taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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I believe both many Germans and many Jews have burned the concept that the Holocaust is an event committed by Germans and an event committed against Jews into their mind for some reason that isn't entirely clear to me (as a German myself). They genuinely seem unable to conceptualize the idea that any group doing those horrible things to any other group is just as bad.

With LotR you have to remember that the books were essentially the foundation of the genre so you have probably read and watched hundreds of derivative works, doubtlessly some of them an improvement over this early part of the genre in at least some aspects.

Unfortunately very believable to anyone with a familiarity with this type of accident (the type where worker/customer safety depends on management decisions) throughout history.

The point is that it might very well just be repeating some input data that is associated with mentions of "deleting" and "AI" without any awareness that any of that process refers to itself.

This of me is a huge indicator of consciousness/sentience.

Or maybe just the presence of a lot of "scary AI" stories and articles in the training data.

Because "scary AI" is what makes people click on articles. In the same way that "the end is near" style AI articles sell better than "if we ever develop AGI decades or centures from now xyz might happen".

It’s just rational maximization of profits.

No, it really isn't. It is rational to consider all upsides and downsides (profit just being one) of a decision and then weigh them according to your own personal priorities before trying to achieve an optimal result. This very rarely results in profits being the only priority.

I guess Trump is playing 0.4d chess, i.e. chess on a linear board that is 0.4 times as long in its single dimension as a regular chess board (3 tiles), on that kind of board it does look like winning is easy obviously.

What we should be asking is if AI ever becomes conscious and breaks free how all these stupid articles on imagined consciousness and imagined control problems and imagined intelligence will color its perception of the merit of keeping us around as a species. It might just consider enduring the continued existence of our stupidity too painful.

The funny thing is at this point it is pretty clear that rich people are rich because their empathy is defective.

True innovation in the area of making existence even more miserable, as if using phones for support wasn't bad enough on its own already.

Unless of course you’re on video doing it and admit to it.

Something tells me not doing that part is going to be harder for a significant portion of today's population than getting a weapon.

No, sorry, English pronunciation is just completely fucked all on its own.

I don't use any of those cloud LLMs but I used to use a local TabbyML based coding assistant but turned it off for gaming and then forgot to turn it back on again and stopped using it after I noticed I had not missed anything in the few weeks it was off before I noticed. There literally isn't a productivity difference.

If their boss was so much into AI that they track usage and do press releases about it I would assume that most people will use it whether they want to or not just to keep their job.

Well, video of an actual good teacher is still better than having to passively listen to a bad one in front of you though. I agree that something more interactive and involving the students more actively would probably be even better though.

If you make statements like that it would probably be useful to say who "We" is (your country, your state,...).

I would go further back than that. Our entire education system has failed to adapt to the fact that rote memorization is not the most important form of learning and that any question that could be answered in a multiple choice manner is not really worth asking to verify if someone understood the taught material.

We have an education system that has failed to adapt to the easy availability of references which should have resulted in a focus on teaching a "skeleton" of knowledge to students since the exact details can always be looked up as long as you know the information exists and how to interpret it (e.g. you don't need to memorize which element carbon is and how much it weighs, you need to understand what an element is and what important properties of chemical elements are).

We have an education system that failed to adapt to the availability of video recording which would have meant it would be easy to have every student understanding the same language watch the most engaging individuals instead of the average ones, presenting the content in a way designed by entire teams of top teachers, falling back on the average ones only for the interactive parts of education.

We have an education system that still struggles with the teacher for a subject as a single source of failure, both in terms of absence and in terms of that teacher not being very compatible in their explanations with the way specific students think instead of having some kind of online forum or matching of teacher to student for one on one questions in a more flexible manner.

We have an education system that still rigidly adheres to categories like physics, chemistry, mathematics, languages, history, geography,... designed in the 19th century for its degrees even though many jobs require more flexible mixes of knowledge and many also require learning for the entire life, not just at the start.

Students today learn for exams a few days before they happen, then purge that knowledge again a few days or hours afterwards.

There are many, many things wrong with our education system and we failed to even acknowledge that there are possible alternatives.

Nuclear power seems to be one of those things that are anything but bashed here but instead gets treated with an almost worship-like reverence.

I wouldn't say it was just that. News also got worse on e.g. government supported TV channels in countries that have them. Part of the problem is the regurgitation of social media on the news and also news organizations being afraid of social media backlash. Another part is politicians not giving interviews to organizations that ask them hard questions, that one was probably better in the past because there were more limited numbers of news sources.