Calazon

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by Calazon 6d ago
There are captchas that demand selfies now? I have never heard of that before and it sounds completely crazy.
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by Calazon 10d ago
For the moment that may be true. They are getting better and better at acquiring, retaining, and processing domain knowledge. I wonder what this will look like in a few more years. The responsibility side is a different matter of course.
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by Calazon 10d ago
For better or for worse, this technology isn't going away any more than search engines, smartphones, or social media have gone away.
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by Calazon 11d ago
I suppose one could believe that, though to me it seems like a very wild take. At least if you want the superintelligence to ever have any meaningful interaction with the outside world.
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by Calazon 15d ago
That is also very fair.
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by Calazon 15d ago
I read it as suggesting that AI models are simultaneously terrifyingly powerful and incompetent dunces.
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by Calazon 15d ago
Sure, if culture were different, or human nature we different, we wouldn't have the problems we currently do. However, given the culture we have, and the human tendencies we have, I think laws can make things better. Like criminalizing
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by Calazon 16d ago
Perhaps we need a new/updated law to cover this kind of thing. This sort of academic fraud should absolutely be criminalized, but I'm not sure I'm the biggest fan of the "everything is wire fraud" approach to achiev
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by Calazon 18d ago
This is great. There's a big difference between levels 2-4 (where I generally operate) and levels 7-8 (where I see a lot of others operate), and I like how this level system makes that explicit.
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by Calazon 20d ago
> But why wouldn’t they want to use the budget they already have for these newly more productive people and get even more work done overall? For all the same reasons many companies are eager to cut labor costs whenever possible. There ca
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by Calazon 26d ago
The new part is AI makes it much easier and cheaper to produce garbage than ever before. So the ratio of garbage to non-garbage has been increasing rapidly.
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by Calazon 26d ago
I think the idea is that a vassal state (operates as though it) owes allegiance to a stronger state, while governing itself (more or less) independently. And the stronger state exercises a lot of influence on the weaker state, especially in
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by Calazon 26d ago
There's certainly a spectrum between allies, vassals, and directly controlled territories, but it doesn't necessarily need to be about sending troops to help in war.
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by Calazon 27d ago
My understanding is the Confederacy did not give its states the right to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery, and did not give its states the freedom to decide whether or not to associate with each other.
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by Calazon 28d ago
I think they meant obsolete relative to economic, scientific, and engineering objectives. That doesn't mean they don't provide any value of any kind to anyone.
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by Calazon 29d ago
I read the post as the author acknowledging the compromise, expressing frustration about it, and determining to live on the pareto frontier with his strategy of focus and discipline and so on. Sacrificing other things in order to achieve bo
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by Calazon 29d ago
Ultimately any two ambitions will compete with each other for finite time and energy. (Assuming each ambition benefits from more time and energy being spent on it, which is usually the case.) You can be reasonably successful in multiple are
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by Calazon 1mo ago
Is there something in particular I'm trying to glean from that information? If so I might look it over, or snap a photo and ask my own LLM about it. If not, I would politely keep my mouth shut, then pocket the flier to trash later, and
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by Calazon 1mo ago
Sure, but neither do skyscrapers. AI is getting better and better at "house" level building, especially with some supervision.
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by Calazon 1mo ago
These are acceptable tradeoffs in many circumstances. It's good that this kind of option is available, while there are other options for people with different priorities.
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by Calazon 1mo ago
You also said you "honestly don't understand the hate Flock gets". Which seems to suggests that the status quo is really no big deal, even with the current (lacking) safeguards. My real argument would probably be that this sy
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by Calazon 1mo ago
They certainly think it would be bad for police to read your text messages without a warrant.
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by Calazon 1mo ago
Of course it's not real engineering, and most software development never was real engineering. Trying to apply real engineering licensing ideas to software would just result in the word "engineering" no longer being used in t
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by Calazon 1mo ago
What sources do you think are good for this data for the recent past? My brief initial search is turning up a lot of contradictory data, probably because the sources are defining "programmers" differently from each other.
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by Calazon 1mo ago
I agree with you in the broad strokes, but replacement by LLMs isn't the only way the level of employment can be reduced. If LLMs can make it so that two programmers can do the work that used to require five, that can result in a very
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by Calazon 1mo ago
I know lots of people who voluntarily use AI regularly without being forced to - a lot more than either people who are anti-AI or people who are forced to use it for work. That's probably a function of the people I'm around more t
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by Calazon 1mo ago
Being unable to tell a game is garbage without personally playing it is a problem with or without AI. Though AI is vastly increasing the amount of slop out there, for sure.
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by Calazon 2mo ago
Knowing that some songs are by local artists who I could go see live doesn't tell me very much about the quality of the music, unfortunately. My friends recommending the music does though, assuming we have similar taste.
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by Calazon 2mo ago
Still third even then.
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by Calazon 2mo ago
I just tried and it looks like I can do this in Chrome on Android relatively easily. The UI could be a lot nicer for it though. And I did run into an issue where if the site allows me to install it as a PWA, Chrome will want to do that and

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