Hahaha Brilliant

I hope that as intelligent entities become better at modeling orders, they become more empathic 

With regards to the expensive organization, I say entrance the chaos! Just get a few bins so people don’t have to be up on each other, but if you have a lot of fun stickers, people will enjoy the hunt. Heck, you might find people that enjoy sporting and categorizing them. In any case, it’s an activity-focused social event, where the chance of finding what you’re looking for is improved by cooperation. As people pick stickers that they identify with, it will spark conversations. I love it. 

I don’t think China is willing to accept yielding. I can’t think of any reason that they would. 

This is totally a shower thought, and I don’t trust it, but what about a strategy of semi-cooperation? China has been contributing to open source models. Those models have been keeping up with, and catching up to the capabilities of the closed source models. 

I wonder if mutual containment could come through having similar capabilities as we both learn from each other’s research. Then neither side has a gross advantage. Maybe it doesn’t have to be zero-sum. 

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Any idea of how it handles context length? I’ve been using VS Code Copilot, and it’s great up until the AI assistant hits its context cap. I know that when it says, “Summarizing conversation,” that the assistant has been lobotomized and replaced with an agent who has all of the confidence of the last assistant, but basically no idea what it’s really doing. 

It’s at this point that it’s most likely to screw up the codebase. I can’t imagine how it’s supposed to be autonomous when it suddenly becomes brain dead. 

Ustice from the past, I disagree about one point. The preferences you were referring to not being moral questions is wrong. Obviously one could only include humans, or a subset of humans. Including humans in “it’s just nature” is obviously immoral. 

The choice of where to draw the line is very much a moral question. At least all humans is a pretty good Schelling point, but after that it there are only a few major points before things get murky, and rational moral minds can disagree. 

I don’t believe you meant to be dismissive, but your argument was, and that’s not fair. I apologize on his behalf. 

This is really cool analysis, but I think your conclusions are off. 

 I think this is what happens when you optimize for attention. Especially with user-generated art. I know I’ve watched more “incest” porn in the past few years—because it’s hard to avoid—yet, I’ve contributed to that tend. Gotta give people what they want, right? Bleh. Porn is subject to the same market pressures of enshittification that other businesses on to internet are under.  YouTube is a great example, but so is Facebook, Amazon, MySpace, Reddit, and many more.

Most of this is fantasy role-play, not real desires. People that like Little kink aren’t pedophiles. Furries don’t want to fuck real animals. Dommes aren’t sadistic assholes. 

I’m not saying that there isn’t problematic and porn. There is, and it’s gross. But being squicked out by someone else’s kink doesn’t mean their kink isn’t okay too. 

I’m pretty convinced at this point that qualia comes from systems with a certain level of complexity, or maybe it comes from life. I’m very skeptical of the idea that only humans experience things. I think it’s highly likely that ants have inner lives. 

Where you lose me is the assumption that all insects are suffering. I expect that, like people, most of them are going about their day to day. Their lives have meaning to them. Yes, there are a lot being injured right now, but the VAST majority are because they were just going about their day. Life is hard. 

To me, your argument breaks down when you take it further. What about the single-cell organisms? They also respond to negative stimulus. I don’t know if the question of suffering of single-cell organisms has really been studied, but even multicellular creatures are essentially colonies of cells of multiple types and even species.  Wikipedia says there are about 3x10^13 human cells in a human body, with about that many bacterial cells. Should we be horrified at the desiccation and death of skin cells? The countless bacterial cell you are likely murdering every moment of your life as your cells fend off infection, and so too the cells of yours that die in the effort? Of cancer cells, who just want to live? 

These things are a part of nature. Intervening is just picking sides out of preference. It’s okay to have preferences, but they aren’t moral questions. 

To bring it back around, I’m with you on preserving habitat, and respecting life. When I find insects in my house that I can catch and release outside, I do. I think we need better regulation on wide-scale insecticide use. 

When a mosquito bites me, I’m going to kill it. If they’re living in my home, we’re at war. 

Hey, thanks for the interesting perspective. 👋

I think it’s easy to lose perspective when you multiply a really big number by a really small number. 
 

Oh man, of people I’ve interviewed, the college graduates are next to useless. There are exceptions, but that’s true of those that have less traditional backgrounds too. There are way more talentless hacks than skilled professionals. Even at the graduate level.

If they’re there because of a paycheck, you can keep them. I want the people on my team that do it because they love it, and they have since they were a kid. They’re the ones that keep up, and improve the fastest—I am certainly biased. 

With the new generative AI assistants, we’re going to have way more who are new and dabbling. Hopefully more of them are inspired to go deeper. But you know what, even shitty software that’s e solves a task can be useful.