willmarch

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by willmarch 7d ago
How does punishing someone make crashes better? I would rather have fewer crashes because of a system that can't be punished than more crashes with punishment. Being able to punish someone doesn't change the fact that a crash happ
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by willmarch 10d ago
I was about to write the exact same sentiment. The desperation of AI denialists/skeptics/doomers on HN generally (and in this thread specifically) have reached toxic levels of delusion. They are still stuck in the denial/ange
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by willmarch 11d ago
Based on how humans grappled with these exact same questions (and still do) concerning other animals much closer to humans on the sentient gradient, it’s fair to assume we will have similar misunderstandings in regards to artificial intelli
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by willmarch 12d ago
Why?
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by willmarch 14d ago
But can you imagine it going right?
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by willmarch 14d ago
Wouldn't they just send another robot to fix or replace it?
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Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries(pen.org)
1 points by willmarch 15d ago|0 comments
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by willmarch 21d ago
This would only make sense if there are a finite number of possible jobs and that more jobs are never added as an economy grows.
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by willmarch 21d ago
Aren't humans black boxes? Aren't humans prediction algorithms? How do we align humans?
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by willmarch 22d ago
Disappointing to say the least.
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by willmarch 23d ago
I think we might be using the term "stress" in different ways. This paper makes a distinction between direct operational strain and harm created by governments' responses (like adding fees, procedural barriers, and other type
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by willmarch 23d ago
I decided to read the report this is article is referring to. The report is estimating improper payments which is basically just missing paperwork and other types of payment errors. The report says explicitly that it is not measuring fraud
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by willmarch 23d ago
That can’t possibly be true since I’ve read audit reports on public benefits
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by willmarch 23d ago
Is there any evidence that this is actually a real worry? Don’t audits usually find that vast majority of benefits are valid and correctly applied?
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by willmarch 26d ago
Isn't thinking in images (visualizing non-verbally) also dealing entirely in symbols?
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by willmarch 26d ago
Because your situation can randomly and dramatically change for the worse and one day you might be the one in dire need through no fault of your own…
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by willmarch 1mo ago
Ask Edison about the light bulb
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by willmarch 2mo ago
I think your criticisms are mostly fair but I think most tech people are aware of the potential downsides but ask themselves, "what is the alternative course?" We stay the same? We accept some amount of harm, disease, and want as
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by willmarch 2mo ago
Why would being "100% safe and all diseases are solved and we have endless surplus" be abhorrent to you?
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by willmarch 2mo ago
This line of reasoning heavily discounts, or ignores entirely, complex emergent properties that can arise from simple rules in large systems (the actions of an ant colony being a good example).
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Cisco launches super affordable security language model called Antares(neowin.net)
3 points by willmarch 2mo ago|0 comments
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by willmarch 2mo ago
http://archive.today/hIFIC
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by willmarch 2mo ago
For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.
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AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees(jpost.com)
16 points by willmarch 2mo ago|3 comments
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Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program(openai.com)
2 points by willmarch 2mo ago|0 comments
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by willmarch 2mo ago
Yeah, I don't know why this is being upvoted.
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Why Teens Deserve Access to Safe AI(openai.com)
3 points by willmarch 2mo ago|0 comments
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by willmarch 2mo ago
You don’t have to self censor to appease others
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People Can't Identify AI Poetry, but Enjoy It Less When Told It's by an AI(academic.oup.com)
1 points by willmarch 2mo ago|2 comments
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by willmarch 2mo ago
I think any reasonable person would come to the conclusion it meant for you to chill your hands in ice water.

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