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I guess, but I remember even as far back as 2007, pg was excessively touting sama. During an interview, when asked which founder(s) impressed him most, he immediately replied, almost cutting the interviewer off, "Sam Altman." Whic
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I'm not sure if I should elaborate further, but in the last years of Loopt, it actually devolved into a hook-up app servicing the gay community, basically Grindr before Grindr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517
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On Loopt's questionable acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684357
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He was in the first batch of YC startups with a feature phone location-aware app called Loopt. Once smartphones came along, it became largely obsolete, and started to become irrelevant, but still got acquired under questionable circumstance
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This is just some PR stunt, I assume, but it's still funny coming from Mozilla, considering that Firefox has lost so much market share that it can no longer reliably be used for core web browsing tasks like e-commerce and e-banking, be
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> I don't see how it would have effects different from those of previous revolutionary technologies that have improved the human condition. It will greatly reduce the demand for labor in many fields (off the top of my head: customer
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We've reached a point where even with just continued incremental improvements, these LLMs are going to be extremely disruptive to society, probably within a decade, to the point that we see even more massive disparities in wealth and i
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> In fact, they can probably, as an artist explore more ideas than ever before thanks to AI, without spending hours on an idea / project that may not pan out. Then focus your time on the ones that you feel will work. The field will
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It's worth pointing out that Americans with post-secondary education have historically earned much more on average over the course of their lifetimes than those with only secondary education: https://www.ssa.gov/policy&
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Besides the loss of a dream, these people may soon have to also contend with serious economic hardship, especially if they took out student loans that they expected to pay off with a career that is no longer viable.
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My dream job has become obsolete bc of AI and I feel like nothing is real
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I hesitated to post this, because I don't want others with similar inclinations towards suicide getting encouragement towards that end, but I fear we're going to see a lot more of this in the near future, especially when people, b
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Maybe he was busy and didn't hear about it until later? Maybe he was asleep? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to lie and embellish about his experience during that day (as politicians often do with this kind of thing), rather t
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> gun accidents https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40... > We estimate that there were 110 unintentional firearm deaths to children 0–14 annually in the U.S. during this 8 year time pe
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>Bush Sr also claimed not to remember where he was when he found out JFK had been assassinated (despite everyone alive at that time remembering it clear as day for the rest of their lives). Lots of people actually misremember, or outrigh
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I simply asked whether they were using 3 or 4. I don't have access to 4 yet.
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> all I'm getting out of chatgpt is bullshit and hallucinations Are you using GPT3 or 4?
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Did you read the announcement: > Why a separate classical app? > Classical music often involves multiple musicians recording works that have been recorded many times before and are referred to by different names. For example, from the
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Should I be more tactful towards dangerous health misinformation being spread here?
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> and a written link goes further than a YouTube reference That's an interview with Herman Pontzer, PhD, the lead author of the most import papers published to date studying the energy expenditure of the Hadza of Tanzania, one of th
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> It may be the case that these two processes lead to similar outcomes. But for me, it is much easier to stay faithful to an IF lifestyle than a "continuously calorically restricted" lifestyle. I find the binary aspect of the I
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> We never evolved like that, it's a luxury modernity that this is even an option. That's the brainletism I was referring to. You could have easily verified your assumption by looking at remaining hunter-gather populations, who
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