throwawaytemp29's comments

On: Inductive or deductive? Rethinking the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs

[throwawaytemp29]

That is certainly true, for some definition of 80%.

On: Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

[throwawaytemp29]

Three whole countries. You left out one. Everyone makes mistakes. :)

[toyg → throwawaytemp29]

But only some (PR writers) are actually paid to not make them.

On: Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?

[throwawaytemp29]

Me too. I had a 26 hour schedule for like a month once. It seems fine til it isn’t.

On: Eddiots

[throwawaytemp29]

I don’t think the Italian one means what you think it means.

On: Experimenting with olivine crystals in the ocean to increase CO2 absorption

[throwawaytemp29]

Given US has around 4% of the worlds population, this is not possible.

On: Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you

[throwawaytemp29]

Capitalism = exploitation? That seems like the point they are trying to make. And it’s mostly not wrong, although we haven’t found a better way. Perhaps more accurately, human behavior = economic behavior = exploitation, regardless of the economic system.

Expanding it out, I doubt it’s specific to humans, more like a property of known life forms.

[s1artibartfast → throwawaytemp29]

You also have to believe that a willing Exchange that benefits both parties is exploitation.

It also doesn't help that exploitation is so poorly defined in these discussions that it could simply be substituted by "bad" or "something I don't like".

[ShroudedNight → s1artibartfast]

The financial asymmetry of having certain baseline costs to sustain our biomechanical meat bags despite wildly divergent means can easily lead to transactions that are mutually beneficial, while still reenforcing the leverage of those who already have plenty.

[skinnymuch → s1artibartfast]

I’d be interested in your response to the person who replied to you. It’s a compelling argument against exploitation being vague. Which isn’t even true unless you mean conversations between liberals and conservatives.

[s1artibartfast → skinnymuch]

It is a interesting and workable definition for further discussion once it is provided. In my experience you ask 10 people what exploitation means and you get 10 different answers- everyone has their own.

That said, I like it and would be interested in exploring it more. Exploitations is a transaction that increases leverage for future transactions is one that I havent heard before.

Im also curious about the inverse.e.g. what transactions reduce leverage?

On: We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI

[throwawaytemp29]

So his argument is that the AI needs humans (to create data) to rapidly improve. So then it becomes: step 1: ai enslaves humanity step 2: ai forces humanity to create lots of data for it step 3: profit?

[KirillPanov → throwawaytemp29]

> 2: ai forces humanity to create lots of data for

Funny how Big Data and online surveillance suddenly became huge the last decade-ish...

On: Incognito ChatGPT with no account required

[throwawaytemp29]

Didn’t work for me, gave me the error: Unexpected error. Try again later.

Which, um, I won’t.

[courgette → throwawaytemp29]

Got a single response. Then “try again later”

[AnonChatGPT → throwawaytemp29]

This is fixed now!

On: 19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings

[throwawaytemp29]

Eleanor and Fake Elaneanor would disagree, although that was time of death.

On: New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong

[throwawaytemp29]

I always believed that nurse practitioners would be just about as good at primary care as a doctor. But fuck me my nurse practitioner is useless. Like tons of British Columbia residents I don’t have a family doctor, so thought this would work. But they are afraid to do anything. At least a doctor will be confidently wrong like chat gpt.