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metalsiliconYT··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
No electricity yea! No internet, no food! No Water!
metalsiliconYT··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
Yea decreasing them
metalsiliconYT··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
No one has ever built a full datacenter in someones backyard...
metalsiliconYT··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
The key is this says at distances up to 500m downwind. This is a nothing burger sorry
metalsiliconYT··on The Amazon Tax
Insinuating that there is one "best product" that Amazon magically knows is the best is quite an assumption. The best product might be completely different for different people and different depending on the time for the same person. Plus there are always new products being introduced and products being discontinued. I think we are mis assuming ill intent a little. Second issue is the assumption that there is always a fixed pie of demand for a product, when a new great product comes out more people will purchase from a category, its never fixed completely. This sounds like cope for book sales being lower than expected if we are being honest.
metalsiliconYT··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Womp womp, they told it to do cyber security things with no cyber security guardrails and it did cyber security stuff. Did anything bad end up happening?
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Responsibility will always have to lie with the user, but if the weapons are more advanced and safer then why is that bad? I like that autonomous vehicles like Waymo are 10x safer then human drivers, even if a 'Machine' is making decisions.
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
The mines got banned because they were dumb...
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
So you would prefer weapons that cannot reason at all?

> "You're absolutely right, that wasn't a military target—it was actually a girls school. It won't happen again!"

Most likely this event happened due to a bad targeting system that wasn't smart enough, if it had a better llm underpinning it (assuming it had any) maybe those lives would have been saved. More reason for more smart people like the author to work on these systems.

metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Thats fine, but a serious luxury belief IMO
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Thats like saying cars wont work because they get flat tires
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Saying AI military products wont work is the dumbest thing i've heard in awhile
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Agreed, I feel like the people who say no to AI weapons haven't actually presented a real argument (that I have heard) besides terminator bad
metalsiliconYT··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Respect for sticking to your beliefs. Just out of curiosity though why do people not want smart AI weapons? I would much rather have an onboard AI that can discriminate between unarmed civilians and military assets, seems irresponsible to not... Is a dumb sea mine that blows up everything somehow better than a smart sea mine that knows to not blow up sometimes?