tehjoker

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by tehjoker 4d ago
I think that’s very reasonable but the ai companies are intentionally training them to work on harder and harder problems just beyond their capability. So if they do that, they’ll give up too easily. Do a breakthrough, make no mistakes
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by tehjoker 4d ago
If a human doesn't understand the proof, it might be useful for certain kinds of engineering, but not really that useful for mathematics except as an existence test.
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by tehjoker 5d ago
They usually don't, but if they break out and take over the network of the company, it becomes possible to reach around and grab them. This kind of break out has happened, though I don't know of any weights being nabbed.
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by tehjoker 7d ago
What do you mean by this?
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by tehjoker 9d ago
Where did the binaries come from? Did Iran release them?
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by tehjoker 9d ago
This is not entirely true, you are costing them in the short run, but are growing your dependence on their product and feeding them training data. Their goal is to create AGI and replace humans with something resembling the plot of Horizon
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by tehjoker 9d ago
It’s deeper than that, the people running these companies have their goal as human extinction due to a quasi religious mania (TESCREAL). I wish I were joking. Look it up.
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by tehjoker 11d ago
very interesting perspective, i remember reading thyucledies and he complains about how historians before him would report the first tale they heard, by comparison he worked dilligently to confirm his history (though since he was inventing
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by tehjoker 11d ago
what about the bible? the most printed book of that era
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by tehjoker 14d ago
Thank you Mayor Mamdani and the DSA. This is a major win for keeping children from losing their minds, retaining education quality, and promoting socialization.
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by tehjoker 17d ago
in a way you could criticize them as being idealist instead of materialist. like you said they think ideas are more important than material substrates. most of the time brilliant human ideas are arrived at near simultaneously by multiple pe
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by tehjoker 18d ago
pangram says 100% the first paragraph is ai
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by tehjoker 19d ago
this is literally just liberal capitalist ideology
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by tehjoker 20d ago
gates says if he could slow it down he would but the economic and geopolitical aspects are pushing too hard. the china thing is fake, and the developing is taking over a trillion dollars. it could easily be shut off
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by tehjoker 1mo ago
That feels more right to me. Maybe inning 8 on money/hype.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
That's because they fucked up. I don't know where you've been but we have been dominating oil markets since the end of WW2. The dollar is sometimes called the "petrodollar" because we shifted from a gold basis to a
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
in the case of airplanes the only thing thats the private market is the planes and the ticket, the entire system of airports, safety, navigation is state subsidized and when the market fails it gets bailed out. the oil is subsidized by cons
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Dropsite news is good, but are you familiar with manufacturing consent’s propaganda model of the mass media? A simplified explanation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M&ra=m
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Pro-US slop. The greatest threat is our own government. They are the ones with a right-wing government building a repressive apparatus across a huge number of datacenters and are proven to spy on the entire world. Anyone remember the Snowde
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
NSA probably read and stored a highly significant fraction of those emails.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
The real story here is that prediction markets were banned for a reason and loosening the rules is causing chaos just as was expected. AI plays little role in this story, hacking by humans would also be motivated by financial returns, unles
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Whether or not this is really true or just US propaganda, the majority of technology transfer has occurred through the open process of requiring US companies to form partnerships and disclose know-how to access the chinese market. This stuf
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
It makes me feel a little crazy seeing the constitutional architecture post-civil war used to diffuse responsibility away from the federal government and divide the people against each other working in action. People act like this isn'
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
This is kind of a strange take. Local taxes are for petty but useful stuff because the sovereignty of your locality is heavily circumscribed by state and national authorities. That means the real budgetary decisions made about the future of
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Books are generally far higher quality texts too. The really good articles get republished as books, think about that.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
That's true, but I still benefit from the games being played. It also weakens the oligarchs slightly by reducing their margins. It's also worth remembering that the laws were written by the oligarchs.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
We have the laws, but I don't have to feel outraged when regular people undercut the oligarchs and those people's interests align with my own.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Generally speaking, companies retaining a competitive advantage with each other is good for their investors but bad for the public. It's usually to the public's benefit for employees to share knowledge, it makes goods and services
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Worth noting that it is the Europeans and Americans that have been colonial. Asian peoples have, with the prominent exception of the Mongols and Japanese Empire, pretty much not done that. In particular, China shut down its exploration prog
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
This is a just so story. The main issue today is the lack of democracy in the country and the use of technology to surveil and govern a restive population as the government has less and less legitimacy. The narrative you are telling is the

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