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It's one of the biggest games in the world, so I can see the appeal of targeting Minecraft players, especially since a lot of them are children and don't know what's going on. I ch…

This is my take too. If we knew then what we know now, we'd probably make different choices.

But then how would you loan out all your customers money to your shell companies?

I remember fondly participating in the hype around crypto in 2017 and going in on btc/eth and also building a mining rig etc. The discourse on HN back then is quite different from …

I'm with you on this one. It was a solid argument in 2017, but even by 2018 the writing was on the wall for crypto. John Oliver recently did another segment on crypto and he absolu…

It feels like we're at the pareto frontier. Technological advancement used to feel like it truly was progress, but we're now at a point where advancement is simply advancement, and…

This feels like the correct take to me.

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> What's "bad" enough to get a user banned from _all_ of Reddit? explicit deepfakes

What's super confusing is people on r/LocalLLaMA often just refer too it as "ooba". The actual repo is https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui and you notice that oobabo…

That's humans for you.

>If we refused to advance out of fear, that fear will have done far more harm than access to AI will ever do. Like anyone could ever know that.

Also people should know RT == Russian Propaganda

If you define it like that, it's just the internet.

We're all research professionals now.

An absolutely huge part of it for humans is that as the complexity of the thing being reasoned about grows, the accuracy of the mental models declines. That and we also train billi…

This is crazy cool. This would be epic as an extension for text-generation-webui, so that we can run it with local LLMs!

At the risk of repeating classic HN Dropbox hubris... this just looks like what Automatic1111 + ControlNet is already doing.

>So it is with any technological innovation. Should computers not have been invented because they eliminated jobs? Should steel? What about agriculture? The future is sure to be di…

It's a fantastic interview. To clarify, his position boils down to something like "the risk is very real, the chance the risk materializes is quite significant, it's not a foregone…

>Do you have a counterexample of someone who's gotten their predictions right? Because if not, that should only terrify you even more. If there's anyone out there who predicted how…

After watching virtually every long-form interview of AI experts I noticed they each have some glaring holes in their mental models of reality. If even the experts are suffering fr…

>I used to be worried about AI alignment, until I realized something fundamental: We already have unaligned human-level artificial intelligences running around, we call them corpor…

I have noticed through reading a lot of discussions online and watching a lot of long-form interviews on YouTube that there is quite a wide variety of working definitions that indi…

Didn't know about this. Looks promising!