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That victory?
Right…
They are done by free people, using their own resources!
That is the problem: "socialists" don't want to use their own resources and effort to accomplish their utopian goals; they want to use your resources.
There is no amount of other people's blood and treasure a socialist is unwilling to risk.
It’s a choice to invest my own effort into something I choose to give to some people for free.
It literally requires me to use (at personal risk) my savings to create and give a gift to others.
I don’t see “socialists” risking their own wealth to produce and give gifts to others. They take others wealth and give it to their (usually unproductive) friends.
Big difference.
Actually, those seem like an apt composite description of the PoV of the typical mass-market AI... 8/
Which is clearly impossible on a platform like HN, which values interesting facts above boring, religious ideology … right?
- something-phobia
- right-wing something
Why not state, instead, the specific claims of the party you disagree with?
Such statements are meaningless, and are simple attempts to caste the adversary as a member of some heinous out-group.
Just stop.
“But I didn’t think the Face Eating Leopard party would eat my face!”
Science: claims open to debate or ridicule based on evidence.
Religion: claims open to debate or ridicule based on beliefs; faith open to debate.
Cult: claims may not be rejected; faith may not be debated nor ridiculed.
This would go a long way to reassuring users of the resultant AI, of the neutrality of the trainer.
It would simply reveal the core beliefs of the trainer. If it becomes evident (for example), that Marxist or Keynesian or MMT (or whatever) texts are given high validity measures, but texts by Hayek or Sowell are given negative validity, one could assume the trainer is a leftist, economically.
What benefit is there to not reveal these facts to the users of the resultant AI, if not to hide the internal bias of the trainer? Yet I am unaware of any large commercial AIs that reveal these training bias indicators...
I'd recommend anyone who writes software listening and reading anything of Andrei's you can find; this one is indeed a Treasure!
We’ve been aggressively using the latest AIs as they come out, stretching their limits.
Not one of us is worried about losing anything, and are more excited than ever about the future of programming.
Less nigly work and putzing around, more architecting interesting and novel large-scale systems. We now have a team of decently competent very focused robots buzzing around cleaning up boring tasks, while we work on higher level more interesting stuff.
Today, anyone can get focussed tutoring 24/7 from an AI to quickly move them up the value stack.
How is this bad?
"Mounting evidence indicates that these vaccines, like many others, do not generate sterilizing immunity, leaving people vulnerable to recurrent infections. Additionally, it has been discovered that the mRNA vaccines inhibit essential immunological pathways, thus impairing early interferon signaling."
"... thus suggesting that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development."
There is a reason that Holochain was invented, and this entire conversation re-validates it.
The primary marker of Mercantilism (what we erroneously call capitalism, here in the west) is the erection of barriers to competition by entrenched players, via their purchased politicians.
When their control of the money supply, artificial barriers to competition, etc. is made much more expensive and difficult, their hand will be revealed. They will have to expend increasingly expensive (and obvious) force against ever more independent and smaller adversaries (their fellow citizens), to maintain their ill-gotten market positions.
It's gonna get fun!
In my personal experience w/ carbon fiber overwound tanks for compressed natural gas — my very first thought when I first heard they used a carbon fiber “pressure vessel” was:
“Wow, ballsy; carbon fiber composite is great in tension, worthless in compression”.
If you compare the total compliance cost per dollar of gross revenue, small businesses pay 10x - 100x more than eg. WalMart or Amazon.
Book-keeping, accounting, etc. typically consumes 10%+ of small businesses’ gross revenue, vs. low single-digit percentage of the large businesses they compete against.
This is unlikely by accident - since it is these businesses that supply their lawmakers with funding, and often with the text of proposed legislation which primarily negatively affects their opponents in small business…
Still the most productive programming environment that I know of.
This insane drive to change the meanings of words (eg. every traditionally conservative leaning person is now a Nazi, and everyone proud of their unique cultural heritage is now a Racist, so long as they are also white) is no problem!
A member of a brittle, sensitive, easily-triggered group will quickly find themselves isolated and hearing only the few people who almost exactly match their identical beliefs. And, even those won't last long (just until the first imagined slight or use of the wrong adjective).
This, too, is instructive. Coddling a lack of resilience is not helpful to someone -- but, whatever. Fill your boots! If it works for you, have a blast with your two currently-acceptable friends! ;)
But seriously, the current Kristallnacht purge of social media is the best thing that could happen, in my opinion. It'll force a Cambrian explosion of new platforms that more capably handle differences of belief and tolerance!
Start out with a large fortune.