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by soiler 3y ago
Reasonable, but not necessarily true. 1. We don't understand what the motivations of our own AI are, let alone "typical" alien AI 2. Expanding AI might be better at and/or more invested in hiding itself. It probably has
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by soiler 3y ago
How the hell did this person start their SWE career at the same time as me and come to feel they have an authoritative view on the state of the industry? Maybe it's because they're a recent grad and I'm an older career change
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by soiler 3y ago
I asked it to explain how to use a certain Vue feature the other day which wasn't working as I hoped. It explained incorrectly, and when I drilled down, it started using React syntax disguised with Vue keywords. I definitely could have
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by soiler 3y ago
Part of why I don't use ChatGPT very much for work is that I don't want to feed significant amounts of proprietary code into it. Could be the one thing that actually gets me in trouble at work, seems risky regardless. How is it yo
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by soiler 3y ago
That's even worse. They might not have the knowledge to realize the regex an AI gives them is bunk, or to debug it when it fails. I'd like to see some numbers on a tool like this. If a huge majority of people are seeing genuine im
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by soiler 3y ago
I read a few weeks ago here on HN about one large SAAS grinding to a halt because of a greedy selector in one line of regex. Not sure how people find old stories, it's lost to me now. But it was an excellent example of why regex is dan
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by soiler 3y ago
I'm (genuinely) curious what kind of code you write. I haven't tried Copilot and I haven't used ChatGPT very much, but I feel I would be pretty surprised if either of them made significant improvements to my workflow. Copilot
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by soiler 3y ago
android changed the lock screen clock from HH:MM to HH MM it's a little stupid to be angry about but it's also pretty stupid to do in the first place.
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by soiler 3y ago
> I think tech companies are (very) net positive for society There are certainly huge positives, but do you really feel something like Facebook is a net positive? Facebook, which intentionally stoke(d/s) genocide? Genocides have e
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by soiler 3y ago
> Personally, I'd say that at least Google's Android department is currently headless and has no idea what the users want. The clock change, while minor, really put the nail in the coffin for me. I have very little optimism for
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by soiler 3y ago
Well there you go. You don't believe that an AI expressing dangerous ideas represents danger, and you don't believe that astronomical increases in AI abilities represent the advent of AGI. The latter opinion is... well, an opinion
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by soiler 3y ago
Would it be innocuous of me o say that because we disagreed on something, you are a bad person? To say that I'm prepared to combat and destroy you to protect my worldview ? To say you are not human ? You might say, "Of course it
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by soiler 3y ago
I feel the exact opposite is true. To me it's lazy to say that AGI can't be a threat simply because current AI has not harmed us yet (which is not even true, but that's another thread). I think you've misunderstood my ar
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by soiler 3y ago
> Its reproducing human text, which is "blatantly misaligned". Go on any twitter thread on some reasonably controversial topic and you will find people telling others to kill themselves. Humans are writing this, so models who a
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by soiler 3y ago
I would not consider a scheduled physical/social/emotional activity to be a distraction. Is eating lunch a distraction? Is sleeping a distraction? If anything, I think Avicenna supports the value of reducing distraction.
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by soiler 3y ago
> We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today. When my team gets crunched, it's not usually because we can't write the code fast enough. It's because
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by soiler 3y ago
> have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be and potentially move away from their ecosystem I mean, any company can become hostile to a large portion of its userbase. Most are. Microsoft alre
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by soiler 3y ago
That is a significant part of it, but there's more to the problem. Consider the simple task of looking up the definition of a word that you've been pondering. In pre-internet times, you'd physically have to move your body tow
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by soiler 3y ago
It's not just you - it's a depressingly common thread. It's also wildly foolish, in my opinion. It makes absolutely no sense to me to take a snapshot of today's AI and invent a trajectory that never crosses a threshold y
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by soiler 3y ago
But long after the taming of horses, the invention of roadways and carts, and the proliferation of dense urban areas. "International" trade has surely always existed - we know people far from the sea decorated their bodies with co
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by soiler 4y ago
> Neither have the concerns from AI alignment folk. Uh, yeah. We wouldn't be having these discussions if they had. There is no reason whatsoever to assume AI alignment is just going to work itself out. Sure, it's possible, but
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by soiler 4y ago
Turns off 1% of potential users, attracts 10%. Net win.
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by soiler 4y ago
I mean, I generally trust Mozilla + Mullvad a lot more than Spectrum. The only reason Spectrum wouldn't be selling or otherwise mishandling every bit of data about me they can is if they're too incompetent to realize they have the
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by soiler 4y ago
I don't think working in a meat-packing plant is comparable to being used by influencer parents, but that doesn't mean the latter is small potatoes. They're very different situations.
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by soiler 4y ago
The common criticisms of Signal to me often come down to letting perfect be the enemy of good. Yes, I want a perfectly secure and private messaging app, but Signal is an incredibly important stepping stone in that direction. It's movin
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by soiler 4y ago
> But then who is Signal for? Yes, it has E2EE encryption, but who cares about that other than us orangey types? Although I think people like us (?) were some of the original proponents of Signal, and it could never have spread without u
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by soiler 4y ago
The implication of your take is that we should exploit children as much as possible because it might pay off big, as long as we don't cross the line into "worst childhood of all time".
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by soiler 4y ago
Huh, I've been happy with Namecheap for a few years now. But I never looked that hard.
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by soiler 4y ago
Please do elaborate for a non-biologist - how and when is DNA sequencing worse at phylogenetic grouping than physiology? I had assumed the latter was embarrassingly outdated and easily duped (by convergent evolution, etc)
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by soiler 4y ago
Which services do you use specifically?

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