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zetalyrae
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About zetalyrae
Website: https://borretti.me/
Email: fernando@borretti.me
GitHub: https://github.com/eudoxia0
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zetalyrae
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Comment #48892513
There are no "ideas" independent of expression.
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Comment #48861690
Yeah most of the advance assumes you have the data ready at hand and just need to phrase the cards right, get the number of words right. Whereas for conceptual domains the biggest …
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Comment #48682757
> All that said, once again, that stand on a very large set of "if"s. Yeah, probably I should have listed some more premises, i.e. that corporations maximize profits, the state max…
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Comment #48682396
Sometimes you can be in a situation where every actor taking locally-rational actions leads to globally catastrophic outcomes. It would be easy to argue I think that the July Crisi…
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Comment #48682374
If you mean: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/ Doesn't this prove my point? In feudal Japanese society, wealthy merchants were lower status than poor samurai, i.e., th…
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Comment #48682343
For every person using AI as a personal tutor there's a hundred people using it to produce AI slop articles, slop scientific papers, slop short stories, to checck out of living and…
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Comment #48682330
A corporation that is fully staffed by AIs and only retains humans for legal reasons (as directors, for liability etc.) still needs money to coordinate. You need to pay for inputs,…
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Comment #48682304
What evidence would falsify this idea that wealth alone gives you political power?
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Comment #48682216
> Like the fact that supposedly the wealthy won’t survive the AI-pocolypse because the people will outnumber them and rise up or something. This is literally the opposite of what t…
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Comment #48682200
> Billionaires won't just sit around and not develop military power, for one. I argue against this here: https://borretti.me/article/on-vulgar-materialism Of course I don't expect …
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Comment #48682195
Then the FBI raids his home and arrests him. Thereafter, no more rockets.
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Comment #48592836
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/everything-is-computer
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Comment #48592694
Tangentially, this is why (despite being an extremist for privacy) I've somewhat soured on Internet anonymity. Very few people are using their anon status to further discourse, i.e…
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Comment #48592397
Seems kinda silly to name such a huge project after a meme that will be stale in a few years, but then, this was likely all generated by AI, so it doesn't matter. EDIT: Expanding o…
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Comment #48580813
I think so too. But if that's what it is, that's how it should be presented.
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Comment #48578321
If the About page said who made it, i.e. if someone was putting their reputation on the line, I might be more receptive. But the website has enough LLM design tics to make me suspi…
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Comment #48533674
It's a joke, c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-8IuUkJJc
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Comment #48524508
Maybe you're right.
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Comment #48523753
But the problem is people are not just delegating formulaic procedural prose to AI. They're using AI to write entire scientific papers, so now reviewers have to use Pangram[0] to s…