pksebben

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by pksebben 7d ago
I would be fascinated to hear what value you think JP Morgan created rather than moved around . His company continues to do so long after his death.
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by pksebben 10d ago
one doesn't go to a gallery to watch the painting get made. Creative coding can still be enjoyed by appreciating the output. The immediate rebuttal to that might be that "AI could just do it" but that's not entirely tru
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by pksebben 10d ago
"We believe these representations are not serious, they're just really good friends."
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by pksebben 22d ago
That does kind of make it sound like think tanks are normally either straightforward or fundamentally honest about their agendas, which they pretty much never are. Even the ones that register and have DBAs fund reports that end up in scien
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by pksebben 27d ago
Ah! Sincere apologies for being defensive. Yeah, I share your eye when it comes to orthodoxy in most if not all areas - wary. The problem with any orthodoxy is that it's dumb - not as in 'stupid' but as in 'doesn&#x27
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by pksebben 28d ago
Sorry, but you must be way smarter than me or something because that made no sense. Not that I don't understand what that notation is supposed to mean, but that I'm not seeing the connective tissue here. It's also a little
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by pksebben 29d ago
Have you served? Because I have. Still have friends in the service and they are pretty cheesed that they've been roped into this mess. Go ask a lifer what they really think about Smegsbreath some time - I think it will be enlighteni
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by pksebben 29d ago
This line of reason is one I find appealing but somewhat untimely. If I'm grokking the deeper message it's that "limiting licensed use in these creative ways opens the door to potentially evil chicanery" -- i.e. you sta
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by pksebben 1mo ago
Oh, that's lovely. So, if you don't know what the cause is, you can't really say you've mitigated it, can you? C'mere, I wanna honk your big red nose.
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by pksebben 1mo ago
Recontextualized: *A person who chooses a career centered around the use of force is more likely to use force in their personal life*. Ahdunno, where's the lie?
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by pksebben 3mo ago
out of curiosity - what scheme do you suggest? I've always been of the mind that 'one thing to remember and secure, but secure it well' was the best option - 2factor and a 15+character passphrase meaning that nearly everythi
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by pksebben 3mo ago
I'm with you on the uninformed / confident vector in general , but you do seem fairly level-headed so I still want your take on the question: what do we do about it ? How do we approach the problem of "most of our problems
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by pksebben 3mo ago
Real question; what are we supposed to do about that information delay when it directly enables corruption and usury? This is an ongoing issue with historical precedent; the repeal of glass-steagall, MKULTRA and COINTELPRO, Iran-contra, wa
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by pksebben 3mo ago
"Assessing effects of rent control on wealth is hard, so we threw most of that out and just used housing prices. Also, we're fairly sure that our results are good because there was nothing special happening in St. Paul in 2021 th
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by pksebben 3mo ago
Right - it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. For one, "not a citizen" is a pretty hard bar to assess online. For another, "citizen" isn't very meaningful here. Many national security incidents have featured a cit
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by pksebben 3mo ago
Bit of a doozie though, that one. I recall getting really excited over hinton's FF foray, right before he bailed on AI as a societal direction (which, if anyone ever had the right, I suppose he does). If one squints, one can see a bac
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by pksebben 3mo ago
Genuinely curious - who do you think the targeted people are and how would this keep them out?
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by pksebben 3mo ago
> Perhaps the US administration is gambling that US citizens on their own provide enough of a training data and revenue flywheel for them to keep their AI development edge. There is no way to enforce access of one and not the other, not
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by pksebben 3mo ago
Perhaps a little tinfoil hat, but I don't think there's a legitimate concern here to address. An empowered populace is antithetical to the current political paradigm, which is what I suspect the actual grievance to be. And before
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by pksebben 3mo ago
Dumb astroturf grok bot is dumb. Don't feed the trolls.
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by pksebben 3mo ago
It's not a training problem, it's an incentive problem. You put these guys in a structure that requires them to justify their jobs at minimal cost of effort and then ooh ack surprise when they don't take the proper care to e
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by pksebben 5mo ago
I think I see where we're coming at this from different angles. If you're going by the numbers and the 'strength of the state' - then yeah, we're doing great. However, neither I nor anyone I know happens to be a pa
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by pksebben 5mo ago
all fair points - but what strengths? We've proven ourselves incapable of the most basic social goods for decades now. All the metrics that you might point to as "hey the US is doing fine" (GDP, deficit, sector growth) are
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by pksebben 5mo ago
Isn't flock's whole thing that they extract information from the pictures they have? Like, say I have an interview in your office and you step out for coffee. I take a picture of the applicant list on your desk. That doesn'
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by pksebben 5mo ago
Both are good sources of energy. If you're going to make the argument that "nuclear is unsafe so we shouldn't do it" though, it's relevant to keep in mind that since we've had nuclear power, dam failures have
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by pksebben 5mo ago
I'm not going to go to bat for Mao(1), but I think you're underplaying the body count that capitalist countries have had - this is kind of easy to do because a lot of the damage that we do is obfuscated behind proxies. Besides th
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by pksebben 5mo ago
>> trust in the ideas and people who control it, This right here is the crux of the issue. I don't even trust my own computer without fairly deep introspective tools, and what we're given for 'leadership' is &#x2
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by pksebben 7mo ago
guidance and alignment are usually handled by RLHF, which actually rewires the weights such that it becomes near-impossible for the model to have certain kinds of 'thoughts'. This is baked in such that it's not something you
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by pksebben 7mo ago
"Yeah so it says on your chart here..."
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by pksebben 7mo ago
> This is a system stretching over millennia not quite. 'Slavery' has been around that long. 'Chattel Slavery' started in the 1600s and peaked in the 1800s. So like, half a millenia.

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