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by watwut 27d ago
I did with what I consider a success. Basically, duolingo and then some beginner podcasts and then netflix with language reactor. I do understand pretty well, did not do much to speak - I dod not cared. The key in our age is to NOT listen
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by watwut 27d ago
> The confounders on the group of people who are able to learn a second language Unless you have large learning disorder, you can learn second language. It is not some kind of rare talent
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by watwut 27d ago
Their ethical concerns were "OpenAI is not following Yudkowsky enough". Which is not necessary in line with ethics of the rest of us. Because their idea of ethics is still "worrying a lot about sci-fi threats 1000 years after
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by watwut 27d ago
His idea of "alignement" is my idea of "dangerous dystopia".
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by watwut 27d ago
It does not imply that. He is talking about how people do math. Intuition is what you use when deciding what to try and how to think about things. Proof is the rigorous outcome. LLM running probabilistic loop is different kind of process.
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by watwut 27d ago
No. Humans are going to start the war. First, the people who exaggerated AI abilities and donwplayed disadvantages. Who bribed Trump and stood behind him. And then people who work for Trump and made series of bad decisions, because they wan
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by watwut 27d ago
Looking at their leaders, members and value systems ... well yes of course.
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by watwut 27d ago
Is bombing schools and invading for no reason the purpose of army? Some are meant to be defensive, some are meant to be for internal hierarchy reasons ... and some countries think the only purpose of the army is to invade.
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by watwut 27d ago
We know why it looks like cognition. Because OpenAI and Antropic put a lot of effort and training to humanize the output and make it sound like a person. Regardless of negative consequences it brings. They have that project of creating tech
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by watwut 28d ago
OpenAI and Antropic are trying to create that reality, but it would be ideal if they failed.
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by watwut 28d ago
AI does not actually cover anything. Just because OpenAI and Antropic act like "AI did it" is get out of jail card does not mean it is. But USA wont prosecute own war crimes unless forced to, regardless of AI.
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by watwut 28d ago
Every powerful nation is bombing schools, bombing civilian ships and blabling about "lethality" as only purpose of the army?
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by watwut 28d ago
Bitcoin is used for two things - speculation and crime. It is highlynvolatile Not a good reserve currency.
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by watwut 28d ago
> There are kids in Africa studying with AI tutors today, getting insight that they would likely never have had access to before. One-person shops are releasing board games and business services that they would never have had the capital
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by watwut 28d ago
Except that no one is freeing or democratizing the knowledge. We all know that the plan is to take it, destroy original sources and then become the solo monopoly provider. The plan is to extract staggering amounts of money from the rest of
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by watwut 28d ago
> You mean human agency? Like, humans deciding it's better for them to ask a machine instead of posting questions online? Oh, please, AI is single most hated technology to the level we did not seen before. And that is after staggeri
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by watwut 28d ago
> Trivialising this to fear of vaccines misses the point. We had concerted anti-vaccine campaign. Literally trying to make you feel afraid of vaccines or feel sorry for kids that might get them. And yes, it was fear spread by men who fan
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by watwut 28d ago
Kids here don't resent covid happened. If they resent it at your place, it is on adults. But of course it is not exactly the same as before, people adapted and carried some adaptation with them. I work a lot from home and I am not givi
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by watwut 28d ago
The whole point of gerrymandering is to split districts so that votes for the other party are diluted. The whole point is to create many districts where your party is majority and then a few districts for the rest of the opposition. If you
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by watwut 28d ago
So like, the big companies already have their copies for ai training?
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by watwut 28d ago
> LLM can produce texts but we as people will not be able to understand anyway LLM generated text oftentimes just do not have the point to be understood. LLM is training you to NOT read, because trying to do close reading of LLM generat
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by watwut 28d ago
Like yeah, result is that one group politicians are minimized and others maximized. Which makes total sense unlike the "too much frontier math" nonsense.
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by watwut 28d ago
Kids mostly forgot and adapted back. It is adult, mostly men, who just cant get over fear of vaccines, injury of having to do something a little uncomfortable for someone else.
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by watwut 28d ago
This is about cooperation before publishing results. And they will keep everything medieval secret, else some big company steals it and claims it their own.
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by watwut 29d ago
He said "mafia state". Italy was/is a non controversial example of that. Firmly in Western Europe.
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by watwut 29d ago
Iran was attack as it was making concessions.
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by watwut 29d ago
You talk about it as if America cared one bit about those citizens. This war just made the regime stronger. If America succeeded, it would change the head, steal oil and keep the regime there to keep control on locals. Like in Venezuela. Ma
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by watwut 29d ago
US army used to have unit responsible to unsure this dont happen. Guess who dismantled it due to being too woke and not lethal enough.
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by watwut 29d ago
Well, AfD winning elections, Hungary just getting rid of Orban, Slovakia being at risk, you know in general Trump like parties but in Europe. Ah, no who am I kidding. These usually worry about the opposite. What if EU manages to resist to t
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by watwut 29d ago
Any single one is "a problem". However, extinction level of a problem, which is what they are talking about, a lot more.

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