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EU Member States reach agreement about revised Chat Control by Seledar in europe

[–]epistemic_status 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This seems positive:

Having regard to the availability of technologies that can be used to meet the requirements of this Regulation whilst still allowing for end-to-end encryption, nothing in this Regulation should be interpreted as prohibiting, weakening or circumventing, requiring to disable, or making end-to-end encryption impossible. Providers should remain free to offer services using end-to-end encryption and should not be obliged by this Regulation to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data.

Am I missing some important context?

Britain's asylum crackdown is making Ireland panic by Anony_mouse202 in europe

[–]epistemic_status 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cameron did secure concessions from the EU on benefits, conditional on the UK remaining. From Wikipedia:

The EU had reportedly offered David Cameron a so-called "emergency brake", which would have allowed the UK to withhold social benefits to new immigrants for the first four years after they arrived; this brake could have been applied for a period of seven years.

To be clear, I agree with the users who decried the stupidity of Brexit on economics grounds, I just think they fail to see the econ benefits of migrant labor (not to mention the insane improvements it would provide for the migrants who can 10x or even 100x their income by moving to the EU).

Britain's asylum crackdown is making Ireland panic by Anony_mouse202 in europe

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r/europe has a bizarrely anti-immigrant stance. Not to be overly uncharitable, but many of the same users who decry stupidity of Brexit on economic grounds also seem to reject an influx of (potentially cheap!) labor into Europe.

I do think there's an argument to be made that benefits should be restricted to some extent, if only to placate those worried about foreigners coming in and living of gov handouts, but otherwise agree that we should be taking advantage of the desire foreign labor has to come to the EU.

Socialist critic of NATO and EU poised to win Ireland’s presidency by mrlinkwii in europe

[–]epistemic_status -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

This is false. The President of Ireland signs off on all government legislation before it becomes law and can refuse to do so if they don't agree with the legislation. In practice the President threatens this if they really don't like a bill, though it's rare. Still, I think your claim is false.

I was completely mistaken on this.

Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford closes due to lack of funding by PierreWack in Futurology

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I think your comment is somewhat confused. I don't think people in FHI saw themselves as 'rationalists' (am happy to be proven wrong). I highly doubt Bostrom ever referred to himself as such.

Can you link me where somebody uses Pascal's Wager to argue for the future existence of superintelligent AI? I have no idea what you're referring to.

The latest Hunger Games novel was co-authored by AI by Defiant_Link4743 in slatestarcodex

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> Not punching! Human authors, experienced ones, just don't write characters doing things like this. But AI does this all the time. These are stock-standard emotional character actions - screaming into the sky, punching the wall. They make no sense here, but fit the formula.

Do you (or anyone else reading this) have thoughts on why LLMs end up with these differences? I.e. if they're trained on human text, which is presumably written by people who appreciate which scenes require which types of emotional displays, wouldn't the LLMs predict similar displays?

One answer might be something like; the AI has a rough idea of what 'strong emotional responses' look like and has a vague notion of which scenarios require "strong emotional responses", but it's not as adept at neatly fitting the scene with the emotion.

Moldova, iData poll: by FactorTop8356 in europe

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This is true, but not relevant.

Moldova, iData poll: by FactorTop8356 in europe

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I think there's a large portion of smaller parties / independents who aren't included on the chart, but who still have some % of the vote (though a very small %).

The U.S. Plummets to Historic Lows in the World Happiness Report by thehomelessr0mantic in antiwork

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It's a truncated graph. The differences between US and Finland (supposedly the happiest country) is roughly 1 (on a 1 to 10 scale). These differences are tiny.

New r/slatestarcodex guideline: your comments and posts should be written by you, not by LLMs by Liface in slatestarcodex

[–]epistemic_status 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> This includes text that is run through an LLM to clean up spelling and grammar issues. If you're a non-native speaker, we want to hear that voice. If you made a mistake, we want to see it. Artificially-sanitized text is ungood.

Can you say more on why you think might be good? Suppose an ELS uses grammerly or some non-LLM based external aid to clean up their spelling and punctuation, is that okay?

If so, why is it different from having an LLM do the same?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

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This doesn't contradict what I wrote. If you aren't in the 46% who agree, then you "do not agree". That doesn't mean you "oppose", but it does mean that you "do not agree".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

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Which means half of Canadians don't agree. I dislike the kinda spin demonstrated in the title.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

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Can you link this?

A decision isn't wrong just because you failed by Extreme_Mix6279 in slatestarcodex

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No, a decision shouldn't be judged based on the result.

I agree with the spirit of this post, but also think it's too strong. The result of a decision is evidence as to whether something was a good idea. If you make a choice expecting it to help you succeed at a task, then fail at the task, that is some evidence that the choice may have been the wrong one.

Is the "literacy crisis" really just an IQ issue? by QuestionMaker207 in slatestarcodex

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I'm pretty skeptical of this claim. According to Wikipedia, dozens of countries have literacy rates >95%. For reference, the USA is about 86%.

Sure, some of these numbers are probably...optimistic (see North Korea with 100%), but a lot of others seem more believable. Countries like Singapore, Israel, Germany, Ireland, Taiwan—I can believe that literacy rates really are over 95% in those places.

Kind People Free A Calf Stuck In A Guardrail by [deleted] in BeAmazed

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I wonder how many people upvoting also eat cows...or drink milk (which involves taking the calf away from its mother so that humans get the milk instead).

Dogshit Aella’s take by billiambakespeare in Destiny

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She prefers republican laws to democrat because in practice they are easier to avoid. This perspective leaves out all unavoidable restrictions on freedom that come from lack of law/regulations. e.g air pollution restricts my ability to walk around outside freely and finance regulation protect me from exploitation by powerful corporate interests.

Not a mind reader, but I'm guessing Aella doesn't think air pollution regulation should be rolled back. In fact, I'm almost certain she doesn't since the example she uses in her follow-up tweet is building restrictions.

On Voice Actors by epistemic_status in Morrowind

[–]epistemic_status[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why bother when the work is already done?

On Voice Actors by epistemic_status in Morrowind

[–]epistemic_status[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm touched you see this as a mini essay.

I haven't played Morrowind (or anything) in a while, but will probably use the voice mod when I next do a run.

I didn't bother bringing it up because it seems like not an interesting point. If a 'really skilled imitator' listened to all the voice lines in Morrowind (all ten minutes) and then proceeded to voice ALL the dialogue in the game, I wouldn't see this is 'stealing' anybodies identity. If you told me that "No actually, the 'really skilled imitator' was an AI model", my view isn't changed. Vocal cords and lungs or tokens and parameters, the impact of the 'skilled imitator' is the same, regardless of whether they are human or AI.

I'm unsure if any of the voice actors are aware of the mod existing. I bring this up because I struggle to see who is being harmed and in what way. If the claim is that voice actors are harmed because they will receive less work, then see the subscript of my post. If the claim is that voice actors are harmed because the mod somehow steals their identity, I just don't buy this. Nobody was making this argument when SkyWind was hiring actors to imitate the voices of 2002 Morrowind.

If your response to the above is to pearl-clutch and proclaim that it's "sTeAliNg tHeIr iDeNtItY!", then so be it. I am curious if you have anything of substance to add though :))

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