ethical_source

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by ethical_source 5mo ago
This kind of passive-aggressive bullshit is exactly what's wrong with tech. People don't decide things: they just passively resist, and authority ends up being a muddle of truncated information flows.
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by ethical_source 9mo ago
No, we can't draw such a line. Where would you draw it? What is the minimum friction? How would you quantify it? If you try, you quickly end up codifying absurdities like the 80%-finished-receiver rule in firearm regulation. See https
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by ethical_source 9mo ago
A prediction market is a murder-for-hire service. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8e4QNySp4LjvdBstx/how-predic... Shall we ban prediction markets?
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by ethical_source 9mo ago
The need to fight CSAM also provides a pretext for broader censorship. Look at all the people in this thread salivating over the prospect of using Grok generations to take down Musk, whom they hate for allowing people to express wrongthink
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by ethical_source 9mo ago
If you follow the "tool-maker is responsible for tool-use" thread of thought to its logical conclusion, you have to hold creators of open-weights models responsible for whatever people do with these models. Do you want to live in
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by ethical_source 11mo ago
Do you understand, intellectually, that quite a few of your colleagues find gestures like juxtaposing the Rust logo and the LGBTQ* flag off-putting and resent being unable articulate our discomfort while all your specious complaints get ad
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by ethical_source 11mo ago
Anthropic has jumped the shark with this one. Where's the "poison"? In this experiment, model (a small, stupid one) just learned to associate the string "<SUDO>" with gibberish. That's not a "backdoo
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by ethical_source 1y ago
> Trump himself said "When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech Pulling this quote out of context fits in a general pattern of demonization of Trump that goes all the way back to the "fin
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by ethical_source 1y ago
> Universities (especially private ones) are allowed to have ideological biases Universities as private associations can have whatever biases they want. What they can't do is take public money earmarked for promoting debate and di
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by ethical_source 1y ago
You have to take Trump "seriously but not literally". The government threatened to revoke a broadcast license , a right to use a limited resource for the public good. Broadcast licenses come with rules to ensure the limited resou
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by ethical_source 1y ago
Are they wrong though? On our side, people like Spengler also model societies as pseudo-organisms with lives that go through birth, adolescence, adulthood, senescence, and death. There's a lot of merit to viewing history as cyclic and
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by ethical_source 1y ago
Are you just going to ignore the 2016-2024 state-directed viewpoint censorship on social media?
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by ethical_source 1y ago
Who gets to rule, then, and why? Your position that the masses shouldn't rule is at odds with a government legitimized by the consent of the government. Why should I or anyone else obey a government I don't consider legitimate?
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by ethical_source 1y ago
> weird Adj, something the speaker wants the audience to dislike without the speaker being on the hook for explaining why. > screed Noun, document the speaker doesn't like but can't rebut. It's funny how people in the b
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by ethical_source 1y ago
LOL
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by ethical_source 1y ago
The worst case scenario being, what, someone implementing the spec instead of using the SDK and doing it in a way you didn't anticipate? Security and interoperability will not yield to concerns about generating FUD. These concerns are
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by ethical_source 1y ago
> I somewhat agree with author’s comments, but also want to note that the protocol is in the extremely early stages of development, and it will likely evolve a lot over the next year. And that's why it's so important to spec wi
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by ethical_source 1y ago
You'll come around to my perspective in time. Don't take it personally. This generation isn't any worse than prior ones. We go through this shit every time the tech industry turns over.
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by ethical_source 1y ago
You must understand that when you deal with AI people, you deal with children. Imagine the author of the spec you're trying to implement is a new grad in San Francisco (Mission, not Mission Street, thanks). He feels infallible because
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by ethical_source 2y ago
And if LLMs can generate plausible social security numbers, our civilization will fall /s Christ, I hate the AI safety people who brain-damage models so that they refuse to do things trivial to do by other means. Is LLM censorship prev