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by vivekd 3y ago
I don't understand how alignment is even an issue with a large language model? It seems to me like we are a very long away from developing the kind of AI where alignment even becomes an issue. We seem to be focusing on the "AI&
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by vivekd 3y ago
That phenomenon you speak of is real but I think the parents' comment is valid in this case. Being afraid of a large language model running statistics does look a lot like childishness or mental illness. I can give the general public
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by vivekd 3y ago
For this to work the AI girlfriend has to be better than videogames or online chat forums I don't see AI partners overtaking those
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by vivekd 3y ago
To quote slate star codex, horny men want sex, horny women want attention. AI is much better at the second. Maybe there's more potential for AI boyfriends
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I'm not saying india doesn't have multi generational housing I'm saying the nature is different It's traditionally not made up of adult children who are unable to support themselves. Instead it's made up of adult c
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by vivekd 3y ago
We also have to account for the fact that NY and LA are also unreasonably expensive. I wouldn't be able to afford to live there, and I say this as a Canadian, a place known for high prices particularly in housing Also multi generation
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by vivekd 3y ago
I agree with you over the parent. The idea that being a so called "Western nation" makes you immune to government abuse seems to be more propoganda than fact. I looked into Canada's bank seizures, and at the hearings it came
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by vivekd 3y ago
I hold the minority position that philosophy is a useful means of getting information about the world around us and it's only cultural factors that happened in the 1700s (movement against rationalism) that makes us blind to it. That&#x
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by vivekd 3y ago
This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn&#
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by vivekd 3y ago
> regarded by members of the profession as disgraceful, dishonourable and/or unprofessional. So it's not what he said it's how he said it? I think most people from democratic societies would see repressing speech based on
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by vivekd 3y ago
The argument that having nude photos of you mother or daughter spread spread is about a rational response is weird because for most people the response would be emotional. The arguments being made here rest on discounting human emotions, re
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think it is an appeal to authority. Consider this, imagine Eisntein had some new idea about physics, he couldn't just say trust me because I'm Einstein. He has to write out his reasons and proof and his words will be judged on
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think experts are given credence because they can do a deep analysis. I expect a civil engineer to do calculations instead of just saying "I'm the expert trust me" Is this whole trust the expert thing some new phenomenon?
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by vivekd 3y ago
Difference is in this case the image is indistinguishable from a photo. Google teen suicide nudes and then come back and tell me it's just a moral panic You assume it's a moral panic because some people don't behave in ways y
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by vivekd 3y ago
>Plenty of cultures don’t have the shame around nudity that we do. You're mixing two things. The fact that there are nude beaches in Canada for example doesn't mean the women want sexualized nude images or wouldn't feel e
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think if you ask any person in a society where porn is not prevelant they would absolutely think it's a problem. Unfortunately we live in a society that tells us it's okay to sexualize others in this way. Let's change the
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by vivekd 3y ago
That's ridiculous. You're telling me if I took naked pictures of you and posted them in front of all your friends and family you would feel nothing. For a site that screams and cries about privacy of IP addresses and privacy of w
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by vivekd 3y ago
Yeah no. Making a nude of someone without their permission seems like a pretty serious violation of a persons sense of self and identity. It seems worse to release it the public.
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by vivekd 3y ago
>public cannot be trusted to handle it appropriately. > It should remain the purview of scholars who have proven their fealty to the rational interpretation Ironically similar to what unsavory regimes in the past believed. The elitis
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by vivekd 3y ago
Depends on where you live, if you live in Zimbabwe suddenly it starts to look very attractive. Too many countries play fast and loose with their currency.
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by vivekd 3y ago
I'm not a fan of Jordan Peterson either. . . But come on, it doesn't take much to see that the decision is bull Do we really believe psychologist losing his license because he said stuff on YouTube outside the scope of his profess
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think this is a good summary of Kant. For full context it's good to get a picture of the philosophical movement around him during his era which was attacking rationalism and promoting a sort of extereme form of empiricism. (Ie scien
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think there's a lot of truth to what you are saying. However I still think man-made climate change is real and I think some of the response to it has been positive - like trying to design walkable communities. But I agree there is a
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by vivekd 3y ago
So when we say we don't need surgery then are we conceding that there is no climate emergency and things might not be as catastrophic as they are sometimes made out to be. If we have time to look for less intrusive methods than cloud
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by vivekd 3y ago
If we assume you're right and we are heading towards mass death and catastrophe - why is the solution to make software that uses less energy? Seems a little weak of a response to mass death? Why not something like cloud seeding with s
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by vivekd 3y ago
I don't think you're really meant to tweak configs much in neovim. Just get a basic config file off GitHub and then update here and there as you find stuff you like/need. I know that sounds complex but if you're coding
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by vivekd 3y ago
I feel the same thing is happening in my country, Canada. And no I'm not just referring to recent politically charged event ls during the pandemic. Stuff like hearings against Judge Donald McLeod after he criticized racial bias in imm
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by vivekd 3y ago
But she's the FTC chair not the legislature. She has to work with the laws as they are not as she wants them to be. I don't believe her role is to be a figurehead for legislative change.
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by vivekd 3y ago
I'll believe that when I see a single startup come out of Africa and compete on the the world economy. 0, I see exactly 0. What about innovations or websites. Again 0. Look at Forbes list of African innovations - it's bull, a p
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by vivekd 3y ago
Well that doesn't seem true on the world stage. I mean China has seen rapid GDP growth but still remains extremely corrupt. But I think you are missing the parent's point, it's not the corruption they are complaining about,

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