drhead [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • Main difference is that blockchain never had an actual use case (speculation doesn’t count) beyond buying heroin and running ransomware. Machine learning had practical applications for years that nobody really thought much of at the time, and the marketers got a hold of it after it was fairly well established without them and right at the point of a massive wave of breakthroughs in the area.

    That being said, there is a fucking massive AI bubble. A large portion of the things we’re seeing will survive when that pops, but boy are there a lot of very overconfident investors who are going to get burned hard on this.




  • Should also probably include some recommendations for less expensive routers that can use OpenWrt along with this? Mine cost me $300… I don’t regret it because I have found at least that much utility in it, from this and from finally being able to intercept my smart TV’s hardcoded DNS requests and blocking the ads, but I’m pretty sure that there are better deals to be had that don’t involve paying $300 for one of the radios to not work due to bad driver support.


  • I think you forgot to include the part where he thinks this needs to be done so that we can, essentially, kill all of the dumb people who would get tricked by a rising superintelligent AI.

    There are so many cranks in “AI safety” stuff to the point where it is legitimately difficult to talk about what should be done that isn’t very obviously slanted for some industry’s benefit. You’ve got people like this, you’ve also got people like Gladstone that are LITERALLY EX-PENTAGON PEOPLE SPONSORED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN (who I am sure are very concerned about AI safety – the only way I could be more convinced is if it was Boeing), who have suspicious demands that the publication of open-source models should be made illegal (probably out of concerns about China, as if half of the papers I read on new developments aren’t already from them or the Noah’s Ark lab in Moscow). There is no well that is unpoisoned here.






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