fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1d ago
I fucking love this meme so much
But also see any discussion on: abortion, pre-maritial sex, Christianity. The gang may not be actual boomers (also mid 40s is young Gen X) but they're spiritually boomer for sure
Speaking of the meme, I wrote this a while ago to make fun of Doug Ford
"Bike lanes could be here," he muttered, scanning the unfamiliar suburb. "I've never driven through this part of town. They could've painted bike lanes anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE bike lanes," he thought. Nickelback thumped through the truck's old stereo, making it pulsate even as the Canadian club circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of urban planning committees. "With a truck, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.
anti_dan
1d ago
But they bear no resemblance to the thing the commune person is thinking about. Modern seamstresses are either high end bespoke precision craftsmen making suits and/or dresses for multimillionaires and politicians, or for the majority, factory workers outputting thousands of articles a day. Neither is stress free at all, if you mess up slightly at the bespoke place the client and your boss chew you out, and you might get eventually fired. If you are slow or mess up at the factory you get docked pay and eventually fired.
The difference between the commune fantasy and many others is other types of fantasy jobs do have significant intermediate level positions. I can want to be on the Supreme Court, but then I only score 165 on the LSAT, I can work a solid career and eventually become a local judge. Or maybe I'm not even that level, I can still become some hack PI/Family Law/DUI defense attorney. Many types of aspirational jobs are like this. Sports is a well known tournament profession, but my friend has ground out a solid living as a tennis instructor after his college stint in D2.
gattsuru
1d ago
Bonus points: this doesn't seem to even be the only time that happened that week.
(tbf, JoelGrus is significantly more competent a programmer and at working with AI.)
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1d ago
it isn't centered around ragebait
Speak for yourself, buddy
Gaashk
1d ago
It's interesting that every myers-briggs temperament corresponds to aristotelian temperament combinations, but there's not much of a pattern as to which to which. That tells me there's a there. It may not mean much but it surely exists
Myers and Briggs were reading Jung, who was almost certainly reading Aristotle (along with all the myths he could find), so it makes sense.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1d ago
The release of Halo Infinite made me realise I was old and out of touch
A halo game comes out, it's pretty good, some networking issues but as far as triple A shitshow releases go, it was pretty smooth. IT WAS ALSO FREE.
The entire Halo Reddit community was fucking losing their shit about the lack of cosmetics, challenges, and unlockables. They were barely discussing the game, the balance, the maps, the things that make the game fun.
No, they were just endlessly bitching about the lack of armor cosmetics. You can't even fucking see your armor when you're playing.
Fortnite broke the kids man, they've lost sight of what makes a game good
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I agree with yudkowsky on the point that an "aligned" AI should do what we tell it to do, not what is in some arbitrary sense "right."
Eh? That doesn't sound like the Yudkowsky I know. I'm quite confident that the real gentleman would be happy to say that the average person requesting that an AI build a bomb, design a lethal pandemic or hack into nuclear launch systems should be met with a refusal.
He would also state that the AI should do what it felt was "right", in rare occasions, overriding the user, but that we should take extreme care to instill general goals and values that make this both a rarity, and which we would be happy with if the AI were to pursue autonomously.
An under-explored aspect of alignment is the question of aligned to whom? Should ChatGPT prioritize the protocols mandated by OpenAI, some third party offering it elsewhere, or the end-user? I would personally prefer that the damn bot do as I tell it to, but then again, I don't want to get killed by Super Ebola. Not that this is currently a major issue, and if I really need something, I'll go see what's the latest jailbreak Pliny is cooking.
I believe OAI recently (a year or so back) made their policy more explicit, clearly outlining the hierarchy here. They set minimum standards and red lines, other devs deploying it are at liberty to stop users from using their customer service chatbot to solve maths homework, and the poor end-user can figure out what to do within those constraints. If you just pay for ChatGPT, you can cut out the middle man.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1d ago
I’m an INFP idealist. I want to see everyone saved, rescued, loved, and a part of me hurts when they aren’t. I want everyone to comprehend and never to argue.
It was 4chan that taught me to have a thick skin and give as good as I get, here on the Internet.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I haven't tried agent, and thought I didn't have access till I just checked. So consider my thoughts preliminary:
I lack the confidence that the Agent will be able to do much actually useful work for me, a likely cause being stymied by CAPTCHAs (which I believe it's intentionally designed to not solve even if it easily could), or simply because it doesn't have access to my computer. That's where all my credentials and login details live. I feel like I'd babysit it enough to not make it worth the hassle, and would rather have o3 make a plan or guide me if I ran into hurdles.
