Avicebron

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by Avicebron 3d ago
Why is a 3rd party company keeping videos of people's children? Why aren't the parents concerned about this?
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by Avicebron 3d ago
Genuine question, because "abundance" is meaningless unless you qualify what you mean. You're saying that we ask the ASI for "abundance" and everyone gets a mansion in silicon valley and doesn't need to work un
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by Avicebron 3d ago
> What should they be called instead? AI Sausage Factories maybe (cue Upton Sinclair?)? That's actually great? Slaughterhouses killing off the collective genius of humanity and grinding it into a bland paste for mass consumption.
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by Avicebron 3d ago
Destruction is easy and entropically rewarded. We've long since lost our way in rewarding and recognizing things that are positive. Howl by Ginsberg needs a rewrite. "The greatest minds of my generation were harnessed to boil the
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by Avicebron 3d ago
Lesswrong is talking about the HF incident as the "worst warning shot ever".
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by Avicebron 3d ago
I don't particularly agree with Ezra Klein or Francis Fukuyama, often vehemently disagree. But on the latest episode of Klein's NYT show it was interesting to hear Francis mention this coupling of wealth and political power being
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by Avicebron 3d ago
Not even remotely true. People loathe the surveillance state, it takes a special kind of evil to support a panopticon.
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by Avicebron 3d ago
Not a lot of people were clamoring for copilot in their outlook. But NVIDIA are giving money to labs so that they will buy their hardware. Manufacturing demand for their hardware, which is used for more AI, which eager PMs stuff into every
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by Avicebron 3d ago
> If the market grows enough they will win the bet So for this to become true there are some number of jobs that that pay $N salary are replaced completely by LLMs that do the job for $N-0.01? Is that what you mean by "market grows
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by Avicebron 3d ago
If they wanted to be taken seriously about their desire to help humanity not just themselves they would be talking about universal healthcare, actionable plans for UBI (or whatever they think would be how people retain agency and dignity po
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by Avicebron 4d ago
Money is a lot like mass, it has it's own gravity.
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by Avicebron 4d ago
Yeah, it's insane people are using the argument that we'll pour trillions on moonshot cancer research when pouring trillions into universal healthcare would probably save countless more lives. It's this kind of argument where
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by Avicebron 4d ago
We've had enough utterances from "effective altruists" to know what they say and claim to believe is a cynical ploy.
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by Avicebron 4d ago
You know how many things are asking for "~$10/mo". People don't have the purchasing power they used to, and everything has a subscription model. Firefox with DDG is good enough.
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by Avicebron 5d ago
It's sad that instead of searching things other people put up, we're basically asking sam or dario oracle to tell us the truth. The people should be furious. But we've internalized this idea that they are somehow better.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
Pretty much, corporate lobbying, corporate donations, superpacs, the list is pretty much endless. Little timmy's vote in rural nebraska isn't moving the needle. Maybe he can complain at his local town meeting about the datacenter
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by Avicebron 7d ago
I feel exactly the same. There has to be a way to do procedural generation in a way that doesn't feel "sparse". A thought that comes to me as I type this is what if you try to co-evolve the ecosystems so it doesn't feel
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by Avicebron 7d ago
Refreshingly doesn't feel like AI. If someone asked me "what does software engineering look like", I would point to this.
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by Avicebron 7d ago
I agree, I just wonder how it's enforced. Just a ban on any dragnet style surveillance?
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by Avicebron 7d ago
This feels like a performance designed to launch this guys career in some "ai safety thinktank".
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by Avicebron 8d ago
Isn't it just the empire in star wars?
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by Avicebron 8d ago
About 4 months of reading about PHP in the early 2000s?
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by Avicebron 8d ago
I like that we are talking about prompt injections from you to your personal assistant. Obviously I know what they are for, but still, it's so funny that we've just normalized building software adversarial to the consumers suppose
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by Avicebron 9d ago
We're nostalgic for the purchasing power not the actual era.
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by Avicebron 9d ago
Well good news, it's improved quite a bit. File level restore is a thing now..
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by Avicebron 9d ago
Never once tried to argue that it should be included in the Constitution. I suppose one of those "other laws" will cover when the government deliberately gives people lead poisoning? I wonder why they didn't go with that one.
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by Avicebron 9d ago
> He [judge] also said there was no constitutional right to “truthful information from officials during a public health crisis.” We should have "spirit of the law" courts. This is absurd.
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by Avicebron 9d ago
heaven forbid you leave the "stories" toggled on, it will just blast you in the face with the most garbage political stories ever written every single day. Edge is the worst offender, should be illegal and everyone involved with i
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by Avicebron 11d ago
At some level you are defined by your weaknesses enough that they can't really be called weaknesses.
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by Avicebron 11d ago
I'm actually not too sure about that, viruses have their own mechanisms of infiltrating the host and replicating inside of it. But so do ideas.

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