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by rel_ic 1mo ago
Companies are groups of people behaving a certain way, and jobs are behaving that way. As an outsider, you don't know what the job is. If the interview is a bunch of questions you think is stupid, then the job is probably doing a bunch
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by rel_ic 2mo ago
That whole paragraph is clever :)
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by rel_ic 2mo ago
Just saying: those are also carbon-based lifeforms :D
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by rel_ic 2mo ago
I disagree. I think you absolutely have a moral obligation to consider the impacts of your product. > Who are you to say you know better than the market? You really don't think the scientists & engineers making these tools know
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by rel_ic 3mo ago
Good point - folks should stop teaching them that. If your kid is really in a sea of dangerous adults their phone won't save them anyway.
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by rel_ic 6mo ago
Being on "social media" is a fundamentally unsocial activity: you do it alone, it makes you lonely, and it separates you from others. Some people manage to bootstrap a social layer on top of the base medium, but most are being dri
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by rel_ic 6mo ago
This is kind of like saying a kid can never become a better programmer than the average of his teachers. IMHO, the reasons not to use AI are social, not logical.
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by rel_ic 7mo ago
Ditto. AI has the power to make you believe stuff without you noticing, why would they bother with garish ads when they could make you think it was YOUR idea to buy Chlorox? I guess maybe the garish colors could increase your suggestibility
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by rel_ic 7mo ago
> The environment wins (less tokens burned = less energy consumed) This is understandable logic, but at a systemic level it's not how things always go. Increasing efficiency can lead to increased consumption overall. You might save
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by rel_ic 7mo ago
What I want is for THIS to stop. "Listen, no one wants to hear about your moral issues, just stfu." Don't give up so easily. Let the discomfort in and try & figure out why people keep saying "omg LLMs" until you
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by rel_ic 7mo ago
We need your help! Can you please use your creativity to build resilience to climate change in your community instead of experimenting with more ways to spend computing power?
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by rel_ic 1y ago
Using AI to improve facebook ads... y'all are the breakers from the Dark Tower series.
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by rel_ic 1y ago
People who know alcohol is bad for them and don't want to keep being drunks but keep drinking, people who believe phones are bad for their kids but still buy them, people who understand AI will significantly degrade the environment if
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by rel_ic 1y ago
> we can apply the rule, "-A cannot follow from A", etc. regardless of the A You can't think of any domains where we are unable to apply this rule? I feel like I'm surrounded by people claiming "A, therefore -A!!
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by rel_ic 1y ago
You should go talk to your librarians, you can totally influence all these things!
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by rel_ic 1y ago
I totally agree. I see this "people don't want to do hard stuff" argument used all over - completely disregarding tens of thousands of years of people doing hard stuff. It comes off to me as the author not wanting to do the h
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by rel_ic 1y ago
> Either you own and control something, or you do not, there's no third option. I think there's a full spectrum you're missing. You can own something with other people, and your level of control can be continuous, not disc
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by rel_ic 1y ago
Energy doesn't disappear, but obviously it moves from useful forms to unuseful forms. Same with water. Your sarcasm just comes off as naive arrogance.
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by rel_ic 1y ago
Renewable energy is great, but we're not replacing fossil fuels with it, we're just adding more energy usage. And our energy usage is destroying the environment. Don't let these advancements in solar make you think things are
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by rel_ic 1y ago
Yeah, it's a tradeoff. I don't mean to be glib, but on one side we have a loneliness epidemic, mass misinformation campaigns, and centralized control, and on the other side we have better information about restaurants, easier afte
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by rel_ic 1y ago
People in my community are bragging about getting off social media - it's like a new status symbol around here.
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by rel_ic 1y ago
I want to push back on this narrative - I got off facebook and now my friends just text me instead. A few of my friends also got off facebook. Sometimes I can't see a facebook event so I text a friend asking for details. It's fine
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by rel_ic 1y ago
This mindset is cancerous
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by rel_ic 1y ago
Thanks for posting this! I was also flabbergasted and it's nice to see at least one mention of the huge environmental impact!
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by rel_ic 1y ago
I assume that we are neurons in a bigger brain that already exists! I started down this belief system with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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by rel_ic 1y ago
https://tixy.land/?code=sin%28t*sin%28t%29%2F9-x%29*sin%28t-...
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by rel_ic 1y ago
I think doing stuff like this probably has more downsides than upsides.
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by rel_ic 1y ago
The inconsistency of an optimistic blog post ending with a picture of a terminator robot makes me think this author isn't taking themself seriously enough. Or - the author is the terminator robot?
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by rel_ic 2y ago
I think I disagree with you on many points, but ultimately, if we are overthrown by AI, I hope you are right!
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by rel_ic 2y ago
I may have lost the thread here. Are you thinking it's _likely_ AI would prioritize better ways to control us, or are you only brainstorming potential slivers of hope we might have? As a side note: in the case of chickens, humans do ha

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