almostdeadguy

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by almostdeadguy 6d ago
If the labs are orchestrating some kind of fervor for the purpose of regulatory capture, why are their lobbyists and executives working against that very idea? https://x.com/AlexBores/status/2097846545408262403 h
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by almostdeadguy 6d ago
This is more of the same "all AI opposition is a psyop" bs we see with data centers, and the author of this tweet works at a think tank consistently peddling that: https://capitalresearch.org/tag/ai/ . Qu
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by almostdeadguy 6d ago
Which upstarts are the frontier labs threatened by except for each other? The "regulatory capture" arguments make zero sense. Especially since their lobbying arms are trying to reject any kind of regulation: https://x.c
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by almostdeadguy 6d ago
> We at Gizmodo were gobsmacked by the sheer size of the reaction to Coxon’s not-at-all breaking news. As Coxon himself acknowledged, he wasn’t revealing any hidden secrets about the beliefs of AI’s industry leaders. Are we supposed to b
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by almostdeadguy 7d ago
That's fair. I respect that you scrutinize everything you send and aren't needlessly hostile. I'm less optimistic that most other people who realize they can do this will do the same, and I worry that we'll soon be incen
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by almostdeadguy 7d ago
Reminds me of an executive at my company who has sent extremely inflammatory, needlessly escalating, LLM-generated messages to one of our vendors in support threads (for problems she simply does not understand, any prompting she does I&#x27
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by almostdeadguy 7d ago
Nails the Claude dialect. Technical nonsense like: > I'm collapsing this back to the rendered outcome: And intermixed with SaaS product page idioms from a brain-damaged marketer like: > No broader cleanup. > No further archite
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by almostdeadguy 8d ago
> Should Donald Trump get a say in how to run Google? Trump does have a say in how to run google, in a very real sense. > The American mob seems intent on leading their country into the gutter. Good thing (despite what the mob has thr
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by almostdeadguy 8d ago
Mob rule, aka Democracy.
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by almostdeadguy 13d ago
Please tell the coal miners in Appalachia that they shouldn't worry about their jobs being lost, because look at all the new tech jobs we have! I do think what you are highlighting is probably a pretty significant difference with AI an
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by almostdeadguy 14d ago
So in the short term, it seems likely to deflate the cost of software and other products/services produced by professional workers. If it becomes good at other forms of production (i.e. physical things, physical labor, etc.), perhaps i
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by almostdeadguy 14d ago
Oh agreed, I'm mostly explaining why someone who was a skeptic would make the calculation that they can afford to opt-out of using AI (and why you might weigh on the side of opting out even if you didn't think using LLMs had a mor
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by almostdeadguy 14d ago
> Electricity was world-changing, do we consider ourselves to be using it? We do, but craft workers in the industrial revolution did lose their jobs, and at the pace AI is developing I don't see any reason to believe that profession
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by almostdeadguy 14d ago
If this technology really is world-changing, you aren't going to be using it for long anyways.
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by almostdeadguy 14d ago
Yeah I'd actually call myself a "pessimist" personally, I think AI seems to be advancing at a rate where we should be concerned about that. I used to be of the mind that dooming was entirely about marketing/hype, but I d
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by almostdeadguy 14d ago
I was probably close to where the author was a couple months ago, and now am even more on the "doomer" side of things. But I think many skeptics of the technology have the idea in the back of their mind that "if this thing ac
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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems(theatlantic.com)
6 points by almostdeadguy 14d ago|0 comments
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by almostdeadguy 20d ago
Letting a hack go without pressing charges has never been so lucrative.
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by almostdeadguy 1mo ago
I think this is major cope. People are in for a rude awakening when they realize how unpopular AI and tech in general is these days.
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by almostdeadguy 1mo ago
You're right to push back. And honestly, this reframes the entire thing.
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by almostdeadguy 1mo ago
It doesn't seem to bode well that early 20-something year olds who think it would be cool if AI could read your thoughts are so involved in AI safety.
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by almostdeadguy 1mo ago
I don't have any delusions about that, LLMs are impressively good. But they bring with them a host of epistemological problems that I think we ignore at our own peril. A society that blindly trusts the output of LLMs to be good and to
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by almostdeadguy 1mo ago
I feel like we're doomed to respond to these lazy analogies ad infinitum. Knowledge abstractions have historically been built by people with a detailed understanding of a problem domain and with a period of vetting the abstraction by m
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by almostdeadguy 2mo ago
Mechanized production was designed by people to produce commodities and was designed with planned tradeoffs, tolerances, and failure modes. That’s not what agents are, though I get why an analogy to the Industrial Revolution is useful for C
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Stretchie(stretchie.net)
2 points by almostdeadguy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by almostdeadguy 3mo ago
"Freedom" is and always has been incoherent. Rights and protections require enforcement by society. Every right creates a countervailing obligation and social function. Property rights require a state apparatus to enforce them (or
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by almostdeadguy 3mo ago
Guess a lot of these guys heard about Little Saint James from the news.
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by almostdeadguy 3mo ago
To this point, I've never understood the supposed "alignment" between the EA/AI Safety crowd and Anthropic's mission that the author comments on. Be the stewards of the Machine God, but responsibly? I think the Manh
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by almostdeadguy 3mo ago
I don't think it's just a problem for kids! I think this is problem for many software engineers as well! Adults of all professions really.
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by almostdeadguy 3mo ago
It's like saying you can learn so much about math from using SymPy to solve equations. Yes, you probably can. If you pay close attention to what is happening and can integrate the techniques being used into your knowledge. But your lea

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