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by dag100 25d ago
It depends on college attendance. In developed countries, it is a low-excluding - or the inverse of a low-pass - filter as most graduate, while in developing countries it is a high-pass filter as few have the resources to reach an undergrad
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by dag100 25d ago
I really don't see how anything but social skills are rising in prominence. Perhaps twenty years from now everything will depend on your connections as any "hard" problems will be readily solved by AI (seeing as few problems
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by dag100 25d ago
> compliance, endurance of boredom, and social maneuvering Compliance and endurance of boredom I can somewhat agree with (thought not to a great extent), but social manoeuvring? As long as a student completes their classwork and homework
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by dag100 1mo ago
Really, many jokes of this nature have to be signalled out-of-band somehow due to Poe's law (particularly applicable in this case). I wouldn't be surprised if a non-negligible number of users here actually held this view (due to a
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by dag100 1mo ago
Forced to find the courage or die trying to. And I really doubt that knowledge that their despot will eventually die has much effect on people's motivation to rebel as in most cases there is a clear line of succession. In many cases th
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by dag100 1mo ago
For a utopia to exist, everything has to go right. Dystopias are almost all modelled on some existing facet of human behaviour. Naturally one state is unstable as it requires practically complete co-operation in most cases while the other o
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by dag100 1mo ago
With some technologies, the negatives are so severe it is difficult to see how they outweigh the positives. Mind-control technology is quite frankly just asking to be abused. It's the ultimate relinquishment of power - you reveal your
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by dag100 1mo ago
Why not just add 'mind control' while you're at it. Only death stops stagnation in the end. Without death, especially if death can be avoided by the rich and powerful but not the poor, life will get much, much worse for the a
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by dag100 2mo ago
Politicians have control over their power. Programmers don't. Compare with how politicians never vote to reduce their income.
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by dag100 2mo ago
Embrace the inner Cormac McCarthy in you and abandon punctuation altogether
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by dag100 2mo ago
Look carefully at the portion of derac's comment that was quoted. > I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world. Does it mention mathematics? Let AI make advances in all
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by dag100 2mo ago
> I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world. There will be people benefiting from advances in these fields. Neither you nor I will be one of them.
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by dag100 2mo ago
Oh no, now I'd better blame Hitler and Stalin's ancestors for their misdeeds. Of course, the SS soldier bears no responsibility, however, as he was just doing his job.
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by dag100 2mo ago
> Literally the only important thing in life, the basis of all value, the formation of self-identity, comes from communication with other human beings. I think you're mistaking their sarcasm for sincerity... especially considering t
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by dag100 2mo ago
Could the student really not infer the meanings of those words from context? I don't think Burgess expected his readers to have a working knowledge of Russian.
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by dag100 2mo ago
TFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.
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by dag100 2mo ago
And die in large numbers, yes.
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by dag100 2mo ago
> providers do not want power-seeking LLMs Sure they don't. > do you think training a power-seeking ASI is a good idea? Do you really think that the major AI firms think this is a bad idea? I think the whole drama people have aro
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by dag100 3mo ago
They mistook you for the author of the original post (abirch). A little ironic for a comment regarding focused analysis of what someone has written.
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by dag100 3mo ago
It's reddit. The average intelligence of reddit users has been progressing downwards since 2010 or so with major drops in 2016 and 2020. Most users are clueless teenagers who haven't read a book in full throughout their lives.
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by dag100 3mo ago
Wow, I can't wait to live in a world where nobody knows how anything works, some people are arbitrarily rich and some arbitrarily poor with no ability to change their standing in life, and, worst of all, people celebrate these developm
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by dag100 3mo ago
I can't help but think that this is intentional and that model providers have subtly steered LLMs towards this personality. Golden Gate Claude ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude ) was two whole year
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by dag100 3mo ago
Well, countries that limit the wealthy from leaving have never done particularly well for themselves. This has been the case historically, at least. Whether this has been due to their own deficiencies or external factors is highly debatable
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by dag100 3mo ago
> We've developed a technology that with active critical analysis this can teach one practically anything. While I would love to share your optimism, if AI continues improving at its current pace most people would be pushed into des
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by dag100 3mo ago
That's good to hear about ML and AI research, but most research is not based on computers and so would require laboratory setups to reproduce. Not only is trying to reproduce such findings (beyond what is effectively a sanity check) th
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by dag100 3mo ago
> My hope is that the flood of AI articles pushes the academic publication system to its highly-anticipated breaking point. This will just make research inaccessible to most researchers. There is no incentive to limit publishing, at all,
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by dag100 3mo ago
> i felt more welcome in china Are you white? Try being non-white. Chinese people, and most Asians - yes, the entire continent, or at least most of it - are deferent to white people. > and even in the US for example than anywhere in e
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by dag100 3mo ago
Unless reviewing becomes more profitable than publishing, anything that makes both easier will drive one up far more than the other. And it is difficult to conceive of something that would make reviewing much easier without making publishin
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by dag100 3mo ago
> heck, even as a native german if you move from one region in germany to another you are treated as an unwelcome outsider. less so in big cities where you are more anonymous but still. if you are lucky you can find "your tribe&quot
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by dag100 3mo ago
This is an incredible project for an undergraduate. Very impressive. Interesting to note that Firefox is 25% slower than Chrome/Safari, I wonder why.

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