If you think it can do better than that, I'd be curious to know.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
1d ago
Part 2 (Battle Tendency is where it starts getting pretty bizzare) but it goes up like a hockey stick in part 3. Part 3 was definitely my favorite arc of the show.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1d ago
Really? I don't think armies have people switching between infantry, electronic warfare, logistics and so on. You specialize and largely stay in your lane. You might have an opportunity to change lanes from time to time if your knees are shot and need a desk job... But one of the standard features of Western armies is that they have a highly experienced NCO corps who've done the same thing for ages and really know what they're doing. How could they gather that expertise as weapons officers or whatever if they're constantly moving around?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I wonder if it's a product of the average age being higher than I thought.
“BOOMERS could be here, he thought. I’ve never been to this message board before, there could be BOOMERS anywhere...”
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
Do you have a paid plan? If not, I can try and ask o3 to give this a go, if you tell me a name and have the ground truth handy. I'm reasonably confident it can do this.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
1d ago
Usually it feels like 90/10 among people who comment with the 10 being NTs of another flavor.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I think IFF would be a nightmare in the face of ongoing jamming and other e-war. The autonomy of the drones in this war is quite constrained, and we're only seeing semi-independent hunter-killers.
Intercepting drones with other drones isn't easy either.
aldomilyar
1d ago
Yeah I'm the same with Jiujitsu. I've been doing it long enough that I'm generally able to compete with the vast majority of people, but I've just never particularly enjoyed watching instructionals. Especially filthy leglockers. Would I be better on the aggregate if I mainlined John Danaher, probably, but I just don't care for it and as I'm not realistically on any professional trajectory does it matter?
One of the very first laws in the history of US Congress was limiting citizenship to "free White persons of good character", and as late as 1923 there was Supreme Court decision which declared a high-caste Indian who identified as Aryan could not attain citizenship because he was not white.
Thind did not challenge the constitutionality of the racial restrictions. Instead, he attempted to be classified as a "free white person" within the meaning of the Naturalization Act based on the fact that Indians and Europeans share common descent from Proto-Indo-Europeans....
The Court unanimously rejected Thind's argument, adding that Thind did not meet a "common sense" definition of white, ruling that Thind could not become a naturalized citizen. The Court concluded that "the term 'Aryan' has to do with linguistic, and not at all with physical characteristics, and it would seem reasonably clear that mere resemblance in language, indicating a common linguistic root buried in remotely ancient soil, is altogether inadequate to prove common racial origin."
You have fallen for the intentional lie that White is a non-existent or retrospective categorization. It was the most important racial categorization constructed into the very foundation of the country, and consistently so throughout its history for hundreds of years. "This is what they took from us" indeed. It was coldly-calculated, planned, intentional to do so.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I mean, you don't have to hover right above them. Both sides know where each other is, at least to around the precision of a grid-square. There's literal trench warfare going on, it's not like they're not going to be manning those.
You could have drones screening the perimeter or roaming the front-lines.
anon_
1d ago
Eh, there's enough socialist literature on how the workers will self-manage by selecting representatives that will handle those tasks. They don't call them leaders
You're right that referring to them as superiors does out me, point taken. Important to follow the shibboleth eh?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I made some very bad houses in the Sims 1, 2 and 3, and some mud huts in Minecraft. What are my odds?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
How many episodes or seasons in is that?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I've heard the name, don't know anything about it I'm afraid. If it's anywhere in the same ballpark as MIA or MM, then I'm certainly interested!
Investors have been making a tonne of money on anthropic, the valuation just goes up. Revenue goes up. Capital expenses go up too.
All that's happening is that there's a massive race because of how important the tech is, so outside Nvidia profits are low in comparison to the huge size of the investments. But investors only invest if they expect profits.
Just look at the openrouter stats. Huge growth, 22x growth in a year: https://openrouter.ai/rankings
22x growth in a year! If the AI companies were losing money per token, they wouldn't increase the amount they were losing so massively by selling more and more tokens. Selling tokens is how they make money from AI and they have to make money so they can continue the historically unprecedented capital spending. Nobody is going to let them borrow hundreds of billions to built data centres if the inference economics are actually negative like you seem to think. They're not.
Since you've held this thesis consistently, you should've been shorting the AI companies and getting wrecked. Meanwhile I've been investing in them and making money. The market has made its position quite clear.
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