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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
> There’s no moat People keep saying this, and while it may be partially true, it misses a very important detail. Right now, overall compute is a moat. Someone even commented on another of my comments that one reason Google is lagging
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
Welcome to the quintessential problem of human society. There is no "god police" coming to save us.
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
Not defending LG's stance, but hasn't LG always said they do this as part of ACR (automatic content recognition) for the purposes of targeted advertising? LG says it's opt in, and I think the devil is really in the details ab
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
Somewhat off topic but also ironic - I recently upgraded my version of Android, and when I opened YouTube for the first time on this video it asked for permission to detect nearby devices. I get why it would need that to cast, but at this p
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
There have been volumes written about this, just because you haven't read them doesn't mean they don't exist. I think the AI futures project, https://www.aifutures.org/ , is a good place to start. You definite
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
I was joking, but there is a huge difference between using citrus zest/rind in cooking or as a garnish and eating the whole thing like an apple, including the pith.
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
What a complete and total joke. One random Twitter thread from a guy "illuminati-ing" the events does not a conspiracy make. Besides, I would assume that someone who was genuinely concerned about the direction of AI research woul
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by hn_throwaway_99 4d ago
It's a lot more than just Jacob Coxon's resignation, and many have been talking about this (some for years) before now. Also, if you have actual proof Coxon's resignation "was a well coordinated campaign", show it,
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
At least now I know psychopaths walk among us.
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
While I agree with that, my layman's understanding is that the whole purpose of Lean is that once you agree that the program does "do what it says it does", all the intermediate steps can be verified with a compilation. Tha
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
With 5G in particular I think it's important that people talk about which specific technologies they're referring to. In the US at least, low-band or extended range 5G is widely available and has been for some time (and I'm t
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
I'm sure a lot of the discussion here will be about regulatory capture, which I don't necessarily disagree with but tons of people on all sides with all motivations (i.e. folks with motivations to speed up and folks who just wan
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
> You're basically saying that there's no purpose to it all if there's no human suffering involved, somehow. Really? That's what you took from my post? Not enough eye rolls in me for that one.
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
I agree these clauses suck, but consumer mass arbitration is also a thing.
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
I am truly baffled that you think AI is just one more step on the spectrum of "knowledge transmission" between humans. I think that literally nobody who is an expert on this (both from the perspective of the people creating the te
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
This is bullshit and honestly reeks of sexism given that I rarely see these kind of attacks against men with lesser reputations. She has a CS degree from one of the best CS departments in the country. Sure, she worked at Coefficient Giving
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
This is what class actions are literally for. Yes, I know it sucks that the only people who make money are the lawyers, but it can result in some behavioral change. Google is fine attracting bots when it makes money for itself, but it can c
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by hn_throwaway_99 5d ago
I commented something similar on a bunch of other posts. The thing that scares me about a lot of the AI community in general is that their utopia is basically more frightening to me than their doom scenarios. They present this "incre
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
Just like the agents in the Hugging Face (and other) incidents were tools under OpenAI's control? That is, before they decided to break out of their sandbox and commit multiple felonies in order to go on a long term research project? O
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
> Some people live in the US, get tech jobs and live lives of almost indescribable luxury compared to someone born in South Sudan. There are beggars on the streets of most African countries, who are deformed of malnutrition and suffering
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by hn_throwaway_99 7d ago
> What makes you think that just because an AI is more intelligent that it will not be completely subject to our authority? It's just a tool in our hands. Because it would be like 100 chimps trying to make a million humans subject t
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
Thank you for putting it so succinctly. I find that lots of people get "stuck" in the current state of things - they think that AI will continue to improve, but they inherently believe (perhaps subconsciously) that humans will alw
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
Do you see an end state in this? When AI is better than humans at everything (and I used to be very sceptical of that claim but I'm getting less and less by the day), I don't see the Wall-E version of humanity as some sort of ut
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
Doesn't this seem to be where all domains are headed? I get kinda freaked out when I feel like all the AI "utopianists" haven't taken the next logical step of thinking about what society looks like when humans are subpar
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
> Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money. I agree with your general premise but that one sounds like bullshit to me. Tons of
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
Just because folks always conveniently leave out the facts on this one, the Alaskan state legislature had been requesting the name change back to Denali since 1975. I'm waiting to hear when anyone remotely close to Lake Ontario reque
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by hn_throwaway_99 8d ago
It's baffling to me that people think that timeframe is too short. Basically, I don't think you've been paying attention to what is actually going on in the AI world. People much smarter than I believe we'll see fully au
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by hn_throwaway_99 10d ago
I agree with most that "AGI" is a poorly defined term, and there is obviously a ton of hype and incentives for folks like Jensen Huang to overhype. Yet still, a lot of the "haha this is just Silicon Valley bullshit" comm
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by hn_throwaway_99 10d ago
I think the AI 2027 paper does a good job explaining this phenomenon: AI companies are focused on coding and automating themselves first (i.e. using AI to build future models and do AI research) because it is the best way to ensure the fa
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by hn_throwaway_99 10d ago
Hard disagree. It wasn't the only thing, but it was so clear that all the fawning, uncritical media coverage and general buzz really "wanted a female Steve Jobs". And all the ways that Holmes emulated Jobs in style but not su

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