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by vrganj 27d ago
This almost gets the point, but then doesn't quite make it. Alignment is shorthand for ideological alignment. There's always people judging whether an answer was right and the answer for that will be different in Silicon Valle
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by vrganj 27d ago
A data center in space still has to get its data up and down from earth somehow. That part will still be subject to government control, so I don't think this would get him anything.
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by vrganj 27d ago
https://archive.ph/Er8RD
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Keep calm and regulate on: Inside the EU's response to AI extinction warnings(politico.eu)
3 points by vrganj 27d ago|1 comments
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by vrganj 27d ago
Hmm what about the murder of a tyrant? If so, who gets to define who a tyrant is? Everything is ideological.
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by vrganj 27d ago
My point is maybe we don't let some of the world's richest people with some very... interesting ideas pick which ideology we digitalize? Maybe we figure out a way to give people a say in this?
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by vrganj 27d ago
There is no "right". Alignment is shorthand for ideological alignment. There's always people judging whether an answer was right and the answer for that will be different in Silicon Valley than it'll be in China or in
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by vrganj 27d ago
Who are you to define what is humane? Is the treatment of the homeless and the drug addicts in the capitalist US humane? Why don't you prioritize the humane treatment in your own backyard before lecturing a country on the other end of
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by vrganj 28d ago
Why should anyone honor an agreement with the drug dealer that attacked you so they could keep selling drugs and stole some of your property in the process? If you were mugged and then the perp finally left you alone if you swore to do hi
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by vrganj 28d ago
Maybe how China treats its citizens is no business of the UK and the fact they were treated differently from other Chinese citizens in the first place is a historic injustice rooted in the UK's desire to force Chinese citizens into opi
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by vrganj 28d ago
I'd rather you look at Zoom and we don't die of a climate catastrophe. I never said we could keep all our little niceties, such is systemic change.
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by vrganj 28d ago
That's the point . Engagement ~= addiction. Just a more euphemistic framing.
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by vrganj 28d ago
That sounds like something you could do via Zoom and save yourself the hassle. Nobody claimed we could do a systemic change without, y'know, change .
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by vrganj 28d ago
Instead of a sarcastic swipe, you could try making an actual argument and tell me how I would personally be affected.
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by vrganj 28d ago
Take a train or a bike? Y'know, the thing they're advocating for? Hell, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic on a sailing ship.
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by vrganj 28d ago
Hmm, I think for me personally the only thing I'd need to change is the heating in my apartment and I'm already planning to invest in a heat pump.
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by vrganj 29d ago
Maybe this war will change that?
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How Emmanuel Macron brought France's AI darling to the world stage(politico.eu)
2 points by vrganj 29d ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 29d ago
Indeed. I went into this at a bit more depth a while ago over here, where I also try to draw some conclusions on what that means for us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328871
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by vrganj 29d ago
Ugh I hate this new-age woo slant the tech industry has these days. The messianistic ideology that has been spreading amongst the top oligarchs is deeply concerning. They all think they're working towards the Second Coming of Technojes
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I don't know about you, but if I apply myself fully to a problem and study it to the point where I'm literally one of the world's experts on it and then some assholes in Silicon Valley take my research and claim it for themse
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by vrganj 1mo ago
OpenAI is showing the world why they shouldn't trust AI hosted on some cloud somewhere. If they're stealing math proofs to advertise their models, who's to say they won't steal your businesses IP to gain a competitive
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'Unique' partnership with Canada forming ahead of PM Carney speech: EU envoy(ctvnews.ca)
3 points by vrganj 1mo ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I think the current government having these technologies is bad enough, given their authoritarian impulses and unpredictable whims. I don't see those crooks using anything for good, unless you define good as "their own personal ga
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Elon Musk told ex he needed 'a legion of children before the civil war'(theguardian.com)
27 points by vrganj 1mo ago|1 comments
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by vrganj 1mo ago
My read is that they're all trying to build a surveillance state for when AI completely upends the fabric of our socioeconomic system. They need to be able to track and depose of the rioting hordes without getting their hands dirty.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on - Larry Ellison https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillanc... Now, let's
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Fair point on the swipe, apologies there. I find it frustrating that people cannot have a conversation about what enables a project to exist without people going shhh just look at the shinies. To me, it is a very surface level uncritical
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by vrganj 1mo ago
You don't think questions of how we design our societies, who gets to benefit from it, how power is distributed, of systems design and how we relate to each other socially are intellectually stimulating? May I suggest the problem is no
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by vrganj 1mo ago
"The guy that works for me is great, everything is a coincidence, we were just trying to be generous, of course we're acting with integrity and would never do anything bad." - the least surprising CEO PR statement ever.

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