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One of the many things that we need to acceeeeeeelerate is abolishing groth16 Per-application trusted setups are just not ok in the 2020s. Universal setup at the minimum, ideally no setup at all This requires big improvements on infra and standardization for newer SNARK algos

@lorepunkdoteth @potuz_eth @deepseek_ai I have the 14B distill running locally on my laptop Not nearly as good as full-size, but still quite good!

@potuz_eth @deepseek_ai if you don't like its data collection run it yourself if you don't like its opinions fine tune it yourself IT'S OPEN SOURCE THAT'S THE POINT! Milady

All technologies that intervene in complex natural processes (slowly) follow the trajectory: 1. Impossible 2. Reckless 3. Avant-garde 4. Mainstream 5. Irresponsible not to IMO this is true for medicine, food science, genetics, geoengineering, and other spaces. Version 1 of some tech will always suck, people will over-learn the lesson that that tech "is a road not to be gone down", and not see that version 4 actually works. The main exception is centralized interference with *human society*. This is because when interfering with human society, it's not just the manipulator whose tech improves day by day, but also each new technology makes the society you're trying to manipulate itself more complex, and constantly zeroing out much of your accumulated "wisdom" on how to manipulate it. And so "leave people alone" keeps unreasonably winning in very wide sets of circumstances. This is the core thesis of liberal transhumanism.

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@Orwelian84 @CharlotteFang77 @Jiankui_He Milady

@CharlotteFang77 ok real talk, this whole "dysgenic" frame is soooo 20th century the most impact you can get is, what, 1-3 IQ pts per generation? we're in the tech century, just create a welcome home for @Jiankui_He and IQ problems are solved, make sure everyone has access to best genes Milady

@chainyoda no-loss savings lotteries are really cool imo see @PoolTogether_

@chainyoda We need to build tools to democratize actual sustainable long-term wealth building Milady

@WilliamShatner 😂

> Overcomplex models with error from variance will result in some applicants getting wildly more for no good reason Markets have this problem all the time 😂 And so if the goal is to replicate the good aspects of markets for public goods, then one might expect that the solutions will also err in that direction.

@socrates1024 I think the difference is between deliberately engineered friction and accidental friction

@esteecoin @angela_walch @ameensol <d/acc>

@angela_walch @ameensol You don't need "solely", you need "correlation greater than zero" But yes agree with the latter point, competence and alignment are separate axes, and if you fail hard at alignment, competence may even be a net bad

I think the underlying assumption of people who have this type of opinion (if in good faith) is that you can filter for a higher-quality voter set and if you do that, the gains from having more competent governance (which lifts all boats) outweigh the risks that (i) if a subset of voters is unrepresented the others will gang up on them and face no resistance, (ii) without "everyone votes" as a schelling point you get a spiral of disenfranchising more and more people. I personally find this strategy quite risky. As I understand, it's already a standard opinion among "wise advocates of democracy" that the goal of democracy is to provide alignment, not competence; the competence comes from other layers of the social stack like entrepreneurs, intrinsically-motivated academic types, and other various structures. And so compromising the "alignment" property of democracy is exactly the road you do not want to go down.