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- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 1 week ago:
I’d be amazed if it didn’t have any negative health consequences - very few things in life come without trade-offs. The real question is how significant those consequences are and whether the benefits outweigh them. For many, the answer is yes.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Yeah, I agree with all of this. What I’m pushing back against is the absolute, dismissive tone some people take whenever the potential dangers of AGI are brought up. Once someone is at least willing to accept the likely reality that we’ll have AGI at some point, then we can move on to debating the timescale.
If an asteroid impact were predicted 100 years from now, at what point should we start taking steps to prevent it? Framing it this way makes it feel more urgent—at least to me.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
You can’t know that.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
No, it doesn’t assume that at all. This statement would’ve been true even before electricity was invented and AI was just an idea.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Sure, but that’s still just a speedbump. In a few hundred or thousand years the civilization would rebound and we’d continue from where we left.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
This doesn’t just apply to AGI, same could be said about any technology. If it can be created and there’s value in creating it, then it’ll just be a matter of time untill someone invents it unless we go extinct before that.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
I’m talking about AI development broadly, not just LLMs.
I also listed human extinction as one of the two possible scenarios in which we never reach AGI, the other being that there’s something unique about biological brains that cannot be replicated artificially.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Firstly, I’ve been talking about improvements in AI technology broadly, not any specific subfield. Secondly, you can’t know that. While I doubt LLMs will directly lead to AGI, I wouldn’t claim this with absolute certainty - there’s always a chance they do, or at the very least, that they help us discover what the next step should be.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Like I said; I’ve made no claims about the timeline. All I’ve said is that incremental improvements will lead to us getting there eventually.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
I simply cannot imagine a situation where we reach a local maximum and get stuck in it for the rest of human history. There’s always someone else trying a new approach. We will not stop trying to improve our technology. Even just simply knowing what doesn’t work is a step in the right direction.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Incremental improvements by definition mean that you’re moving towards something. It might take a long time but my comment made no claims about the timescale. There’s only two plausible scenarios that I can think of in which we don’t reach AGI and they’re mentioned in my comment.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
The difference here is that you’re never going to reach New Zealand that way but incremental improvements in AI will eventually get you to AGI*
*Unless intelligence is substrate independent and cannot be replicated in silica or that we destroy ourselves before we get there - Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Would we know it if we saw it?
That seems besides the point when the question is about wether we’re getting closer to it or not.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
But objectively measured no? Is there no progress happening at all, or are we moving backwards? Because it’s either of those two or then we’re moving towards it.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 week ago:
Are we not heading towards AGI then?
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 1 week ago:
I’ve listened somewhere between 500 to 1000 episodes from him. I wouldn’t exactly call myself a fan but it’s just one of the shows I’ve subscribed to on my podcast app and when ever he has a quest on who sounds interesting I download the episode and listen to it while working. I don’t agree with him on everything but that applies to all the other podcasters I listen to as well. Joe has his flaws but generally I find him smart, nice, honest and a reasonable person. If one bases their opinion about him on the articles and YouTube clips of him then I can’t really blame them for having a skewed perspective but personally, as someone who has listened thru the entire 3 hour episode and knows the full context, I’m not very convinced by most of the accusations made of him. One simply couldn’t hide their “true personality” while putting out tens of thousands if hours of unscripted discussions online. I feel pretty confident in saying that I know Joe about as well as you can know someone without ever having met them.
- Comment on BMW’s new iDrive turns the whole windshield into a heads-up display 4 weeks ago:
Make cars dumb again
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing heavy squats and deadlifts for the past 15 years and I’ve never experienced back pain. I can’t for 100% certainty credit lifting for this but I’d be amazed if it doesn’t play a factor.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 4 weeks ago:
I still hear you implying that, in one way or another, AI content wouldn’t be as good as - or better than - human-made content. If that’s the case, I agree with you: replacing human artists with AI would be a net negative. However, my point is that when the day comes that AI content genuinely surpasses human-made work on every metric we care about, resisting it simply because it’s AI-generated doesn’t make much sense to me.
I still empathize with human artists who may no longer be able to compete, but I see that as part of human evolution - some professions inevitably become obsolete.
That said, as I mentioned, this wouldn’t prevent anyone from continuing as an artist for the joy of it. It would just make it harder to monetize their work.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 4 weeks ago:
What a cynical view to live under.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 4 weeks ago:
AI can only replace creative industries if the content it produces is better in which case it’s a win for the people consuming that content. When it comes to creators themselves, it’ll be harder to earn a living that way but on the other hand, none of the artists I know are making it for the money and they would continue making it even if AI was better. Myself included.
However, I don’t think it’s either-or situation. AI will just come alongside human made content. There’s a ton of content creators I’d continue following no matter how good AI would get.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 4 weeks ago:
I can tell you 100 stories of telling a man to eat more so that they wouldn’t be so skinny.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s sexist. It’s just rude, no matter who you’re asking. I’d equate it to someone asking me to dress differently as if it’s my job to please them.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 5 weeks ago:
Nah, I poop when I wake up, then second time after having my coffee and third time before leaving.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 5 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself. I’ve pooped three times before I’m even out of the house.
- Comment on Are you better value for money than AI? 1 month ago:
LLM is not synonymous with AI. We have no clue what this technology will be capable of in few years.
- Comment on Are you better value for money than AI? 1 month ago:
It’ll take a while before AI can fix your toilet, paint a wall or build a shed. Being replaced with AI isn’t something I need to worry about.
- Comment on Tesla facing another Autopilot fatality lawsuit 1 month ago:
Have you considered that it might just be trendy to dunk on Tesla? These issues are in no way unique to their vehicles, and the over-representation in the news skews our perception of how dangerous they actually are.
There are 40k traffic fatalities in the U.S. alone every year. That’s 110 per day. Nobody gives a shit when Kia Ceed plows into pedestrians but when it’s a Tesla it’s instant clicks.
- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 2 months ago:
I don’t know about others but I’m there for the porn
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s that they don’t listen to anyone. People generally are open to hear different views as long as it’s done in good faith rather that in the form of accusations. Nobody wants to hear from someone who openly treats them as second class citizens. If you treat them with dignity and are open to hear their views as well you’re far more likely to get them to reflect on their own views too. Daryl Davis is a good example of this.