martin-t

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by martin-t 3mo ago
Very happy not just with the polity but that they call the tech LLM instead of using nebulous marketing buzzwords.
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by martin-t 4mo ago
> Claude did its best to comply with what Joe asked it to do I don't like this anthropomorphization. The model generated output as an extrapolation of the input - garbage in, garbage out. > a term that seemed new and important to
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Steve Jobs motivated Larry Kenyon, the engineer working on bootup, by saying he is effectively saving lives. I wonder if we reverse that. When engineers write shitty, slow, buggy code or when they're forced to do that by the company, t
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by martin-t 4mo ago
My colleague organizes workshops for gifted teenagers interested in tech/science in Europe. He often asks them if they want to go study abroad. A few years back, most of them would say they want to go to the US. Now none of them do. Th
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by martin-t 4mo ago
The vile thing is that people work for a company and make it a lot more money than they end up receiving and then the owners of the company go and use the remaining money against the people's interest.
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by martin-t 4mo ago
It depends a lot on the country. Pretty sure most/all have more than 2 viable parties. Still sucks because usually you can only vote for one party so it still leads to strategic voting. And ou might be able to prefer certain candidates
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by martin-t 4mo ago
I hoped that would be possible but wasn't sure, thanks.
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by martin-t 4mo ago
I hate that social factors like popularity are a thing in technical decisions. I have not used mercurial (though heard good things about it) but I saw a similar thing play out in Rust gamedev. There are 2 competing game engines, one better
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by martin-t 4mo ago
As an European, the biggest issue with US politics I see is that you only have 2 parties. It makes no sense. As a voter, you can only express a binary choice and whatever you choose for the issue you care about most effectively decides what
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by martin-t 4mo ago
I agree and we need to talk about specific things if we have any chance of turning ideas into change. The issue is these are complex topics not suited for a discussion platform where most activity on a post ceases within a day (and if it co
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by martin-t 4mo ago
See, with a plane, you get to choose which one you board. And the pilot is not a random guy from the street with no education or at best a completely unrelated degree. And he's probably not 90 years old. And he's the engineer, mec
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by martin-t 4mo ago
And that's why we need more direct democracy. People (correctly) feel like they have very little power over laws which affect them day to day. If someone represents me, then logically I should have the right to vote directly instead of
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Surely the deal is beneficial for both sides. For OpenAI because they get a lot of money and and for the government because they can keep tabs on how people use LLMs to make sure they're not doing anything naughty.
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Then perhaps their signalling isn't meant for you but for people who have to pay those pesky expensive intelligent people like translators, programmers, designers and writers. Those people would benefit greatly if they could rent intel
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Discussions about this topic need to separate "AI" and aAI. - "AI" is a tool which workers use - usually to produce outputs of the same or lower quality faster. It needs a human to be constantly monitoring, steering and
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Observations: 1) Only law can fix this. Anybody (looking at you ancaps) telling you "if you don't like it, start a competitor" doesn't understand how the economy and network effects work. 2) The general population is a c
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by martin-t 4mo ago
This just shows you can be right, you can have convincing arguments for why you're right but unless people listen, you will not change anything. I wonder how Winner feels about all of this.
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by martin-t 4mo ago
> when they feel like No, when they can get away with it. When the pros for them outweigh the cons. And every person affects that calculation in some small way - by their tolerance to injustice, by their outspokenness, by their ability t
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by martin-t 4mo ago
That's defeatist, although certainly what they'd like. The world is not the US. Even if NSA captured and logged all internet traffic, they'd still only get a fraction of the information within without breaking all the encry
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Exactly. This is what people don't seem to get. LLMs ("AI") are not a tool for us. They are a tool for the owner class and a replacement for us.
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Up until ~2 weeks ago, I believed that at least opting out of data collection would protect me. I no longer do. Everyone knows that fines paid by companies (instead of the people making the decisions) are considered simply a cost of doing b
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by martin-t 4mo ago
I assure you they cannot pierce that veil if one has a modicum of competence. One uni in my country has been getting bomb threats during the exam period every year for multiple years (a random article says 20 times at least). The whole plac
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Why are they so hungry for data? If it's so intelligent, why does it need to learn by imitation so much? It feels almost like "AI" can't be built without trillions of hours of human work, yet the ownership of the models
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by martin-t 4mo ago
Look, I hate injustice more than most people and I have no issue saying that there are people who spend their entire lives getting richer and more connected at everyone else's expense and that they should be punished in full for what t
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by martin-t 5mo ago
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence, please...
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by martin-t 5mo ago
It's not just the US though, EU too. I don't like far fetched conspiracy theories but I really want to know where all this is coming from. Did politicians suddenly all get the same idea or are there groups lobbying for this who be
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by martin-t 5mo ago
Consent must be explicit, informed and can be revoked at any time. Tech people could learn a lot from the BDSM community. Tech companies regularly violate all 3 principles. 1) Opt-out instead of opt-in is an abusive practice, only you'
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by martin-t 5mo ago
"You can't make people care." Not until they've personally been hurt by something. Unfortunately I can't recall who said this, it was the beginning of a tech talk and it made something instantly click for me. We hav
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by martin-t 5mo ago
Ironically the one good thing we got from AI is being able to sift through everyone's entire internet history (even de-anonymizing the stuff they didn't want under their regular nicks) and being able to tell exactly who supported
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by martin-t 5mo ago
> Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation I hated with a passion when people claimed "MS loves open source now". I feel vindicated. If a corporation can do a 180° turn in one direction, it can do a 180°

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