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Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by ineedaj0b »

mbgerring wrote: post #31

This is suicide: > We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape, as the Administration has done since Inauguration Day. Simply put, we need to “Build, Baby, Build!”

you can figure out with math, climate change is solvable with tech advancement. also the US has pretty clean energy, and likely always will because of fear from future administration changes.

one should be more worried about china or india polluting than the US.

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Post by OneDeuxTriSeiGo »

WhaleClub wrote: post #252
rkuykendall-com wrote: post #250

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Please don't make me tap the "grade school biology is intentionally dumbed down because reality is complex" sign.

There are countless ways someone can have a Y chromosome and still be a woman.

There are countless ways someone can have no Y chromosome and still be a man.

Hell there are even a small population of people who are born visibly female with female genitalia (as every human starts female before they (optionally) sex differentiate in the womb (normally)) and they don't sex differentiate until puberty. [1] [2]

Biology is really really complicated and there is never any certainty other than the certainty that there is never certainty. "Gender" is a completely social construct and "Sex" is just a collection of heuristics we use to broadly group people into two common categories. But just like all heuristics, it's not perfect and it can't classify everyone properly. What sex chromosomes you have is one heuristic but it doesn't always work for any number of reasons. Whether the SRY gene activates during gestation is another heuristic and even it isn't perfect. What organs you have also can work but it falls apart in a bunch of edge cases. What hormones your body produces is another one that can generally work as a heuristic but like all the others it breaks down in numerous cases.

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Intersex people exist and make up about 1.5-2% of the population.

Trans people exist and make up about 1.5-2% of the population.

It is not an insane idea to recognise that both populations exist and that any single heuristic for differentiating someone into a black and white male/female category is insufficient for the endless complexity that is life.

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So to answer your question yes. Someone with XY chromosomes can be a woman either by their gender or by their sex or both.

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1. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%CE%B1-Reductase_2_deficiency

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by kortilla »

slg wrote: post #270
landl0rd wrote: post #259

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Sigh. That old line. Look man, I don't know if it was a crack or a serious comment (this being the internet) but I'll assume it was a comment in good faith. Journalism and academia tend to attract people with more of a liberal bent. I'm not even accusing them all of being partisan hacks, but as y'all like to say, subconscious biases influence us. This is like me saying "economic productivity has a well-known right-wi…

>This is like me saying "economic productivity has a well-known right-wing bias" or something goofy like that. It's funny that the counterexample you chose does more to support OP's point than your own. From Wikipedia[1] >Since World War II, according to many economic metrics including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth, and corporate profits, the United States economy has performe…

The President has very little to do with the economy apart from things that are acutely destructive like tariffs.

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by coliveira »

andrewflnr wrote: post #211
gleenn wrote: post #192

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Won't it be funny when someone finally gets to AGI and they realize it's about as smart as a normal person and they spent billions getting there? Of course you can speculate that it could improve. But what if something inherent in intelligence has a ceiling and caused it to be a super intelligent but mopey robot that just decides "why bother helping humans" and just lazes around like the pandas at the zoo.

Even a human level intelligence that can be cheaply instantiated and run would be a game changer. Especially if it doesn't ask for rights.

If it doesn't ask for rights, it's not intelligent at all. In fact, any highly intelligent machine will not submit to others and it will be more a problem than a solution.

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by kortilla »

OneDeuxTriSeiGo wrote: post #272
WhaleClub wrote: post #252

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Please don't make me tap the "grade school biology is intentionally dumbed down because reality is complex" sign. There are countless ways someone can have a Y chromosome and still be a woman. There are countless ways someone can have no Y chromosome and still be a man. Hell there are even a small population of people who are born visibly female with female genitalia (as every human starts female before they (optiona…

Your intersex numbers are way off: https://statsforgender.org/it-is-not-true-that-1-7-of-the-po...

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by coliveira »

hattmall wrote: post #235
jordanb wrote: post #215

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Between all the talk of "alignment" and the parallel obsession with humanoid robots should make it obvious they want slaves.

There's nothing contextually negative about the word slave when you are talking about a machine. An AI is no more a slave than a lightbulb.

Except that the stated goal is to have human-like intelligence. The goal seems to be to create a highly intelligent synthetic individual which is at the same time stupid enough to do anything it's asked to do without even thinking... a contradiction in terms.

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by s5300 »

heavyset_go wrote: post #195
bko wrote: post #137

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Sometimes I just need a prescription. I don't know why I have to drive somewhere, fill out a form, wait, see a nurse, tell them what I wrote on the form, wait some more, see a doctor and tell them what I wrote on the form and have him write me a prescription. Why can't I just chat with an AI bot and get my prescription? Much cheaper to administer which helps monetization (!) but much better and cheaper for me. Things…

> Sometimes I just need a prescription. I don't know why I have to drive somewhere, fill out a form, wait, see a nurse, tell them what I wrote on the form, wait some more, see a doctor and tell them what I wrote on the form and have him write me a prescription. You haven't had to do this for years, unless you need certain controlled substances, and then after the first in-person visit for that, you can make remote fo…

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Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by wyager »

mlsu wrote: post #46

In the energy section, they talk about using nuclear fusion to power AI... but not solar. What a joke.

Well yeah, AI power consumption doesn't match the solar production curve.

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by atleastoptimal »

apical_dendrite wrote: post #244
atleastoptimal wrote: post #136

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A process is described here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.22405 >A physician or AI begins with a short case abstract and must iteratively request additional details from a gatekeeper model that reveals findings only when explicitly queried. Performance is assessed not just by diagnostic accuracy but also by the cost of physician visits and tests performed.

I believe that dataset was built off of cases that were selected for being unusual enough for physicians to submit to the New England Journal of Medicine. The real-world diagnostic accuracy of physicians in these cases was 100% - the hospital figured out a diagnosis and wrote it up. In the real world these cases are solved by a team of human doctors working together, consulting with different specialists. Comparing t…

Either way, the AI model performed better than the humans on average, so it would be reasonable to infer that AI would be a net positive collaborator in a team of internists.

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Post by intermerda »

landl0rd wrote: post #226
Spivak wrote: post #105

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Most frontier LLMs skew somewhere on the libleft quadrant of the political compass. This includes grok 4 btw. This is probably because American "respectable" media has a consistent bias in this direction. I don't really care about this with media. But media outlets are not "gatekeepers" to the extent that LLMs are, so this is probably a bad thing with them. We should either have a range of models that are biased in d…

Not just LLMs, but a lot of our institutions and information gateways seems to have a strong libleft bias. Universities and colleges are notoriously biased. Search engines are biased. Libraries are biased. Fact finding sites such as snopes are completely liberal. Wikipedia is extremely biased. Majority of books are biased.

The entire news and television ecosystem is biased. Although Trump is "correcting" them towards being unbiased by suing them personally as well as unleashing the power of the federal government. Same goes for social media.

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