yannyu

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by yannyu 5mo ago
If AI has a survival instinct, then we should theoretically see evidence of it if we construct the right environment for AI to express it. Animals and cellular organisms demonstrate a survival instinct under the right conditions, so we woul
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by yannyu 7mo ago
If an active shooter is the anticipated threat, how does a turnstile effectively stop that? Many of these turnstiles are specifically meant to allow people through in emergencies, and aren't strong enough to withstand bullets or even a
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by yannyu 7mo ago
I think you're right, but I also think it's worthwhile to look at Edward Bernays in the early 1900s and his specific influence on how companies and governments to this day shape deliberately shape public opinion in their favor. Th
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by yannyu 8mo ago
Did you read the article you cited or are you just evaluating the snapshot of numbers? > WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-four percent of Americans say they are “very satisfied” with the way things are going in their personal life, the lowest b
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by yannyu 8mo ago
Learning is effortful. People can travel and not learn anything, but people can not learn from many things they should learn from. Travel is something you can learn from no matter where you go, but you typically have to put in the effort.
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by yannyu 8mo ago
This is an interesting idea, I think clickbait titles are one of many problems with our engagement-based social media tools today. For the sake of experimentation and transparency, here's the suggested titles from ChatGPT 4. They seem
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by yannyu 9mo ago
Sure, it worked and then it stopped working. Upvotes, reviews, social media, and word-of-mouth have been co-opted by advertising and marketing.
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by yannyu 9mo ago
Or maybe companies turned products that were one-time purchases into monthly subscriptions. Or companies made it incredibly hard to cancel monthly subscriptions. Or companies will continue to charge and auto-renew us even when we clearl
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by yannyu 9mo ago
One thing I don't understand in these conversations is why we're treating LLMs as if they are completely interchangeable with chatbots/assistants. A car is not just an engine, it's a drivetrain, a transmission, wheels, s
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by yannyu 9mo ago
> If the only tactic the police knew was to pull over every Infiniti with tinted windows and no plates, the crime rate would drop to zero. Then the question is, why don't they do that? Why do we need a surveillance state to enable p
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by yannyu 9mo ago
Well, then we should judge the ideas on their own merits. And it's also not a great idea. It's a shallow, post-hoc, mystic rationalization that ignores all the work in multiple fields that actually converged to get us to this poin
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by yannyu 9mo ago
I think it's even more pernicious than the paper describes as cultural outputs, art, and writing aren't done to solve a problem, they're expressions that don't have a pure utility purpose. There's no "final for
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by yannyu 9mo ago
Ah, that's helpful and something for me to learn more about. Thanks for the info.
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by yannyu 9mo ago
I've thought about this a lot as I see more and more reckless driving in the areas I live in. Surveillance is generally a net negative, but it's also bad when you see people speeding around schools, rolling through stop signs, and
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by yannyu 9mo ago
Why would someone in an Idaho suburb care about how Manhattan manages its congestion pricing? Why is this national news? Everything you're saying has zero impact on 93-97% of the US population (New York State is 6% of the US population
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by yannyu 9mo ago
> The last time the world had multi-polarity, we had far more wars. Including the worst wars the world has ever seen. Citations? Simply saying that World War 1 happened during a time of multi-polarity is just begging the question. Multi-
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by yannyu 9mo ago
This is just "might makes right" but modern. I don't know that this is the consistent, wide-held belief that you seem to think it is. Plenty of people would rather our governments not engage in clandestine disruption and unde
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by yannyu 9mo ago
It's a chicken and egg issue. We don't build dense, mixed-use housing and commercial, we don't build transit. There's no way to live a Tokyo-like lifestyle in 95% of California. And the places where you can are often exo
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by yannyu 9mo ago
> They know that congestion pricing coming to their city would hurt them in very real ways. But why should they even care to begin with? Just because the news and media made them aware of congestion pricing? This is the whole problem, th
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by yannyu 9mo ago
Two things can be true: 1) I wish we had better rail transit in the bay area and to the areas surrounding the bay 2) I have to own a car to get to places in Northern California These don't seem like remotely contradictory positions.
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by yannyu 9mo ago
And that's exactly the point, it increases engagement and stickiness, which they found through testing. They're trying to make the most addictive tool and that constant praise fulfills that goal, even as many of us say it's a
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by yannyu 9mo ago
I think there's a lot of utility to current AI tools, but it's also clear we're in a very unsettled phase of this technology. We likely won't see for years where the technology lands in terms of capability or the changes
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by yannyu 9mo ago
I agree entirely, and I think it's worthwhile to note that it may not even be the LLM that has that behavior. It's the entire deterministic machinery between the user and the LLM that creates that behavior, with the system prompt,
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by yannyu 9mo ago
It's not just the pretraining, it's the entire scaffolding between the user and the LLM itself that contributes to the illusion. How many people would continue assuming that these chatbots were conscious or intelligent if they had
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by yannyu 9mo ago
I agree 100%. Most people haven't actually interacted directly with an LLM before. Most people's experience with LLMs is ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or any of the other tools that automatically handle context, memory, personality, temp
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by yannyu 9mo ago
There's no definition of thinking that isn't a purely internal phenomenon, which means that there's no way to point a diagnostic device at someone and determine whether they're thinking. The only way to determine whether
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by yannyu 10mo ago
Innovator's dilemma. Leadership won't invest in the up-and-coming product because they've got a $1 billion revenue target they need to hit this year. Funnily, Netflix is a common case study on how to transition past the dilem
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by yannyu 10mo ago
I think there's some significant evidence that "users" of the private healthcare industry are actually quite unhappy about it. Due to some structural quirks of the US, it seems like it's less about how many people are ha
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by yannyu 10mo ago
The article takes this on a couple times: > The outcome is $4.9T - which would make it the 3rd largest economy in the world, a high 8% admin costs - compared to the UK’s 2% admin, with medical bankruptcy still possible. We’ve never agree
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by yannyu 10mo ago
In the current setup, having enough money protects you from the laws of the country and the judgment of others. Thiel is rich enough and therefore powerful enough that these culture wars will never personally affect him or anyone he cares a

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