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Really, many jokes of this nature have to be signalled out-of-band somehow due to Poe's law (particularly applicable in this case). I wouldn't be surprised if a non-negligible numb…

Forced to find the courage or die trying to. And I really doubt that knowledge that their despot will eventually die has much effect on people's motivation to rebel as in most case…

For a utopia to exist, everything has to go right. Dystopias are almost all modelled on some existing facet of human behaviour. Naturally one state is unstable as it requires pract…

With some technologies, the negatives are so severe it is difficult to see how they outweigh the positives. Mind-control technology is quite frankly just asking to be abused. It's …

Why not just add 'mind control' while you're at it. Only death stops stagnation in the end. Without death, especially if death can be avoided by the rich and powerful but not the p…

Politicians have control over their power. Programmers don't. Compare with how politicians never vote to reduce their income.

Embrace the inner Cormac McCarthy in you and abandon punctuation altogether

Look carefully at the portion of derac's comment that was quoted. > I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world. Does …

> I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world. There will be people benefiting from advances in these fields. Neither …

Oh no, now I'd better blame Hitler and Stalin's ancestors for their misdeeds. Of course, the SS soldier bears no responsibility, however, as he was just doing his job.

> Literally the only important thing in life, the basis of all value, the formation of self-identity, comes from communication with other human beings. I think you're mistaking the…

Could the student really not infer the meanings of those words from context? I don't think Burgess expected his readers to have a working knowledge of Russian.

TFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.

And die in large numbers, yes.

> providers do not want power-seeking LLMs Sure they don't. > do you think training a power-seeking ASI is a good idea? Do you really think that the major AI firms think this is a …

They mistook you for the author of the original post (abirch). A little ironic for a comment regarding focused analysis of what someone has written.

It's reddit. The average intelligence of reddit users has been progressing downwards since 2010 or so with major drops in 2016 and 2020. Most users are clueless teenagers who haven…

Wow, I can't wait to live in a world where nobody knows how anything works, some people are arbitrarily rich and some arbitrarily poor with no ability to change their standing in l…

I can't help but think that this is intentional and that model providers have subtly steered LLMs towards this personality. Golden Gate Claude ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/gold…

Well, countries that limit the wealthy from leaving have never done particularly well for themselves. This has been the case historically, at least. Whether this has been due to th…

> We've developed a technology that with active critical analysis this can teach one practically anything. While I would love to share your optimism, if AI continues improving at i…

That's good to hear about ML and AI research, but most research is not based on computers and so would require laboratory setups to reproduce. Not only is trying to reproduce such …

> My hope is that the flood of AI articles pushes the academic publication system to its highly-anticipated breaking point. This will just make research inaccessible to most resear…

> i felt more welcome in china Are you white? Try being non-white. Chinese people, and most Asians - yes, the entire continent, or at least most of it - are deferent to white peopl…

Unless reviewing becomes more profitable than publishing, anything that makes both easier will drive one up far more than the other. And it is difficult to conceive of something th…