It's the entrenchment of a particular kind of parasitic elite.
The logic that made them into "elites" has turned in on itself and is now self-cannibalizing.
The saving grace is only the capacity for the American people to see through this, but with the derangement of information pathways we're increasingly at the behest of these people and their narratives that only serve their aggrandizement.
All the talk about "saving the west" or "individualism" or the some other talk of spirit that these preachers sermon about, is only to serve themselves and no one else.
"Calling out evil" is another one of those victims to their self-serving motivations. Along with "climate change", "environmentalism", "democracy", "freedom", or a whole host of otherwise genuinely noble causes.
Really? Anthropic is /the/ AI company known for anthropomorphizing their models, giving them ethics and “souls”, considering their existential crises, etc.
Anthropic was founded by a group of 7 former OpenAI employees who left over differences in opinions about AI Safety. I do not see any public documentation that the specific difference in opinion was that that group thought that OpenAI was too focused on scaling and that there needed to be a purely safety-focused org that still scaled, though that is my impression based on conversations I've had.
But regardless anthropic reasoning was extremely in the intellectual water supply of the Anthropic founders, and they explicitly were not aiming at producing a human-like model.
No. UPI. It's an initiative by the Indian government.
It's controlled by the RBI, just through a complex public-private corporate structure through NPCI.
UPI is much larger and more international than PIX. It's currently processing iirc something like 200 billion transactions. UPI is also used in several countries, France being among the most recent examples.
As such UPI has a broader scope than PIX and requires a public-private corporate structure with stakeholders from both sides.
But this is off topic. The competence of the Indian government to at the very minimum partner with Industry shows that such software preloaded on phones is a threat to the civil liberties of people that the State shouldn't encroach on. This is a violation of individual privacy.
By "strong" I assumed that the GP meant provocative, and that's the sort of linkbait that the site guidelines call for submitters (or moderators) to dampen - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I used the word "weaker" as a sort of play on GP's "strong" just for fun.
> I don't know how you even come to that kind of conclusion at all actually.
Because most products, including iOS/macOS now, have glaring annoyances or shortcomings that have gone unfixed for a long time.
If Tim Cook or even Craig Federighi etc. actually used iOS/macOS in their day to day lives, they would have run into those issues sooner or later and they'd be fixed in a day.
Plenty of CEOs do. The comment you replied to already questioned Tim Cook's usage of Apple products.
Most Apple executives are probably using a Mac. Most engineers at Apple probably code on a Mac. Most engineers in the Bay already use Macs and have been using them for many years.
Such a silly comment. Is your theory that everyone with any decision making authority at Apple doesn't actually use the product? Even when it comes to "glaring annoyances or shortcomings"?
So odd of you to frame this as some sort of personal outrage. Like I'm so annoyed by this "glaring issue" on my device clearly the people working on this don't even use it or "it would be fixed in a day". Lol. Maybe people who actually have to get things done at a trillion dollar company don't have the same constraints as you, or relatedly, the luxury to obsess over your so-called glaring issues.
It’s not a silly comment, both macOS and iOS have been decaying into dog shit over the years from obvious bugs that anyone who uses the apps and features being sold would run into very quickly.
Tim and other executives might be using their devices as email machines, but it’s not obvious they’re using everything they’re quite literally selling us.
2: The Music app is barely functional, and will regularly fail to play music. Here it is bugging out, and stacking multiple album covers https://imgur.com/a/Sg8oU1p
> So odd of you to frame this as some sort of personal outrage.
Hey you try waiting 5+ years on a bug report/feature request for a simple thing. Or things like a rendering bug that survives all year throughout beta into the X.1 release (see the Tahoe Contacts app)
You'd give up. This "outrage" is all the outlet we have left. Shame the system that lets such crap get through!
Yah... It's not as if the healthcare/pharma industry have ever ran false multi-year propaganda campaigns that later turned out to be outright harmful to people.
They'd never lie and conspire for years and years. That couldn't possibly happen.
I would point out that the anti-vaxx campaign about vaccines causing autism is a multi-decade propaganda campaign that absolutely harms people.
However, being as that is merely a to quoque fallacy, I'm rather curious: do you have any examples of said campaigns run by the healthcare/pharma industry? And, more importantly, do you have any evidence such campaigns have anything to do with vaccines?
Note: the Purdue/Sackler campaign surrounding opiods is already well-known, but AFAICT, it has no relationship with vaccines.
Purdue is one pharmaceutical company. Given their behavior, I find no fault with anyone who'd distrust products from Purdue specifically. However, it appears Purdue doesn't produce any vaccines, so it is orthogonal to the discussion.
> You think the opioid campaign is the only real wrongdoing by pharmaceutical companies??
I'm open to the possibility of there being additional wrongdoing by Purdue or other pharmaceutical companies, perhaps even related to vaccines. However, the fact that one pharmaceutical company engaged in (admittedly pretty egregious) wrongdoing with respect to opioids does not itself prove any wrongdoing regarding vaccines made by itself or other companies. Assuming otherwise is falling victim to a syllogistic fallacy.
Answering my call for evidence of wrongdoing specific to vaccines with such a conspiratorial-minded question suggests you have no such evidence. I implore you to prove me incorrect.
I'm talking about perceived industry wide reputational damage by the public as a cause for distrust.
Who cares about fallacies?
Beliefs triumph over logic. Public perception > truth.
Further reputational damages are not unwarranted. Thalidomide is an old example. There are many more recent ones outside of opioid. You're free to look up actual court cases.
A lava lamps that just produces randomness, ie for cryptology purposes, is different than the benefit here, which is to produce specific randomness at low energy-cost
One can create a true random generator algorithm by plugging a moving computer mouse to its input.
Would be easy to put a dozen cages with mouse wheels on in them, real mammals in there, to generate a lot of random numbers, everyone would understand so only funny, they want mysterious!
A lot of savants that are able to do really cool calculations, or even people that have synesthesia seeing numbers as colors, don't actually do "real" calculations.
I think most humans that do math aren't actually literally computing things as some kind of logic machine.
We can produce logic, and follow the steps of using that logic, but it doesn't seem to me that our cognition is some kind of logic machine itself.
True. Generally it seems like you're visualizing things, moving stuff around, seeing vague patterns and trying to make them more clear. IDK how a transformer architecture would fit all of that in its context, or use it productivity once it's there. You can't just keep appending forever, but you also can't delete stuff either, because unlike humans, a deletion is a hard delete; there's no fuzzy remembrance left to rely on, so even deleting bad ideas is dangerous because it'll forget that it was a bad idea and infinite loop. Symbols manipulation doesn't come until the end, after you have a good idea what that part will look like.
I'm not sure if you think you're agreeing with me or not, but that is my point. Compared to the nominal account of computational power our brains have, we are staggeringly bad at logical manipulation. We extremely expensively and laboriously simulate them.
It's the entrenchment of a particular kind of parasitic elite.
The logic that made them into "elites" has turned in on itself and is now self-cannibalizing.
The saving grace is only the capacity for the American people to see through this, but with the derangement of information pathways we're increasingly at the behest of these people and their narratives that only serve their aggrandizement.
All the talk about "saving the west" or "individualism" or the some other talk of spirit that these preachers sermon about, is only to serve themselves and no one else.
"Calling out evil" is another one of those victims to their self-serving motivations. Along with "climate change", "environmentalism", "democracy", "freedom", or a whole host of otherwise genuinely noble causes.
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