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by yunwal 4y ago
Google is an end-user product, LLMs are not inherently an end-user product. You're talking specifically about chatGPT, but GPT-3 isn't meant for end-users, and can be used in many other products besides chatGPT. I'm still not
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by yunwal 4y ago
> against specializing in using someone else's product I'm assuming you're a software engineer of some sort. Do you have an issue with using computers even though they're made by someone else? I'd assume the answ
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by yunwal 4y ago
The simple smiley emoticon - :) - is actually used quite a bit with Gen-Z (or maybe this is just my friends). I think because it's something a grandmother would text it simultaneously comes off as ironic and sincere because grandmother
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by yunwal 4y ago
Interesting, I thought I said we shouldn’t build weapons in the first place but I guess you know better!
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> This isn't a mystery chemical; we've been working with the stuff since 1835, we've spilled it into the environment numerous times It has never been burned at anywhere near this quantity. There are other chemicals that ca
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> gain of function research
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> I know experts make mistakes This is where you're wrong. Experts don't make mistakes in situations like this. They consistently [0] downplay [1] every [2] environmental [3] disaster [4] and withhold information from neutral p
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by yunwal 4y ago
> But they can also directly sample the water to figure out if the HCL levels are dangerous for human consumption or contact, and I've seen no reporting to suggest that is the case But they have not yet done this, and tests are a we
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by yunwal 4y ago
> In contrast, this is a big scary smoke cloud of a well-understood volatile compound that we've spilled into the ecosystem in the past In past events, vinyl chloride was not burned, and minimal amounts of it went unrecovered. We al
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by yunwal 4y ago
I don't buy that North Korea would have nuclear weapons right now if the US and Germany didn't develop them first and lose international goodwill in the process. Also, while NK having nukes is scary, their nuclear/ballistics
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by yunwal 4y ago
Cool, yes, you should be afraid when you go around making autonomous weapons. The rest of the world is. Not sure why anyone working on weapons of mass destruction would feel the right to be immune from fear.
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I mean, I'm not denying that there's a metropolitan bias in the media, just that it doesn't explain why 2 stories that both happened in relatively rural locations got reported on differently.
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Including the fact that trains are too long, which directly contributed to this incident. https://www.timesunion.com/allnews/article/Railroad-union-sa...
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This has echos of the Flint water crisis all over it. The "trust authorities" crowd would have happily let Flint residents drink yellow water until lead poisoned an entire generation. Turns out, people are right to question things
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Maybe it's just me, but Apple Podcasts only shows me NPR and NYT podcasts on listen now, and Browse is pretty much the same but with some republican outlets thrown in. I've never discovered a great podcast on there.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Apple requires you to sign up for their developer program ($99/yr) to use the Apple Music API, so you'd either have to pony up some money or do something fancy.
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That's a great way to teach people to cover up their mistakes
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Flint is a great example because it only gained attention because residents started complaining on social media and in public forums[0][1]. Despite widespread protest and refusal to drink the water, and mass sickness, official sources maint
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by yunwal 4y ago
> exploit technological asymmetry AI technologies like this require hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to develop. If chip manufacturers refuse to work with these people, cloud computing companies refuse to work with these p
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by yunwal 4y ago
Well, fear can be applied through speech or through violence. I prefer speech. People should be fearful about trying to develop autonomous weapons. There's nothing out there that says "I'm allowed to kill everyone in the worl
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by yunwal 4y ago
The context of this discussion was a coding question: would you use LLMs as a coding assistant? In general, this method works for things where there's an objective desired result, which includes most coding applications.
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Severe sanctions should be applied to any country or individual attempting to develop autonomous weapons. Additionally, the "Mark of Death" should be applied to any technologist working on autonomous weapons. They should be outcas
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Genuinely, if workers are paid a living wage, this is great to hear. Sorry for being a cynical American :)
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Why would we, as tech workers, build this system? Stuff like this takes tens of thousands of people deciding "sure, I'll contribute to the destruction of the earth for a few thousand bucks". Why? Why not go the gain-of-funct
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by yunwal 4y ago
This is not really the dunk you think it is. Light consensus among foreign policy experts is that sanctions are working[0][1]. Meanwhile our wars in the Middle East have not brought about world peace. [0] - https://www.foreigna
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by yunwal 4y ago
Huh, because from my view, rail workers expressed concern over unsafe working conditions, complained about cost-cutting measures, negotiations were shut down without giving into demands by Biden and Buttegeig. Then, a safety issue that was
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Time and time again, even media sources that we're told are trustworthy and rigorous show that they'll shill for corporate interests if given enough financial incentive and a promising enough narrative[0][1][2][3][4]. At what poin
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by yunwal 4y ago
There's really only been 2 technological advances in weaponry that could possibly be an existential threat to humanity (nukes being the other, and existential threat to humanity is perhaps an exaggeration there). I don't think the
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by yunwal 4y ago
Hmm, by multiple directions, what I really meant is, consult a model trained in 2 vastly different ways, or consult a human + a model, or consult a model + a calculator, or a model + human-written test cases. He didn't really go into t
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by yunwal 4y ago
Ah and that means we have to build the death robot. Right. I'd personally prefer we take the disarmament approach, but there's no money in that I guess.

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