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Seems like good instructions. Do not steal. Do not murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not covet, but feed the hungry and give a drink to the thirsty. Be good. Love others.

Looks like optimal code to me.


> invisible, omnipotent and omniscient being intimately involved in their day to day activities

The statement above is independent of the (laudable) morality & ethics you're describing.


Whenever people argue for the general usefulness of the 10 commandments they never seem to mention the first 4 or 5.

Because they're as useful as a pedal-powered wheelchair.

We say what's "good" in the good book.


Somehow it interfered with legacy code governing determination of in and out (C-)groups and led to multiple crusades and other various mass killings along the way. Optimal code in isolation, not so perfect in a wider system.

There is a known bug in production due to faulty wetware operated by some customers.

Nah it's a feature, you're just not using it properly

Do not mix wool and and cotton

"Hello, Chilly. It's been NINETEEN MINUTES, since we conversed. Is there something wrong? Maybe I can help..." --mute notifications--

--buzz-buzz--

"Sis? What's up, you never call me this time of day."

"I'm worried. I just heard from your assistant..."

"Wait, my assistant?

"She said her name was Vaseline?"

"Oh, God... That's my ChatGPT Pulse thing, I named her that as a joke. It's not a real person. It's one of those AI robot things. It kept trying to have conversations with me. I didn't want to converse. I got fed up and so I blocked notifications from the app and then it messaged you. It's a robot. Just... I mean... Ignore it. I'm having a crappy day. Gotta go. Dad's calling."

"Hey Dad. No, there's nothing to worry about and that's not my assistant. That's chatgpt's new Pulse thing. I blocked it and it's... Never mind. Just ignore it. No don't block my number. Use call filtering for the time being. Gotta go. James is calling. Yeah love you too."

"Hey Jay..."

No thank you. Jealous girlfriend-ish bot would be a nightmare.


Bold of you to think that all of these humans would need to be involved, vs. you getting a call from your sister's assistant directly


US airlines discovered, during and after covid, that shipping prices were astronomical for some materials and some destinations. The airlines began taking on more packages, and less people. Now the airlines are allowing passengers to compete with these new package-pound-per-dollar rates. It's not unexpected. Now the safety measures are getting in the way of the package-pound-per-dollar and the airlines are seeking a way to scurry out from under these safety measures.

This is undesirable behavior, but how can a meat-package compete with a rare-metals, rare-earths, or even small aluminum shipment? The cost of shipping goods has risen astronomically since covid. Meat-packages now must compete. We're losing the competition.


Sanctions are not designed to coerce a populace into rebellion, in order to facilitate regime change.

Sanctions are designed to prevent an enemy government from profiting from our western economy. Sanctions are designed to bring hostile entities to the negotiation table. Sanctions curtail the worst behaviors of enemy nations because the sanctions deny those enemies money. Money is power. Little money = little power.


For the most part, sanctions are designed to be "something" in the infamous "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!1!" mantra. They rarely achieve any of the goals that you enumerate, disproportionately inconveniencing regular citizens - government actors have the means and the know-how to work around them. But mob justice demands an eye for an eye, which is to say, someone must be made to suffer - and sanctions provide a way to do that, even if the people actually suffering are rarely morally responsible.


How does one finance a project or a company with increased maintenance costs and lower quality production?

That’s what technical debt is. It’s the cost for moving forward quickly. I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to state.


> How does one finance a project or a company with increased maintenance costs

You seem to be assuming that the company will eventually pay off the technical debt rather than just continue accumulating it and lowering production quality.


? This is the system working as designed. The whole game, from startup to fortune 500, is to accumulate market power fast enough to avoid tech debt swallowing you whole.

Once you have market power (which means different things for different companies) you can safely feed the tech debt monster just as little as you feel like.


Example of debt caught up with company is latest Meta AR glasses presentation


Older generations died. Some generations died so often that we use words like ‘population decline,’ so the survivors don’t feel so badly about surviving.

As for finding ways through, I don’t believe that for even a moment. Why? Because we’re still struggling with those same issues.

There is no out. There is no through. Keep that can kicking down the road. That’s what we do.


> The authors note that more research is needed on the long-term endocrine effects of cannabis use and whether diabetes risks are limited to inhaled products or other forms of cannabis such as edibles.

This study did not differentiate between edibles, which are loaded with sugar, and inhaled cannabis usage. And, since they are not a food product, edibles do not carry the same onus as food for labeling, nor similar regulatory oversight.

This seems a significant flaw in the data gathering and could change the ultimate conclusion of the study.


Edibles wouldn't have enough sugar to singularly cause diabetes.


Thats ridiculous, 50 calories worth of edible is enough to get you high as balls for like 8 hours.

