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I like python, computer vision, machine learning, and embedded linux. Javascript and C aren't so bad. Java when I must.

Sometimes hard problems require original solutions.

Let me know if I can help you build something.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/out_of_memory; my proof: https://keybase.io/out_of_memory/sigs/hKCdGlnMJiWvfRVU5-EsMZECGi0IfBaGJq8OpznChHw ]

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قبل 19 يومًاdiscuss

LLM adoption is 30% in the charts I saw googling for "ai adoption". An example of capibility: I have had Claude one shot an RL agent that learns connect four in 30 minutes. That's PhD level stuff.

LLMS are 4 years old and the companies that sell them 10x every year. What evidence can you cite? Could you convince a disinterested 3rd party you have anything other than cope? What facts about the world make you think this is anything other than the new (and probably temporary) normal?

قبل 19 يومًاdiscuss

Nothing follows from this empty platitude though, right? It can't inform you choices or decisions? It's just a disempowering thought?

They are buying up all the RAM today. Do you think "this is fine because in 5 years post-crash I can buy some cheap RAM"? If everyone with money is betting differently, do you have some information they don't, or is the whole economy just slipping away from you?

You experience luxuries today, that no king 1000 years ago could afford. Instant access to communication, food, medicine for the right price of course.

The consumer economy was great while it lasted but it's over now. We have machines that do useful mechanical work (engines) and useful intellectual work (llm-computers). Capital will move productive work from people to machines(if we let them), and the only jobs left will be delivery driver and warehouse, and then those will be gone too.

Human population was exponential and now its flat, but that's a function of what exacly? It could go back down to 1 billion or less. When jobs demanded a person supply was ready to match it. When jobs dont demand a person? Go to a degrowth rally take the temperature (and average age and child-per-person ratio) to get a taste of the future shape of supply and demand in a pessimistic world of sentences that don't have subjects just vague plattitudes. Are they net shutting down grade schools or building them in your neck of the woods?

قبل 19 يومًاdiscuss

If the production, and distribution of the tech is confined to one or two companies, then those two companies and the resulting power that comes to them, makes them the de facto world government. (Democratic choice may be a farce but it is a useful friction on net.)

If they own all the RAM, models, and the means to do any work, then you are at their mercy. They will buy all the RAM, leaving you none, then all the transport, then all the electricity. You will be as boxed out of the current economy as the Amish and it will get its plug pulled.

Gradual Disempowerment is the default plan right now. War and tyrrany are not remotely the worst case scenario. I'll take Butlerian Jihad over being turned into cattle any day.

Imagine solving for equilibrium with two classes of beings. One requires agricultural land and 20 years to become individually productive and barely maintains a healthy population in a entertainment saturated landscape. The second eats only electricity and is ready to work on day 1. Round 1 goes to the strongest gorilla for sure, round 100?

If LLMs had come to earth in spaceships would you have welcomed them into your work and your home?

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I think interpreting the rejection of broad, impersonal, policy based remediation to climate response is a way or expressing a preference for a more personal response, sharing their homes with climate refugees. Does anyone have something catchier than these?

"Climate denialism: A personal guarantee to host the displaced."

"Denying the crisis? Congratulations, you've just RSVP'd to house the refugees."

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

We could sell options on their future incomes, or taxes. An idea worth exploring. How can we encourage investment in future generations?

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Which means your heating bill will explode. Right now gas in America is easier to sell to Americans. But liquidized gas will change that. At least this will mean that opec won't be able to strangle lng in its crib, which their relatively low prices had been trying to do.

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Why is Larry Sanger trying to sabotage Wikipedia?

If Wikipedia can resist the urge to enshittify longer than anyone else, they've earned it.

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

We want the LLM to learn the multiplication algorithm not an incomplete set of tables. The algorithm might be smaller and will be more complete.

Honestly, our technology has outpaced our epistemology. So we don't really know what a fact is or isn't. Are facts what we call our supervised learning experiences? You think the sun rises, no the earth spins. Your belief that the sun rises helps you predict sunset and sunrise. Your belief would be quaint to someone born and raised on a space station. Apollos chariot moves the sun across the sky doesn't it?

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

There is the logical system that turns prolog into SQL. Something like this might be useful for nuero symbolic computing. Graph languages like cypher seem a lot more limited.

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Something like vine lang or something built on interaction nets might be close to what you are looking for. It can run on GPU.

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

The founders of the hypothetical terrorist vegan organization called "Blow Up Meat Packing Plants and Everyone Inside" has a lot to like about your proposal.

How do you see the incentives playing out in your multi-round game-theory battle for information control?

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

But then you let yourself get held hostage. Say NO now, while you can.

Suppose that circumcision becomes more contentious and the pro lobby and the con lobby both start sending you legalase and angry letters from politicians.

If you can say "we welcome your contributions to the internet corpus, and that's it" then you are maximally free. If you welcome their contributions to the SYSTEM_PROMPT then your future movements get increasingly restricted, well past the point of performance degradation.

Then you are fighting for your rights to run to run your product at all, rather than as mouth piece for some non-paying customer.

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Let's ask the robots what they think about how we should regulate robots.

This will be useful feedback to determine whether humans actually should or should not. Maybe they can even tile the internet with a manufactured consensus that we just gradually accept as not just as correct, but actually the only opinion possible.

Anyone else smell the gradual disempowerment?

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

The bacteria that aren't antibacterial resistant eventually get replaced by those that are.

Maybe you are alcohol, gambling, and pornography resistant but maybe you have friends and family that aren't. Are you picking up their slack?

What circumstances make "going Amish" look, not just reasonable, but necessary for survival?

قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

>The old overturned election laws were used in many cases to prevent books from being published in election years.

Which laws and which books? I can't find anything.

قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

AI would never be able to hijack the political process. AI Super-PACs dominating elections would be a clear milestone in the progression of the "gradual disempowerment" theory of loss of human control.

How could a person dedicated to their denial of the possibility of gradual disempowerment spin this as "good actually?" Am I reduced to "technological improvement is always good"? Or there some logically smaller step I can take?

السنة الماضيةdiscuss

I wondered if this was using interaction combinators like the vine programming language does.

I haven't read much that explains how they do it.

I have been very slowly trying to build a translation layer between starlark and vine as a proof of concept of massively parallel computing. If someone better qualified finds a better solution the market it sure to have demand for you. A translation layer is bound to be cheaper than teaching devs to write in jax or triton or whatever comes next.

السنة الماضيةdiscuss

I get straight up porn (for porn games and explicit AI gf chat apps) sent to me. I report it each time. What else can I do about it?

السنة الماضيةdiscuss

I sent a get request. If you put something in your database that's on you. Could we all be less eager to be the devil's advocate? "Chug your mandatory mountain dew in order to continue"

السنة الماضيةdiscuss

How is that? Sounds unbelievable.