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statuslover9000

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    Shazeer is an aggressive Zionist, and while Altman is better at reading the room, he has previously aligned himself with Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/openais-sam-altman-sa…

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    Comment #47288813

    It’s possible for other business leaders to be more evil than you and to still be on the wrong side of history. I’m not even saying Dario is ill-intentioned — just too propagandize…

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    Comment #47286609

    Anthropic did the deal with Palantir and was begging the government to use their technology to “fight authoritarianism”, are you insinuating that they shouldn’t be held morally acc…

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    Comment #47286515

    Claude may have just bombed an elementary school, meanwhile Dario is whining that Altman and Trump, two well-known psychos, didn’t play fair for a military deal. Anthropic is the l…

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    Comment #47213838

    Having played around with this a bit, I recommend using https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery as the CAD language instead. I'm pretty sure it could even transpile to OnShape / Solid…

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    Comment #47176697

    First off, I consider the post-Mao / starting with Deng era of Chinese government to be the most relevant when considering who they “are” as a country now. However, I’d still maint…

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    Comment #47174715

    For example, China operates 1 foreign military base, in Djibouti. How many do you think the U.S. has in the South China Sea alone? Beyond that, how many people has China killed in …

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    Comment #47173978

    The Sinophobic culture at Anthropic is worrying. Say what you will about authoritarianism, but China’s non-imperialist foreign policy means their economy is less reliant on a milit…

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    Comment #45615168

    Great job giving the government a live dossier of all the political volunteers canvassing out there. This makes me feel so much safer!

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    Comment #44307102

    This makes sense. Israel seems to have used WhatsApp metadata to target Palestinians in Gaza: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ > The solution to this problem, …

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    Comment #39676643

    The short-term effect is a harbinger of the long-term risk, since capitalism doesn’t inherently care for people who don’t provide economic value. Once superintelligent AI arises, n…

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    Comment #39392931

    As Antonio Gramsci said: “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” The forces of blind or cynical techno-optimism accelerating capitalism may feel insurmountable, but the…

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    Comment #39072497

    > The expert believes that “asking for regulations because of fear of superhuman intelligence is like asking for regulation of transatlantic flights at near the speed of sound in 1…

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    Comment #37547352

    > I guess things like recursive self-improvement. You wouldn’t want to let your little AI go off and update its own code without you having oversight. Maybe that should even be a l…

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    Comment #32962824

    Lots of people I know dislike the taste of Beyond Meat specifically, but like Impossible and other fake meats. This article seems to be sensationalizing and over-generalizing from …

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    Comment #32774860

    They also used massive doses of LSD combined with electroshocks and managed to entirely wipe some patients’ memories, this person describing their experience is pretty mind-blowing…

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    Comment #31783097

    GDP has been growing fine, but life expectancy in the US has been in historic decline for the past decade, largely driven by alcoholism, drug overdose, and suicide. Meanwhile over …

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    Comment #31782871

    For chemical reaction prediction, see the Open Reaction Database, a collaboration including the Coley lab at MIT (surprisingly not cited by OP): Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.…

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    Comment #31762940

    > I don’t know, for me — and this is probably I’m too much of an engineer — it’s like, what is AI? It’s math. It’s basically elaborations on linear algebra. I have a hard time gett…