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It's funny. In my failing democracy people are convinced the solution is a two party system like the US (we have a parliament with a large amount of parties)

Somehow I have a feeling the problem is not the system, but the culture...

I think the motivation for someone like Altman is not AGI, it's power and influence. And when he wields billions he has power, it doesn't really matter if there's AGI coming.

Yes, that adjustment could well be monarchy.

I can't see how functioning democracy can survive without truth as shared grounds of discussion.

Yes, plus, these are corporate agents, not yours. They are pets as much as a Trojan horse is.

Nope. He believes it is a threat to freedom. And not in the way you presented it

Interesting. When I Google I always get the AI summary which does it for me.

I just read this..I don't understand where the hit piece is...

Seems pretty factual.

The hysteria in the "rationalist" circles is mirroring the so called "Blue tribe" quite accurately.

So averages and social dynamics map exactly to individuals?

"Race" is so undefined it's just silly to argue about. We are tremendously more similar than different. We have a visual bias, so a difference in skin color will dominate all other similarities. Then we go and theorize about other differences when we start our division from this arbitrary difference. This is lazy thinking. And a lot of the time is used for hate mongering against some "other".

Of course cultures have different set of values, and this influences the aggregate decisions of the individuals, but taking the next step and forecasting and analyzing a single individual by projecting sociatal bias on them is dehumanizing, and as recent history taught us, is dangerous.

If Israel is alien to the region, so are Arabs which is what Palestinians are.

That's nonsense.

The Jewish people have a long (2000years) of calling Israel territory as home. Does it mean I deny the Palestinians national claim, no. But it sure as hell mean Jews have a claim atleast as much as Arab immigrants and conquerers

You are severely lacking in history.

You domknownthat Palestinians are mostly Arabs and not native to the region.

The Israeli founders accepted the UN partition resolution. all Arab countries attacked Israel to destroy and create their pan Arabian fantasy.

In the 90s Israel initiated the peace process and gave self rule to the Palestinians with an end goal to create a Palestinian state. Hamas decided to send suicide bombers to bomb Israeli busses killing thousands.

This caused a massive shift right in israeli politics. And gave power to those saying we can't afford to give land. I don't agree with them.

Your revisionism is abhorrent.

I supportthe two state solution.

Alas hamas killed that one in The 90s when they decided to send suicide bombers to Israeli busses during the peace process that Israel initiated.

Also Israel accepted the two state solution in 1948, alas all Arab countries decided to attack the newly idndependent country.

Saying "we" stole the land is a bit odd. The arabs leaving in Israel didn't call themselves Palestinians until after 1948.

Israel is not in the Arab peninsula, arabs living here came from there, hence they are Arabs.

I still support their right to their national claim. But pretending it's some ancient construct that "we" stole from is not historical. Palestinian nationalism is a modern construct.

So you want Israel to cease to exist? Germany did the Holocaust, nobody said Germany can't exist. Russia attacks Ukraine in an emperialistic power move, no one suggest Russia shouldn't exist.

But Israel is a "project" that needs to end. More like a scape goat.

I'm israeli. This war is bad, my government is evil. But I deserve to have a nation to call home, so do the Palestinians.

If you disagree with me, think about it a bit and what it says about you.

Sry lack of new houses doesn't seem like a cause for homelessness.

Of you can't afford a house in the big city, you move to a smaller one.

The problem is lack of a working welfare infrastructure. People become homeless because they're unlucky and once they're down, it's almost impossible to get back up.. it's a failure of state at so many levels. Real estate development is the least of them

Classic Russian thinking that the only motivating force is fear. No wonder you get stuck with homicidal tyrants ruling over you time after time.

The far right have a story, that ppl like you are duped to believe.

Sometimes cynical(/fear driven) people have such strong biases, they are the most easy to dupe.

I have this pet theory that this wave of AI won't end with amazing productivity gains.

I think it'll end in mass confusion. Dumbing down of the leadership and elites that now can cosplay as smart and eloquent.

countries that don't embrace AI will have a massive edge over other countries because their population will be smarter and more capable.

Yes, anti trust rules should have stopped amazon. But they didn't, this directly hurts open source.

I don't think elastic would've tried the license change because of competition using the open source.

The problem is Amazon, not elastic that's trying to survive.

Due process

You can tax the rich, and then cut less of the good stuff. Or you can cut taxes and decimate everything. Guess what the billionaire class chose.

It is possible to very critical of something without "not allowing people to do it".

Dismissing the argument that we are losing something in this "democratization of creativity" by fighting a strawman that says you are not allowed to participate instead is a bit lazy

As I see it, Optimism is usually unrational but drives change and Fear kills optimism.

Trust is not purely rational its emotional. Fear kills trust, making you more rational in the sense that you assume other players are rationally adversarial.

Negging you? That was the US policy. Disarm your allies while promising to protect them.

Canada could've had nuclear weapons. You convinced them to not have it. Same with Ukraine and many more countries. Their fault was trusting the US to not become belligerent.

Maybe his position was that he didn't think it is a good law? And at the same time he thinks purposely migendering someone is being an asshole?

My friend, this sounds like an example of you projecting your fears of "liberal suppression"

The unit gets to pick the most talented before the rest of the army. Most israeli startups are founded by unit alumni.

I'm not sure I understand what reverse merger means, or what OP is implying

So, israeli tech is built by ex idf? You know most israeli are ex idf?

A what?

That's exactly how we e2e tests for our ai conversational agents All state is immutable, the agent is basically a reducer so having these continuation trees is easy.

But I can't find a nice way to have pytest make a test per node in the tree. We end up with a single test for the whole tree which is less than ideal for dev experience.

Anyone with pytest hacking skills and an idea?

Power can be diffused. Wealth accumulation is power concentration. When it's legal to buy politicians then what is corruption? How can you go after corruption when those with power define what is corruption?

Concentrated power is corrupt, there's no power without the will to wield it. If you have more power than 99 percent of humans, they become insects for you.

You probably don't have an issue with limiting government power. Why is limiting an individual reaching power of governments so difficult to fathom?

The problem is power accumulation, "small" people have a harder time limiting my freedoms by abusing their power.

I don't want a king, whether they got to be king by swords or money.

Wdym all of us? I certainly would find much better usages for the money.

What about reforming democracy? Use the corrupt system to buy the votes, then abolish all laws allowing these kind of donations that allow buying votes.

I'll litigate the hell out of all the oligarchs now that they can't out pay justice.

This would pay off more than a moon shot. I would give a bit of money for the moon shot, why not, but not all of it.