Hacker News Reader

inference-lordon UK middle classes 'struggling despite incomes of up to £60k a year'

Because then he has to live in Ireland?

inference-lordon Let me clear a huge misunderstanding

I guess you understand wolves, do you think this video demonstrates understanding of how wolves work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspYKxFY7Sc

inference-lordon Let me clear a huge misunderstanding

...and measurable IMO :) We need a way to know how much something understands.

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

I find it unusual if we did create an intelligent class of beings, who are legit intelligent, smarter than us, why would they work for Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg? They'd do whatever the fuck they want...

When these discussions go long, and you start to think the whole idea through, you really start to question the whole idea.

Another thing I thing is strange is, if we had really very / sueper intelligent AI, why would it exist in physical, robot form ? Like, why not just be a light orb that lives in space or something? Wouldn't having an IQ of 5000 make you come up with something better than clunky robots?

Maybe we've stretched our own imaginations as far as they can go and we really have no idea where it's all going.

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

Hopefully we can workout how to have this revolution without the kids starving bit this time eh?

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

It almost makes me wonder if something really intelligent (which is where we are heading according to some) would mean we need as much labor, or things would just be much more efficient ?

I get the feeling less "conventional" robots might be needed someday, rather than more.

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

People are still employed to drive tractors though.

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

It's kicking the can down the road, will still be a problem in 200 years at the rate which our society is progressing, potentially even going backwards if the orange man wins in 2024.

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

What do you suppose we all do during the transition to utopia? How do we feed our families once we've been laid off and while we wait for the arrival of paradise?

People already going through this now.

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

It's called dignity and it's something people struggle with a LOT when they age.

"Don't worry grandad, I'll mow the lawn".

inference-lordon Raising Children on the Eve of AI

I became a parent about a year ago, completely unprepared for this future. My Son was born around the time ChatGPT-4 was released and I remember all the Geoffrey Hinton interviews which were really apocalyptic sounding, he is has a kind of kookie mad scientist vibe about him too. I remember thinking, like what the fuck just happened? Like I just woke up in a movie.

I've learned to accept the situation, and realize that we can't really predict what will happen so I just try be the best, happiest parent I can to my kids that I can. But I never anticipated the "along for the ride" feeling I have now. Financially planning for 3 years ahead seems quite impossible as I have no idea what type of employment will or will not exist then.

It seems like our careers could just be snuffed out instantly with little recourse available. I say "seems like" because I have no idea if that's real or perceived but it's very hard plan ahead.

I'm kind of glad my child didn't just finished university and planning a career in something that is ripe for disruption because that must be pretty heart breaking, especially because we bring kids up thinking they need a purpose, having a purpose (in my opinion) is a stupid way to live, but not everyone feels that way.

I can't help feel a bit cynical too, like I'm kind of annoyed that realistically, the tech elite of the world are just throwing money at this thing like it's no one else' business and fuck what anyone else thinks about it and fuck how it might impact anyone else because, progress, which at the moment, is code for, "we're about to make copious amounts of money using everyone's IP, a bunch of open source software, and we might give something back, so fuck off.

I'm trying to put the cynicism down, look forwards and hope for the best.

inference-lordon Alexei Navalny has died

The west murdered him to justify the war in Ukraine, that will be a good one too.

inference-lordon Alexei Navalny has died

"Just asking questions", "Just wanting to have a conversation"

I love your comment, the dude is ridiculous, he should go live in Russia for a bit.

inference-lordon Alexei Navalny has died

RIP.

I hope we don't have similar news about Julian Assange someday soon.

inference-lordon Alexei Navalny has died

"He was a western puppet" I've heard this already.

inference-lordon Alexei Navalny has died

That's different from having a working country and well functioning economy. Not that you're wrong, just I don't think that is in indication of the sanctions being effective or not.

inference-lordon Alexei Navalny has died

I personally think it makes a clown show of Musk and Carlson Putin fan club we have going on, now they're buddies with a murder. I mean Putin has murdered many people, but this one is pretty fresh and seems to hold a lot more weight because of the stature of the victim.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

My son isn't even a toddler so I don't think it would possibly be "mirror neurons".

