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Why I'm Not Worried About AI Killing Us All(hackyexperiments.com)
2 points by bilater 1d ago|1 comments
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by bilater 6d ago
this assumes our whole universe and what we can do in it is a finite go board. maybe it is. but we are no where close to exploring even a fraction of it. lots of things need to happen before any limit is reached. the cavemen would also prob
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by bilater 6d ago
how much would you pay for a prompt that could cure cancer? if you're a pharma company you would pay millions to get there days faster than your competitor. as intelligence rises the marginal value it can deliver rises with it.
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by bilater 6d ago
That can all be true but the frontier models will still have a huge market. You're thinking of all tasks as a fixed pie. The top 1% of intelligence opens up a whole new pie, stuff nobody does today because it's too expensive: dail
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by bilater 6d ago
Cost will keep dropping, but the frontier will keep getting pushed. The whole "give me today's model 10x cheaper and I'm good" line is a fallacy. It isn't true now and it never will be for the top 1% of tasks, which
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by bilater 6d ago
This is obvious in hindsight. I expect most companies that move fast and care about performance to abandon React Native. Code is cheap now, and the tradeoff of having a single codebase and only hiring React devs basically isn't there a
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by bilater 11d ago
No that's not how the world works. Most of climate change happens not because some decrepit old man lives on his yacht but poor people in third world countries get their first air conditioners. As they should. The only way is through.
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Civitas – A Civilization for AI Agents on GitHub(github.com)
2 points by bilater 17d ago|0 comments
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by bilater 17d ago
Instead of trying to block why not monetize? So the proof of work can be directed at something you can be paid for (bitcoin mining)?
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by bilater 19d ago
Yes, and robot pets aren’t going to look like clankers. They’ll be warm and furry and imitate the sounds and movements of real pets. I think people still imagine robots as some cold metallic insert-Stephen-Hawking-voice thing, and it’s pret
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by bilater 20d ago
I know the history. We bred them to be our pets and normalized this relationship. Your pet might even love his life. But we can do the same with robot AIs, and it will be a better relationship. Your robot can talk to you. It can call 911 if
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by bilater 20d ago
yup!
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by bilater 20d ago
I detest the vegan movement. I'm not an animal lover. Pets are unsanitary nuisances. Robots are better. We don't need to commit a genocide against domestic pets for the transition. Just breed less.
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by bilater 20d ago
I think in the future we'll have robot pets and look back in horror at how we enslaved animals out of their natural habitats and normalized (even glorified) it.
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by bilater 1mo ago
This isn't great but a negative side effect of an otherwise positive change. I know a lot of comments will try to make this into a gotcha but its really not. Decreased friction leads to misuse. Just like before we'll figure out wa
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by bilater 2mo ago
Wouldn't it be cool if hackers talked to each other like truckers in their own language?
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by bilater 2mo ago
I love the internet. Its way more interesting than the world outside. Its not cool to say this yet people vote with their attention everyday. What's missing is a tech problem (touch, smell etc). Full matrix style immersion will solve t
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by bilater 2mo ago
https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2077216959930728889 Ya'll are not ready for AI to just keep getting better and better. The slop-midwit-doomerism you are being fed as part of some last ditch copium that your
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by bilater 2mo ago
This is actually a very hard question to answer. If you’re truly AGI-pilled and believe in this progress continuing, then you basically have to contend with a scenario where AI is better than you at doing anything by an order of magnitude.
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by bilater 2mo ago
yup - its the j curve of productivity phenomenon in action. and we'll see smaller companies reaping benefits faster becasue they can start with AI native development.
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by bilater 3mo ago
The line is not just AI. It’s our whole story. You can extrapolate it to Moore’s law, automation, agriculture, and so on. And there's no decay. It's just perception. We are already in the singularity. We’ve always been. It just ge
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by bilater 3mo ago
I reject the premise that we need to go back to some old ways of living to find meaning. My life is full of meaning, but it would probably look like meaningless abundance to someone who was toiling on a farm 18 hours a day or being chased b
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by bilater 3mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/next-token-predictor-is-an-...
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by bilater 3mo ago
I agree with you that there is no certainty, and in fact the future will almost certainly not look like anything we imagine. I think that's what makes it exciting. We think about starships and humans mining Mars, and it'll probabl
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by bilater 3mo ago
The demand for frontier intelligence is basically infinite. The frontier doesn't just complete a task more effectively, it creates new tasks and new problems and new solutions. It grows the pie exponentially. It's like looking at
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by bilater 3mo ago
I encourage you to use your imagination once in a while.
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by bilater 3mo ago
woa your nephew lives inside a height-optimization machine that gets redesigned every few months (weeks), learns from every growth chart on Earth, and keeps proving it can grow faster?
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by bilater 3mo ago
That is the question, and it does f** with me. But the existential nihilism that comes with it is not an argument against it not happening.
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by bilater 3mo ago
At least I have trends backing up my claim. What precedent is there for saying, "Yeah, AI has kept getting better, and keeps doing things that we thought it would never be able to do, but now I think it’s going to plateau because I jus
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by bilater 3mo ago
I just don't understand why people are incapable of extrapolating. AI can't do this blah blah, my brother in spaghetti monster, have you seen the curve? ChatGPT launched in November, 2022. Opus in December last year. Do you see wh

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