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Louis CK - Everything is amazing & nobody is happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4

by aantix 2y ago

coldtea 2y ago
Perhaps everybody is right, and what is amazing is not what matters, and what matters is hardly amazing...
- throwaway_62022 2y ago
  As John Stewart says in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY - "How about I hold the fort on making peanut butter sandwiches, because that is something I can do. How about we let AI solve this world climate problem". Yet to see a true "killer" feature of AI, that isn't doing a job badly which humans can already do badly.
  - roudaki 2y ago
    the point of all of this is: this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI whatever that is
    - coldtea 2y ago
      >the point of all of this is: this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI whatever that is Maybe they publicly made it available at alpha 0.7 and now it's more like 0.9 RC instead, with not much room to go except through marginal improvements for an ever increasing training budget making them less and less worthy? And that's before 90% of the internet becomes LLM ouput, poisoning any further corpus for training and getting into LSD-grade hallucinations mode...
- andrewmutz 2y ago
  Or perhaps the news media has been increasingly effective at convincing us the world is terrible. Perceptions have become measurably detached from reality: https://www.ft.com/content/af78f86d-13d2-429d-ad55-a11947989c8f https://www.ft.com/content/af78f86d-13d2-429d-ad55-a11947989...
  - trimethylpurine 2y ago
    If we're convinced that it's terrible then we're behaving like it's terrible, which is terrible.
  - coldtea 2y ago
    Or perhaps the reality on the ground for the working and middle class masses is not the same reality experienced by the elites, and the upper middle class with $150K+ salaries, or measured by stock market growth, and such...
demondemidi 2y ago
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Louis CK - Everything is amazing & nobody is happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4

by aantix 2y ago

Louis CK - Everything is amazing & nobody is happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4

coldtea 2y ago

Perhaps everybody is right, and what is amazing is not what matters, and what matters is hardly amazing...

throwaway_62022 2y ago
As John Stewart says in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY - "How about I hold the fort on making peanut butter sandwiches, because that is something I can do. How about we let AI solve this world climate problem". Yet to see a true "killer" feature of AI, that isn't doing a job badly which humans can already do badly.
- roudaki 2y ago
  the point of all of this is: this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI whatever that is
  - coldtea 2y ago
    >the point of all of this is: this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI whatever that is Maybe they publicly made it available at alpha 0.7 and now it's more like 0.9 RC instead, with not much room to go except through marginal improvements for an ever increasing training budget making them less and less worthy? And that's before 90% of the internet becomes LLM ouput, poisoning any further corpus for training and getting into LSD-grade hallucinations mode...
andrewmutz 2y ago
Or perhaps the news media has been increasingly effective at convincing us the world is terrible. Perceptions have become measurably detached from reality: https://www.ft.com/content/af78f86d-13d2-429d-ad55-a11947989c8f https://www.ft.com/content/af78f86d-13d2-429d-ad55-a11947989...
- trimethylpurine 2y ago
  If we're convinced that it's terrible then we're behaving like it's terrible, which is terrible.
- coldtea 2y ago
  Or perhaps the reality on the ground for the working and middle class masses is not the same reality experienced by the elites, and the upper middle class with $150K+ salaries, or measured by stock market growth, and such...

demondemidi 2y ago

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