I'm sorry but what the fuck is this product pitch? Anyone who's done any kind of substantial document research knows that it's a NIGHTMARE of chasing loose ends & citogenesis. Trusting an LLM to critically evaluate…
> It isn't banned Yet. They have clearly voiced their desire for this. > it just won't be state funded. This isn't just "The government is not funding research into this", this is the government maintaining a list of…
In what sense? The "Mugging" going on is that "AI safety" folks proclaim that AI might have an "extinction risk" or infinite-negative outcome. And they proclaim that therefore, we should be devoting considerable…
> It feels like they always anthropomorphize AI as some sort of "God". It's not like that. It is that. They're playing Pascal's Wager against an imaginary future god. The most maddening part is that the obvious problem…
> The same argument applies to essentially all technology, like a computer. Why yes, it does. Even setting aside that most AI hype: Yes, automation is in fact quite sinister if you do not go out of your way to deal with…
This is a hilarious claim given that none of the current action is going through the legislative path, and the tech billionaires freely bend the knee to Trump even before the inauguration. What's even the material point…
Look at Albania for why this is bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania Crypto is different from things like housing (where the "bubble" is merely artificially restricted supply driving the price…
> Sure you can say that crypto is only bubble, but that doesn't really add any information. The bubble can't be "inflating" since there's no ratio to a non-bubble version. The core point is that there is…
>Why should somebody researching e.g. fusion for the Department of Energy also need to create a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) plan, to even apply? Why? Because a homogenous culture of researchers is…
> we do KYC And what then, is stopping governments from simply demanding you hand over a list of your customers? They will seek to enforce those currency controls you are subverting. Your entire sales pitch here is…
Their way of squaring this circle has always been to whine about "AI safety". (the cultish doomsday shit, not actual harms from AI) Sam Altman will proclaim that he alone is qualified to build AI and that everyone else…
> (Don’t answer that.) It is nevertheless important to say out loud: > Why is getting people to use AI seen as a good in itself? Because user counts pump up the stock price. And that is all AI has. Whether you believe…
What the claimed motivation is does not matter; the order is gone in it's entirity now. Frankly, it's just conservatives using "affirmative action" as a buzzword, because it really doesn't describe affirmative action as…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying.…
> (Otherwise we'd just be doing that already.) Not quite what the original commenter meant but: WE ARE. A major consequence of this reckless AI scraping is that it turbocharged the move away from the web and into closed…
> Like what happens with publicly-owned TV Which is bad ... why exactly? Public TV largely works. Meanwhile, existing privately owned social media & news in the US falling into the hands of single billionaires is…
> The added bonus of replacing laid off tech staff with overseas contractors is another morale booster. Woah, woah, they're not overseas, they're "Virtual Employees" now. You're not supposed to look behind the curtain.
> It seems to me you're doing at least 1 thing here, and acknowledging that such DEI program was performative in the first place. Keep in mind that these statements are made to pander to the incoming president. The…
Besides the things other comments mentioned: There is a longstanding sentiment that "It can't happen here". The wider public in America more or less blocks out the risks involved. "They're not actually going to blow up…
That's a red herring. The problem is that these are fundamentally NOT reasoning systems. Even when contorted into "reasoning" models, these are just stochastic parrots guessing the next words in the hopes that it's the…
> You can easily be undercut. If you're successful selling FOSS, it's because you've made it really easy for your customers, been really helpful to them, or because they want to pay you because they like you, probably…
> Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code You do not. There is nothing in the GPL that mandates you contribute. You can simply use the software as-is, and never contribute. Sit on your hands when there's a…
> They've just legally given up all the coercive options, so the only tool left is complaint My previous comment on this was unclear. The very act of complaining about it betrays the idea that it's "freedom". Either…
> if the end user can't use it for commercial purposes then the software is by definition not FOSS software. Okay but like, who cares. The definition of "Free Software" is just whatever RMS screeches about. The OSI is…
Public transit companies that make tickets explicitly free and then get upset nobody pays them would get laughed out the room for bemoaning "free-riders". It may be a "technically correct" use of the word, but it's not…
