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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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What a wonderfully mature and unbiased article to be finding on a technology community.

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So you're happy to see AI take someone else's job as long as it isn't taking your job.

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I've heard Leslie Nielsen was a humorless prick in real life, too. But actors pretend to be someone they're not on screen, it's their literal job, so I still enjoy their work just fine.

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The prosecution shit the bed so I can kill people.

OJ was the villain when it comes to the murdering, the prosecution team was the villain when it comes to bringing him to justice.

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Is anyone advocating letting him walk free? This is a false dichotomy.

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You think imprisonment isn't a punishment?

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The state cannot commit murder.

That's a really bad line of reasoning.

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Does anything bring them back? I don't see what your point is.

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There's no reason to assume they're any less awful than the non-indie film makers. They're just less well known.

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I wouldn't be surprised if someday when we've fully figured out how our own brains work we go "oh, is that all? I guess we just seem a lot more complicated than we actually are."

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Though I should point out that the virtual neurons in LLMs are also noisy and sensitive, and the noise they use ultimately comes from tiny fluctuations of random atomic noise too.

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Or, frankly, adults.

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there is still no fundamental breakthrough on the horizon.

I mean, we're currently in the midst of one, so that might be obscuring the horizon somewhat. Modern AIs are able to reason in ways that no AIs could previously, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux (www.techpolicy.press)

The promise of AI, for corporations and investors, is that companies can increase profits and productivity by slashing their reliance upon a skilled human workforce. But as this story and many others show, AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced...

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AI is actually real, though, and can actually accomplish many of the things it's being used for. I think this article is focusing overly much on a couple of weird outlier situations.

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You are perhaps confusing the highly-general term "AI" for the more-specific term "AGI". It's true that there's no real AGI out there yet, but AI has been around for many decades. LLMs are a type of AI.

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Sure, but the fact that not all AI isn't really AI doesn't mean it isn't real. I run local LLMs on my home computer to perform various tasks, I can shut off my Internet entirely and they still work. There isn't some secret line out to a third-world sweatshop where outsourced labor is frantically typing responses to the thousands of queries generated by my scripts.

Training an AI is expensive and time consuming, but simply using one can be very straightforward.

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You're still talking about training AIs, though. Using AIs doesn't require years of work and PhDs to research. You just sign a contract with one of the AI service providers and they give you an API. You may need to do a little scripting to hook up a front end and some fiddling with prompts and parameters to get the AI to respond correctly, but as I said above, I've done this myself in my own home. Entirely on my own, entirely just for fun. It's really not hard, I could point you to a couple of links for some free software you could use to do it yourself. Heck, even the training part isn't hard if you're starting with one of the existing open models and you've got the hardware for it.

Do you really think all those companies out there with chatbot "help staff" (that speak perfect English and respond faster than a well-trained typist could type) are most likely just outsourced workforce to some cheap foreign company? What is the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of computer hardware the AI service providers are running actually being used for, if not that?

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In terms of what matters most in finally achieving financial stability, 42% say it would take spending less money than they make

It baffles me what the remaining 58% think.

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The all-powerful creator of mankind and the cosmos apparently can't figure out how to release an update patch for the one book he wrote and get the people who are the most adamant about following his rules to apply it cleanly.

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And then whenever the Gazans did anything to threaten the luxury homes or utility corridor, oh what a shame, need to push them back further to establish more of a safe buffer zone.

Oh look, that freed up some more room to build luxury homes!

Rinse and repeat.

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Unfortunately they lost Karelia. It wasn't the great victory the memes make it out to be.

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the temperature would get lower artificially, until it isn't maintained. Should we continue business as usual with fossile fuels?

Changing "business as usual" with fossil fuels is a separate issue that will happen or not happen regardless of the global temperature. It's something that will have to be done as a task in its own right. Lowering the temperature would prevent millions of deaths by starvation in the meantime, whether we change "business as usual" or not.

  • can it be done everywhere at the same time?
  • what is the impact on the water pattern on a global scale?

Maybe we should do some tests?

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Millions of people starving in third-world countries will in no way make wealthy business executives feel "responsible" for what they're doing. They don't care about that. So if you want these companies held responsible, letting mass deaths happen isn't going to do it.

Frankly even if it would make them feel "responsible" it's a monstrous thing to allow to happen if you have any way of stopping it. IMO the people who oppose geoengineering research because they want greenhouse gas emissions to cause megadeaths are as out of touch with humanity as the executives they claim to hate.

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Alright, we'll just put that over here in the pile of solutions that definitely totally will really happen.

I think we should continue looking into other options in the meantime, though, just in case that doesn't pan out for some reason.

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Even if we did cut our emissions to 0 there would continue to be a rise in temperature for some time to come, glaciers would continue melting, and so forth. There's feedback loops and inertia to this sort of thing.

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