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last monthdiscuss

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14372

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last monthdiscuss

I'll note that having countless superintelligences handy will accelerate problem-solving e.g. dystopia.

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4 months agodiscuss

A couple of possibilities spring to mind. Likelier that Karen lied, but maybe the 512 page fax changed the system.

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4 months agodiscuss

You mean, Karen lied?

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5 months agodiscuss

I'm old. Back in the olden days - the 1900s - 2-ton cars were not lightweight, the so-called heavy Chevys.

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6 months agodiscuss

Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "internet psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death...

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6 months agodiscuss

Small? GPLv3 is ~5644 words, and not particularly long for a license.

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last yeardiscuss

Sturgeon's Law predates LLMs by decades: 90% of everything is crap.

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last yeardiscuss

Fair use?

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last yeardiscuss

No, it isn't, wealth is good. More readily creating and delivering value is good.

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2 years agodiscuss

Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

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2 years agodiscuss

Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.

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2 years agodiscuss

Fixed goals and flexible tactics, I say. PG comes along and says it much better...

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