What if models said next best action should be based on elections. Is democracy OK if models say so
How does one decide which models to use. What if different models conflict
What if "a few platforms" decide what models should be used and decide what the models are allowed to say
People who are experiencing unrest and idleness are easy to recruit -- and if you hang out with people ages of 18-30, you'll see there's no shortage of them.
In such models where individuals in a market system can influence public/private institutions for their own interest (news organizations, private think tanks, lobbyists, public/private colleges, corporations, charities, nonprofits etc etc) will be able to reroute those institutional resources to gaming elections — which is unavoidable result over the market’s long run, similar to it being impossible to defend one’s currency against speculators over the long run — thus selection pressures force politicians and political institutions to either cater to these wealthy people’s whims and the institutions they control, or to somehow (and very unlikely) bare the selection pressures that are pushing them out of office.
Given the law of large numbers, you’d presume at any point the average legislator would be captured more by these maladaptive selection pressures rather than somehow existing in spite of them.
As democracy is eaten away, we will maintain a slow decay to a Russia-like sultan oligarchic system and the comforts the majority currently maintain will slowly go with them.
You have to pick a problem. Right now, quality of life basically keeps going up, so it's pretty hard to act on anything you might care about here.
Housing/medical/college etc are outpacing incomes. Loneliness has skyrocketed. People are voting for fascism and starting wars. Americans like to pretend with their big houses and fancy iphones, but things are NOT ok.
Also note on that chart: younger demographics in the US are reporting significantly lower life evaluations compared to older demographics. So if you think things right now are bad, you haven't seen anything yet.
Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing?
You can't just pick one. The main problem is inequality is rising, which means those without serious capital (which includes the young) are much less likely to see anything from their efforts. It just pops up in different ways. All my money goes to {rent, inflation, student loans, hospital bills .. etc}.
Why would we intentionally narrow the discussion like this?
That's something that pretend political parties do to prop up the interests of the uniparty of capital interests while squelching actual progress for the majority.
Most people on the planet can't afford a home or start families. They can barely pay their rents to avoid ending on up the street.
Not everyone is fortunate to be born smart and able to make money. And these at the bottom struggle enormously
Also, please don't use the voting buttons for things you disagree with. I'm trying to have a productive conversation here.
As better education/tution leads to over achievement relative to natural ability. So you end up with people in positions of power that are beyond them, and low educated voter too
Left you an upvote because I'm interested in responses to this.
I try not to make assumptions when I get downvoted. I think: Maybe I was a little sarcastic or aggressive or I implied something weaselly; or maybe the downvoter just disagreed with me. I don't assume either way, and I don't guess about moral high ground or whatever. All my comment's points tell me is what delta of people clicked the down arrow, not what was in their heads individually.
I don’t mind people succeeding at gathering wealth. Mostly the very rich stay quiet.
What annoys me is loud mouthed celebrities. For some reason, people famous for being born pretty think their opinions are all brilliant.
What it boils down to is that a lot of the immense freedom Elon Musk has to influence our common future, due to his wealth, comes at the expense of our ability to influence our future.
Yeah, not all games are zero sum. But "power over others" is, and it's a pretty important one, and other people are playing it whether you want to or not.
Edit: an example of everything worth doing being illegal, from another comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayTV
Whats bothering me lately? Anxiety about my future. Not being where I want to be. Fearful that I might not get to where I want to be. But I take daily steps to ensure I come out alright since hope is not a strategy.
All I can do is be consistent and hopeful.
I make my living by building solutions. Companies usually are chock full of problems that need solutions. Companies are still full of problems that need solutions but they are completely paralyzed because they think if they wait a quarter or two, a model will come along and solve all their problems.
I will change decade this year
I still have not found my passion nor encountered the big project if my life. I am interested by too many things and have too little agency or perseverance.
A lot is hype
Many people think the social mobility came through intellectual feats, but when you look at it carefully, it came through agency and ownership.
This was the whole point. A secure, politically active middle class will be too obstructive to the new aristocracy.
I posted a link to an article on an HTTP-only website a few days ago, and it was flagged within half an hour because browsers want HTTPS.
