palmotea

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by palmotea 5d ago
> AI should be optimized to make all humans healthy, happy and safe without exception. No. AI should be optimized for the one true good: maximum market returns. Personally I think that will only be achieved once humans are removed from t
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by palmotea 5d ago
> If LLMs and related technology result in a gutting of the workforce and mass unemployment the world will be a dark and terrible place. I do not trust the governments of the world to solve that with UBI or similar. IMHO, UBI is a sop to
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by palmotea 5d ago
> Computers are hard to use. People need to be able to solve problems using computers. Solving problems is fun! And perversely, LLMs actually seem better at doing a good-enough job at the fun stuff and being worse at certain kinds of dru
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by palmotea 5d ago
> So vote for Republicans because while the outcomes are worse, at least they aren't pretending they are going to make things better? No, voting for Democrats isn't enough , because they're shit. They'll probably in
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by palmotea 5d ago
> You think those billion people are all addicted to having a made-up friend? No, and I don't think you're really trying to understand what I think. I mean, do you actually think anyone could think ChatGPT user only use it in o
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by palmotea 5d ago
> How confident are you in that? ChatGPT has over a billion monthly active users now ( https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-app-hits-1-billio ...), I expect at least some of those users are using it to help solv
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by palmotea 5d ago
> This is the entire basis via which society distributes its wealth: based on a labour market derived valuation of ‘contribution’. Correction: that's not how society distributes its wealth, it's how it throws some bones to the
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by palmotea 5d ago
> Elections have consequences. Vote democrat in November and again in 2028. When someone tells you both sides are the same tell them no, it's only Republicans that are allowing Datacenters to sidestep the law in order to poison us m
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by palmotea 5d ago
Perhaps the next administration will drop a few cluster bombs on some hyperscaler data centers. The air force needs targets to practice on, after all. Then throughout the land there will be much rejoicing and feelings of justice done, as tr
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by palmotea 5d ago
What I meant is that it's not being built to solve any problem most people actually have. It's not like a building that's being built become some person needs shelter. It's more like some guy building a howitzer and just
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by palmotea 5d ago
> I'm not sure how useful it is to say this, but I think a lot of people (myself included, a few years ago now) have been through this moment of existential crisis and come out the other side. Two important things you didn't
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by palmotea 5d ago
> It’s making me want to be a lot less collaborative with such individuals. I don’t want to sit around and refute Claude text outputs all day. There are also the guys who are just blatantly meat proxies for Claude. You send them a messag
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by palmotea 6d ago
> The comments here during the 737 MAX MCAS thing were fucking wild. So many randoms spitting out confidently incorrect nonsense. Maybe that helps explain some of the fraction of HN that loves LLMs: they found their soulmates.
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by palmotea 6d ago
> I miss the optimism of 20 years ago. I too wish my marks were still as gullible and trusting as they were before I scammed them.
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by palmotea 6d ago
> USB B cables are also notoriously sensitive and the slightest damage can result in malfunctions. Went through this recently with a PreSonus AudioBox. Do you mean micro-USB-B? Full size (and mini) USB-B cables (comparatively) built like
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by palmotea 6d ago
> - We're using a vibe coded app on an iPhone that does terrain matching and target finding. And that part seems entirely reasonable. It looks like the Tomahawk cruise missile did it with an 84 lb package with a 16-bit computer with
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by palmotea 6d ago
> Advanced machinery and safety precaution is needed to engineer a virus or a bacteria to be a bio weapon. It's not something you can do in your tool shed at the moment. I think the claim in this report is that it was a state or sem
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by palmotea 6d ago
> Quote: "The Overhang consists of the unrealized capital gains of past mathematical creativity, the latent value from connecting the dots in the existing corpus. It is a dividend of canonization. Mathematician X states problem A, m
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by palmotea 6d ago
> If the buttons are incompatible with the absence of the feature, I'd expect the buttons not to exist when the feature is disabled. Anything else seems like a straight up footgun. It's called a "dark pattern." They
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by palmotea 6d ago
If I were a business, I wouldn't want my proprietary business information into a hands of a competitor. But CEOs are racing to do it, and (at best) relying in flimsy contractual guarantees they have no means to verify.
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by palmotea 6d ago
> Why is it OK if openAI does it? OpenAI has a lot of money, a lot of rich investors who want it to go to the moon, and an extensive propaganda operation.
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by palmotea 6d ago
>> My partner left me and my social life has completely collapsed. I have nobody to talk to when things get difficult. I am estranged from my father, my mother is disabled and requires increasing medical support. I'm an only chil
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by palmotea 7d ago
> But modern AI tools, when directed without such expert supervision, can now be aimed all too easily at the ostensible goals of the field, without any incentive to take the slow, whimsical path. IMHO, that's the whole point of AI:
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by palmotea 7d ago
> Exactly. Bloomberg reports students who use AI perform worse That's good news! The worse students perform, the less competition AI will have in the future and the less effective any resistance will be. The ultimate goal should be
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by palmotea 7d ago
> Is this the world we want to live in? Do you think you have a choice? It's Sam, Dario, and their investors' decision about what kind of world they want to build.
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by palmotea 7d ago
> The legal fallout from LLMs becoming spy will overwhelm any profit from these misguided attempts at short lived contracts. Then the law must be changed to protect the profit.
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by palmotea 7d ago
> It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters. Alignment with humanity means alignment with the tech overlords, not us. We're just N
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by palmotea 7d ago
> You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future. That's a reasonable risk to take if there's a possibility of Dario Amodei becoming a trillionaire with his very own S
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by palmotea 7d ago
Remember guys: Anthropic are the good guys! They care about morals, alignment, and safety! So this invasive surveillance to crush dissent must be good for us! AI is an authoritarian's dream. The future is bright! Dear leader Dario wi
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by palmotea 8d ago
> To me it appears that individuals and large companies benefit from copyright asymmetrically, which is the core of the argument. The correct response to that is to fix the asymmetry, not blow the rights up entirely. Quoth the OP: > I

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