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samrus··on Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
Its businesses all the way around
samrus··on Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
I did read it. The question is will you have the aid of AI? If the means of production get decoupled from a human being, then will normal people even have the respurces to afford access to AI to be able to make things? How would you afford it? You cant produce anything of value to sell to anyone since AI can just male whatever your making

If AI keeps going the way the author thinks (which isnt guaranteed) then there will come a point where the productivity of those who can afford to have access to AI will start becoming infinitely more than those who do not, and then those without AI are locked in the permanent underclass. Not much is within your reach then

samrus··on Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
I think this analogy breaks down when considering that the agricultural revolution gave regular people more time to demand new things, but also more time to produce new things, and thus maintained or even increased their economic leverage

> My inability to produce food is economically almost irrelevant. What matters is that I can consume it, enjoy it, develop tastes for it, and devote my energies to other things.

What the author misses is that what mattered more was that people could now produce more things. People were free from manual labour to perform intellectual labour. But what do people do to produce things when intellectual labour is automated? And with emboddied AI, skilled manual labour too?

You need to produce things to be able to reap the fruits of economic progress. Thats what most working people did after the agricultural revolution. What will we produce in a post AI world? And if only the people who own AI will be able to produce things, then why would they give us any power or leverage in the economy?

samrus··on Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional
I think the ideal amount of meth in a society is zero. Surely you wouldnt mind consenting to a daily cavity search to accomplish that, now would you? Your not some kind of meth dealer right?
samrus··on Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks
It sets the terms of engagement. You cant expect the defender in a war to follow a code of ethics thay the aggressor has wiped their ass with. Its just hypocritical
samrus··on OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
How? What about the lean verification?
samrus··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
No. Itll be like the dotcom bubble. Websites as a concept didnt go away. It evolved from web 1.0 to web 2.0

I expect a huge market correction, alot of parades rained on, and then the start of some very pragmatic and practical applications of LLMs

samrus··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
America doesnt even have a real national id card. The inevitalism is unfounded. Mass surveillance is not guaranteed. It might still happen, but the defeatism is irrational
samrus··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
To a layperson yes. But in american legal philosophy, you cant allow the state to break laws to catch legitimate criminals. It is considered better for society to let the criminal walk free then to create a precedent and incentive for the state violating a citizen's rights.

Basically this will only prove mass surveillance effective to people who think only guilty people pleade the 5th

samrus··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
That and searches for license plates should requiring having the warrant. Not all LEOs might be authorized to carry out the warrant, so they shouldt be able to
samrus··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
It sounds alot like "make no mistakes" but honestly telling it to essentially stop bullshitting works pretty well
samrus··on [dead]
What do you mean by that?
samrus··on One Month Without AI
I am skeptical of letting AI do everything as well but this does seem like your using a less capable model. Fable doesnt really do this. In my experience it does just "get" what to do given a clearly defined and measurable outcome
samrus··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
We cantnrun local models on them? They must have some sort of api exposed right? Qualcomm has the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine iirc
samrus··on Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
"If you stop me from smoking up fentanyl in front of your store, im only going to smoke up fentanyl outside other stores and not yours!"

Thatd be nice yeah

samrus··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Lists and vectors have been around for a while. I dont think they suddenly started feeling pressure from those data structures after 30 years, coincidentally when you learnt about their existence

Also the people who would use R and who would use excel are completely different. They use both for the same thing but a user of one would rarely use the other

samrus··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
Slop meant cheap garbage meant for mass consumption before it was used for AI. The roots are actually antisemitic. 4chan's cooking board used "goyslop" to mean fast food and other cheap consumerist foods that they claimed the illuminati or jewish conspiracy or whateve fed to non jews to keep them unhealthy. Its crazy how often 4chan's neonazi rambling are the start of so many cultural phenomena. They supported trump way before he became a serious candidate in 2016
samrus··on Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
I dont think so. My understanding of alignmenr is making sure that when the AI does operate, it operates within the range of what we consider to be acceptable. That doesnt seem to include the idea of the AI taking initiative and deciding to embark on a goal without being commanded as discussed above
samrus··on I'm Tired of the AI Tone
Thats the training data, but i dont think thats the biggest factor in the tone. I think its the RLHF. This thing has been guided by silicon valley techbros so it tlaks like them. Even claudes latest style of trying to cram as much information into as little space as possible by nouning verbs and just creating adhoc jargon, is how alot engineers (including me) actually talk. I think they just guided it towards that and overfit on it
samrus··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Whether are in favour of or against taking in asylum seekers, sharing that burden/responsibiltiy between partners would definitely be what people want
samrus··on Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances
Exactly. People are expecting wode eyed optimism in response to some of the most cutthroat and cynical behavior from the leaders of the AI firms. Its crazy. They're making their bed but they dont want to lie in it
samrus··on PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in
Probably got outbid again. I love valve's business model/strategy/ethics, but its undeniable that a tradeoff for not being beholden to increasing shareholder value is that you often have less resources than your competitors for making big moves like this, since youre not raising capital from shareholders
samrus··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
You have to look at the incentives
samrus··on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
I mean, they need to be able hide any weaknesses that will allow prison breaks. A prisoner or their collaborators can use this footage to gain intel about these things and break people out. People who might deserve being in prison, like murderers and rapists and stuff
samrus··on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
I do love the irony and schedenfruede, but this isnt about recording in public areas, its about recording the inside of prisons and ICE concentration camps. That is generally not something you can legally record and is analogous to a flock camera inside your office or house, which most people would agree is bad
samrus··on The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
Reputation lag. Or just exploiting trust
samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Yeah. Exactly. Thats not a guarantee anymore
samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Americans have to hope that the US will move past trumo and not repeat that mistake, but for europeans its most prudent to prepare for a world where such a corrupt wannabe distator doesnt have have that much leverage over them.

The US and europe would be stronger together if the US acted in good faith. Absent that, decoupling is the right choice

samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Cost decreases with scale. Spacex was also wildly expensive, it grew up thanks to government assistance
samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
I dont think the EU is stronger when they get bullied and undermined by trump, or whichever american president decides to dust off trump's playbook in the future
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