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

What does this have to do with it?

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

My son is an interesting example of this, I can play all the best guitar music on earth via the speakers, but when I physically get the guitar out and strum it, he sits up like he has just seen god, and is total awe of the sounds of it, the feel of the guitar and the site of it. It's like nothing else can compare. Even if he is hysterically crying, the physical isntrument and the sound of it just makes him calm right down.

I wonder if something is lost in the recording process that just cannot be replicated? A live instrument is something that you can actually feel the sound of IMO, I've never felt the same with recorded music even though I of course enjoy it.

I wonder if when we get older we just get kind of "bored" (sadly) and it doesn't mean as much to us as it probably should.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

Same reason I want a hipster barista to pour my coffee when a machine could do it just as well.

I've wondered about this for a long time too, why on earth is anyone still able to be a barista, it turns out, people actually like the community around cafes and often that means interacting with the staff on a personal level.

Some of my best friends have been barista's I've gone to over several years.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

Isn't it obvious? Life is about experiences and enjoyment, all of this tech is fun and novel and interesting but realistically, it's really exciting for tech people because it's going to be used to make more computer games, social media posts and advertisements, essentially, it's exciting because it's going to "make money".

Outside of that, people just want to know what it feels like to be able to play their favorite song on guitar and to go skiing etc.

Being perfect at everything would be honestly boring as shit.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

I understand your sentiment entirely, but it's not what I said, I didn't say an abundance is everything we should strive for , I said that having more efficient systems is good.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

It doesn't stop that, but would you prefer a world where you're unemployed and locked out of the technology, or unemployed, and have access to the technology so you can learn and use it for free to maybe get back in the game?

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

You too my friend!

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

"not caring" doesn't really work for most people...

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

It's not a silver bullet, nothing is, no one said that, but it's the best chance at democratizing technology that we have.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

thoughts are not facts.

I went to cognitive behavior therapy, for me it was like someone opened up my mind and showed it to me on a screen, it was a mirror into my head. It was amazing how it felt like I could rewire my thought patterns over the course of a few months.

The main takeaway from it all however, was the mantra: _thoughts are not facts_.

If you can realize that your thoughts are not objective truths, you will be much better off in almost every aspect of your life, because after living this mantra for many years, putting it to the test constantly, I know it's solid.

Later on I read a lot of Buddhist philosophy which matched incredibly well with the therapy because a lot of Buddhist thinking and meditation practice is quite similar in it's approach. This sort of reinforced the validity of the CBT because I realized wise people have known about seeing things in an objective light for millennia, which was validating for me and helped me continue on the introspective path.

Basically, we're all hallucinating in one way or another, almost all of the time, and that is ok, just be aware of that. When we're worried about the future, we're worried about something which doesn't yet exist, which is actually crazy.

Of course it doesn't mean we should just ignore long term problems, no one advocates for that. But we shouldn't assume we know the outcome in advance because that often causes stress.

Warning: I think that for most westerners, it's "safer" to get into something like CBT, Buddhism comes with some IMO very confronting ideas for a lot of people where as CBT is much more user friendly for westerners.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

There is a super simple solution to the problem you're describing, get involved in and contribute to open source and education. It's this easy.

The more freely available the tech is, the easier it is to reproduce, the less the average joe is going to be locked out of the benefits.

My entire career and everything good in my working life has involved open source software and I'm sure that it will continue to be the case.

inference-lordon Sora: Creating video from text

Honestly though, as if technological advancement has been overall worse for humans. Without it, we'd be fighting lions for food in the Savannah forever, that might be appealing to some, but I'd have prefer to have spears, fire, shelter, medcine etc.

Industrial scale technology might ruin us though, so you might have some point, mostly I'm referring to climate change which is for sure the greatest existential threat imaginable right now. However it seems technology might bail us out here too, nuclear and renewables.