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AndrewKemendoon St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Which indicates that there’s so much understanding of how it works and the power that it uses that compensatory systems have been created to increase its reliability

what precisely is your point of describing how quality production engineering for infrastructure works?

AndrewKemendoon St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

The fact that you conflate LLMs and AI means you’re unqualified to be part of the discussion

AndrewKemendoon St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Correct interpretation

AndrewKemendoon The weekend is 100 years old

The lack of understanding about the change in day-to-day life over the last 200 years is truly unfathomable - I fully do not understand it but the little that I appreciate is absurdly profound in the differences

It’s like we’re living on an entirely different planet than the people who existed prior to the industrial revolution

Bertrand Russell’s grandfather was alive during napoleon’s rule and he speaks about the difference between 1950 and 1900:

https://youtu.be/xL_sMXfzzyA

AndrewKemendoon St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

It’s great that nuclear power safety events are so well managed that nearly 100% of events go completely unnoticed by the public.

Unironically this is the kind of headline I’m expecting in 2040 about one or more major AGI systems running an electrical grid, factory or similar.

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

https://www.sakkyndig.com/psykologi/artvit/babiak2010.pdf

1/5 CEOs are psychopaths

The people giving back wallets aren’t running companies and governments

AndrewKemendoon ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year

Lost at “AI” or some vague statement

AndrewKemendoon ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year

Given this anyone still thinking Google lost needs to update their belief system

AndrewKemendoon The Problem

I’m just surprised MIRI still exists

I guess they just want to maintain their url

AndrewKemendoon Ordinary Abundance

There’s many people who live this this everyday still

The future isn’t evenly distributed

AndrewKemendoon Dear people who work at the airport

My observation is that on average, the world is too complex and confusing for the vast majority of people to operate in it without significant struggle.

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

You can do this test yourself at home see if you can find mutual agreement among even a small subset of people on a precise singular definition of a singular term.

You may be able to get a handful of people to agree temporarily but that’s probably as good as you’ll ever get

I don’t believe there is a single word at least in the English language where there is consistent Universal agreement on a singular definition

Bonne chance!

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

The fatal flaw in your argument is that none of the measures that you’re using actually have any impact on real world day-to-day power

otherwise slave camps would not exist, there would’ve never been a pogrom, and the current state of economics would just not be happening

I certainly appreciate your optimism but optimism is not an epistemology

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

> Why do we need universal agreement?

Because actions have Universal impact

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

You would first need a universal agreement on what constitutes “honor.”

No harder challenge had ever been accomplished

It’s easier to send a human to the moon than to get global agreement on a definition

Consider that the fact that Celsius and Fahrenheit still remain as the contested regional variations of temperature measurement.

Humans can’t even decide on a collective way to measure the temperature the idea that we would be able to collectively agree on anything else even less measurable like honor is a dream

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

It's not cynicism it's history

AndrewKemendoon AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

AI and eventually AGI is by definition like everything else that is based on environmental reward:

It’s actions are based on what it gets rewarded for

Human society overwhelmingly rewards lying cheating and stealing.

All you have to do is look at how we collectively measure success: wealth, status, position

Then look at how the people with the most of those things got there, it should be obvious what you get. Nothing new here.

If you raise children in an environment where they are rewarded for doing whatever it takes to win, then you’re going to build a person that’s going to do whatever it takes to win.

Human society has to demonstrate how to live honorably or it will just keep producing pathological agents be they human or not.

AndrewKemendoon Top adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader sits down for rare interview

> The longer this war lasts, the more experience we gain. We had never seen a real war to gain real experience to learn how to fight with America. In these five months, we have learned how. We have also seen how the American military is weaker than what we perceived.

This is the most salient point and shows this guy understands the ooda loop — possibly better than the pentagon, which famously hates Boyd and the concept of strategic optimization.

AndrewKemendoon U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

All of this has been true for at least two generations

That’s what college life was like for me in a top 10 US school in 2003-2008 and was true of that school since 1954.

AndrewKemendoon Manus will return to operating as an independent company

What does it have to do with?

AndrewKemendoon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

What if the products were too big in the past and now they are down to the appropriate size?

AndrewKemendoon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Well if you get your friends and family to help to build them (which is what people used to do) and then cut a deal for cheap land in remote Nebraska

Just pretend like it’s 1950 and use the tools and build the community you need to do it like they did back then

No fair using nail guns

AndrewKemendoon Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints

Correct they fail in any out of boundary condition which is like 50% of cases in my experience

Even worse is that the human is usually just as worthless because the problem is often upstream at the insurance provider or regulation

This is something I’m finding with people complaining about AI systems the AI system in this case is not any worse than the previous IVR system was it just expanded the use cases and now people say oh it doesn’t work for those expanded use cases

There’s no mention whatsoever of the current absolute devastatingly bad state of all software across the world

It’s like people are mad when there’s an application that already sucks, someone attempts to use genAI, that fails and then they blame AI

The whole thing is absurd

AndrewKemendoon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

I’m aware of your argument and disagree. I know plenty of people who are unhoused and have no intentions on becoming housed anytime soon.

Whether or not you agree with that philosophy or not living by yourself in a tent in the forest is absolutely an option

“My post, and the GP post I'm agreeing with, are saying that most of those aren't optional "lifestyle upgrades"”

My disagreement is that they are optional, like everything else in life

You aren’t willing to take the tradeoff of not having indoor plumbing or whatever but the claim that using modern technologies and living according to capitalism isn’t an option is incorrect

Ultimately that’s a choice among infinite options

AndrewKemendoon Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints

Explain to me then why pharmacies have almost exclusively used IVR based phone systems for pharmacy refills and prescription management for the last decade?

Like they don’t even say the full name of the prescription they just tell you the first three letters and they’ll say “for the patient born on…”

Current pharmacy IT systems are currently almost 100% automated so how are you claiming it’s the first use?

AndrewKemendoon Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

Have you ever bought a car near a military base?

How about getting a check cashed or a payday loan?

Furniture financing is almost 100% a scam

Pharma pricing?

AndrewKemendoon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

But that’s not the same world

The current world has different technology and economics

In order to match the same lifestyle of the past you would have to be subject to the economic and technological structure of the past

Which you can emulate and it is objectively cheaper but you choose

This is literally the operational principle of the Amish and mennonite communities

AndrewKemendoon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

I agree with you and the math checks out

The challenge is that this is a hard argument to make to most people because they aren’t aware of the hedonic treadmill

I could easily afford the life my grandfather had in 1950, but I wouldn’t have a fuel injected motor, vaccines, a laptop or a job in computing.

My air would be full of lead and my drinking water would be cloudy and smell like sulphur.

That life is possible in San Angelo Tx today on ~15,000 a year, the equivalent of his salary in 1950

AndrewKemendoon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

All technologies are used to change or amplify existing power structures

AndrewKemendoon John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

In my experience you can’t get there through external sources

You need to be accepting and prepared to die in every sense of the word in order get there

Which means you need to shed your ego entirely and everyone has their own journey there.

You’ll know when you meet someone that has experienced it though it’s very rare