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The difference between this machine and the ones that came before is that there won’t have to be a human in the loop to execute mass murder.

Militarize is just bad marketing. Call them cleaning machines and put them to work on dirty things.

These are going to be war machines, make absolutely no mistake about it. On-device autonomy is the perfect foil to escape centralized authority and accountability. There’s no human behind the drone to charge for war crimes. It’s what they’ve always dreamed of.

Who’s going to stop them? Who’s going to say no? The military contracts are too big to say no to, and they might not have a choice.

The elimination of toil will mean the elimination of humans all together. That’s where we’re headed. There will be no profitable life left for you, and you will be liquidated by “AI-Powered Automation for Every Decision”[0]. Every. Decision. It’s so transparent. The optimists in this thread are baffling.

0: https://www.palantir.com/

I feel such vindication in my disdain for this work, and the people who continue to automate human experience away.

You are monsters who mistake luxury for bliss, money for agency, and power for love.

I speak directly to the likes of Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, and all those who follow them. They are false prophets who deny us all our humanity. Monster is the perfect word for them.

15 minutes a day at most, usually less, and I did not do any drills on slow words. Over time errors smoothed out.

Web browser engine, and OpenSSL (or equivalent) patches alone are the main concern in userspace. Those codebases are a constantly moving target. Look at the stream of CVEs and security patches that Apple publishes. Almost every bug affects every product because of how much code is shared up and down the stack.

I really recommend MonkeyType. The UI is great, the stats are clear, and the modes are really elegant.

https://monkeytype.com/

I used it daily like the author for about 6 months to improve from 80wpm to about 120wpm.

It’s like I summoned you! Just be honest about your incentives if you care to make these arguments. Then be prepared to answer the accountability question, for when the system inevitably fails.

Newark’s overworked controllers might argue differently. Of course in this forum the general suggestion will be to replace tired controllers with sleepless machines, and the technologists here have strong incentives to advocate for such solutions.

Ottawa has plenty of event spaces, poor direct airport routes though. I wouldn’t count out Calgary and Edmonton either.

Absolutism doesn’t tend to win long term, that’s fair, but I’m personally content to critique sama's ongoing lack of good actions and behaviour.

Never mind the fact that it shrunk or stagnated in value due to mismanagement for decades. Oil prices are low and you have a single buyer who hoses you already.

Equalization transfers have cost $67 billion TOTAL since 1957. Less than a billion per year. Alberta collects >$25 billion PER YEAR in royalties. Canada isn’t your enemy here. Your province is addicted to a bad deal. You could have built refineries 50 years ago. That’s not possible now. Imagine how much control of those new facilities would go to unaccountable corporations? It wouldn’t be a good deal and the capex is insane.

The federal govt has been supportive, even under Trudeau, for increasing export opportunities. And you think that will get easier, especially through BC, after secession? Why?

Alberta needed to pivot hard away from oil 20 years ago. The US wont need Alberta crude forever.

Alberta _had_ a sovereign wealth fund. What happened to it? Equalization payments don’t explain of the collapse of the once huge fund. It sure didn’t buy much local diversification!

You’d think Alberta would be more like Norway already then. Instead you have lifted pickup trucks and tailings ponds. Even more wealth won’t solve the cultural bankruptcy that’s making the province upset enough to consider separation to begin with.

To answer your original question, that’s why I think it’ll be more like Russia.

There was plenty of opportunity for a sovereign wealth fund for decades within Alberta and for all of Canada. You’re saying now it’s only on the table that the filthy liberal coastal elites won’t be on the unfair dole?

The unaccountable extra-national corporations who control most of Alberta’s oil production won’t suddenly become more generous and compliant to the needs of Albertans upon separation. You don’t have the balls or the leverage to control them. The province will have less leverage in the long run than before without the other two thirds of Canada’s economy to lever with in trade deals.

The main selling point it seems is to make the rest of Canada suffer as hard as possible. Make no mistake, we absolutely will suffer from the withdrawal of being cut off that black tar we’re addicted to from you. But you’re far more addicted to it than the rest of us are. What comes after?

Ask a hard question that you can’t answer by means conventional to you, like science or straightforward logic. Keep asking why until something bothers you. That discomfort is called philosophy. Some might call that psychology, but I think that’s just applied philosophy.

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we’d be so simple we couldn’t.”

Every time you deny yourself this kind of agency you are denying yourself your humanity.

The perpetual existence of greed is not a good enough reason to structure all of society around that singular trait.

There are so many bigger concerns than this.

AI won’t let you write good crime fiction because the guard rails will stop you from writing anything good.

Be more concerned about the kinds of AI slop novels that won’t be written because of “safety” alignment.

Why should less thought be put into things made for children?

Managers will be replaced by AI when people are willing to work for them. Does anyone really want that? Who the fuck wants to work for an unaccountable machine who you can’t grab a beer with after work? How much life are you willing to abstract away in the name of “efficiency”? To what end?

The exact same thing applies if you are a manager, do you really want a flock of loyal electric sheep to do your bidding? If you’re in management for control over others, how is that satisfying? If you’re in it to mentor, who comes after you? How?

Why does anyone want this? Our societies are already so mechanized and automated yet somehow we have less time than the average medieval peasant to enjoy our allegedly easier lives. What toil has been eliminated thus far?

Check out some of the timestamps in the links in last line of the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes, a physiotherapist can answer these questions and offer guidance for posture correction.

Try moving your desk to another spot in your room.

Much of the best science ever done was done in a military context.

ChatGPT is the substitute for the first two doctors, not the third.

The third doctor used to behave more like the first two. In a world where ChatGPT replaced the rookies, how do we get good doctors?

You can argue plenty, like you’re doing right now. You’re doing yourself and your cause a disservice by being so black and white with your accusations. HN is chock full of people who agree with you. Go ahead and present compelling arguments for austerity. Just be prepared to defend them.

Lose your job, lose your children. Great policy ideas from the thoughtful HN crowd, as always.

Indeed I am.

The reality distortion field within OpenAI is literally where these models grew up. It's like an out of touch rich kid.