I'm sorry but what the fuck is this product pitch? Anyone who's done any kind of substantial document research knows that it's a NIGHTMARE of chasing loose ends & citogenesis. Trusting an LLM to critically evaluate…
> It isn't banned Yet. They have clearly voiced their desire for this. > it just won't be state funded. This isn't just "The government is not funding research into this", this is the government maintaining a list of…
In what sense? The "Mugging" going on is that "AI safety" folks proclaim that AI might have an "extinction risk" or infinite-negative outcome. And they proclaim that therefore, we should be devoting considerable…
> It feels like they always anthropomorphize AI as some sort of "God". It's not like that. It is that. They're playing Pascal's Wager against an imaginary future god. The most maddening part is that the obvious problem…
> The same argument applies to essentially all technology, like a computer. Why yes, it does. Even setting aside that most AI hype: Yes, automation is in fact quite sinister if you do not go out of your way to deal with…
This is a hilarious claim given that none of the current action is going through the legislative path, and the tech billionaires freely bend the knee to Trump even before the inauguration. What's even the material point…
Look at Albania for why this is bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania Crypto is different from things like housing (where the "bubble" is merely artificially restricted supply driving the price…
> Sure you can say that crypto is only bubble, but that doesn't really add any information. The bubble can't be "inflating" since there's no ratio to a non-bubble version. The core point is that there is…
>Why should somebody researching e.g. fusion for the Department of Energy also need to create a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) plan, to even apply? Why? Because a homogenous culture of researchers is…
> we do KYC And what then, is stopping governments from simply demanding you hand over a list of your customers? They will seek to enforce those currency controls you are subverting. Your entire sales pitch here is…
Their way of squaring this circle has always been to whine about "AI safety". (the cultish doomsday shit, not actual harms from AI) Sam Altman will proclaim that he alone is qualified to build AI and that everyone else…
> (Don’t answer that.) It is nevertheless important to say out loud: > Why is getting people to use AI seen as a good in itself? Because user counts pump up the stock price. And that is all AI has. Whether you believe…
What the claimed motivation is does not matter; the order is gone in it's entirity now. Frankly, it's just conservatives using "affirmative action" as a buzzword, because it really doesn't describe affirmative action as…
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President. "Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly". Free Speech in the US is dying.…
> (Otherwise we'd just be doing that already.) Not quite what the original commenter meant but: WE ARE. A major consequence of this reckless AI scraping is that it turbocharged the move away from the web and into closed…
> Like what happens with publicly-owned TV Which is bad ... why exactly? Public TV largely works. Meanwhile, existing privately owned social media & news in the US falling into the hands of single billionaires is…
> The added bonus of replacing laid off tech staff with overseas contractors is another morale booster. Woah, woah, they're not overseas, they're "Virtual Employees" now. You're not supposed to look behind the curtain.
> It seems to me you're doing at least 1 thing here, and acknowledging that such DEI program was performative in the first place. Keep in mind that these statements are made to pander to the incoming president. The…
Besides the things other comments mentioned: There is a longstanding sentiment that "It can't happen here". The wider public in America more or less blocks out the risks involved. "They're not actually going to blow up…
That's a red herring. The problem is that these are fundamentally NOT reasoning systems. Even when contorted into "reasoning" models, these are just stochastic parrots guessing the next words in the hopes that it's the…
> You can easily be undercut. If you're successful selling FOSS, it's because you've made it really easy for your customers, been really helpful to them, or because they want to pay you because they like you, probably…
> Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code You do not. There is nothing in the GPL that mandates you contribute. You can simply use the software as-is, and never contribute. Sit on your hands when there's a…
> They've just legally given up all the coercive options, so the only tool left is complaint My previous comment on this was unclear. The very act of complaining about it betrays the idea that it's "freedom". Either…
> if the end user can't use it for commercial purposes then the software is by definition not FOSS software. Okay but like, who cares. The definition of "Free Software" is just whatever RMS screeches about. The OSI is…
Public transit companies that make tickets explicitly free and then get upset nobody pays them would get laughed out the room for bemoaning "free-riders". It may be a "technically correct" use of the word, but it's not…