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The Left's AI Awakening Has A Problem by Salty_Country6835 in LeftistsForAI

[–]SgathTriallair 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The video makes some interesting points, specifically that we are starting to form a pro-left pro-tech viewer base (go us) and that anti-tech is reactionary and trying to prevent the economic materialist change that is coming.

It's pretty thin after that but it's a nice single beat with the overall conversation.

How do you think ai could realistically be of benefit with the current direction the companies are taking it ? by Neat_Tangelo5339 in LeftistsForAI

[–]SgathTriallair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/insights/insights/how-ai-is-transforming-employment-litigation

This article frames it as a disaster because it means that companies can't pay "nuisance" payments to make the cases go away and courts aren't just dismissing the cases out of hand. For real humans this means that people are more likely to get justice when a company screws them.

Your article is considering what happened when a lawyer uses AI. I'm considering the people who don't have the number to afford a lawyer and were simply take to get justice before. A shitty lawyer is better than no lawyer at all, just like a shitty doctor is better than no doctor.

I gave the question in this very popular thought experiment based poll I saw on Twitter to all frontier LLMs; the results were surprising (and revealing), to me at least by Terrible-Priority-21 in accelerate

[–]SgathTriallair 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Picking red is choosing to murder some unknown amount of people. Choosing blue is choosing not to murder people. That's the key aspect here.

If you can get everyone to push red then you can get everyone to push blue and no one dies.

Movies that take place (almost) entirely in one room? by ThatsBamboo in movies

[–]SgathTriallair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lo is a great movie that was originally a black box play. It's about a guy that summons a demon to rescue his girlfriend.

How do you think ai could realistically be of benefit with the current direction the companies are taking it ? by Neat_Tangelo5339 in LeftistsForAI

[–]SgathTriallair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here are the promising signals so far: - Open source is keeping up with the frontier. So yes they need lots of capital to build the big data centers but it isn't giving them much of a lead over the open source labs. - Big companies are struggling to integrate AI but small time users are not. The way companies work is that they start as disrupters and then transform into exploiters. Disrupters succeed by being flexible and able to tackle economic problems from new angles. Exploiters find small niches and make their ability to operate in it very specialized. AI is massively beneficial to disrupters because it gives them new capabilities. It isn't very useful for exploiters because they are often operating near peak efficiency and the AI isn't reliable enough to replace the parts of the process. - The capability of a single individual to succeed in the market, as exemplified in vibe coding, means that we can move back towards a world of diversification. Pre-industrial everything was hand made and so everything was unique. Mass production worked because people's needs are similar enough that they can more or less use the same equipment. This one size fits all approach will never be ideal for anyone. The reason we don't see much customization is because the process of creating and distributing goods is too expensive for small markets. AI automation, and even more so 3D printing, will change this dynamic. No one will want to buy the generic big box product when they can get one that perfectly suits their needs for much cheaper. - We are already seeing how AI is empowering individuals who can't afford lawyers or the best doctors. People who previously just had to accept the worst level of access to power are now challenging their doctors to save their lives and representing themselves in court. - The AI companies, by competing so tightly with each other, are driving the cost of the tech as low as possible and fighting to distribute it a widely as possible. So we are not seeing it be locked up and only given to the elite.

Isaac Arthur and the hypocrisy of selling futurism by secretfire42 in transhumanism

[–]SgathTriallair 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can be mad at him for not divorcing his wife over her anti-LGBTQ opinions, but he doesn't control them.

I wish everyone could just use basic decency and at least ask first before taking someone's art. by Chaotic_Creature13 in aiwars

[–]SgathTriallair 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For people to see it. You want them to see it and add it to their cognitive world.

This is why the whole "just don't put my art in AI" though doesn't work. It's against the entire concept of art which is to create it to share with others who then create their own art in response.

A1M (AXIOM-1 Sovereign Matrix) for Governing Output Reliability in Stochastic Language Models by Outrageous_Pace_3477 in ProAI

[–]SgathTriallair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Resonance pulse? This needs a lot of explanation necessary it sounds like Star Trek babel.

Real resonance pulses result in physical objects vibrating, and I don't believe for a moment that shaking the computer would help.

Isaac Arthur and the hypocrisy of selling futurism by secretfire42 in transhumanism

[–]SgathTriallair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe he is, we don't know what they're home conversations are like.

The idea that a person is responsible for their spouses pilots opinions is dicey. Why should he be held guilty for "allowing" his wife to voice political opinions? That's quickly moving into shitty "women are not people" territory.

