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How do people not just do the easy pleasurable thing? I am incredibly prone to addictions and I don't understand how some people aren't.

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OK...but basically everyone uses custom apps because they are tremendously useful. You'd just ban all of them?

I don't know what everyone is getting so mad about. This is a well defined concept. A pace car deliberately sets the pace of the race under dangerous conditions, regulating how fast people can go.

You are all getting mad about absolutely the dumbest thing when there are giant things to be worried about here.

The most instructive kind of problem solving is solving problems badly and learning why you did a bad job. Do that enough times ina row and they call it a career.

It won't be a government crackdown, it'll be an insurance crackdown. Want to run your model in a commercial kitchen? Better have the badge showing certification by the NSF for food handling and prep, UL for general safety, etc or when you stab a customer your insurance won't pay out and it's on you.

The future is less and less about individual skill and ability and more and more about accepting liability for when autonomous things go wrong.

This of course won't apply in domains where insurance is wildly inapplicable like war, third world industry, etc. Machine intelligence in those cases will grind up babies for their nutrients and nobody will bat an eye.

Looking terrible isn't nessesarily a bad thing. The pelican is heavily pre trained now. Having a crappy pelican means you didn't try to juke the stats.

Depends on the class of the star. Our sun? About 1/4 radius and in is fusion reaction. But it gets weird in other stars. In red giants the fusion zone is a very small shell around a dead core. Maybe something like earths orbit in radius, but very very thin.

Yes, except actually novel.

That's not true and its exactly the point - real life data is noisy, difficult to parse, and ultimately often ambiguous. Text is the distilled information. It's significantly easier to distilled text into a likely response than it is to distill into lessons a continuous data stream whose contents are partially controlled by your own actions.

no, enshittification is accurate.

This makes sense as long as public control makes the outcome of that money better than letting the bazillionare control it. I'm not sure which way the actual truth tilts, but I suspect it's sometimes one and sometimes the other.

Giving away your fortune in secret is so much more virtuous than doing it with a giant foundation with your name on it. Much respect.

if you mine 4 tons of coal, anywhere on earth, 1 ton of it will be going to china to be burned to make electricity. China's energy production is extraordinarily dirty, the cleanest part of it is the PR. More than half of the energy they produce is from burning coal. They certainly want to integrate more renewables but they have the same problems with that everyone else does - storage and transmission are expensive and essential for a renewable heavy grid.

Philosophy is how you come to determine that everything is made of different proportions of air earth water fire and aether. The physics are essential or it's just navel gazing. You may as well just have a 'personal truth' (what a gross term) about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I feel like a massive blocklist is simultaneously exactly the kind of thing an LLM is likely to hallucinate and exactly the kind of thing you don't want to rely on an LLM for.

I do that with very, very low traffic industrial automation systems.

The ability to solve general problems previously insoluble using only experiential data and modification to internal world models.

I think democracy is perhaps a fundamentally unstable system. It requires constant corrective force, and a lot of it, from a lot of people. When the members of that democracy start to get a little too comfortable it fails.

Humans are designed to operate in smallish clans with benevolent dictators whose right to rule is based on social currency with people they personally know. Anything else is a house of cards on unstable foundation.

I'm not sure how you fix that, but democracy so far has maybe been the least bad patch.

So all we have to do is engineer a scenario where one party screws over the other one by accidentally doing good governance.

Or just hurry up and invent ASI and let it be someone else's problem to take care of this crazy human zoo.

The fact that you 'need' that is not an inviolable feature of the universe. It's not even a good thing. It's just a thing that has evolved based on the current arrangement of society. It's as mutable as whether or not we have regular religious crusades.

the struggle of the artisan against the self is one of the more worthwhile struggles there is.

In an ideal world, we would all be able to do such a thing all the time, and not worry about our position in the howling ape hierarchy.

The gun doesn't know the difference. Operating as intended.

The point of the firearm is to inject high speed lead into things so I'm not sure you can say it's misoperating when it does that.

The first ASI will use a vast army of middle managers as it's neurons. We won't be fighting terminators, we'll be submitting TPS reports to skynet.

I'm happy to meet the one guy on earth who can identify who used ai when making art and who didn't.

Unless you exclusively listen to old music color me skeptical

The last 20 years have been an explosion of new music as barriers to making it have gone down. More musicians are making more music and there's more good stuff than ever.

I barely am using my Claude subscription anymore anyhow. If they make me ID for it I'll simply cancel and use an open model.

Regulations obviously can't be written by those regulated or they're just moats by another name.

In what way does your brain change state while sleeping that a model does not change state via constant fine-tune updates?