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I think the difference here is that they are paying for a feature they are morally opposed to, and thus supporting it. So now they are faced with two options: subsidize the development of technology they don't like, or leave and stop using the service altogether. The outrage comes from feeling morally obligated to leave a paid service despite being otherwise happy with it.

You would also be in prison if you disclosed anything about Los Alamos during its development. It was a completely different environment than a single private company.

Someone left a company whose executives and senior researchers think their product will be the most important thing in the world after their IPO. Given that this person is already disclosing some elements of internal company sentiment, why not share any of these civilization-ending scenarios of this technology that these senior researchers are dreaming up? If they are so potent and necessitate leaving behind based on moral grounds, why not tell the whole world so we can stop it? We have to ask ourselves this question before resorting to pop-culture representations of fictional technology.

Constructed human life is just more complicated than the AI capitalists would want you to believe. For example, even if an AI model can design a circuit-board, does that mean it's inherently useful? You need to source the wafers, cut them, package them, advertise them, etc. Given LLMs by their nature are confined to language and language-adjacent tasks, that is a very small percentage of the overall reasoning needed to make changes in the real world. In reality, LLMs are the intended way to extract maximal surplus-value from white-collar workers. We may see an increase in innovation as a result of that, but not because AI necessarily did it, in the same way that the power loom didn't create computers because its textiles clothed the computer scientists.

An interesting tidbit made insufferable by the writing style of Claude. ATP these articles are a collection of keywords to do my own research.

A post-labor world is necessarily a post-capital world. It is pretty impressive that the only way we can envision this happening is by inventing a species of robots that somehow concurrently A.) have all the same reasoning and functioning capabilities as humans and B.) are completely subservient to humans to perform labor. Specifically addressed to TFA: you are already part of the permanent underclass.

Just because we've been doing something forever does not mean that a recent resurgence in policy interest and a re-evaulation of the social worth of these projects is a waste of time.

I feel like the intro to the article is understating the amount of work an individual pop artist puts into their work, even if it is supported by a team of engineers/writers/producers. I like the interview, however.

This almost feels like satire.

I'd like to add to your point that private torrent trackers have had invite tree systems for awhile, and usually if your invitee breaks a rule, you get in trouble as well, so you are encouraged to only invite people you trust. The system has worked well for a long time, and some of these communities still thrive because of the trust that is built.

You realize homes are also private property right? You can have a shitty neighbor like the one described that is also enabled by the fact that they're in their own home. That doesn't justify what they're doing, but your argument against stores as "private property" doesn't hold water.

XGBoost is just faster on the GPU, regardless of the file format. A sibling post also pointed out compression helping out on bandwidth.

This game is awesome. I have no other feedback other than I had a lot of fun.