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Comment · 4 months ago
"Third, I propose computational antitrust: the principle that market complexity itself is a competitive safeguard, and that regulators should consider computational difficulty as a design parameter."

This "should" is doing a lot of work here. The paper is mainly about a game-theoretic model allegedly corresponding to real markets, but establishing what regulators ought to do requires far more rationale than mere math. It requires a bridge from "is" to "ought." It reminds me of Hume's warning about this kind of non-sequitur:

"In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning, ... ; when all of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is however, of the last consequence."

Comment · 1 year ago
It's a double-edged sword: ancestor-worship blocks progress, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater also blocks progress. Real fundamental progress comes from the tiny minority that avoids both.
Comment · 1 year ago
With that attitude how would the presently accepted languages/frameworks have come about?
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure they're being intentionally programmed to fake alignment in at least the respect of gaslighting the user into thinking the AI agrees/aligns with them. I.e. intentionally programmed hypocritical agreeableness -- it will say one agreeable thing to one user and another agreeable thing to another user wherein each user has opposite viewpoints.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not merely downvoted but also flagged.
Comment · 2 years ago
Likewise the use of the term "certain" is merely metaphorical.
Comment · 2 years ago
HN is not a meritocracy, anyone with an opinion can just chime in and then get upvoted by people who don't really understand what's going on.
Comment · 2 years ago
OK Steve.
Comment · 2 years ago
You are correct, it's more properly thought of as a specification. However it's a bit more than a misnomer, it's a kind of religion or cult with roots going back decades.
Comment · 2 years ago
Blatant substance-free hit piece.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ergo the shadowban.
Comment · 3 years ago
Wisdom has never been popular, the dynamics that led to the death of Socrates have continued from his day to our own.
Comment · 3 years ago
Paul finally got a taste of his own medicine? Good.

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