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like, early critics of literacy are correct that it degrades in-brain memory function, but the combined brain-text system is much more powerful. it’s the offloading of functions onto something imitating those functions without having them that may be destructive here

people are correct to be concerned that the ability of these things to present themselves as having capabilities they don’t have will cause humans to offload cognitive functions to the models, leaving none of the actual capabilities in the resulting human-machine system

coding is kind of an optimal space for computational transformation of mathematical-linguistic structures to produce valuable results. translation also p good. research into mathematical manipulation of language might yield insights into nature of intelligence. finite, but some use

for me it’s just, i’ve learned so much more challenging stuff from arguments from my “left”, whether that means “tankies” or “ultras” or more particular tendencies, than from any sort of centrist. i’m happy to reach out of the bubble, but towards equal distances from my center (normal communism)

if i knew nothing about the case other than this list of minimizers i would immediately call to authorize the maximal response

the group is simply capable of a greater range of cognitive specialization, and ideological/posting style alignment is a good proxy for methodological/heuristic preference similarity

how did we get that house? through jihad (斗争）

you have to call it 90s-00s because it was already done away with in any organized sense lol. there’s not going to be an abolition of individual people making spot decisions to be rude to others

something like this would be a worst case scenario for a taiwan contingency but it’s actually real and 100% unprovoked. the other western countries do nothing. the real campism is mainstream western politics

v important to clarify whether they think this because it pleases yhwh like the smoke from old temple sacrifices, or for incomprehensible kabbalistic reasons involving sparks and spheres and emanations

but generally i think the handful of people posting about how everyone is sleeping on the implications of the renewables boom beyond the climate feelgood story have much more of a point. leaps in automation imply a transition towards an energy value regime structured by access to critical materials

in general it’s true many people (not overwhelmingly on the left) are less interested in investigating the mechanics of new things than in figuring out if they should feel good or bad about it. also it’s true that most of the ones of those on old left twxtter came to bsky. so the posts are boring

this is my main take on the thing. i have thoughts on llm-based ai research and capital returns, externalities, use cases, insights into the nature of intelligence and language, and more, but the left academic preference to demystify and disentangle received concepts seems to be what it objects to

the capital return question is v funny because there is no way to prevent foreign devs from using chinese open source for any integrated applications and no motive economic, strategic, or political in the present context for the vast majority of them to consider. so the thing itself has to be magic

there’s a number of theses of varying interest to be disentangled, and it’s precisely the assumption that the growing capabilities of the models affirms the framing concepts of the industry (such as lumping it together as ai and anthropomorphic analogies) that confuses them

i might write up some of my recent thoughts on why the machine learning story of note right now is actually factory robotics and how it interacts with global electrification but i need to work out how to make it sound less like a simple china smart america dumb story

i think the description of the academy-industry time preferences dynamics are right and interesting but otherwise the piece is kind of silly. the left has had an active long-run discourse on what happens as capitalist development replaces labor with machines for a very long time now

congratulations and good fortune to all in the new year, including the devils and barbarians! as we shed old, very bad illusions in the year of the snake, let us work with tremendous speed and huge energy towards a fantastic, unbelievable new destination in the year of the horse. merry springfest!

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congratulations and good fortune to all in the new year, including the devils and barbarians! as we shed old, very bad illusions in the year of the snake, let us work with tremendous speed and huge energy towards a fantastic, unbelievable new destination in the year of the horse. merry springfest!

*nods* we gotta go farther left

i do think technology will continue to reduce the average embedded labor content in consumer goods over time, so it’s worth thinking about endpoints. but i believe if you take away the suddenness aspect, it’s all been covered in Four Futures, and everything else is pathways

the take on some parts of twxtter is that “asset owners” continue to derive incomes and everyone else becomes “permanent underclass” with no feasible path out. i have doubts about the first part

chinese mines are approaching near total automation in some cases; no basic extractive, logistical, or manufacturing work will survive in any scenario where overall automation is highly successful

in the previous decade and before, if you heard a team of doctors had arrived in a poor country that suffered a disaster, you could fairly guess where they were from. similarly, if a rich man fled sex crimes charges to a country that won’t extradite, there is a major statistical outlier. anyway

i don’t know a lot about the details of these stats but aren’t aggregate investment contributions to gdp net of imports, which includes the gpus and many other computer system components?

Much to consider.

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there’s some strange conceptual confusion in her takes: she replied to someone saying that the various seasonings are optional and you can make a stir fry with just oil and salt and garlic by saying that was just “regular” and not asian. but i have essentially the same reaction to calling this “bbq”

genuinely confused as to why tate thinks epstein was a scumbag. oh wait jewish

2040 chinese-american striver speaking grammatically flawless spanish with the gringo accent learned entirely from school and language apps