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  1. On hacker news everything is 0% or 100%.
  2. Those tickets are only in companies that haven't learned the bitter lesson.
  3. least cyberpunk 2023 shit
  4. > It's not even clear whether two humans are experiencing the same flavor or taste when they agree that a food is "sweet"

    OK but that's like criticizing every science result by saying "how did they control for the possibility that I'm a vat brain and nothing they did was real"

  5. What if freshly caught songbirds taste sweet to them? Are we saying we know their qualia?
  6. > The choice to have children is usually not an economic consideration.

    This is obviously the nicer sounding position but I wonder if it's the true one.

  7. We can do it my FTX brothers.
  8. he just like me fr fr
  9. Maybe there could be a publicly funded virtual liver project.
  10. Is this AI safety?
  11. > "AI" doesn't work reliably enough to be used for most stuff. Safety from that perspective is real.

        -: AI is unsafe because it isn't capable enough
        +: AI is unsafe because it's too capable
  12. If someone wants the data but doesn't want to read a pdf wall, here are the important numbers:

    The mothers of 54 non-autistic boys were surveyed, and 7.4% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

    The mothers of 67 non-autistic girls were surveyed, and 17.9% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

    The mothers of 140 autistic boys were surveyed, and 19.3% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

    The mothers of 28 autistic girls were surveyed, and 10.7% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

    They did some analysis that was supposed to control for income, education, ethnicity, and geographical location to get the odds ratios and confidence intervals that other people are commenting.

  13. > I wanna know: where's the AI advocates? The people who are speaking in favor of AI now are just doing so because they think it will make them rich. Where's the people welcoming the bot overlords? Why aren't they working to make our future be the shape they think it should be?

    The call themselves e/acc. Chad effective accelerationists, making fun of the virgin effective altruism movement. They encompass a wide variety of degrees of irony like early flat earth society or early donald trump fans and they will probably end up similarly, where the movement becomes completely unironic and the ones who participated ironically get bored and do other things.

  14. Parasites in general have shrunken genomes.
  15. AI safety is some different things. One are the grifters trying to make money from fear. Others actually think that capable enough AI will irreversibly change our way of life in a bad way. For corporations AI safety just means brand risk and PR like not making another "Tay". For yet another group of people AI safety means the continuation of culture war stuff in the AI space.
  16. > I’m starting to think there’s an LLM equivalent to the old saying about how everything the media writes is accurate except on the topics you’re an expert in.

    This is true for media articles but for LLMs I feel like it's the opposite. Like people who aren't specialists don't fully appreciate how great it is at those tasks.

  17. So when AI is better at humans at everything, the takeaway will be that humans weren't so great after all?
  18. high effort blogpost

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