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by slibhb 7d ago
I understand people just get off posting stuff like this. But creating LLMs from the entire corpus of human text was a huge achievement. Distilling those models is much less of an achievement. It means China is further behind than we though
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by slibhb 7d ago
That's why we have an independent judiciary. What's the alternative to fixing this with laws/lawsuits? Do we riot when "the police and governments break laws"?
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by slibhb 7d ago
The modern legally bound nation state has done much better at guaranteeing rights and protecting freedoms than any other configurations despite the fact that it's constained largely by "pinky promises" (i.e. laws, courts, etc
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by slibhb 7d ago
If red light cameras are incorrectly calibrated, that seems like something that could be challenged in court and changed. > If your approach is that we can fix abuses by having the abuser write down rules that say they're not allowe
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by slibhb 7d ago
This post is a good example of why I find the anti-surveillance people so tiresome > Just wait til we have an administration in the White House (I’m guessing not this one?) which directly threatens your freedoms in such a way that they c
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by slibhb 7d ago
Great -- so fix those problems with legislation.
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by slibhb 7d ago
That sounds like an argument for anarchism. I am very unimpressed by political philosophies that take arguments to their logical conclusion. What seems to me to have worked is understanding that a government is necessary, that it has the po
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by slibhb 7d ago
I'm generally in favor of mass surveillance, as long as it's in public . I think it can prevent a lot of crime and I don't believe we have a right to "privacy in public". Red light cameras, for example, strike me a
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by slibhb 8d ago
From what I understand, none of the people involved here are originators of the idea that led to this solution. Not Buckmaster nor Alpöge nor OpenAI. All of the above were using LLMs to push other mathematicians' ideas forward (Diego C
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by slibhb 8d ago
Worth noting that Tao's post says the authors had "significant AI input" but are reworking them into "acceptable form". Either way, it seems AI was involved.
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by slibhb 10d ago
> But the right to accurate information from public officials, I thought that was indeed an absolute and basic right in a democracy That's a misunderstanding on your part. You can't have a "right to accurate information&qu
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by slibhb 12d ago
This is what happens when people get "the entire history of humanity" from Howard Zinn-like sources. Healthy, stable societies are not based on the threat of violence, but rather consensual submission to a rule of law. As a rule,
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by slibhb 12d ago
1. The government will force them to submit 2. They care about status, fame, reputation 3. Attitudes towards taxation/redistribution will change in a world where AI is doing almost all the labor
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by slibhb 12d ago
That's not the main issue at all . I'm baffled where you got that idea. Also, I live in Northern Virginia where we have tons of data centers, and energy prices have not spiked.
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by slibhb 13d ago
Today, the decentralized nature of human labor means we have to incentivize people in broad ways. But if there's like 5 AI companies doing all the labor with their robots, we can just tax them and redistribute. The owners/workers
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by slibhb 13d ago
The US has never experienced a widespread famine. In some sense I agree with you that starvation in the modern world is a political problem. Evidence for that is the common observation that famines don't occur in functioning liberal de
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by slibhb 13d ago
Scarcity of status, fame, power, etc may be inevitable -- but that's fine. After all, people need stuff to do. But if we solve food, hunger, housing, education, healthcare, and entertainment then that's enough for me. And no, it&#
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by slibhb 13d ago
> Do you see the missing link there? They might ask: “What happens to those goods? What happens to me? Do I get given the goods? Are the goods sold and then I am paid a stipend? I’m hungry. Will I still need to buy things? Okay, if so, b
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by slibhb 13d ago
Feels more like leftists are pro-scarcity into order to "empower workers"
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by slibhb 13d ago
"Technology will free mankind from labor and usher in an era where everyone is simply allocated whatever they requre" was a staple of leftism up until the USSR collapsed. The difference is that today, unlike in the 20th century, t
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by slibhb 13d ago
In my view, AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society where massive redistribution has no/few downsides. If all labor is done by AIs then the price of everything will go to near zero and everyone can have a government mandated mid
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by slibhb 14d ago
Should this be reassuring from a "great filter" perspective? It would seem to raise the odds that our species will survive long enough to create black holes
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by slibhb 14d ago
> Some futurist philosophers had extended the idea to explain the emergence of complex life from hot gas and stars. Humans exploit increasingly powerful energy sources, a progression they argued could culminate in artificial black holes.
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by slibhb 20d ago
> I have come to believe, however, that we have this backwards. As intelligent, social entities, we decide (or, to some degree, our evolutionary history has decided for us) which other entities we regard as having inner lives and being w
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by slibhb 20d ago
This is what I used to think. That "aphantasia" was just people arguing semantics about subjective experience. But my belief now is that if you think this way, you likely have aphantasia (I think I do). A couple things that convin
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by slibhb 21d ago
I agree with you that nothing has been proven either way. But I would say that, because people hate social media so much, we should perhaps be a little skeptical of claims that it causes harms. It's very easy to believe "X thing I
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by slibhb 21d ago
Meta-analysis, very large, shows small correlation between unhappiness and social media use: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... Large AU observational study. Moderate social media
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by slibhb 21d ago
It's been eye-opening to watch people fall for the "social media is hurting the children" scam. The best and largest observational studies don't show a strong correlation. Studies with an intervention are mixed/the
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by slibhb 22d ago
Lots of places in the US have plentiful water. Don't build data centers where there's a lack of water! And it's a dead horse at this point, but we don't need to be growing almonds in CA. If you actually care about water
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by slibhb 29d ago
This is business as usual for public sector unions. Focusing on police unions is a good way to highlight these issues to leftists who reflexively both defend unions and criticize police

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