GolfPopper

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by GolfPopper 5d ago
A giant for-profit corporation based in Silicon Valley, funded by titans of finance, and in bed with the government is about as "traditional" as it gets.
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by GolfPopper 5d ago
This is bad news for everyone (well, except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhoid godlings), but it certainly makes the communities who've successfully opposed data centers seem ever more justified in retrospect.
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by GolfPopper 5d ago
It's been coming "soon" for years now. On the one hand, I confess that the "AI skeptic" position (which is where I place myself) seems a lot like "Global Warming skeptic". On the other hand, every instin
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by GolfPopper 5d ago
The most recent one I've seen floating around is: disgruntled person asks LLM how to wipe out humanity; said LLM cheerfully explains how to design a custom array of highly-contagious, slow-onset, high-fatality viruses; LLM then helpful
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by GolfPopper 5d ago
I am very, very tired of what I see as the pretense of AGI or anything like it coming from LLMs. I think the biggest risk from "AI" is that chasing the delusions spread by Sam Altman (and others - he's at the front, but very
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
And the wage slaves lose even more freedom and autonomy.
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by GolfPopper 7d ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/977/
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by GolfPopper 8d ago
Eclipse Phase cargo culting, in hopes the Titans show up?
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by GolfPopper 8d ago
This is true for so much of the human/corporation interface. I think it is so frustrating because it forces us to confront some major cognitive dissonance: we increasingly live in a world that isn't designed for us. It's desi
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by GolfPopper 8d ago
> We’re basically sharing everything we have with these companies/AI systems. My sense of the word 'share' is that it traditionally involves agency by all parties involved. There are a lot of words in English for descri
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by GolfPopper 9d ago
> Is suing the government not essentially a petition for remedies? How else do you get the gov to listen? The polite answer to that is JFK's line, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitab
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by GolfPopper 11d ago
Are you speaking of public services, like the National Weather Service (also on Facebook, and host their own website), or about politicians and their appointees? Because while the public service arm of the U.S. government still does a ton o
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by GolfPopper 12d ago
Priorities need to be straightened out. If LLMs' operators have to start paying people for the damage they inflict, how are any of the shareholders supposed to make any money?
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by GolfPopper 12d ago
While specifics vary by state and county, data centers have often been getting 100% property tax abatements good for decades.
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by GolfPopper 14d ago
What is needed before it is wise to trust LLMs with life or death decisions? Or, what is needed before we are forced to give LLMs control of life or death decisions in the name of profits?
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
The chips are being hyped as futures investments. I.e. https://www.silicondata.com/blog/gpu-futures It seems like investing in tulip bulb futures to me.
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
Turkey weight a week before Thanksgiving - All time high
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
Depends on your metric for failure. As a decent human being? Absolute failure. As a supervillain? Complete success.
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
> Treating wage and capital income equivalently would require recognizing losses due to inflation and risk that simply don’t exist in a meaningful way for wage income. Learning that their wage income makes them immune to inflation and i
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
Nah. It they want to make sure that Trump gets his cut from the sale.
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
Criticized as being poor human beings , or as being poor executives ? Because the former, as P.T. Barnum pointed out, is just free advertising. And I see far more of that than the latter. Now, if and when their various empires collapse th
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by GolfPopper 15d ago
> barely anyone remembers black and white television or the feeling it must have been to view the moon landing on one. Apollo 11 landed in 1969. Roughly a third of living Americans are of an age to remember watching it, and more than ha
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by GolfPopper 16d ago
The plates all need to keep spinning faster all the time.
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by GolfPopper 17d ago
Legally? Almost certainly no one. Ethically? The corporate executives who deliberately covered up evidence of global warming, starting back in the 70s.[1] 1. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01&#x2F
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by GolfPopper 19d ago
Don't forget the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen . During its pilot episode, first airing March 4th, 2001, members of the U.S. government remotely hijack an airliner and try to crash it into the World Trade Center, blaming anti-Amer
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by GolfPopper 19d ago
Not really. It's not like they're going after actual terrorists.
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by GolfPopper 19d ago
The current United States government is very keen on pushing the idea that there is a vast and shadowy international left-wing conspiracy waging war on it. This is, to be clear, lying nonsense.
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by GolfPopper 21d ago
The current US government is trying to create a narrative where America is under siege from a shadowy army of foreign left-wing forces. In particular, this aligns with several of Umberto Eco's fourteen properties of Ur-Fascism[1]: 4. D
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by GolfPopper 21d ago
The cyberpunk dystopia we were promised was much more stylish than the cyberpunk dystopia we got.

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