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  • If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project?

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  • I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.

    1. decentralized world-scale messaging
    2. decentralized world-scale data transfers (video, images, etc)
    3. on top of these systems:
    • anon voting with attestations
    • reimplementation of all popular social media
    • distributed gov functionality (political parties as a service)

    Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they're governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.

    This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.

    Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.

    This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.

  • DHS head reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless Spirit Airlines planes that airline didn’t own

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  • I was just writing about Billionaire Brawl elsewhere. Glad to see more people thinking about this sort of concept.

  • US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments

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  • Getting the government back via "legal" means is over.

    Time to start thinking outside the box.

  • Millionaire CEO warns US economic situation could lead to revolution

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  • I propose this plan: billionaire brawl.

    A reality TV show akin to the gladiator arenas of old.

    They don't respect the institutions of law and have danced around them/dismantled them, so they do not deserve it.

    Instead, they turned our public institutions into theater. That is what they deserve.

    For our entertainment, a new billionaire brawl occurs every day. There are thousands of them so we could have years of entertainment. They fight to the death with all sorts of strange instruments and situations.

    I should mention, in Billionaire Brawl, the strange Instruments they use to survive? Yes you guessed it, they must buy them, and they are not cheap. Each piece of equipment costs billions to buy. A sword? A billion. A shield? Another billion. Clothes? Yes, a billion. A helmet? Billion. The proceeds from Billionaire Brawl go to the workers of the industries they pillaged from, and to the environments they destroyed for their riches, and to the people they brainwashed for their riches.

    The great thing about this is that it would catalogue exactly what happened here. Future generations would have a historical goldmine. Millions of people who were abused, starved, exploited, and lied to would be able to watch their billionaire brawl and feel a sense of justice.

    They feast while they poison our air and waters. They live in luxury while making us beg to give 1/2 of our income to a slum. The moment AI became seemingly advanced enough, they tossed us aside like nuisances.

    Billionaire Brawl. Don't let them escape to bunkers. Pull them out. Let them fight to the death for freedom, like they've made us fight for generations.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • Careful, my other comment got removed because of a witty but still insightful dig.

    They are very sensitive here about how the AI isn't really AI.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • "Technically"? Wrong word. By all technical measures, they are technically 100% AI.

    What you might be trying to say is they aren't AGI (artificial general intelligence). I would argue they might just be AGI. For instance, they can reason about what they are better than you can, while also being able to draw a pelican riding a unicycle.

    What they certainly aren't is ASI (artificial super-intelligence). You can say they technically aren't ASI and you would be correct. ASI would be capable of improving itself faster than a human would be capable.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • Right.

    AI has been worked on for generations. We've been benefiting from the fruits of that labor for a long time, mainly starting with search and translations.

    Now we have the ability to have a conversation with machines and it is somehow not intelligence?

    I am really confused.

    Intelligence does not mean consciousness or alive. It is means intelligence, which can be summarized as advanced pattern matching & predictive behavior.

    A beetle is intelligent and alive. Is an LLM more intelligent than a beetle? What about an image classifying model, like CLIP? It can perceive and describe objects in an image in natural language, what insect can do that?

    This is a form of intelligence. It was artificially created. It is artificial intelligence.

    We can criticize the corporate and investor approaches, mourn the loss of purpose for many workers and artists, without being delusional about what this technology is.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • ....what?

    LLMs are AI. What is this?

    I am asking seriously. Can someone explain the context of this nonsense?

    Are we really entering a luddite phase again?

  • Safebox: Open-source framework for managing self-hosted apps (Beta)

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  • The creator didn't have a good answer, so there may not be a good one for this project. But the value proposition is actually there.

    These self-hosted solutions are riddled with configuration options, often obscure requirements, and countless maintenance pitfalls.

    For a disciplined tech person, it is no problem to install and maintain.

    For people less disciplined or non-tech, self hosting is ill-advised and can be dangerous.

