It’s worth mentioning that this book was massively influential in AI policy.
All the people like Sam Altman that like to talk about super intelligent AI taking over are worried about exactly what’s described in this book.
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There’s something experimental in Firefox nightly -or at least there was. You could give that a try.
4·11 days agoYou might find this interesting.
Police practices remain unchanged: ethnic profiling, stop and search, and discriminatory fining practices by local police are routine, while excessive use of force against Roma and a culture of impunity within law enforcement remains the norm.
https://www.errc.org/news/how-racist-and-incompetent-policing-cost-romani-lives-in-hungary
61·16 days agoThere are things you can manage, but they tend to be about controlling your environment.
JD Vance is the perfect example of someone that benefited from the military. Fit in (and let’s be honest being a straight white male still helps). Find a job that involves sitting behind a desk. Get some experience pulling a 9-5 for a few years, and then go to university for free. Don’t get injured. Don’t get PTSD.
All of this attitude with a capital A is too late. You can’t Attitude yourself out of a missing leg, and you can’t Attitude yourself out of PTSD. You can learn to cope better but coping well with PTSD is still worse than not having it.
Either have a plan to avoid danger or you need to be lucky.
2·17 days agoI mean the fundamental problem is that humans are dicks and moderation is always needed. It should also be paid, and supported with counciling and recovery time when needed. Dealing with toxic content is a job.
Federation isn’t very good at this. The tech is great but everyone is a volunteer and there’s (afaik) no global ban hammer so trolls move from one instance to another. Bluesky currently has venture capital to pay for moderation teams, and centralized ban options.
I don’t know how long this can last without advertising revenue though.
To be fair, Kemi would betray humanity for a pack of gum.
The other great ambiguity is hug/jazz hands. 🤗
I’m sorry your mom just died. *jazz hands*
I wouldn’t be surprised if this list turned out to be generated by AI.
It’s terrible. 3 mast ships but no boats?
Steam engine turns up 3 times as steam engine, railways, and steam ship.
Mass production isn’t even a technology, it’s a process. Biotechnology is a field not a technology.
11·22 days agoYou have to remember that most English speaking countries don’t have a spelling bee either. The US is weird.
I looked up a UK version and all I could find was old competitions about learning to spell in other languages. E.g. https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/events/national-spelling-bee-competition
2·22 days agoIt was seen as very applied and not particularly fundamental research at the time.
But with the benefit of hindsight this was one of the many starts of modern machine learning.
Because it all connects together, and you can program them jointly to help solve tasks.
Having email and version control inside emacs makes it easy to set up an email based patch system.
Of course this system will then benefit from the existing code highlighting, introspection, and an integrated debugger.
Integrating it with your time planner means you can automatically add commits to your journal as a way of tracking what you’ve been working on.
The old joke always was emacs is a great operating system, it just needs a good text editor.
The real downside for me is everything is just a little bit janky. It all almost works perfectly and the code is right there to fix it, if you can be bothered. Generally I can’t.
And clegg is a political puppet so he should know.
:_____: “Use Facebook it’s absolutely safe and not a pathway to radicalization.”
3·26 days agoYeah these shouldn’t be nationalized.
Instead, the new nationalized companies should buy their own stock, or lease on longer term and cheaper contracts.
Rolling stock companies only exist because there’s no point buying a train that lasts decades, if you only get a contract for 3 years.
- Fuck those things.
- The main problem with them is not just the software, which is awful, but that it means you’re working at Amazon.
This has always been the case. I think I first stumbled across less wrong in the early two thousands when I was a maths undergrad.
At this point it was mostly Eliezer writing extremely long blog posts about Bayesian thinking, and my take home was just, wow these guys are really bad at maths.
A good mathematician will carefully select the right level of abstraction to make what they’re saying as simple as possible. Less wrong has always done the complete opposite, everything is full of junk details and needless complexity, in order to make it feel harder than it really is
Basically, Eliezer needs an editor, and everyone who copies his style needs one too.
3·1 month agoThe important thing is that musk is a classic libertarian grifter.
His cars are propped up by government subsidies (or they were, I think he’s running into problems), starlink is heavily used by NASA, and the boring company is just another way to extract government money.
He’ll pretend to be a global libertarian, but what he really wants is sky high tarrifs so he doesn’t have to compete with Chinese electric cars.
61·1 month agoOk, it’s almost empty at the moment.
The best thing you could do is post articles to it at a rate of about 1 a day. This will turn up in people’s feeds and hopefully get up voted and attract comments.
Cross posting etc., can come after this. You can’t promote a community with no content.
11·1 month agoIt’s about generative AI as it is currently used.
But yeah, the complaints everyone has about Gen AI are mostly driven by speculative venture capital. The only advantage Google and openai can maintain over open source models is a willingness to spend more per token than a hobbyist. So they’re pumping cash in to subsidize their LLMs and it carries with it a stupidly high environmental cost.
There’s no possible end game here. Unlike the normal tech monopolies, you can’t put hobbiest models out of business, by subsidizing your own products. But the market is irrational and expects a general AI, and is encouraging this behavior.
Careful, she’ll sue you.