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by panta 3d ago
What if there are already (possibly hidden) loops somewhere, maybe even ultra-slow ones at the inter-generation level? What if some AIs could do that not with so explicit and dramatic actions, but much more subtly, through undetected manipu
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by panta 11d ago
Neoliberism is not the only possible system, it is very well possible to change the boundaries of what enterprises can do. Technology-will-save-us is a quasi-religious belief, not supported by evidence. Also if it was true that we can'
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by panta 23d ago
The problem is money, but at a different level. When you deal with the homeless it's too late. That money must be spent before someone becomes homeless, on welfare: unemployment benefits, accessible healthcare and housing. A minor cut
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by panta 23d ago
Then the question becomes why US has such a huge problem with mental health and drugs that most other countries don't have with this scale. Maybe it's easier to develop mental health and/or drug issues when there are no socie
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by panta 24d ago
In the old days, when businesses were not governed by pure greed, many electronic products, if not the majority, included schematics in their user manual. If a product today made a point of pride of having fully open source firmware and inc
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by panta 24d ago
Why is your job to make the reverse engineer harder? When the user buys a product, it should be theirs to do whatever they want, even brick it. Your job should be creating the product the user wants to use, not building obstacles, otherwise
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by panta 1mo ago
I guess the question could be: "how much Meta did by directly or indirectly damaging people mental health in New Mexico?". Note that the damage could be more or less subtle: someone could have been affected in great measure and be
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by panta 2mo ago
I'd gladly pay for the OS if this guaranteed abstaining from unnecessary changes and/or from removing useful features (eg 2d Spaces in Leopard and Snow Leopard, replaced by the inferior abomination that is Mission Control)
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by panta 3mo ago
Those living the longest are those born 75-85 years ago. Later generations will have to wait to assess how it ended for them.
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by panta 4mo ago
I think that to sum things up, we will have to wait until we can evaluate the cost of the mistakes. You could be lucky but you could also end up with a very negative output value in the longer time frame.
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by panta 4mo ago
I've been a paying customer since their early days. Their value, at least in my view, lies precisely in that they are just a file storage SaaS. They are focused on doing one thing and doing it well. The day this will change they'l
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by panta 5mo ago
no, they should not, since we already know that the contract won't stop them from using that data for other purposes and other governments. A government should act in the interest of its own citizens, first and foremost, and not preten
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by panta 6mo ago
Maybe it's borderline because it's coming from the other direction. Corruption presumes some kind of "covertness", when you break all the rules without even trying to be discreet can you still talk of corruption?
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by panta 7mo ago
> Choosing OpenAI does not harm the republic if we consider AIs as "force multipliers" as we do with coding agents, it's easy to see how any AI company can harm the republic if the government they are serving is unethical
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by panta 7mo ago
Not everyone shares this view. Some have a different definition of winners and losers.
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by panta 8mo ago
StanLLM-generated hammer: "Dear valued customer, our automated systems have flagged activity on your StanLLM account that appears to be non-compliant with our Acceptable Use Policy. As a precautionary measure your account has been susp
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by panta 9mo ago
It is actively working to make the world a worse place and to degrade the fabric of society that makes them an enemy.
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by panta 11mo ago
that's true only for as long as we allow that to be true. Users can live without Spotify (to cite just one representative of the mentioned categories), but Spotify can't live without users. We could (and should) stop behaving as p
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by panta 1y ago
Of course. According to Andreessen if you are not optimistic and worry about the environment are an "enemy" for the bright future ahead (while at the same time he puts Nick Land in the list of the "Saints"). These people
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by panta 1y ago
I think some forms of entertainment can have also redeeming qualities. A novel can be seen (also) as a form of entertainment but it can also be a vehicle for a message. The difference with social media sized alternatives is that with the la
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by panta 1y ago
Those things happened under different historical contexts. In those times the means to control the serfs thoughts didn't exist.
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by panta 1y ago
At some point we'll have to admit that worse is actually worse.
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by panta 2y ago
There have been electoral fraud and a massive disinformation campaign operated by a foreign country. This is not democracy.
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by panta 2y ago
There seems to be a link between migraines and Mithocondrial Disease. If frequency/intensity of migraines diminishes with Vitamin B and Q10, it may be worth investigating. Especially if you have muscular fatigue or exhaustion.
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by panta 2y ago
And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability? Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of information on us is already encoded, and it can keep around a
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by panta 2y ago
But how to get these guarantees from the upstream vendors? Or do you run the LLMs on premises?
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by panta 2y ago
How do you handle the privacy of the scanned documents?
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by panta 2y ago
I have been thinking about these lines for a long time. Humanity would be much better if we went back to pre-social network internet, populated by small human-moderated and vertical forums. We can and should destroy social networks, using t
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by panta 2y ago
The money from investors went somewhere, there are people that got richer...
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by panta 2y ago
If you are spending billions, surely you can bring in some people that speak both Chinese and the local language. Heck, there are even real-time translation services now. No, the problem is not technical, it's that it was a scam from t

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