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It is definitely not "just" a statistical model. It is inextricably linked to the datasets it is trained on. Datasets that these companies possess, but that ordinary people do not. That is one half of where they get their power (the training techniques being the other, but those tend to bubble out to the general public, or at least the interested public).
How they were created doesn't change what they are, or how humans choose to use them.
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You don’t get to gatekeep having political opinions
I’m literally incapable of gate-keeping your political opinions, I’m stating my opinion.
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>How can you hope for anything better if you consider it an us versus them situation? Because it IS an us vs them situation. They're awfully good at turning it into an us vs us situation whether it's blaming our parents' (boomers), blaming immigrants, blaming muslims or (their favorite), blaming the unstoppable forward march of technological progress (e.g. AI). The media organizations they own are constantly telling…
Your arguments makes it impossible to prove that the wealthy are not bad. You interpret every signal as saying the same thing. That makes an unfalsifiable claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
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Thanks
Obligatory warning that PSL is led by full-blown tankies, and e.g., have an explicit pro-North Korea party line. That said, the membership base is pointedly heterogeneous in belief and they’re the most active alt-left element in DC. Make of this whatever you will; just offering you this as background for an informed decision.
I see this article was flagged, which means we can't even discuss it properly. Bad times are coming.
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Everyone . That includes the small number of people hoarding a majority of the wealth. Everyone needs to contribute to the wellbeing of society as a whole and nobody is exempt.
Good luck taking away the detached single family homes, pickup trucks, SUVs, commercial flights, out of season fruits/vegetables, and imported manufactured goods. The people that expect those things are the “ small number of people hoarding a majority of the wealth”, and there are quite a few of them (probably 1B+ worldwide).
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I don’t understand why welfare is the answer. To me it seems we’ve super failed if that’s the case — just brings everyone down except a few ultra rich people.
UBI is not welfare. It is just a livable minimum wage, for everyone who works. For those who cannot work, it replaces welfare, but that is not it's primary purpose. As a welfare replacement, it is much more efficient, since there is no effort spent determining who qualifies. People can spent their money however they want, rather than the patchwork of separate programs we have now. It doesn't need to bring anyone down…
"Everyone gets a livable minimum wage! Oh by the way if you had a cushy desk job, that's gone because Claude can do it, or you get paid peanuts to manage Claude instances if you're lucky. Don't worry though, you can still make big bucks by working as a garbage man or at a chicken processing plant"
and the alternative is
"Burn the data centers down"
then the 2nd option may have a bit more appeal?
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I never understood this take. Why do you think an employer would waste resources like that? I’m not saying that bullshit jobs don’t exist but I think you are off by an order of magnitude, and even that mostly applies to white collar workplaces with > 100 employees. Good luck doing nothing of value in a restaurant with 20 employees.
Because they are unaware of the scale of the problem. Especially at the top, managers think being in meetings all day is "work" even if nothing actually gets done in those meetings. Consider people like this [0] automating their jobs and not telling anyone, no one would know otherwise. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey/comments/1p7xrro/have_yo...
You understand that for you to do “real work” all day someone and to research and decide to pay you to do that.
And before you say you are self guided answer me if you took up painting tomorrow would you be allowed to continue.
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Hm. I guess we can't possibly judge the guy who threw the molotov cocktail. He could have been clearing a wasps nest.
This is a accidentally good example, we don't know what motivated him, while your ridiculous reason is unsound because it would be also a bad thing to do if he were clearing a wasps nest on someone else's property in the middle of the night. I suspect that they are not a bad person but someone radicalised by the media they consume. Firebombing someone's house is a bad thing to do. It doesn't mean they are necessarily…
"Altman is secretly a good guy" doesn't pay people's mortgages.
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I disagree, but it's probably a matter of definitions. I don't want to play with words, so I will concede that cognitive ability is independent from moral reasoning (which is socially enforced). However, this is not what I'm getting at. Cognitive ability ("intelligence") is correlated with optionality and power. Your ability to change this reality is correlated with your cognitive ability. If you truly are an intelli…
lol, lot of words for a No True Scotsman. clearly there are intelligent and evil people in the world, however you refuse to engage with a basic question like this
Gonna call Hitchen’s razor on that since we’re playing logical fallacies bingo.