swed420

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by swed420 4d ago
> are slaves to a misaligned reward function that encourages optimization of a metric (profit) over human values, even at what they claim is the risk of extinction This was already the case even before the "frontier AI" age. Th
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by swed420 4d ago
> They are still liable for its actions and the OAI board should be charged with a felony/felonies for this. You're right in theory, but in practice this hasn't been the case, at least so far.
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by swed420 5d ago
They just need plausible deniability, which is trivial to manufacture at this stage of the game. "Oops our black box went off the rails. We'll add better logging and alerts next time around."
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by swed420 5d ago
> It's probably lot more efficient to actually openly embrace shorter work hours This bill proposes that: https://www.newsweek.com/new-bill-32-hour-work-week-how-it-w...
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by swed420 6d ago
> It is way cheaper long term. Plus the collection can be inherited by somebody later. If they don't want it, it could be re-sold at second-hand prices.
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by swed420 6d ago
For some people it might be hard to tell or may even be non existent in their sphere of it. But if it's blanket rejecting certain signups based on identity, that suggests the company is interested in censorship and echo chambers, which
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by swed420 6d ago
> that doesn't want this to be a big story That's a bipartisan sentiment as far as politicians are concerned. They pass it around like a hot potato and give it brief lip service only when it suits them.
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by swed420 6d ago
Anything to distract from class politics. It seems to have worked. (certain strains of feminism do acknowledge the relevance of class variables, but the mainstream ones avoid it like the plague)
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by swed420 6d ago
Your experience resonates. This gives me a ray of hope, if a bold enough group of people are willing to give it a shot: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
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by swed420 6d ago
The problem with X is it forces you to hand over personal information to sign up, and even then many have said it leaves them in a "we're having difficulties" loop. It might be a fair trade if this exchange of info helped the
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by swed420 6d ago
> Deep pockets + simple control = perfect culture to just hire talent and let them go wild without worrying about financial viability, as long as the king CEO is fine with it that is To expand, he also has knowledge and hands-on experien
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by swed420 8d ago
My goal was to share complex things I've learned through IRL experience, and explain them in detail. Unfortunately in my case, I can't justify the distilling/production time sink unless there is some kind of monetary incentiv
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by swed420 8d ago
I need at least some form of income to make it worthwhile, though. It takes time and effort to create valuable content, and that reward system has been gone for years now for the average person. Just isn't worth it.
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by swed420 8d ago
In recent years I've thought about making blogs, videos, etc to share knowledge, but the incentive is just no longer there. Even before AI, youtube/web search/etc had plenty of problems, and now they're compounded.
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by swed420 9d ago
It's probably the mozilla ceo
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by swed420 9d ago
> Again, I understand all the arguments for why at this particular time they feel that they cannot afford the energy expense required need to run a community. First-hand, actually, because I am involved with running a very large one myse
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by swed420 9d ago
> This is like suggesting fruit and veg could outcompete heroin. No it's not. > You can't entice users to a better social network when their addiction to the old one has been engineered to near perfection. Sure, not with tha
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by swed420 9d ago
When we have a captured government and unaccountable corporations like we do, it seems like the best route is to compete with them via carefully designed not-for-profit products which contain strictly good features and none of the enshitt
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by swed420 9d ago
> Who would have thought we’d see the U.S. start imitating Russia in more and more ways like this? Adam Curtis saw it coming a long time ago.
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by swed420 9d ago
> you need to act on the regulatory level This. Otherwise it's just a fruitless game of whac-a-mole as new reptiles inevitably step up to sustain the profit opportunity.
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by swed420 9d ago
But the previous administration denying a fair primary process gave us the present one due to forcing an unpopular candidate. They collude with each other so much that they're effectively one party. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by swed420 10d ago
> The masses will never use HN That's a feature I'm thankful for. > they are control freaks over speech - they don’t let people share their opinions and they are too ban happy. I constantly shit on capital interests here, an
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by swed420 11d ago
The discussion above is in the context of presidents and presidential candidates. So far, zero progressives have been allowed to enter that race without being sabotaged by the party, to their own detriment. That's the party's self
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by swed420 11d ago
Bernie ran under the Dem party, even though every corpo-Dem made sure to point out that he wasn't a Dem. To most people, that's a feature. Your loss though for blindly supporting the party that sabotaged their best candidate. Ther
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by swed420 11d ago
> both sides Your type has only one line, don't you? Tell you what, the next time somebody like Bernie Sanders comes along, don't stab him in the back a thousand times. Then you might actually have a chance at beating that game
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by swed420 11d ago
Student loan forgiveness is DOA since it fails to target the root problem: inflated tuition prices. As for unions, ask the average union member what they thought of Biden's presidency. Clearly you weren't paying attention when the
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by swed420 11d ago
> People bring up "strict vegan diets" to sabotage climate action. They also tend to use polarizing identity politics that vilify all men, or all old people, or all white people, etc, even though most of those groups are suffer
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by swed420 11d ago
> arguing about this is gonna be fruitless because it’s all subjective, there’s no hard numbers for any of it I was just genuinely curious what somebody with your set of opinions has in mind for a time frame, because "1/100th t
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by swed420 11d ago
Out of curiosity, how far back is this?
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by swed420 11d ago
> The difference now is the openness and also the scale. Yes, we just need to go back to the good ol' days of corruption with decorum

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