I know all about JS injection into unencrypted HTTP trafic, but this is beyond the point.
The point is, I can not just spawn a website and make it available to the world from anywhere having only a network connection.
Why do I have to beg someone for a proof of nothing just to share a random thought?
Why aren’t eink displays more useful? They seem like they should be. More than e-readers or a calendar.
I used to think their main risk was spam or propaganda. Now I think it's curation of knowledge, history, and thought.
- The current situation where distribution matters way more than product quality
- Lack of clear personal goals
Do you have any trouble with executive function, like for things you know you should do? I certainly struggle getting started on new things, everything feels "not worth my effort", so I understand that feeling.
In what aspect of your life are you least fulfilled?
And the future seems gloom overall. Not looking forward to it. I used to.
I think what I'm really looking for is a model like GPT Rosalind, which has been steeped in "science" post-training, but with more randomness. Like, I think I'm looking for a GPT Mullis--Rosalind Franklin was careful, deliberate, and serious; Kary Mullis ate a bunch of acid, drove on the PCH, and invented PCR. Like, we need to invent psychedelics for LLMs. Some way to let them relax their weights, explore new pathways, and come up with some absurd ideas by connecting random ass dots from the natural world. I want the model to say, "hmm, that's weird". This isn't just changing the temperature, we're missing something deeper.
I think frontier science has always come from serendipity: a bright thinker, listening to a presentation after having stared at some small experiment, but having trained for years on "biochemistry" so the foundation and loose guardrails are there.
I don't know, I'm feeling adrift. Does this resonate with anyone else?
That someone who would be bearing the impact of a bad hire recommended me and some recruiter who openly admitted she didn't know much about that side of the business made the call to drop me left a pretty bad taste in my mouth about the company
https://julienreszka.com/blog/france-needs-45-years-to-grow-...
They must be ridiculously high
Systems down costing millions in sale? = fired
Systems down due to Azure issue = oh well
This topic deserves some scrutiny and open minds from the general public. Alas, we've been propagandized to the point where we don't think for ourselves. Heh, maybe that second point is really whats bothering me?
maybe this sound much smaller than economic policies in France but for me this sucks big time
i used to get weekly packages from indie european stores and samples from asia
since tarrifs, that has dropped to zero, with 90% of my shipments being returned for cryptic reasons (like 'incomplete address' when the full address is correct and visible) or outright 'No' from sellers
its starting to feel less like random failure and more like "system working as designed" :(
Its brutal. Once you are out at 35+ for an even year or two - it's impossible to go back.
AI takes jobs faster than creating new ones.
ps. Just got laid off from the Temu call(chat) centre. AI IS taking our jobs.
completely devastated
Nowadays out of tech - too tired after 11h shift to do stuff. No weekends.
Got kicked out from McDonald's for being too slow (competing with 20yr olds is HARD), gonna be kicked out from temu in 2 weeks due the AI (80% staff reduction!) despite the best CSAT...
I'm worried about having any job stability. Programmer's ship sailed away I guess. (I lost to the 40B$ AI supercomputer so it's fair :)
/venting off
And generally people thinking about themselves and not considering that we're living in society: "let me blast music so that walls shake and fuck neighbours", "let me just leave my mattress here on the curb blocking the path, somebody will pick it up", "let me not clean after my dog shitting on the sidewalk", "I'm seeing people queuing to get on a train, let me just not notice the queue", "let me just walk down the street with my eyes on the phone, surely other people will accomodate me and get out of my way". This is the variation of the above, but to the civic level; just don't make lives of others harder.
Its so exhausting walking on eggshells, and engineering discussions to avoid conflicts.
- The rights of my children being legislated away.
- The people that could do something about it have chosen not to.
- Any time I talk about the above, I feel like I'm shouting into the void and no one cares, either in-person or on the internet.
- I still have to go to work tomorrow.
Have a look at the many foreign streamers raving about their visits for the World Cup. It’s refreshing and incredibly uplifting to hear other perspectives.
Even if that was true, how to convince enough people, given that the enemies own the newspapers and so on?
I have about 350k USD and live in New Delhi.
When was the last time you worked with an organization working on that issue?