Jevon23

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by Jevon23 3y ago
There’s no reason to think that they’re incompatible in the first place. May as well ask it to synthesize a theory in which Linux and relational databases are compatible.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>The conceptual level at which I work Oh come off it lol
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by Jevon23 3y ago
People in the US forget that passing new laws is even an option because Congress is dysfunctional.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Do you honestly believe that legal thinkers haven’t been dealing with these types of arguments and problems for centuries? I mean really. Do you think you’re proposing an original idea here?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
themotte.org
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Why do other people have to make accommodations for self-driving cars? The whole point of a self-driving car is that it’s supposed to do what a human driver does. Why can’t it just… avoid emergency vehicles?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>And the problem with just being okay with our wrongness is that it doesn’t match up with our ability to predict and rely on the science to complete complex engineering projects. But a theory can be false while still being predictively a
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>To believe these aliens are visiting Earth you need to explain why you can't see them anywhere except ostensibly in deserts above American military facilities and installations for testing secret aircraft. FWIW, I think this is a m
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Why would, say, FTL travel being possible imply that we needed to be “impossibly lucky” to build the things we have? I’m not a physicist, but I am mathematically literate, so please feel free to direct me to technical sources.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens Exoplanets weren’t confirmed to exist until 1992. Just sayin’.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>everything we’ve built was just incredible, one-in-a-trillion fortune that any of it worked at all. That’s not how revision in science works. We know that Newtonian mechanics was wrong and incomplete, but at the same time, it didn’t wor
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Sounds like a ChatGPT comment. Either way, you didn’t need to post this.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Bit like saying there's no point in wearing a seatbelt because "you're delusional if you think you can live forever." Sure, nothing lasts forever. Doesn't mean we just roll over and give up.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Ok? Not everything in the world has to be science. Some things are not science. It’s fine.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>Not one killer app has emerged. Surely the “killer app” is ChatGPT itself? ChatGPT has already put some copywriters and journalists out of work, or at least reduced their hours. The app is quite literally “killing” something, i.e. peopl
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by Jevon23 3y ago
The race of the two professors, obviously.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>survivable Ok. Let’s assume we’ve made the world a more survivable place. …what then? What do we do with all this newfound “survival”? At THAT point are we allowed to watch anime?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
If my compiler was “inspired” by leaked Windows source code and altered it into a new form then I think their opinions on the matter would be very different.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Why do I want a device to be “personal” and “interface with who I am”?
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Please don’t post AI-generated comments on HN.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
If you’re “emotionally” attached to a computer, that’s your problem.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Just... turn off the AI chatbot? Bam. They no longer have any control over you or anything you do. You can think whatever you want. You were free to think whatever you wanted before AI chatbots were invented, and you are still free to do th
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>Sam A said he thinks prompt engineering won't even be a thing in 5 years. I don’t understand what this could mean. I have to do “prompt engineering” when I talk to other people all the time - when I need to ask them to do tasks, wh
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Cat’s out of the bag on free infinite copying of digital media too, but copyright law still exists.
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Good point. The entire concept of copyright was, frankly, invented out of thin air. That’s not a bad thing, to be clear - that’s how pretty much all laws get invented. The point is just that you can’t analyze existing copyright law like it’
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by Jevon23 3y ago
>It's interesting to ask people who are concerned about the training data what they think of Adobe Firefly, which is strictly trained on correctly licensed data. If they truly got an appropriate license agreement for every image in
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by Jevon23 3y ago
Making a large profit off of other people’s work, without their permission and without compensating them, is not progress. If someone said “for the sake of progress we just REALLY need to use this GPL’d code in our proprietary closed source
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by Jevon23 4y ago
>the 6-month pause would do nothing but give a 6 month competitive advantage to OpenAI over everybody else. I’m baffled as to why this talking point keeps getting repeated so much. Why should I care if OpenAI’s competitors get an advanta
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by Jevon23 4y ago
Just compare the comments on any AI art story with the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35418760
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by Jevon23 4y ago
I hereby set a terms of service for everything I post on the internet from now on. OpenAI may not train future GPT models on my words or my code without my express written permission. … Somehow, I don’t think they’ll care.

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