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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Before that, it was attributed to Richelieu.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t trust any testing done by any firm whose finances depend on successful testing results. Independent third-party validation or GTFO. Self-regulation isn’t worth shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
And yet there are still jobs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
They also don’t care if we starve to death. That’s just thinning the herd as far as they’re concerned.

Don’t like being livestock? Better get organized and do something about that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

and breaks labor theory of value

Labor theory of value was shown to be flawed soon after Ricardo developed it. It only works if labor input per unit value is constant. Efficiency and innovation refute it. Also, it oversimplifies the relationship between cost and value.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

In that first 2 seconds of AI generated voice, I can tell this is slop and stop watching it seeking a human generated video instead.

Report that crap, every time. I’s a plague.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The degree of randomness in generative models is not necessarily fixed, it can at least potentially be tunable. I’ve built special-purpose generative models that work that way (not LLMs, another application). More entropy in the model can increase the likelihood of excursions from the mean and surprising outcomes, though at greater risk of overall error.

There’s a broader debate to be had about how much that has to do with creativity, but if you think divergence from the mean is part of it, that’s within LLM capabilities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
And systems have been overthrown in the past when they become intolerable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
And behind what you’re suggesting is an even deeper root cause: money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

so they used fundamentalist Christianity to tie the idea of wealth to holy favor from Yahweh

It’s much older. That bullshit goes back to John Calvin (16th century Christo-Taliban idiot), and there are even precedents for it in the Torah, though balanced by other provisions about behaving like a decent human.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
That’s an ugly feature of human nature, as well as some victims thinking the solution to their victimization is to have someone they can victimize too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
It’s exactly that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

burning their heads in the sand

Ouch, sounds painful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’m more open-minded. Billionaires shouldn’t exist until we’ve solved the problem of global poverty. After that, I’m willing to consider the possibility, though I am unconvinced that billionaires deliver any societal benefit that compensates for the many downsides caused by their existence.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
A law restricting multiple board memberships would be a very good thing. Say, two or three max.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

Do people even aspire to work in the first place ?

I work because I’m used to the finer things in life, such as living indoors and not having to forage or hunt my dinner.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Those who work with our hands can also swing an axe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Nothing wrong with going old-school and doing scaphism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

AI/LLM will only make automation more capable

LLM, unlikely. ML, probably, but not as rapidly as the hype would suggest.

And yeah, the disruption caused by the industrial revolution, telecommunications, automobiles, computers and the internet all are likely to exceed any impact caused by broader use of LLMs, which are too costly to train and run, inherently too unreliable for safety-critical or health-critical use, too flaky for any use requiring auditability, and generally of unproven utility so far, outside of a few niche applications.

And I say this as a leader of a technical team that has successfull adopted ML in several use cases, and has evaluated several opportunities to use LLMs. So far, with LLMs, the game ain’t worth the candle, even without considering the enormous environmental damage caused by their supporting infrastructure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
No billionaires until poverty is eradicated globally. And maybe not even then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The machines are less likely to traffic minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, they aspire to neo-feudalism, but that’s a political rather than technology position.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The strategy is to milk the zombie brand until there’s not a drop left.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

average US corpo is just 1 vote 1 share, just right there it’s more equal representation than the US government has been for it’s entire existence.

And an individual can hold multiple shares. So some have more votes than others. That’s not democratic in any way.

throw in shit like recalling/installing new c-suites etc.

That’s a lot harder than you make it sound. That dysfunction is the main executive pay relative to performance has massively inflated over the years: accountability to shareholders in matters of compensation is piss-poor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
With voting power weighted by the amount of money they have invested.

Kind of like the way the US actually works.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Calling pre-1990s Israel socialist is like calling the Confederate States of America democratic.

Yeah, it was, except for a large disenfranchised population.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Does it look any different than Reddit?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

So communist governments that have used media control, militarism, cronyism, violated human rights, etc., aren’t left-wing?

No, they’re state capitalist.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Anarcho-capitalism is right-wing, but opposite from fascism.

Only in terms of talking the talk. In practice, ancaps who get power quickly go full fasc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re nitpicking about his payroll status (asset? agent? subcontractor?) rather than looking at whether he was passing information to Mossad, coordinating his actions with Israeli intelligence leaders such as Ehud Barak and using his influence to benefit Israel.