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I think that would work better in The Animatrix; putting it in 3 would be a tonal shift, plus a sudden human victory would feel a bit Mary Sue or Deus Ex (ironically) Machina to me…

The point is to give you empathy for those you disagree with here.

> But this is an unquestionably good thing right?. The more open source software out there the better. I say no to both. Of the things we've made on purpose, but excluding where we…

May be high up the list, but there's purer evil even than that. Even if he is openly courting a Bond villain image and talking up his "robot army".

I'd also argue React is on the "harm" side. :P

Communication is not a one-player game. For example, if I was being pedantic: > nobody seems to care about using the right words in only this context. "nobody" would include you. A…

Still say Matrix 3 would have been better if the cliffhanger at the end of 2 had been that "the real world" was just another nested layer of the Matrix for those who rejected the p…

> The WFH aficionados that emerged during Covid had no concept of bargain power or power structures. IMO the wrong thing to point at. How many of us have ever, even before Covid, b…

> guy Summer Yue, she. > Metaverse Zuckerberg may indeed be hiring people who are less than the best, same for Musk, but the people they hire are making the UX that the rest of us …

If the director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs gets it wrong, what hope does anyone else have?

> Writing code is not hard. Writing correct code is. Knowing what is correct in a setting with paying customers generally involves interacting with those customers. Invoice: $1000 …

As a first order approximation perhaps; but consider false positives vs false negatives, and that "3% worse outcomes" has many possible measures, e.g. 3% of cases going catastrophi…

Seems to me like you're being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. Economics (/ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks, ˌiːkə-/)[1][2] is a social science that studies the production, distribution, an…

> Get paid enough by who and for what reason? By their customers, for doing the same thing they'd been doing for much of their working lives up to this point. > Do they realize tha…

LLMs can build their own code or close enough, and are used for AI work directly (both from what METR study shows and from reports I've read from the bigger companies themselves), …

I consider that implicit in what I wrote, perhaps explicit given I wrote about LLMs writing AI. My surprise was the ordering.

They want to get paid enough to pay human models. Stops being "other people's money" once they get paid.

Your list is the "from" part, UBI could be the "to" depending on how people choose to live when they don't need to work.

> If you mean UBI that would allow anyone to stop working and live a modest life, that just doesn't work. UBI is essentially redistribution from those who work to those who don't w…

I remember that. It was export banned, wasn't it? A gigaflop being enough for a cruise missile visual guidance or something like that?

"Normal tech" puts people out of careers every so often, and kinda randomly. Society has benefited as everyone who isn't put out of a job significantly outnumbers those who are. I …

(2024) Rewatching clips of old Star Trek the next generation, I find that the debates haven't really changed since Pulaski was accusing Data of having simply memorised Sherlock Hol…

It remains unclear to me if anyone funding new models will actually benefit economically from having funded these models. I think is possible that these models can *culturally*(/me…

Transistors can be used to amplify signals, they are not limited to acting as binary switches. If you use analog rather than digital, using transistors in this way means you can re…

> whereas fossil fuel infrastructure is built in places you'd never go to voluntarily. IMO that's the consequence, not the cause, of the infrastructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…