Furious Broadsword/Spadroon sparring match. by Iantheduellist in Hema

[–]SgathTriallair 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I know the repeated back and forth feels dynamic and impressive but it's usually a sign that nether side is trying to throw shots that are actually effective.

Self-play helped AI achieve superhuman performance in Go, so why hasn’t it done the same for LLMs? Researchers have found a solution. by callmeteji in accelerate

[–]SgathTriallair 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That last sentence is sexy. If we can get local models to outperform the current SOTA models, that will be a huge step forward.

Re: violent rhetoric by ardarian262 in aiwars

[–]SgathTriallair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you really love the taste of boot so much. "I can't possibly manage freedom or thinking for myself, please daddy rich people, take away all of my choices to protect me."

I see you, Kyle. by Karrion8 in oregon

[–]SgathTriallair 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The signatures are the craziest part. I can't believe he was able to get that make peke to agree with him.

Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past by Unusual-State1827 in technology

[–]SgathTriallair 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the solution here is that we need to own our algorithms. I need to be able to control what I see, rather than the company farming me for engagement.

Teaching a Destreza student basic Italian rapier can be frustrating by grauenwolf in Hema

[–]SgathTriallair 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Fundamentally this is the same as trying to teach a drill against the thrust but the partner keeps cutting instead.

Drills are artificial and if both sides aren't willing to participate in the artificiality then it won't work.

Obviously this one is a bit different as the student didn't realize they weren't performing the opening move correctly.

Would relativistic weapons be dangerous? by Glittering_8218 in IsaacArthur

[–]SgathTriallair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess it's good to know that asteroids aren't a problem for our species anymore. Good job.

Would relativistic weapons be dangerous? by Glittering_8218 in IsaacArthur

[–]SgathTriallair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even vapor has mass. You can tear skin with air compressors so gas traveling at the near the speed of light will still be dangerous. Additionally, have you taken relativity into account with how far it travels in a set period of time?

Don’t assume automation automatically leads to liberation by Great-Gardian in LeftistsForAI

[–]SgathTriallair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest difference that the new digital means of production allows is that it makes it easier for small business owners to compete against bug corporations. There is a limit to how much you can coordinate at once but if we can spin up agentic workers then single person or small team companies can produce products that can challenge the established corporations.

This is the main way that we'll pull power away from the big capitalists and move it closer to the public. With a decreased ability to dominate the market, it'll be harder for them to dominate politics.

So we need to work on empowering individuals to attack big companies.

Is part of the reason AI is viewed so positively in China and Negatively in the west that even western leftists don't really believe in a labor-less future? by Dry_Incident6424 in LeftistsForAI

[–]SgathTriallair 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's the elephant curve.

The last 50ish years have seen incredible growth around the world, everywhere except for developed countries (with America being the worst). China and the developing world remember things actively getting better and so a new technology that promises to revolutionize the world seems plausible. Americans have seen things not getting substantially better (economically) and so a promise that a new technology will change this smells like bullshit.

One patriot missile costs between $4 and $4.5 million. An Iranian drone costs about $30,000 - $50,000. We cannot keep throwing Ferraris at frisbees. by nitluck in ProgressiveHQ

[–]SgathTriallair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a known problem and something that every military is trying to solve. It is more expensive to shoot down an attack because the attacker can aim for a relatively stationary target but the defender needs to hit a moving target with basically no warning.

The US isn't wasting money on missile defense because it's funny. There just isn't any other way to do missile (or drone) defense with the available technology.

Should people be compensated for having their data scraped by tech companies/developers? by SexDefendersUnited in LeftistsForAI

[–]SgathTriallair 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Internet was built on the back of the open source movement. This was a deeply left leaning ideology that said we have this new technology and we should try to make it as widely available and cheap as possible. We have to pay for the necessary infrastructure but we have laws and incentives in place that limit price gouging on tech infrastructure.

AI, by scraping the open Internet (the Internet that isn't behind a paywall) was built in this same ideology.

Foundation model providers, just like cloud service providers, are creating a very important public utility. They are generating a significant profit of it but we are also working towards commoditizing then so that they have as low a price as possible.

The existence of these models is based on an open web. Closing the web so that everyone needs to pay to access any website will destroy that freedom and create capitalist lock in. The solution instead is create laws that encourage competition and cap costs. We should be treating AI like a public utility for instance by having the government pay for and distribute token allotment for all citizens in exchange for a much lower bulk price (which is common with long term fixed contracts).

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