welferkj

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by welferkj 25d ago
I'd say that line can be blurred somewhat by "Blindsight". "Not real" isn't where I'd put the line, it's "not plausibly and consistently explained (or at least explained away) within the laws of
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by welferkj 2mo ago
If there's anyone that deserves praise every time he has something to say about mathematics, it's him.
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by welferkj 4mo ago
Sounds like something they should work on before any potential future releases. I can, and this thing's explicit stated purpose is to do my job.
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by welferkj 5mo ago
The "cult of line go up" is why we aren't living in caves and eating each other. Come on, we can criticize the deleterious aspects of modern society without disparaging the idea of growth itself.
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by welferkj 8mo ago
>200 years ago would you have referred to your local underclass of humans with a slur just because you viewed them as lesser than yourself? Let's be honest: probably. I don't presume to be morally superior to 99% of humanity, o
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by welferkj 8mo ago
Who, exactly, is "an advanced society" in this scenario? VCs deciding they don't like money after all? AI lab leaders and workers who spent their entire lives pursuing this dream, only to suddenly give it up because of some c
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by welferkj 8mo ago
I'm "allergic to per capita" specifically in cases where it doesn't matter but keeps getting brought up as a bad faith retort. As an example, it doesn't matter who emits CO2 or where from, since we're all emitt
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by welferkj 8mo ago
Where we want to end up? Normies are still talking about the upcoming AI bubble pop in terms of tech basically reverting to 2022. It's wishful thinking all the way down.
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by welferkj 9mo ago
But using the modern affordances of coercive states to benefit copyright holders is very much non-standard in the free world. Only a few countries do it to personal end-users to any meaningful degree.
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by welferkj 9mo ago
Even easier if they just own the AI companies in the first place. Make them go public, and, if you're feeling especially redistributive, spend $X of public funds to purchase stock spread equally amongst americans/humans/senti
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by welferkj 9mo ago
Standard precautions apply when using the internet while under authoritarian jurisdictions.
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by welferkj 10mo ago
>I feel like the author is catastrophizing a bit much here. I feel like he's catastrophizing the ordinary amount for an anti-AI screed. Probably well below what the market expects at this point. At this point you basically have to s
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by welferkj 10mo ago
Whatever happeneed to, don't xeet where you eat.
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by welferkj 10mo ago
I find joy in creative work. I don't see this as a valid excuse to spew hatred against how others choose to engage in creative work.
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by welferkj 10mo ago
I owe my life and my diabetes to this corporation. It is extremely important to me that it reflects my values and prejudices.
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by welferkj 11mo ago
It's ok, autoregressive LLMs are a dead end anyway. Source: Y. LeCun.
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by welferkj 11mo ago
The set of real numbers is continuous and uncountably infinite. Any attempt to fit it into a discrete finite set necessarily requires severe tradeoffs. Different tradeoffs are desirable for different applications.
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by welferkj 11mo ago
It's not a real issue, but it's truthy enough to generate real opposition to datacenter buildout and catalyze AI hate. So definitionally avoiding it from the get-go might end up being worth it.
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by welferkj 1y ago
That's not the case. A 5060 has a 145W TDP, which is borderline feasible. A 5090 is 575W, which is approaching furnace territory.
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by welferkj 1y ago
Between Kissinger, Obama, the Myanmarese CIA asset, etc., it's basically the Nobel Crimes Against Humanity prize at this point. I'm surprised they didn't give it to the Orange Thing.
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by welferkj 1y ago
>What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid viewpoint steelmanning any positives they can think of. Revealed preferences. Keep giving the people exactly what they want (not what they claim to want), in unlimited quant
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by welferkj 1y ago
Sure, and "piracy" is part of the status quo. Show some respect for my total disrespect of IP laws and your livelihood.
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by welferkj 1y ago
UTF-8 is superior simply because you can trivially choose to parse it as ascii and ignore all the weird foreign bytes.
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by welferkj 1y ago
>nor on rigid land ownership rules. Land ownership was formalized about as soon as there was a reason for anyone to own land - i.e., as soon as any given people started doing pastoralism and agriculture.
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by welferkj 1y ago
The human way of understanding things can be replicated mechanically, because it is mechanical in nature. The contents of your skull are an existence proof of AGI.
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by welferkj 1y ago
Fur future reference, pasting llm slop feels exactly as patronizing as back when people pasted links to google searches in response to questions they considered beneath their dignity to answer. Except in this case, no-one asked to begin wit
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by welferkj 1y ago
It is not a "specific theological claim" either, rather a school of theological discourse. You're literally doing free-form association now and pretending to have novel insights into centuries of work on the issue.
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by welferkj 1y ago
Nobody serious is claiming theological predesination is based on "nothing", either. Talk about poor pattern matching.
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by welferkj 1y ago
Agreed, but this needs to be codified in the CoC, otherwise people will use it to rules-lawyer and treat morally correct anti-AI bias as a character flaw.
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by welferkj 2y ago
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