goatlover

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by goatlover 4d ago
Problem with p doom is I have no way to seriously evaluate anyone's percentage. The best I can do is rely on experts in a given field, like the recent virologist making a convincing case that no teenager is going to be prompting a doom
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by goatlover 4d ago
The term luddite is like the term pharisee. It's a pejorative removed from it's historical context. Actual Luddites and Pharisees would have not agreed that they were against technology or legalistic hypocrites, even though their
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by goatlover 5d ago
Data centers aren't housing and don't always make use of renewable energy. Seems kind of crazy to me that people shouldnt' have a say in what gets built near them. There are certainly things I wouldn't want to live near
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by goatlover 5d ago
But they haven't replaced every knowledge worker. The unemployment rate remains unaffected by all the AI progress. At some point the bill comes due, and if most of those jobs are still around, then what?
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by goatlover 5d ago
Maybe the machines were spiteful after the humans blotted out the sun? Or maybe the Architect convinced them he could build the perfect simulation for humanity so might as well use them as batteries? It's a movie based on a war with ma
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by goatlover 5d ago
Electronic components can be swapped out. The nuclear material is what really matters.
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by goatlover 5d ago
Since the USSR no longer existed and Ukraine became a sovereign nation again, Ukraine had possession of them.
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by goatlover 5d ago
The same as Israel.
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by goatlover 5d ago
The same could be said for the current US leadership. All sorts of crazy sounding stuff comes from the White House. Imagine being Canadian.
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by goatlover 5d ago
The AI race is caused and being sustained by American tech companies. China is an excuse to keep it going.
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by goatlover 6d ago
Then look at the Middle East.
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by goatlover 6d ago
Big difference between defense of a country and starting wars. Canada and Switzerland don't start wars but they still have a military in case they ever need it to protect from an aggressor. Like Russia or the Canadian neighbor to the s
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by goatlover 6d ago
Nukes also destroy infrastructure and irradiate surrounding areas making cleanup and rescue harder. Then there's to potential for massive fires putting debris into the stratosphere, which could dim sunlight for a time and cause global
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by goatlover 6d ago
Very interesting book. You don't really think about how often metaphors are employed in language, and their influence on how we think. The book makes some rather strong claims regarding science and philosophy being misled by metaphoric
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by goatlover 7d ago
Was regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan worth it despite how bad their governments were? Even the party of Bush & Cheney seems to think that was a bad idea and Trump ran on no more wars in the ME.
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by goatlover 7d ago
What was so bad about the non-Windows interface other than it wasn't Windows? I didn't have problems with using Notes email or developing apps for Notes. It had incredible workflow and database replication features. Blew anything
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by goatlover 7d ago
Evolution selects for fit organisms that have to survive and reproduce in the world, not language models waiting on prompts. The temptation to analogize technology to biology is just top hard to resist I guess. Problem with analogies and me
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by goatlover 8d ago
> They give each other pats on the back for shitting on the most popular, versatile, compatible and adaptable programming language of all time. I don't see why C, C++ or Java wouldn't meet some of those criteria. Everything is
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by goatlover 8d ago
When is this unauthorized war going to end?
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by goatlover 9d ago
George Carlin aside, wouldn't a majority of people be around average intelligence? That's the infamous bell curve.
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by goatlover 10d ago
Those nuclear powered flying cars envisioned in the 50s were also inevitable progress of the automobile.
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by goatlover 10d ago
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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by goatlover 10d ago
There were prominent scientists like Oppenheimer who did not think it needed to become an arms race, and campaigned against that. But there were others like Teller and the military who made it into an arms race, and kept upping the ante wit
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by goatlover 10d ago
The arms race is created by American companies who justify the risk by claiming China will win the race if they don't. But it's the American companies who are purshing the arms race forward.
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by goatlover 10d ago
Because if the stated goals of AGI with recursive self-improvement are realized, the risks from misalignment become existential, and it's hard to see how we can manage it like we did the Cold War (developing MAD to prevent WW3) and nuc
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by goatlover 11d ago
Left behind in corruption?
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by goatlover 11d ago
Not anymore than ants or any other species that's spread across the planet. A virus is something co-opts the replication machinery of a host to make more copies. That's not what humans do. Since this idea may have come from the fi
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by goatlover 11d ago
Wasn't aware that memes were an accepted part of evolutionary biology. They're not inherited like genes through reproduction that are subject to natural selection via biological fitness. Or any other evolutionary mechanism.
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by goatlover 14d ago
> but I am curious what happens when say 100 million people can't meaningfully live in American society. Nothing good. Social upheaval. Lots of crime. Mass detentions and deportations. Possibly a revolution.
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by goatlover 14d ago
You're describing an economic situation that has never happened. Electricity and vehicles didn't make income dissapear.

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