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2y ago
Yes, that'd be it. I may not actually have read it until the early 1970s.
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2y ago
You're 19 and choosing a college major. Should you study languages in the hope of working as a translator? > slaves to Sam Altman Um, what would Sam Altman need slaves for, when the AI does everything better, potentially for less th
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2y ago
Know what? I believed none of those things, because they were obvious stupid bullshit. It turns out you have to actually think .
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2y ago
Where did you live that you were never exposed to profanity as a child? Good thing it's harmless.
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2y ago
Predictions inform plans and actions.
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2y ago
I was there . You know the most far-out thing I remember in sci-fi from when I was a kid? Some guy was on his way to start in the Space Patrol Academy or whatever, and his phone rang. Like this 18 year old kid was gonna be carrying a ph
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2y ago
... until it replaces the best. I used to say 20 to 100 years, now I'm down to 2 to 20.
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2y ago
"Those guys stole a cookie from the cookie jar. Therefore I'm entitled to rob a bank." "Those guys walked on the grass. Therefore I'm entitled to demolish the building."
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2y ago
But you'll have to fine tune it for a week to get it to say "Tiananmen Square".
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2y ago
It's not "safety" and shouldn't be dignified with the word.
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2y ago
Not, in fact, an acceptable excuse. Google, and any whiners who would have a problem with that, need to grow up.
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2y ago
Either they're doing medicine, or they're building medical equipment. The former case is unlikely, since, unlike writing software (but like many forms of actual engineering), there are actually formally defined standards for wha
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2y ago
If an MD writes software, does that make it "software medicine"?
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2y ago
That's nice. Electrical engineering is engineering and "software engineering" is not .
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2y ago
Nope. Tons of programmers, though.
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2y ago
Well, given that the technique itself makes the world a worse place, anything that impedes its use is probably positive... And, no, they couldn't do anything meaningful to the author of the article. They could get them ordered not to d
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2y ago
Most readers aren't attentive enough to notice a person's style enough that you have to resort to an LLM to fake it.
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2y ago
You misspelled "demonstration of small dick energy".
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2y ago
It's showing up in parentheses outside of the US. How about if we all compromise on Gulf of Donald Trump Can your-favorite-letters-here?
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2y ago
That's one of the things involved that should die, yes.
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2y ago
Mozilla continues to do anything and everything but work on the damned browser.
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2y ago
So you're cool with using just any words to describe just anything, so long as the vibe is right. Great. I'm sure that'll help a lot with everybody's understanding of the world.
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2y ago
No, text is not fake in the same vein. The whole point of deepfakes is that they're images of real people in situations they were not in . Unless you're actively claiming that some victim wrote the text, it's not similar
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2y ago
> Because by pointing out a problem, you are still implicitly asserting that some solution exists. Um, no you're not. > And the counter to that is: no, no solution exists, If that's the case, it's probably helpful to kn
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2y ago
"It's critically important that we maintain a diverse team that's inclusive of scumbags. Many of our partners are scumbags, and we must have staff who can relate to them."
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2y ago
Use the cloud, sign up for random stupid breakage.
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2y ago
The phones auto-install updates all the time with no user intervention or even notification.
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2y ago
This seems suboptimal.
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2y ago
Less effort on that repo? Sure. Less effort replicated over the entire US government ? No, sorry, don't buy it. ... and the git changes were allowed to happen on a sane schedule. Oh, and most of the people or projects affected by the
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2y ago
Actually in 1961 it was purely an executive thing. I think it was either 1978 or 1998 when Congress put it into statute.
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