PorterBHall

2 месяца назадdiscuss

What saddens me about this topic is the large amount of hatred coming at cyclists from drivers in the opinion page of the local newspaper (Seattle Times). Why not have some gratitude they are not contributing to traffic, not taking up parking, not polluting, etc. It comes across as pure madness.

PorterBHall

2 месяца назадdiscuss

I’m in the middle of this right now. They detail a scenario that starts off pretty convincing but takes a turn into a sci-fi feel when this fictional model starts strategizing on how to escape its containment.

The core argument is that these models aren’t crafted as much as they’re grown. They show examples where models display not desires but preferences (e.g. lying and cheating to testers) and that the AI companies aren’t able to control it even interpret those preferences.

If LLMs get to a super intelligence phase (big if there), the gap between its capabilities and our understanding of it grows even larger.

PorterBHall

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Is it the end of the world or just Davos?

PorterBHall

3 месяца назадdiscuss

I love this because it explains so much about the human mind. Rationally, it was the medication. Emotionally, it was Jesus.

PorterBHall

4 месяца назадdiscuss

> When we ponder upon this, it boggles down to the fact that it's notoriously hard to distinguish "value creation" vs "value extraction".

This is an excellent frame to think about this. When we look at the increasing financialization of consumer spending (subscriptions, buy now pay later, rebates, club discounts, etc.), we can think of it as disguising value extraction as value creation.

PorterBHall

4 месяца назадdiscuss

I have to wonder, too, if this partially describes why "Make America Great Again" has been such an effective slogan. The greatness that most Americans long to return to is a time where a larger middle class was able to more easily pay for health care, housing, and other needs.

PorterBHall

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

“Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”

PorterBHall

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

It was a different world when you were a kid. People weren’t as incendiary in their speech.

PorterBHall

6 месяцев назадdiscuss

In the United States, stochastic terrorism is neither a statutory offense nor a term of art in criminal codes; it is an analytic label used in scholarship and practitioner writing to describe probabilistic risks of violence linked to rhetoric. Recent legal and critical surveys stress that usage is heterogeneous and contested, and that the concept's value lies in describing a structure of communication and harm rather than in supplying a justiciable element test.[7] By contrast, U.S. incitement law is anchored in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), which protects advocacy short of speech that is intended to produce imminent lawless action and likely to do so. Stochastic accounts often concern non-directive, cumulative rhetoric whose effects materialize unpredictably, making the Brandenburg imminence and likelihood prongs difficult to satisfy absent clear exhortation.[2]

PorterBHall

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

It’s unsettling to think that humanity has lost knowledge it once had, but it happens all the time. Anyone here know how to harness a horse to a buggy?

PorterBHall

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

Gen Z discovers nostalgia.

PorterBHall

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

True that a majority of the electorate voted for and should have expected this, but Presidential approval rating is in the cellar.

PorterBHall

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

I think your take makes sense. Thanks for laying it out. I worry about the containment aspects of this. Sure, the capex for this is coming off corporate balance sheets, but a bad event could wipe away a lot of stock market value, which would trigger a deep recession given that AI spending is really the only thing keeping our economy afloat at the moment. It feels like we’re in a doomed if we do, doomed if we don’t moment. I see breadlines in our future whether or not we achieve AGI. The only question is whether or not we’ll have to deal with some added existential risk.

PorterBHall

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

I came here with a similar thought. Given that we don't have a really precise definition of that transition from living to dead, I wonder if this could be it.

PorterBHall

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

Only the prices paid by my side are unfair or absurd. The prices paid by their side are justified.

Meanwhile the lines dividing us become deeper and wider.

PorterBHall

11 месяцев назадdiscuss

Wedge issues, deployed by both political parties, do exactly this.

Wealthy donors express their political desires by funding politicians who become dependent on their continued financial support.

The voter gets just enough small wins on these wedge issues to keep them somewhat happy. The wealthy preserves the status quo since that’s how they became wealthy in the first place. Our democracy ossifies in the face of new challenges.

If voters across the spectrum viewed campaign finance reform as a key issue, we might have some hope in changing things.

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