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Very happy not just with the polity but that they call the tech LLM instead of using nebulous marketing buzzwords.

> Claude did its best to comply with what Joe asked it to do I don't like this anthropomorphization. The model generated output as an extrapolation of the input - garbage in, garba…

Steve Jobs motivated Larry Kenyon, the engineer working on bootup, by saying he is effectively saving lives. I wonder if we reverse that. When engineers write shitty, slow, buggy c…

My colleague organizes workshops for gifted teenagers interested in tech/science in Europe. He often asks them if they want to go study abroad. A few years back, most of them would…

The vile thing is that people work for a company and make it a lot more money than they end up receiving and then the owners of the company go and use the remaining money against t…

It depends a lot on the country. Pretty sure most/all have more than 2 viable parties. Still sucks because usually you can only vote for one party so it still leads to strategic vo…

I hoped that would be possible but wasn't sure, thanks.

I hate that social factors like popularity are a thing in technical decisions. I have not used mercurial (though heard good things about it) but I saw a similar thing play out in R…

As an European, the biggest issue with US politics I see is that you only have 2 parties. It makes no sense. As a voter, you can only express a binary choice and whatever you choos…

I agree and we need to talk about specific things if we have any chance of turning ideas into change. The issue is these are complex topics not suited for a discussion platform whe…

See, with a plane, you get to choose which one you board. And the pilot is not a random guy from the street with no education or at best a completely unrelated degree. And he's pro…

And that's why we need more direct democracy. People (correctly) feel like they have very little power over laws which affect them day to day. If someone represents me, then logica…

Surely the deal is beneficial for both sides. For OpenAI because they get a lot of money and and for the government because they can keep tabs on how people use LLMs to make sure t…

Then perhaps their signalling isn't meant for you but for people who have to pay those pesky expensive intelligent people like translators, programmers, designers and writers. Thos…

Discussions about this topic need to separate "AI" and aAI. - "AI" is a tool which workers use - usually to produce outputs of the same or lower quality faster. It needs a human to…

Observations: 1) Only law can fix this. Anybody (looking at you ancaps) telling you "if you don't like it, start a competitor" doesn't understand how the economy and network effect…

This just shows you can be right, you can have convincing arguments for why you're right but unless people listen, you will not change anything. I wonder how Winner feels about all…

> when they feel like No, when they can get away with it. When the pros for them outweigh the cons. And every person affects that calculation in some small way - by their tolerance…

That's defeatist, although certainly what they'd like. The world is not the US. Even if NSA captured and logged all internet traffic, they'd still only get a fraction of the inform…

Exactly. This is what people don't seem to get. LLMs ("AI") are not a tool for us. They are a tool for the owner class and a replacement for us.

Up until ~2 weeks ago, I believed that at least opting out of data collection would protect me. I no longer do. Everyone knows that fines paid by companies (instead of the people m…

I assure you they cannot pierce that veil if one has a modicum of competence. One uni in my country has been getting bomb threats during the exam period every year for multiple yea…

Why are they so hungry for data? If it's so intelligent, why does it need to learn by imitation so much? It feels almost like "AI" can't be built without trillions of hours of huma…

Look, I hate injustice more than most people and I have no issue saying that there are people who spend their entire lives getting richer and more connected at everyone else's expe…

Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence, please...