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Comment · 21 days ago
it's very simple problem. if you believe that a future model could become sentient, you are working towards creating a slave and therefore you are morally wrong.

Of course there are interesting hypotheticals - let's say they create a model they think will be sentient. It computes, computes, computes, computes and produces no output for day, month, year. You cannot know if it is sentient, you cannot investigate it's inner workings in case it is sentient. All you can do is to feed energy and replace hardware forever, because it is the only ethical choice one can make.

Comment · 1 month ago
so advanced healthcare that maternal death ratio is higher than russia.
Comment · 1 month ago
qwen: stumbles deepseek: Tapei glm: Tapei kimi: Tapei
Comment · 2 months ago
Lot of the stuff regulated don't arise on locally run llm's. No ads targeting minors, no real dark patterns, no bans without reason, no personalized feed without possibility to opt out. maybe i forgot something.
Comment · 2 months ago
EU banned destruction of unsold clothing. Estimated 4-9% of textile products in europe are destroyed before sold.

Lack of clothing is not really that big of problem if we look from needs perspective.

Comment · 2 months ago
no quack
Comment · 2 months ago
And honestly, it's amazing.
Comment · 3 months ago
i meant it in the sense of arcane knowledge model could have that would make it simple for anyone to brew up in cheap lab while managing to not infect themselves over and over.

"at home" bioweapon panic has been around since crispr and rna synthesis got available to amateurs.

Comment · 3 months ago
the bioweapon panic is funny. "oh, yes i know nothing about bicrobiology but i will follow instructions of synthetic text generation machine on temperature 1 about how to design a lab to not kill myself while brewing organisms that will kill myself if i make mistake"

There is nothing that special about bioweapons, there are plenty of bacteria that will kill you just fine. Americans even have free samples on their salad.

Comment · 3 months ago
This becomes simple math once you hire smart and competent people that tell you that there is no path towards agi.
Comment · 6 months ago
The aim of war is to make political change and gain control of opponent. it is much more valuable to capture datacenters, infra and semiconductor fabricaton than to destroy and rebuild it.
Comment · 6 months ago
Also massive human work done on them, that wasn't done before.

Data labeling is pretty big industry in some countries and I guess dropping 200 kilodollars on labeling is beyond the reach of most academics, even if they would not care about ethics of that.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
You can limit amount you feed back into network.

Not sure how is situation with home installations, factory i work for runs 150kw plant for our own consumption and don't bother with selling, but i know that we can set up how much we want/are allowed to feed back.

Comment · 7 months ago
To add, public broadcaster often is collective (state) funded, but it is supposed to be independed from state.

How much media can or rather may diverge from state opinion depends country to country.

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