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Not a utility monster.

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@AndrewHard96304 It's pretty reasonable in settings with artificial gravity control.

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@ZaidJilani There was a period when communism looked safely dead and woke hadn't yet flowered into full absurdity, during which "left wing" was less of a liability. There just wasn't anything that offensive for the label to attach to.

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@mattyglesias Scarcity mentality. If we've got at least one party that rejects it now, that's progress. Let's go for two.

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@RichardHanania Only 54% of Americans support 'capitalism' but 81% support 'free enterprise'. Not clear there's much here beyond leftist messaging creating negative associations with a word, and the kind of people this works on won't be swayed by intellectual rigor.
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@CharlesFLehman The economic concept is called "free riding". You'd think people could match this up with, like, literal free riding.

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@JosieStratman NYC is legally required to have a balanced budget, but socialists will always find a way to mortgage the future, so he's getting the city in hock by delaying pension funding obligations.

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@BradWilcoxIFS This is probably going to start reversing over the next couple of years, except the growth will be from people talking to AI agents.

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> And might there be some good benefits in having fewer billionaires in a state buying state elections?

Disempowering or driving off billionaires is certainly a benefit to political elites, who view business elites as rivals for power. Society at large, however, is harmed if any one group of elites consolidates too much power.

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@RichardHanania You can RL a model into adopting any viewpoint with decent representation in its training corpus, basically any non-obscure religion/ideology. This is going to become significant to the 'sovereign AI' discourse over the next few years.

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@engineers_feed Self driving systems are moving to end-to-end machine learning, so there's no distinct technical problem to solve here, just more/different training data.

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There's not much visibility into how this will play out yet. If it's "the public gets access to frontier models on a 1 month delay and with blunted cybersecurity capabilities," it's not the end of the world. If it's "total crapshoot whether a given new frontier model is permitted a wide release at all," that's a disaster.

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@SwiftOnSecurity I used to use OneDrive mostly for syncing game assets between my Mac and Windows machines, so it would be like "Your memories from this day" and it would just be a bunch of grass textures or something.

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It's a disaster for the knowledge-transfer function schools ostensibly exist to perform. It actually solves a lot of problems for schools as institutions that need to appear to be performing that function even when they're not up to it. I consequently expect that, although there are promising ways to either prevent AI use or adapt curriculum to productively incorporate it, schools will for the most part not pursue these.

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Complete industrial dependence on a rival foreign power is bad, actually. It's unfortunate that the US got itself into a position where it can only plausibly prevent this with crude measures like import bans; it would have been much better to head it off with industrial policy that actually made US production competitive. But given that this is where we are, an import ban is better than allowing another strategically important industry to be destroyed.

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@mattyglesias This won't work because data center opposition is mostly a matter of fashion (it's the Current Thing) and faction (opposition to the tech industry) rather than actual underlying material concerns.

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@ZaidJilani The behavior of elected Democratic officials is a trailing indicator. There's a direct "crazy college kid" to Democratic organizer/staffer/appointee/candidate pipeline that makes the future trajectory of this clear.

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Checks out. Laser printers (mostly good for printing symbols) work better than inkjet printers (which can print photorealistic representations), which work better than 3D printers (which create actual physical objects). The further we try to push from the digital into the material, the more God acts to thwart us.

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Printers never work because they are an affront to God. Man was not meant to pull objects from the digital realm into the real world. Icarus is flying too close to the sun.

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@danielgolliher It's not a real skyscraper unless it needs pressurization.

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@robinhanson UFOs could plausibly represent an external threat or be a source of new physics or tech with military or intelligence applications. I would expect these organizations to already be extremely motivated to figure them out.