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The issue here is that if the smart brilliant man decides that he will prioritize his family and friends, creating happy community around him ... you will just say he was not brilliant. Because he earns less money. As in, your example assu
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Most corrupt country in Europe is Belarus tied with Russia, depending on whether you count Russia as European. Everything Russia touches becomes more corrupt. That includes Hungary btw. And speaking about it, that includes Ukraine - anti R
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> why we keep hitting the Russian US was basically supporting Russian invasion in negotiations. What are you on about here. EU is supporting Ukraine in their self defense. Eu also know they are the next if Ukraine falls. USA did the righ
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I suspect, it does not matter whether it is thinking or not. The point is to convince most of us that it is thinking.
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> But I encourage you to go to the "machine" (Polymarket, Kalshi) to take position and express your opinion! I am not a gambler. Also, gambling is not "expressing opinion", it is ... gambling. > I'm not sure w
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Trader/gambler complains about humanities professors scamming word by studying about women's issues.
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First, people want tonread books that speak to them and their lives, older books are not that. Second, people write to be read. It takes huge amount of effort too. With no potential reward for it at all, they stop. Third, we are social anim
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Copyright allows you to sell book you have and does not force you to shread it. They are not forced to shread them by copyright.
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Expecting the prosecution for HuggingFace incident soon. Or at least full investigation whether it was accident Must be any day now Like common. You know full well that large companies can commit staggering amounts of fraud.
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> I am following the money, the money you, me, and everyone else is spending on AI. Investors spend a lot of money on AI. Customers significantly less so. > The money is telling me we are so dependent on AI now that we will say/t
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If OpenAI truly believes that, they can stop entirely. Dissolve themselves. Close datacenters. Then organize political action to stop Antropic and Musk too and then organize political action to make worldwide agreements about models. If the
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> And meanwhile somehow this lack of concern mirrors the real world where normal people are more concerned about data centers than terminators. Cause data centers are causing real immediate damage by people who hope to cause a lot more s
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Kids have emotions regardless of their parents. Kid learn emotional handling from parents.
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> Bringing uo AC while you defend datacenters making global warming worst is just a cherry on top.of it. Just underlines anti-human fck you all ideology of it all. This one is factual on both counts. All you need is to read what CEOs we
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> Somehow the standards we have for every other kind of automation go out the window for AI. I dunno, for every new hype automation, the machine is given a lot more leeway then people. At least by some on HN. I remember FSD discussion ye
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DOGE achieved their goal - take the info and speed up destruction of the state, of public service. Oh, and stop or limit research into anything not centered at white men.
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> The victim isn't obligated to provide logs or other forensic information to help the prosecution. Yes they are, just like in any other criminal case.
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> they want them to replace other peoples jobs. This is literally what was said. There was nothing about "convenience", but there were words about "wanting others to loose the jobs". On the other hand, AI people cheer
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Poker is gambling and if you loose your money in poker, you lost them in gambling. And betting on sports is ganbling too, despite the excuse of "skilled game" being deployed there too.
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Actually, no. Actually most people do not want everyone else to be jobless or suffer etc. There are subgroups who enjoy harm to others, but most dont.
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> the developers churning out agent work on supergigaultramax effort are fulfilling the transitive preferences of people like supply chain managers, etc. who are in turn fulfilling the transitive preferences of a school teacher for cheap
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It pops up fairly frequently on his better offline podcast. If you pick last or second last episode it will be there somewhere. If you pick something few months ago before he had all the financial data he is on a out them now, there is a lo
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Nit: Prediction markets are gambling and we dont regulate that.
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I dont thimk they are that rational and planning ahead. It is reflection of their values and feelings. It is ideological. Both of them and their close rich supporters feel ICC goals are abomination on itself, they put limits on power and th
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I have both read his blog and listened to his podcasts. Not all of it (the articles are basically books), but enough to understand his positions. The "ai is mostly useless" is very much his position, he will say it again and again
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His position is also that it is useless. It is pretty consistent and openly stated.
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I would watch it happen with glee. I dont know exactly what all the other bad side effects it would had. I assume it will sux majorly for a lot of people and would not like that. But, OpenAI investors and management loosing money and power
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I think it is other way round. Some people are able to maintain quality over a career and that proves they are the 'auteurs' of those things. And some other people cant reproduce the former success, which makes it much more likely
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> when criminals can brazenly flee a scene and not be pulled over because pulling over a suspicious vehicle is now considered "profiling" You know full well that stopping a know car fleeing the robber and profiling are two mass
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They are very real and not because we want "cool toys". If OpenAI, Antropic disappeared from earth, I would not mind. They can take Thiel, Karp, Musk and the rest of that class with them, as far as I am concerned. They are the big

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