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i think no one cares. it’s a “you know what you’re signing up for” sort of thing akin to the military, oh and you’re compensated hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so

it’s ok i think the megacorp can fend for themselves and their illegal and amoral actions

it’s a lot harder to do a third term or a “coup” when you don’t have a majority support. i don’t have faith in many republican officials but i would bet many would not tie themselves 59 the sinking ship of trumpism, especially absent a heir apparent

i think there is room for word vomit overexplaining every little nuance, detail, and caveat as a style of writing especially if one is trying to be through and “rational”, but I think it takes much more skill to condense the meat of a subject

no it’s not. that’s the whole point of humanism.

bultarian jihad when

the common unifying theme of most tech companies over the past 15 years has been rent extraction. whether posing as middlemen who VC’d their way to monopoly power ruining both sides of their target market, or taking a common good without attribution (attention, knowledge) tech hasn’t been much a game changer beyond digitizing something and charging everyone more for it

> the best alternative to rigorous specification is human review. human review doesn't scale well to the volumes of output produced by language models. to make matters worse

when the business model is selling more tokens you get such per serve ice times that lead to “more” thinking, engagement baiting, fluffy narratives, and straight up dark patterns

but most of what humans create isn’t novel, esp in saturated areas like art. so even LLMs can “just do that” they’re very capable at outputting worthwhile materisl

straight up lying and doomer boomer mentality, sad and gross.

very consistent correlations between migrants being net positive economic providers, more law abiding then native citizens, and just straight up regurgitating racist myths

mass deportations won’t solve anything economic when it’s the same admin hamstringing prices and rates with tariffs, war, and defacto support of the oligopoly

i really wish basement dwellers like you though of something original now and then

i’m not trying to dismiss this article entirely as i did get value around from discussion around verifying

but this coming from a VC firm invested in token producing companies and quoting the “genius” behind openclaw makes me think this is just an psyop of over engineering to get ppl to blindly spend tokens on the LLM slot machine

i have unlimited tokens being a large corp so i’m a bit detached from billing and even general best practices for promoting

but the incentives of these companies to become profitable at any cost slipping into entire new types of dark patterns around token based billing seems gross

- charging for injected prompts and cot tokens

- changing default thinking effort to be higher

- training models to give longer winded answers that don’t say anything more of substance

- refusing to fulfill a request and still charging you

i wonder if you could ever just charge based of each user message and it so how breaks even across short and long replies

i’m sure everyone replying to this thread has a level headed and unbiased assessment of themselves

substack has devolved into the same thing. opening the app first thing you see if a infinite scroll of twitter like takes

and i honestly would rather have a reddit lite site like hacker news where there appears to be at least a diversity of opinion than the pseudo-intellectualization cjing occurring among the exact same sort of AI cockgobblers on LW

and how does the public view AI tech workers?

if you’re visiting major cities and need basic clothing you’re probably shopping at the some of the same name brand outlets or lines

interesting how much overlap onebagging has with ultralight backpacking

first sentence is one step from outright discrimination even if not everyone recognizes it. if you’re visibly transgender/queer, have noticeable accent, visible disability, and on and on and on

idk have you ever driven in boston?

i’m in the US, if you took a call for more than a few mins a busy metro car I’d tell you to knock it off

this reads like a blind comment

addiction? get lured in with the promises of enhanced productivity and knowledge asking, leave with half your brain rotted and a $200/month subscription

and this is good?

wanting to ban your competitors via regulatory capture via the trump admin of all things shows how little of a backbone anthropic has

ofc half of them are of the ai rationalist lesswrong crowd so i think they’ve always been a little of their rocker

i feel like we’ve been doing that since 1999

2 parties, there are only two parties. and they vote on a majority of issues the same way. defense spending, judicial nominations, rote legislation, etc.

at least china isn’t pretending to be anything else

what planet are you living on? “border control with pathways for immigration” (and variants) polls consistently high among both US parties

how long before “AI agents have voting rights too” becomes real

could you explains on how? what changed with attention mechanisms to allow for such a shift?

when they keep saying “oooh this new model is too big and crazy and totally can’t be released” or “this new model is a 10x game changer totally unlike our previous iterations” it feels sort like boy crying wolf. yes they’re still pretty clearly improving models, but when you’ve hit diminishing returns / more incremental gains and you’re still saying this is sounds like pure PR hype from a company that previously been the “honest good guys” in the room