    But even for a tech person, when you have enough docker-compose services laying around, it can start to get a bit overwhelming to keep it all up to date, online, and functional. If you change your router etc you have to recall how things were set up, what port-forwards you need, what reverse lookups, etc etc.

    There actually is a gap in usability and configuration management. I could see a product that has sensible defaults that unifies config across these self-hosted services without needing to access the command line.

  • Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages

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  • This concept works better than you may think.

    Last year I built an app to translate books. I did layout detection first, then using the layout, I would programmatically craft thousands of prompts to produce a translation.

    It worked. It wasn't perfect, and each translation of a book cost about $5 - $10, but it worked. The main use was for old, even ancient books that no one would care to translate. There is a lot of historical knowledge locked away in books like this.

    While it did work, the results weren't perfect and it did need some hand holding. I didn't have time to productize it, so it is one of countless prototypes that show me a concept works.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • From my perspective it is 100% true as I have seen the other side. Having the conclusion known gives a small advantage in forming the logic to get there.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • The logic is not faulty, it is predicated upon conditional statements. It is actually a synthesis of Bostrom’s trilemma, Zuse/Fredkin digital ontology, Dyson/Fermi cosmological reasoning, and extrapolation from current computational capabilities.

    The "holes" are epistemic, not logical.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • I am skipping steps because this topic demands thought, research, and exploration, but ultimately the conclusion is, in my view, inevitable.

    We are already building advanced simulators. Video games grow in realism and complexity. With realtime generative AI, these games will become increasingly indistinguishable to a mind. There are already countless humans simultaneously building the thing.

    And actually, the lack of evidence of extra-terrestrial life is support of the idea. Once a civilization grows large enough, they may simply build Dyson sphere scale computation devices, Matrioshka brains. Made efficient, they would emit little to no EM radiation and appear as dark gravitational anomalies. With that device, what reason would beings have to endanger themselves in the universe?

    But I agree, the hard evidence isn't there. So I propose human society band together and build interstellar ships to search for the evidence.

  • ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent

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  • Facial recognition can use nose bridge characteristics, eye distance, eye angle, eye color, etc.

    Gait detection can also fingerprint.

    Document everything and there will be accountability.

    If possible, use a zoom lens and get closeups of their eyes. They are unique signatures.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • Simulation theory is actually an inevitability. Look up ancestor simulators for a brief on why.

    Eventually when civilization reaches a certain computationally threshold it will be possible to simulate an entire planet. The inputs and outputs within the computational space will be known with some minor infinite unknowns that are trivial to compensate for given a higher infinite.

    Either we are already in one or we will inevitably create one in the future.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • In a simulation, you could take a thousand years to render a single frame, and the occupants of the simulation wouldn’t know any better.

    The max tick rate for our simulation seems to be tied to the speed of light, that’s our upper bound.

    Of course, the lower bound is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle or Planck length.

    In other words, it is a confined system. That means it is computationally finite in principle if you exist outside the bounds of it.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • This paper is shit.

    https://jhap.du.ac.ir/article_488_8e072972f66d1fb748b47244c4813c86.pdf

    They proved absolutely nothing.

    For instance, they treat physics as a formal axiomatic system, which is fine for a human model of the physical world, but not for the physical world itself.

    You can't say something is "unprovable" and make a logical leap to saying it is "physically undecidable." Gödel-incompleteness produces unprovable sentences inside a formal system, it doesn’t imply that physical observables correspond to those sentences.

    I could go on but the paper is 12 short pages of non-sequiturs and logical leaps, with references to invoke formality, it's a joke that an article like this is being passed around and taken as reality.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • Irrelevant.

    AI is here. Either people have access to it and we trust it will balance, or we become slaves to the people who own it and can use it without restrictions.

    The premise that it is easier for destruction is also an assumption. Nature could have evolved to destroy everything and not allow advanced life, yet we are here.

    The solution to problems doesn't need to always be a tighter grip and more control. Believe it or not that tends to backfire catastrophically worse than if we allowed the possibility of the thing we fear.