questinthrow

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by questinthrow 1y ago
Its odd how I viewed academia as a beautiful place where people were judged by merit not by politics. Then I joined it and realized its even more cutthroat than corporate politics, I guess you cant escape human fallibility no matter the sys
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by questinthrow 2y ago
The elephant in the room is that America doesnt want Russia to lose. Russia is basically America's dog, used to scare European countries in spending either 2% or soon maybe 5% of their GDP to america in order to be "protected&quot
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Russia thought the same when it thought it could hide behind its nukes. Alas.
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Russia also bombs people though.
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Question, what stops openai from downgrading existing models so that you're pushed up the subscription tiers to ever more expensive models? I'd imagine they're currently losing a ton of money supplying everyone with decent mo
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Assuming I'm a politician, couldn't I use those imported people to stir up trouble so I can get enough political support to change legislation so it fits me like in the article here? More surveillance and control isn't a bad
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Well the entire surveillance system we've slaved over to build during the ZIRP boom is ready to roll, AI was the final piece for cheap summarization of potential threats. Now the laws have to be drafted gently to boil the frog.
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by questinthrow 2y ago
This has no relevance to the question
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Why did he enter a country with an arrest warrant on his name? I don't understand it
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Its still empathy punishment at its core but starting from different incentives.
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Want to lose your faith in humanity? Do any public facing job for long enough and eventually you will be a soulless husk. Happened to my retail friends, happened to my doctor friends, and so on and so forth. As far as doctors are concerned
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Guess I'm going on keto then
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Oh I wasnt envisioning this when I talked about the situation above. I guess my vision is 20 years from now where you will have LLMs scanning everything and predicting your danger level, if it arises over a certain threshold they just send
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Shame, I would have enjoyed the kawaii look more than the DJI suicide drone look
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by questinthrow 2y ago
The loop is intentional though. You need political will to pass laws like these so you have to create crises for it. But as you say its a self sustaining cycle and the end result will be fully automated repression. The old arguments of &quo
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Why is anyone surprised about this? This will be a global phenomenon since LLMs together with ubiquitous surveillance brings down the costs of policing to 0. Just add police drones and you have a foolproof system. There is not a single coun
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Yeah but it ain't a dream in my case
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by questinthrow 2y ago
There are US senators that make millions by using their spouses as intermediaries to buy and sell shares. Insider trading as a crime only exists for those that are not well connected enough
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by questinthrow 2y ago
While mister Simons might not be the best example, I sometimes feel that you can easily beat the market if you are well connected and have access to information that can move the markets before anyone else. For example how much know-how do
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by questinthrow 2y ago
"The pool of people you want to immigrate to your country is not large enough to support that strategy." Is this true though? In Vancouver apartment prices have increased by 600% between 2000 and 2024. And Canada is still taking i
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Wasn't this always the plan? If you combine scarce housing (by law or otherwise) and unrestricted immigration then you can get people to fight for scraps whilst taking 30-60% of their paycheck on average just through renting and also m
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Its inevitable because of the power dynamics between democracies and totalitarian regimes. Democracies thought that with the internet they would topple totalitarianism because of free flow of information. They forgot that totalitarian regim
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by questinthrow 2y ago
There seems to be an innate characteristic of technology that if you solve a problem using it, two more problems spring out. Not sure why that is but it seems life has become ever more complex and yet at the same time its not getting better
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Could Transformers/LLMs take over custom software implementations given enough training? Why have so many custom ERP software suites or anything else related to the backend if a transformer can do the work?
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by questinthrow 2y ago
The captain was disabled or the bridge? I dont understand how you set a course through a bridge like that
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by questinthrow 2y ago
What was the ship captain's plan here? Just ram through the bridge?
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by questinthrow 2y ago
I dont understand, why did you think the original post said there's a relationship between global warming and resource shortages?
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by questinthrow 2y ago
What about water for the 4 billion people living in places with low water security?
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by questinthrow 2y ago
There's a lot of people without scruples around. Humanity on average doesnt really bother with ethics that much.
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by questinthrow 2y ago
Violence can also be automated though, we'll see how we fare against autonomous police and drones

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