Florin_Andrei

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The New Panopticon: How AI Changes Accountability(florinandrei.substack.com)
1 points by Florin_Andrei 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Florin_Andrei 7mo ago
If you use AI, the paper trail you leave behind may now operate at a much higher level. Here's why. Also, here are some mitigation techniques.
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by Florin_Andrei 7mo ago
I think we're still at the stage where model performance largely depends on: - how many data sources it has access to - the quality of your prompts So, if prompting quality decreases, so does model performance.
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by Florin_Andrei 7mo ago
Some cleanup needs to happen, when the dust settles. It's just not clear to me who, or what, will do it.
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by Florin_Andrei 4y ago
I would very much prefer that he focuses on SpaceX and Tesla, in this order, seeing as he's more or less custom-built for those jobs, and there aren't that many people like that around. Running Twitter OTOH? There's an endles
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
It's near a place where that amount is just a drop in a bucket.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> Those data centers come in different forms. It's like the birds and the bees.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Crossing the street is also potentially deadly. Not crossing it, staying home all day until you starve or go insane from isolation is more deadly. So we choose to cross the street.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> because the other side is too stupid to make their own decisions The unfortunate reality is - that is the actual crux of the problem. Maybe say "incapable of making" instead of "too stupid to make", since that mak
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> Tucker Carlson That's the moment when reality-based folks stop listening to what you're saying.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
What is generally known as ethics acts as a safeguard against random individuals running rampant and inflicting tremendous damage on society for personal gain. In a broad context, Thiel acts like someone who has no such safeguards. The futu
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Very similar to my play style.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Yup. It becomes a negotiation, and the company by definition has orders of magnitude more negotiating power (arm-wrestling, etc) than you do. But hey, "freedom", yay!
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Because nothing else fulfills you.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
It must be the opposite to their own political dogma, so "it must be evil".
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Why don't you go ahead and write a few paragraphs explaining your idea.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
It's a great little editor and I'm using it all the time. I just wish they added a VBR profile for encoding h.264 video. Every time I make a clip with OpenShot, I have to run the final result through meGUI, converting CBR to VBR,
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Drowning in details, missing the larger point that actually matters - are you a software engineer?
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
If you don't make it clear that bullshit is bullshit, if you pretend like it belongs to the realm of sanity, then the debate becomes a farce - some kind of Monty Python absurd comedy.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> there are billions of dollars of economic incentives for suppression of early treatment, because vaccines are still under EUA that could be questioned by the availability of therapeutics with decades of safety data Conspiracy theory.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Well, I made no predictions for the future. :) Vaccinated people are still mostly fine, even with Delta. You just don't get the close to 100% protection against severe disease, it's a little lower than that. It's still pretty
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
It is correlated, but I am not aware of even a single study that shows actual causal determination.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> I stopped following news since being fully vaccinated some time ago You're mostly fine, but you should not get disconnected completely from the news. Vaccine efficacy seems to wane slowly (faster for old people). Probably before
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> I’m proud of my fellow... The part after that, was it a typo? :)
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
With AGI looming at the horizon, any long term predictions are baseless. The event horizon is somewhere at +20 years.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Do we do much beyond pattern recognition?
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
You could easily generate stupid statements on demand. Just post a video on Youtube on a related theme, and scrape the comments.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> how do you know that the new process is equivalent to the old in every way we care about? How could you possibly ever know or prove anything like that?
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> The vast majority of hydrogen (96%) is generated from fossil fuels, particularly from steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas but also from coal gasification. That's the problem, right there. It's hard to make those pr
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> People are willing to sacrifice an enormous amount to work in gaming. There are many ways you could build a good resume. Gaming companies don't have a monopoly on that.

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