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Oh, that's lovely. So, if you don't know what the cause is, you can't really say you've mitigated it, can you? C'mere, I wanna honk your big red nose.

Recontextualized: *A person who chooses a career centered around the use of force is more likely to use force in their personal life*. Ahdunno, where's the lie?

out of curiosity - what scheme do you suggest? I've always been of the mind that 'one thing to remember and secure, but secure it well' was the best option - 2factor and a 15+chara…

I'm with you on the uninformed / confident vector in general , but you do seem fairly level-headed so I still want your take on the question: what do we do about it ? How do we app…

Real question; what are we supposed to do about that information delay when it directly enables corruption and usury? This is an ongoing issue with historical precedent; the repeal…

"Assessing effects of rent control on wealth is hard, so we threw most of that out and just used housing prices. Also, we're fairly sure that our results are good because there was…

Right - it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. For one, "not a citizen" is a pretty hard bar to assess online. For another, "citizen" isn't very meaningful here. Many national security in…

Bit of a doozie though, that one. I recall getting really excited over hinton's FF foray, right before he bailed on AI as a societal direction (which, if anyone ever had the right,…

Genuinely curious - who do you think the targeted people are and how would this keep them out?

> Perhaps the US administration is gambling that US citizens on their own provide enough of a training data and revenue flywheel for them to keep their AI development edge. There i…

Perhaps a little tinfoil hat, but I don't think there's a legitimate concern here to address. An empowered populace is antithetical to the current political paradigm, which is what…

Dumb astroturf grok bot is dumb. Don't feed the trolls.

It's not a training problem, it's an incentive problem. You put these guys in a structure that requires them to justify their jobs at minimal cost of effort and then ooh ack surpri…

I think I see where we're coming at this from different angles. If you're going by the numbers and the 'strength of the state' - then yeah, we're doing great. However, neither I no…

all fair points - but what strengths? We've proven ourselves incapable of the most basic social goods for decades now. All the metrics that you might point to as "hey the US is doi…

Isn't flock's whole thing that they extract information from the pictures they have? Like, say I have an interview in your office and you step out for coffee. I take a picture of t…

Both are good sources of energy. If you're going to make the argument that "nuclear is unsafe so we shouldn't do it" though, it's relevant to keep in mind that since we've had nucl…

I'm not going to go to bat for Mao(1), but I think you're underplaying the body count that capitalist countries have had - this is kind of easy to do because a lot of the damage th…

>> trust in the ideas and people who control it, This right here is the crux of the issue. I don't even trust my own computer without fairly deep introspective tools, and what we'r…

guidance and alignment are usually handled by RLHF, which actually rewires the weights such that it becomes near-impossible for the model to have certain kinds of 'thoughts'. This …

"Yeah so it says on your chart here..."

> This is a system stretching over millennia not quite. 'Slavery' has been around that long. 'Chattel Slavery' started in the 1600s and peaked in the 1800s. So like, half a milleni…

no.

It really comes down to granularity at the end, and whether you attempt to look as closely as possible or you accept a certain lack of fidelity because it makes the abstraction wor…

I think you've misunderstood the term 'petrodollar'. Petrodollars are the American currency in circulation abroad because we bought other people's oil (principally Saudi), not expo…