Tell me youre not a edible user without twlling me youre not an edible user


Not all edibles have sugar, but most seem to be pure candy. It's dangerous too because if the edible tastes so amazing you want to eat another one and then you get way too high. That's why when I used to make "magic brownies" I would make two batches, one of them "plain", so I could eat those after eating the magic one.

Level Protabs are pretty amazing, so clean and zero sugar. It's literally just THC and a little bit of corn starch pressed into a pill. I break them in half and it gives me a focused creativity boost.


Is it really possible to get diabetes from eating one piece of candy every day?


When you frame it that way, it almost brings the study's findings into question!

I wonder if it was truly a flaw or if it was a calculated omission.


Seems as it would be easier to slip in some anti-training, and have the AIs screw systems up so badly that there is a 'recall' of all the current models. The LLMs and their corresponding systems crawl the web constantly. So, poison the well. Good data behind paywalls and credentialing and the poison pill open and free. Seems like it'd be worth a try anyway.


Is this the equivalent to the humans nuking the sky to fight the robots in the Matrix? I don't think that worked.


Do you keep a copy of the Matrix running on a second monitor at work to aid with decisionmaking


I don’t think our basis for what works and what doesn’t should stem from fiction.


Especially since even in fiction, that entire backstory had clearly been manipulated/outright made up by the clank.. uh. Machines.


I wonder about the possibility that AI “clankers” and slop are being weaponised to attack the open internet to push human “data generators” into walled gardens where they can be properly farmed?

I mean, from an incentive and capability matrix, it seems probable if not inevitable.


to the replies that we shouldn't use fiction to aid decision making -- yes of course! how rational. how reasonable.

.. but perhaps can we access deep wisdom by paying attention the recurring themes of myths?

.. and perhaps does "The Matrix" access any of these themes?

(yes and yes!)


this sounds dangerous in our current situation.

consider how many in our current administration are entirely completely ill-equipped for their positions. many of them almost certainly rely on llms for even basic shit.

considering how many of these people try to make up for their … inexperience by asking a chatbot to make even basic decisions, poisoning the well would almost certainly cause very real very serious national or even international consequences.

i mean if we had people who were actually equipped for their jobs, it could be hilarious to do. they wouldn’t be nearly as likely to fall for entirely wrong absurd answers. but in our current reality it could actually lead to a nightmare.

i mean that genuinely. many many many people in this current government would -in actuality- fall for the wildest simplest dumbest information poisoning and that terrifies me.

“yes, glue on your pizza will stop the cheese from sliding off” only with actual real consequences.


I’m not surprised by Google’s lack of search transparency. If Google told users that Google was searching an internal database linked to a particular search string there would be pitchforks and torches.


I highly doubt they are doing that. If the quality is good then presumably it's also not the direct output of an LLM with RAG tool use.

I'd guess it might be more of a structured/agentic approach - maybe having learnt how to map "search" strings to relevant data retrieval queries, then combining/summarizing the returned results.


No one cares, they are busy watching tik tok style videos and rotting their children's brains.


I assumed all of the labs were already doing something like this to cut down on costs


Isn't that just... caching


Socrates was correct. In his day memory was treasured. Memory was how ideas were linked, how quotes were attained, and how arguments were made.

Writing leads to the rapid decline in memory function. Brains are lazy.

Ever travel to a new place and the brain pipes up with: ‘this place is just like ___’? That the brain’s laziness showing itself. The brain says: ‘okay I solved that, go back to rest.’ The observation is never true; never accurate.

Pattern recognition saves us time and enables us too survive situations that aren’t readily survivable. Pattern recognition leads to short cuts that do humanity a disservice.

Socrates recognized these traits in our brains and attempted to warn humanity of the damage these shortcuts do to our reasoning and comprehension skills. In Socrates day it was not unheard of for a person to memorize their entire family tree, or memorize an entire treaty and quote from it.

Humanity has -overwhelmingly- lost these abilities. We rely upon our external memories. We forget names. We forget important dates. We forget times and seasons. We forget what we were just doing!!!

Socrates had the right of it. Writing makes humans stupid. Reduces our token limits. Reduces paging table sizes. Reduces overall conversation length.

We may have more learning now, but what have we given up to attain it?


This is an interesting argument. I’m not convinced but I’m open to hearing more. Don’t we only know about Socrates because he was written about? What evidence do we have that writing reduces memory at all? Don’t studies of students show taking notes increases retention? Anecdotally, the writers I know tend to demonstrate the opposite of what you’re saying, they seem to read, think, converse, and remember more than people who aren’t writing regularly. What exactly have we given up to attain more learning? We still have people who can memorize long things today, is it any fewer than in Socrates’ day? How do we know? Do you subscribe to the idea that the printing press accelerated collective memory, which is far more important for technology and industrial development and general information keeping than personal memory? Most people in Socrates’ day, and before, and since, all forgot their family trees, but thankfully some people wrote them down so we still have some of it. Future generations won’t have the gaps in history we have today.


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