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I had forgotten the stem of this, thank you!

Abstraction is the opposite of precision.

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Eventually we will pull the black ball out of the urn. It is the responsibility of those currently alive to assess the possible harm their creations might cause. This cynical invin…

John C Lilly had a concept called the "bad program" that was like an internal, natural, subconscious antithetical force that lives in us all. It seduces or lures the individual int…

> And there is no reason to think that AGI would have desire. The entire point of utilizing this tool is to feed it a desire and have it produce an appropriate output based upon th…

The problem with your analogy is that these babies are HUMANS and not some distinctly different cyber-species. The basis of "human alignment" is that we all require basically the s…

It's time to put an end to this fashionable and literal anti-human attitude. There's no comparative advantage to AI replacing humans en-masse because of how "stupid" we are. This P…

> Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1988, Zombie Horror Comedy, 5.7) My favorite zombie flick, if you've not seen it you need to!

So what year was reddit not described as a far-left echo chamber? When was this golden age?

These 5 people are our employees. We pay them with our tax dollars to assist in delivering services to ourselves and our fellow citizens. Unless secrecy is a distinct function of t…

Doing business in, or running, a marketplace without established legal regulations opens you up to undefined consequences. Without laws to bind you, there are no laws to protect yo…

The comment you replied to referenced "multiple teenagers" - the very people that liquor stores cannot sell alcohol to since they're not recognized as mature enough to be freely al…

"Wouldn't be surprised if " is speculation. Nobody should be surprised if a pirate has buried treasure.

The article is about insurance company malfeasance, but this boils it down to mis-aligned consumer expectations about living forever in total bliss. That feels like a strange disco…

What a wild and disconnected assertion.

> The main takeaway is that this is inevitable No, the main takeaway is that this might be ATTEMPTED. Success is not inevitable and to take such guarantees from those most motivate…

> For example today, SaaS tools exist for so many things you’d have had to hire for in the past. Thanks to SaaS you can get started really easily - take payments, get a storefront,…

> do they? Yes, it's plainly obvious that some people feel some guilt for eating meat. Regular hunters != industrial-level slaughtering. There are plenty of "regular hunters" who o…

> going against every bit of our human evolution, without guilt-tripping the rest of us for doing what nature designed us to do If nature designed for this, then why do people feel…

Is there any possible technology that could make labor, mastery, or human expirence obsolete? Are there no limits to this argument? Is it some absolute universal law that all new c…

Eventually you draw the black ball, it is inevitable.

> It is a symptom of an overly financialized economy. We should distinguish these cynical scenarios from genuinely profitable value creation. 1000% agree, thanks for the thoughtful…

> Who cares what any of us imagines anyone else thinks? Since you're responding and we're having a conversation about each other's opinions, I'd say it actually is relevant.

"Value creation" is not the same as the monopolistic paradigm of a winner-take-all 100m race. Hyperscaling is a system where potentially profitable businesses are destroyed because…