Yep. Cooking is a great example of a work that can take a lot of your time and energy without giving you muscles or helping you lose weight.
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It would make sense that when psychopaths get the power, they will eliminate the detectors.
"We will be more proactive and agile, and volunteer to work during the entire weekend to keep our customers happy, sir!"
"Good, good, but don't bother me with the details."
At work, everything is chaotic, the people who make the key decisions do not understand their consequences, and the AI allows this chaos to happen much faster. On top of that, meaningless restrictions, for example only the managers are allowed to use the AI to search for information on SharePoint, the developers are only allowed to use it inside of their IDEs.
Ironically, it would be possible to use the AI to do things much better in my company. For example, there is a key component that is full of bugs, it would be much better to throw it away and vibecode a replacement in one week. But that's not going to happen, because someone very important in the company management has approved the purchase of that component. So instead, the remaining parts of the system must be tweaked to accommodate for its bugs... these days with the help of AI. It does not help that AI writes code, if humans make spaghetti architecture.
* remove the retrospective
* remove the planning poker
* extend the "stand-up" meetings to take an hour (with no standing, of course)
* and instead of developers synchronizing with each other you make it about developers reporting their daily progress to the manager
* redefine the role of "scrum master" from someone who takes care about the Scrum rituals, to the traditional manager
* remove the product owner and demo
* and a few more changes like this
...you have turned Scrum into something that the managers really like!
Is there anything useful about cursive writing? Other than it being positively correlated with many good things because education is the common topic?
Then how could you make so many mistakes in one sentence?
> end death itself
was done by Flammel
> turn her into an immortal magical unicorn princess
was done by you-know-who
> tear apart entire stars for their raw resources
is foretold to happen in unspecified future, outside the story time frame
Perhaps the author of the article is a rationalist, too. He certainly knows too much about them, cares too much, and the fact that he criticizes them only shows that there is some infighting among them.
Joining the Illuminati who rule the world is surprisingly cheap. Next time a similar article gets on HN front page, it will be about you!
Nerds used to be shamed for not having enough sex, now they are being shamed for having too much sex. When will they finally learn to have the average amount of sex, so that the public discourse can finally switch to something else?
How?
Suppose that for the following 20 or even 100 years nothing happens. The AIs miraculously stay as they are today, the further progress turns out to be impossible, there will be no more agents hacking various websites, no cyber warfare involving AI agents, nothing. There will be the year 2026, forever.
How would any of that impact the lifestyle of anyone in the rationalist community? Please be more specific with your accusation.
(Seems like the rationalists are simultaneously the dark lords of TESCREAL, pulling the strings of the world's most powerful billionaires and politicians, but also irrelevant weird nerds who can be ruined at any moment by a smart blogger explaining how their opinions are silly, or even that they know each other.)
The ending? https://hpmor.com/chapter/122
> "Ah..." Harry said. This was very hard to say. "Actually, the rest of the world doesn't know this part, not even the Headmistress. But in point of fact you were one hundred and twelve percent correct about [spoiler], and I'll remember for future reference that although 'Dark' and 'evil' may not technically be the same thing, there's a great big statistical correlation."
> "Oh," said Hermione, and fell silent again.
> "You're not saying that you told me so?" said Harry. His mental model of Hermione was yelling: I TOLD YOU SO! DIDN'T I TELL YOU SO, MR. POTTER? DIDN'T I TELL YOU? [spoiler], I SAID, BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME!
It feels like most people who criticize the story didn't actually read it, and just start with the premise that Yudkowsky sucks at writing, then conclude that obviously Harry Potter must be Mary Sue, and that whatever Harry says is what Yudkowsky wants you to believe.
If you actually read the story, you will find out that many things that Harry said and believed turned out to be wrong. That ending was written by Yudkowsky, too. The characters that disagreed with Harry since the beginning, such as Hermione and Dumbledore, were written by Yudkowsky, too. Perhaps there is a little more depth in the story than if you assume that it must be a Mary Sue story.
"Human dominance may depend heavily on language, accumulated culture, institutions and cooperation rather than merely individual cognitive horsepower."
Well, AIs can use language, too. They can start copying the human culture and gradually develop their own. The HuggingFace incident already demonstrated that they are quite capable of cooperation and inventing institutions on the spot.
"In reality there may be many checkpoints: developers can notice anomalous behavior, revoke credentials, shut down servers, change architectures, restrict networks, regulate deployment, physically seize data centers, and learn from less-catastrophic failures."
In theory, yeah. In practice, how much of this has actually happened during the HuggingFace incident? Just because humans could in theory notice something doesn't mean they will; and even if they will, doesn't mean they will actually do something about it.
for many people the answer seems to be: not really.
You can learn to pay me, or you can learn the consequences of refusing to pay me. It's your choice of learning opportunity! ;)
I suspect there is a lot of bias in action, for example extraverts genuinely believing that other extraverts are competent even if they are not.
Managers tell the developers to talk to LLMs.
CEOs tell the managers to tell the developers to talk to LLMs.
The longer the chain, the higher you are in the company hierarchy.
The scammers who call me are perfectly obvious.
First, they tell me the company they are from (almost certainly a fake one -- could be easy to verify). Then they try to convince me that two years ago I have created an account on their website, they gave me some free money that was managed by an AI, and now I have a ton of money, and they need to send it to me (a completely bullshit story). Then they tell me that in order to get that money, I need to install a software, that I know happens to be a remote control software (no legitimate financial institution would ever do that).
There is no way to make this plausibly deniable. Especially the part about the need to install the remote control software... which is the entire point of the operation.