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by Veen 4y ago
It's annoying, but I can see why it was flagged. The thread isn't going to be very interesting. It'll just be a bunch of people being rude about Musk (justifiably) and a bunch of people excusing his behavior.
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by Veen 4y ago
You have wonder what goes on in Musk's head. He lays off a guy with a fairly large Twitter following, who is quite wealthy, having founded a company that sold to Twitter, and is a well-known philanthropist in his own country, who also
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by Veen 4y ago
Reminds me of the "pedo diver" tweet. That's the point at which my opinion of Musk changed from "admirable but occasionally childish" to "dickhead who has had a few good ideas and got very lucky". Stuff li
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by Veen 4y ago
The same thought occurred to me. Maybe someone whose written English isn't great and is using ChatGPT to compensate. But I think people are being overly harsh about this article. It's certainly speculative, but it makes no claim t
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by Veen 4y ago
I think this article is a missed opportunity. It focuses on the least interesting thing about LLMs—how to stop them saying things they shouldn't. I learned nothing about how it was built and its potential. It seems bizarre that there&#
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by Veen 4y ago
> The use of guns cannot be regulated effectively without physically removing guns from a society. Isn't that like saying theft cannot be regulated effectively without removing the things people want to steal from society? The goal
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by Veen 4y ago
I can see why this is useful, but why the requirement to log-in with a Google account?
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by Veen 4y ago
Yeah, that's just what we need: brain scanners purported to "expose the unethical". Nothing could go wrong with that. I find it extremely silly when people argue a technology is value neutral and humans are the problem so we
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by Veen 4y ago
I didn’t know the British had manufactured potato blight. That’s quite advanced tech for the time.
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by Veen 4y ago
You should probably be little careful about accusing named individuals of embezzlement.
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by Veen 4y ago
Do you know of any open source projects with the approximately $5 million it takes to train GPT3? Do you think the AI scientists who invented the underlying techniques would do so without being paid? No, Google and others paid for these peo
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by Veen 4y ago
I doubt they will shut it down. OpenAI and Microsoft have too much money on the line to bin the tech at this point.
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by Veen 4y ago
> historically women have been excluded in academic study populations That may have once been true, but it is no longer the case. Since the 90s, women have earned more post-graduate qualifications than men. Women have parity in obtaining
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by Veen 4y ago
I know that in Oxbridge Universities, that wouldn't cut it. The teaching method revolves around writing essays and attending small tutorials where you discuss your arguments with a subject-matter expert. The problem with that approach
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by Veen 4y ago
Women's Studies isn't an academic discipline at all. It's an activist community masquerading as an academic discipline.
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by Veen 4y ago
I don't use the API programmatically, but I often move from ChatGPT to the OpenAI Playground when I'm not getting the results I want. It's just as convenient as chat, but it lets you play around with the Temperature and other
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by Veen 4y ago
Americans do. It’s not common in the UK.
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by Veen 4y ago
Here’s the relevant part to this thread from the page you linked: “The justice system is one of the three branches of the state. The other two branches are the executive, or the government , and the legislature, which is the two Houses of
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by Veen 4y ago
Startups make money by providing a useful service. NFTs do nothing but make money for a few and lose money for the majority. They’re useless grift fodder.
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by Veen 4y ago
No, because 1) Turing wasn’t jailed and 2) The Government doesn’t put people in jail; that’s the courts.
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by Veen 4y ago
Commoditize your complement. https://gwern.net/complement
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by Veen 4y ago
I've just been to my local farm shop (I live in a rural area of the UK). Lots of turnips, leeks, potatoes, and other vegetables readily available. I suspect that the humble turnip, having fallen out of fashion, isn't bought in hug
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by Veen 4y ago
They won't. Brexit and the Tories must be bemoaned every time a UK story appears on HN.
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by Veen 4y ago
Particularly since Kipling was critical of many aspects of empire and colonialism, and Jane Austen, who they replaced him with, was not.
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by Veen 4y ago
Lots of people want to work in publishing, especially middle-class English Lit graduates who are most likely to be politically aligned with this sort of editing work.
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by Veen 4y ago
Although, in this case, it looks like they just give ChatGPT an initial prompt telling it to act like a $religion professor.
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by Veen 4y ago
I wonder how much they paid a branding agency to come up that ingenious rebranding.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's legal tender in El Salvador. Whether that makes it a fiat currency is a matter of definitions, so not really worth quibbling about.
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by Veen 4y ago
No, fiat currencies are backed by states and central banks. BTC has some of the qualities of fiat currency—no commodity backing, etc—but it's not usually classified as one.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's what happens when there is a de facto monopsony. Farmers can sell goods for whatever the supermarkets demand, or their produce can rot.

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