sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4hr ago
It is unremarkable that you believe your preferences have higher priority than the preferences of others. The question is why everyone else who doesn't want AI copypasta on this forum has to come around to your point of view.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5hr ago
Friendo, you are the one who can't keep track of the conversation.
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You say it's dumb to have a rule against AI posts.
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Someone asks you why anyone would want to read AI posts.
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You say talking to AIs is great, maybe even better than talking to humans.
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I asked why you post here at all instead of talking to LLMs all the time.
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You responded with three reasons to prefer talking to humans vs LLMs
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I point out that these very reasons suggest that this forum should remain free from LLM posts.
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You bristle and say that your post needs no defense (why are you defending it up and down this thread then?)
At risk of belaboring the point, my response in point 6 is directly on the topic of point 1. To make it as clear as I can possibly make it, people come to this forum to talk to people because they prefer to talk to people. It should be clear that anyone who prefers to read LLM outputs can simply cut out the middleman and talk to them off of the motte.
sarker
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6hr ago
First, indeed, personal relationships of terminal value.
This militates against top level AI copypasta. That doesn't develop personal relationships.
Second, political influence, affecting future outcomes, and more mundane utilitarian objectives.
Highly unlikely that posting on the motte or talking to machines accomplishes either of these, so call it a wash. Recruiting for a cause is also against the rules, anyway.
Third, actually nontrivial amount of precise knowledge and understanding where LLMs remain unreliable.
Same as point 1. Precise knowledge and understanding usually comes from asking specific questions based on your own knowledge rather than what the LLM wants to know.
Your own reasons for posting here seem to suggest that there's no point in posting LLM content, and especially not as a top level post.
sarker
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6hr ago
If you really believe this - why don't you just take the next logical step and just talk to AIs full time instead of posting here?
Make them act out the usual cast of characters you interact with on here. They're intelligent, they're just as good as posters here, and you get responses on demand. You'll never get banned and they probably won't complain about LLM copypasta either. What's not to love?
If you do find yourself wanting to actually talk to humans on an Internet forum rather than to LLMs in a puppet house, hopefully it's clear why there's a rule against this.
sarker
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13hr ago
He would see faces in movies, on TV
In magasines and in books
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him
And that through the years
By keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in his mind
Or somewhere in the back of his mind
That he might, by force of will
Cause his face to approach those of his ideal
The change would be very subtle
It might take ten years or so
Gradually his face would change its shape
sarker
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15hr ago
Come help save the US government!
It's a fun marketing line but it'll wear off after you review the thousandth TPS report.
Optimizing to attract mercenaries is a great way to get the worst staff possible.
Hedge funds pay employees stupid amounts of money and the firms make stupid amounts of money. I shudder to think what they could do if they weren't apparently getting the worst staff possible.
Which is why we have government workers who are protesting by not doing their jobs.
They are doing this because they have no fear of getting fired, not because it's all about the money.
sarker
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15hr ago
Good luck attracting 10x bureaucrats to government positions.
sarker
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16hr ago
To what extent is there a recessed jaw epidemic, especially controlled for bmi?
sarker
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17hr ago
We've already got tons of negative value humans, and in some of the richest places on earth they just let them do whatever they want.
sarker
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1d ago
Then you'd lose only the guys who are sure they can get a private sector gig, who are probably even higher quality employees.
sarker
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1d ago
More likely it would mean losing the guys who can actually process paperwork, resulting in wait times going to infinity.
sarker
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1d ago
All federal workers also received an offer to resign immediately. If they accept, they will get their current salary and benefits until September (an incredibly generous 8 month severance package). All they have to do is reply with the word "resign".
Unfortunately this usually selects for people who can find alternate employment, i.e. the actually competent people who are happy to take an eight month paid vacation and get back to work afterwards. The guys who barely got their current job really can't afford to lose it and are happy to enshittify our institutions until they get their pension.
So which one is preferable? Should I get my wife to cut my hair? That way all the value stays within my household, surely that's better than the money going to some other dude. Maybe I give my wife $30 to complete the fiction.
Your barber still has the value, and he destroys it. This is no different than burning a house down or breaking a window. Value can easily be destroyed.
The barber destroys the value for himself because he can't buy anything with the $30, but this doesn't materially hurt anyone else in the same way that breaking a window or burning a house does. The $30 is removed from the money supply, decreasing the price level.
Instead that same $20 gets spent on the same things, but in Thailand.
They don't use dollars in Thailand. The recipients either don't spend the dollars, or the dollars are converted into bahts and the dollars are eventually spent on something in the US (where dollars can actually be exchanged for goods and services).
American loses $20 for nothing, Thailand gains $20 for nothing.
The barber didn't lose it for nothing, he places more value on his family having that $20 than him. He gains value by sending $20 overseas.
Is this better or worse than if the barber lights $30 on fire?
The net loss for America is 30 pesos, as that's what you left in the foreign country.
But you forget that I got a haircut, and I keep the haircut when I come back to America. At best, the net loss for America is 30 pesos minus (how much I value the haircut). Of course, I value the haircut at more than 30 pesos, because otherwise I wouldn't have gotten my hair cut - so in fact this "net loss" is a gain.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
Foreign aid includes billions spent on contraception and family planning in poor countries and subsaharan tfr is dropping.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
Let's play a game.
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My wife cuts my hair. I pay her zero dollars.
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I go to a barber down the street. I pay him $30 for the haircut. He uses it to buy groceries.
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I go to the barber down the street. I pay him $30 for the haircut. He pulls out a lighter and lights the money on fire.
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I go to the barber down the street. I pay him $30 for the haircut. He sends $20 to his family in Thailand.
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I go to the barber in the next state over. I pay him $30 for the haircut.
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I go to a barber in Mexico. I pay him 30 pesos for a haircut.
In which of these cases is the "increased value" of the haircut staying inside the country? What is the stack rank of these possibilities?
sarker
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3d ago
Republicans are usually better on school choice than Democrats and that's basically the only way to break the back of the school district industrial complex. That impacts housing prices too, as Elizabeth Warren pointed out in The Two Income Trap.
As for increasing wages, reducing costs,and reducing the cost of healthcare, neither party seems to be capable of actually enacting free market reforms that would improve the situation, so it's basically a wash.
sarker
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3d ago
sarker
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3d ago
I can guarantee you that transcribed illegal government wiretaps of everything heard by every cell phone are not in the training data.
sarker
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3d ago
Administrative bullshit maybe, administrators probably not.
sarker
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5d ago
Reminds me of TVAM's Porsche Majeure.
Feel the push of an unseen hand
Control without command
From driveways of suburban homes
We go anywhere we please
Hell yeah. Wait, is this pro or anti car again?
sarker
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5d ago
How many North Koreans do you think get arrested for speech?
sarker
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5d ago
Because sanctions have been in place since the invasion of crimea in 2014.
sarker
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5d ago
Rest assured, R1 has its own problems with noticing patterns. It's just a different set of patterns that it's designed to ignore.
Why? Is there any evidence that there was a mechanical failure on the plane?
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