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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • AI overall? Generally pro. LLMs and generative AI, though, I’m “against”, mostly meaning that I think it’s misused.

    Not sure what the answer is, tbh. Reigning in corporations would be good.

    I do think we as a society need to radically alter our relationship to IP law. Right now we ‘enforce’ IP law in a way that benefits corporations but not individuals. We should either get rid of IP law altogether (which would protect people from corporations abusing the laws) or we should enforce it more strictly, and actually hold corporations accountable for breaking it.

    If we fixed that, I think gen AI would be fine. But we aren’t doing that.







  • Well I don’t think you’re the OP. He’s made some pretty sweeping claims that I’d like to address with him.

    But as for your comment, I’ll happily oblige 😊

    Like one of the primary good criticisms against utilitarianism is that you cannot actually practice it and instead end up implementing some other ethics system on a day to day basis.

    As an individual? Probably not, no. But countries and organizations ought to determine their laws and/or policies based on utilitarianism, yes.

    Individuals will probably follow the moral codes of their communities, and only actually use utilitarian principles when it’s time to evaluate whether the rules are working as intended.

    How do you calculate the utilons of any decision? Like seriously how?

    Badly, I assume. But it’s closer to “good” than any other system will get you.


  • Yeah? Maybe we mean different things when we say that word though.

    To me, I mean that I enjoy food the way other people enjoy whatever it is that they’re passionate about. So I have a few fancy kitchen gadgets and a well-stocked spice cabinet, and I’d budget for and save for a trip to a nice restaurant the way other people budget for sneakers or makeup or whatever. I don’t think that’s a weird thing to ‘admit.’