less well paid and far more backbreaking and dangerous than in the US.
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I’m very much for infrastructure spending in the US. The point of our international geopolitical scheming is to give us greater wealth and power in the end to then apply to whatever ends we’d like. The dollar being the world’s reserve curre
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
The America First MAGA people fail so hard to understand that these expenditures on things like foreign bases and US Aid resulted in far greater returns for us. It's never been about altruism or the greater good. I say this as an anti-
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I'm in a cafe but I'm putting it in my notes to search for a goatse.cx replication album when I get somewhere more private. I will send you my therapist's bill.
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I think there's a lot at work psychologically in advertising, but "kids in those countries have started collecting and trading those images" kind of undercuts your point that shock content doesn't resonate with an audien
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I'd agree there. I personally interepreted the "some people aren't squeamish" comment to imply that the people in these professions are immune from negative psychological consequences of being those professions.
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Yeah, I guess it makes sense that being weird for the sake of being weird becomes its own unhealthy driving impulse. I see these sorts of anecdotes (in the OP for ex.) through a romantic lens of people who are completely comfortable sharing
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
lol You want evidence that rises to the level of establishing "causality" in consideration of a natural experiment that is being run across all of humanity simultaneously? What populations are protected from violent media? How wou
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Do you think the number of people who have tried to reproduce the photo, specifically because they saw this photo, is 0?
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Evidence of the fact that I ordered doordash? Evidence of the fact that people are a product of their genetics and their environment? Are you asking for evidence that humans tend to emulate what they see other humans do? Are you asking the
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I wish I'd had more weird friends like these growing up. A girl I had an enormous crush on introduced me to rotten when I was 14, then disappeared from my life, and all my friends since that I shared anything along these lines with tho
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Slaughterhouse workers have very high rates of PTSD and depression. Healthcare workers who deal with death are also psychologically impacted. Can't speak to the others. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1000

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