paul-melman.bsky.social
I dream of a world where the left wants rule by a distributed network of citizens assemblies and the right wants rule by a technocratic doge
https://www.electionbyjury.org/
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Unconstitutional
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Just install air filters in the HVAC systems smh. Not that big a problem
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I think VR will end up seeing more success for productivity than recreation tbh
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Yeah that's why I have a bunch of NVDA and AVGO shares lol
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Yes, he is receiving plenty of investment but it's not unlikely that Google (or some other competitor, but probably not) just crushes OpenAI and the investors lose what they put in
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Centralized AI had bad vibes yeah
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"Rich dudes" are making pennies on AI. Most of their companies will fail due to prices being driven down to zero. The overwhelming majority of the value is going to regular people as consumer surplus
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Reminds me of the criticisms of Spotify not paying artists enough. Like, on whose behalf do you think they are stiffing the artists? The shareholders? LMAO. It's for us, dummy. Stiffing artists is how Spotify managed to not raise the price of its incredible service in 15 years
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"Rich dudes" are making pennies on AI. Most of their companies will fail due to prices being driven down to zero. The overwhelming majority of the value is going to regular people as consumer surplus
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Imo you just gotta vibe it out. The complexity of civilization is too great to try to meaningfully predict the impacts of technologies far into the future
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Tbf I think that citizens assemblies and elector juries should be so common that everyone has the chance to participate once a year or so
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Elections are fundamentally and irredeemably undemocratic and should be permanently abolished and replaced by sortition
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We should have compulsory voting for 40-100 randomly selected citizens and no voting at all for anyone else
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Have you seen Neuralviz's content? I mean, it's not all AI, just the visuals and voice changer. But I'm certainly a fan of his work
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marginally. idk maybe things will improve
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Literally no one in the Abundance movement has advocated for this
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holy daddy issues batman
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He's a smart guy but I don't mean to imply that he's some sort of super genius. But he is a visionary
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Yeah duh. It was because they knew how to optimize well for customer satisfaction and because they realized they could turn their backed platforms into customer-facing hosting that became AWS
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Borders and B&N also sold online in addition to physical retail
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Imo we should just put "elect by jury" on the ballot. That way people can just vote for it. I bet it would win most elections, aside from super high-profile ones like president or governor
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Parliamentary systems suck ass too tho
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Why not?
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No, Amazon executed better than the competition
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Because Zeus split the original humans into men and women as punishment for our hubris and we become whole when we find love
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LLMs confabulate for largely the same reasons that humans do. Confabulation is a common symptom of certain memory disorders, but neurologically healthy humans also do it. Neurons in human language production networks don't "predict the next token" but, abstractly, they are doing similar things
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Sure no one is fully self-made, but only a tiny exceptional few have the talent to turn $300k into Amazon
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just call them commie bastards smh
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2.0 flash without thinking enabled also just isn't that good at factual answers imo
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Yep. Anti-semitism is a textbook example of horseshoe theory in action. Both the far right and far left seem to have an affinity for it
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Didn't Portnoy vote for Kamala?
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There are rumors swirling of coming strikes on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities
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I guess like preemptively ban the main node but have some automated way of whitelisting good accounts. Idk, that's clunky and probably wouldn't work that well