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by SamPatt 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of GPT-4 and I think it has potential as an objective source in an extremely biased world. However... this article isn't even remotely compelling. It gives you what you're looking for most of the time. No surpr
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A common definition of intelligence is the capacity for problem solving. There are few fields where the capacity for problem solving is more relevant. People do have innate limitations. I agree that it's dangerous to categorize one&#x2
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>Smoothing over the first few hundred hours of the process but doing increasingly little over the next 20,000 is hardly revolutionary. I disagree with this characterization, but even if it were true I believe it's still revolutionar
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I don't mean new and challenging in some general sense, I mean new and challenging to you personally. I have no doubt someone with more experience such as yourself will find GPT-4 less useful for your highly specialized work. The next
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Nonsense. I was a semi-technical writer who went from only making static websites to building fully interactive Javascript apps in a few weeks when I first got ChatGPT. I enjoyed it so much I'm now switching careers into software devel
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It's not a bullshit generator unless you ask it for bullshit. It's amazing at troubleshooting technical problems. I use it daily, I cannot understand how anyone dismisses it if they've used it in good faith for anything techn
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These are good suggestions. I would add that D&D is extremely hit or miss, and don't be afraid to leave a group you aren't clicking with and find another one.
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You may be right. The author mentioned being in their 30s, and so am I, but I'm at the tail end and they're probably at the start. Late 90s and early 2000s was my age of internet exploration.
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Sounds like he's been fighting for a long time and eventually tired. It's a bit presumptuous to say that his actions / statement are due to despair being trendy. Everyone has their own "It's not worth it anymore&quo
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I don't know the whole story, but this seems very genuine. It echoes a sentiment I imagine many people my age feel, where the magic of the early internet we witnessed during our coming of age feels threatened. I feel for him, and hope
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I wish the prescription and treatment of exercise and time in nature were as common as pharmaceuticals. A sedentary life is becoming the default, and once that pattern is established you don't realize how much better you'd feel if
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I was born in 85, and I definitely came of age in a pre-internet-dominated world. Maybe that extra four years makes a big difference, or maybe internet adoption among families was still widely varying, but I don't think his claim is as
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Or, write what you find interesting, and your audience finds you.
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On a similar note - I often have the sense that I'm a very different person today than I was in the past. Reading old writing of mine is fascinating, because it will sometimes confirm this - I often have very different beliefs - but it
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I enjoy writing but I also feel this strongly. For me it feels like writing is forcing me to carry on one particular train of thought much longer, and in a more focused way, than I do in my head. Thoughts sometimes have a parallel aspect to
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There is much less variance on cognitive ability on the younger end of our lives than the higher end. Arbitrary age limits in youth are unfair, but less unfair than the same on the upper end of life. I had a friend who remained sharp until
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Part of the criminal justice system is removing dangerous people from society. Sometimes you can make this determination before their 18th birthday. In general I agree with you though.
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I used to believe this - and even advocate for change - then I watched my children become teenagers. There is truth to the idea that, whether due to life experience or brain development, teenagers struggle with proper decision-making. I don
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That doesn't sound even the tiniest bit fun. I'm genuinely curious about what made it fun, presumably something you didn't mention?
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You think states don't benefit from spending more money? They're just like other organizations who try to expand their budgets year over year. Except they can force people to pay them more, all they need is plausible justification
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My perception of the elites in western society is that most could not be more clear about the existence and threat of climate change. It's popular to mock them for using private planes or using their yachts, but that sort of activity i
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>the wealthy should risk their money in order to invest in more sustainable economies for those less developed nations. That would solve the problem, right? No. This seems incoherent to me - you are blaming the wealthy for inaction due t
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>any change that would result in less money for the wealthy The majority of CO2 emissions aren't from wealthy nations but developing nations - this might not be true in per capita terms, but the atmosphere doesn't care about pe
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After a dozen years, if most measures of living standards have continued increasing as they have for the last few centuries, what conclusion will you draw from that? I ask because I recall hearing these exact catastrophic arguments (methane
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The guy with the Swiss accent? What's your source on this?
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I'm stuck in a similar loop and I understand the author's frustration. Everything feels automated, and it feels like all I can do is look forward to the rare moments when I actually speak with a person about their role and try to
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10 ft away? I wish it were only that far. After legalization here in Michigan, you can smell it seemingly everywhere. I supported, and still support, legalization. But the smell is a serious issue. Even just driving down the road I catch a
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Loved the article and the idea. >Going forward, my plan is to develop my own web app which will allow users to create historical simulations on a dedicated platform using the APIs of both Anthropic’s Claude and GPT-4. I might be able to
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Thanks for sharing your story. Mine is similar. Always interesting to see someone else take this life path.
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It's also not fair to completely dismiss networking as just "something extroverts do" which carries no signal about skills. Most jobs benefit from having good people skills, communication skills, and being proactive. If you h

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