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zetalyrae

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About zetalyrae

Fernando Borretti. Interested in compilers, chemistry, atomically-precise manufacturing.

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…