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Marha01

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    Comment #49205966

    How is asking better than a reasoning slider?

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    Comment #49205934

    > Because I guarantee I can produce dozens of PRs daily, each having tens of thousands of LoC deltas (pick any language you desire), none of which having research and/or understand…

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    Comment #49192538

    >This list smells of so much tech bro “I can do better than the people that have been working in the field for 20 years” egotistical attitude that permeates silicon valley. Well, t…

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    Comment #49192525

    Perhaps consider the scale of good.

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    Comment #49192475

    It can indeed feel perverse, but we have to do what is realistic, not what is unrealistic, especially with climate change where we are on a clock. Fixing our politics is probably m…

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    Comment #49187708

    > As you said, Solar power is incredibly economical. Not if you include the cost of needed storage.

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    Comment #49187692

    Not enough. The more economical it is, the better.

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    Comment #49187669

    > The solution to most of these problems lies in policy, not in new tech advancements. That is not mutually exclusive. If technological advances result in a given technology becomi…

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    Comment #49164432

    I highly doubt that.

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    Comment #49164429

    > Why would someone give me a car in exchange for UBI-scrip when that UBI-scrip has no inherent scarcity or value and can be produced in infinite supply by the government ? UBI scr…

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    Comment #49161291

    > What is step 3? "Massive Economic Abundance" implies massive increase in produced goods. This implies massive deflation, ceteris paribus. So step 3 could be simply printing money…

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    Comment #49161177

    > remember that gpt 4o was popular among those who had ai as a romantic partner I suspect GPT 5.6 would be even better at it, if given the same sycophantic system prompt and lack o…

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    Comment #49143433

    > What are the positive applications? Generating large training video datasets for robotics is going to be huge. Google used generative AI to make training data for self-driving ca…

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    Comment #49122072

    Just because a robot is taking care of the chores does not mean that they have no relatives that visit them. And if they truly have no relatives that visit, then a clanker is bette…

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    Comment #49119202

    Why not? A recording from a robot can be potentially viewed by a real human, if the company is not reputable (happened with robotic vacuums). But by default, no humans will view it…

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    Comment #49119082

    > Robots will not magically produce more land. What they will do is that the ones with the capital to buy many robots will be able to use those robots to then buy up all the land a…

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    Comment #49119012

    I did not say economics goes out of the window, I said monetary economics. With cheap robotic labor, many resource mines that are currently not economically viable will become viab…

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    Comment #49112887

    You are missing the point: robotic labor does not create anything "at the expense of the rest of us". It's not some stock market speculation, but real productivity increase. The pi…

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    Comment #49112428

    > I suspect these things will be only available to the already-quite-wealthy. Initially, sure. But the price will come down in time, just like with any other technology in history.…

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    Comment #49112359

    Tell me you are not an introvert without telling me... I don't want a person I barely know regularly going all over my apartment. What if they discover... nevermind. A robot, on th…

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    Comment #49111889

    > Weren't we just saying money was gonna be obsolete? Land is an inherently limited resource, so some kind of money might still exist for that, even after the singularity. The poin…

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    Comment #49110907

    Catching a murderer is much, *much* easier than catching someone using a modern AI model to generate code, especially if they actually read it and fix occasional LLMisms, and not j…

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    Comment #49110744

    > So, the plan is that AI companies will steal the mines and land from their current owners? Like, you plan to use those robots to beat up the owners and take their stuff? What? Wh…

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    Comment #49110449

    Robots can mine minerals and build power plants. They can also perform work with the aim to earn money to buy more land.

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    Comment #49110417

    > You are severely underestimating how much free stuff would 349,163,268 of American citizens need to make a small difference. You don't need to persuade all of them. > To achieve …