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by a_bonobo 3y ago
I heard a talk about 2 weeks ago from a law person who mentioned that of all the money ChatGPT is making for companies, the number one driver is savings due from customer support. ChatGPT is not pushing is towards AGI, it's only pushi
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It's not hyperbole. >According to data collected by researchers from USC, UCLA, UC Merced and Oregon State University, daily use of hate speech by those who previously posted hateful tweets nearly doubled after Musk finalized the sa
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Yes, that's my other great disappointment. I moved to Mastodon but the communities there are too geek for their own good; very black and white thinking, very 'free is better than useable'. The same place 'surely this yea
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I'm still so very disappointed in all the scientists who stuck around on Twitter, even now when the new owner declares 'cisgender to be a slur' and pushes far-right voices. How on earth are you supposed to 'remain and fi
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>Apparently some of the other profs were not in the loop about the arxiv submission though Sounds more like they're throwing the one senior prof under the bus to protect their own faces; saying 'I didn't agree to preprint
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When oink and what.cd went down we lost thousands of exactly those kinds of recordings :( I myself uploaded some not-even-that-obscure Japanese stuff that I found just to improve my ratio, ratio being the main driver of all kinds of wonderf
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Ah yes, you ship the org-chart! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law Based on the site design, Reddit is a hairball.
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and just like SMTP, will be slightly extended by large companies until the small guy can't keep up any more (or are there still people running smaller email servers that can talk with Google Mail?), then taken over, then (eventually?)
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
The academic cheaters you read about in these articles are always obvious cheats! I believe those to be in the minority, but who knows. In OP's example, they copied the exact same lines to get the effect. With some more work they cou
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But can you believe that these are the correct explanations? Perhaps it just confabulated an explanation that sounds likely given your prompt, and is not the actual reason it told you what it did?
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'University facilities supervision does absolutely nothing' is a tale I can tell in many ways :) Not just UC Berkeley, any university sounds like this. My favorite was when somebody broke in using a makeshift ladder and university
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Thank you so much!!!!! I had The Varieties of Religious Experiences on my to-read-list forever but never got to it; I had never even heard of those other authors. Thank you so much! Another rec: Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, on
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Great to hear!! I'm also always on the hunt for books similar to this - a weird mix of psychoanalysis, sociology, deep thought - so happy to hear your recommendations as well!!
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IMHO, they might have felt compelled to do so- in the 90s Germany's Neonazis were at their strongest. Amadeu Kiowa was murdered by Neonazis in 1990. The Solingen fire-bombing by Nazis (5 people dead) was 1993, the Luebeck refugee home
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
If you're looking for more, i have some recommendations for longer stuff around personal growth and insights: - Erich Fromm, The Art Of Loving. It's about how love (romantic, interpersonal) is not rosy but hard, hard work. All of
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I am a German who lives in Australia. Australia handles immigrants far, far better than Germany, and I feel like that is reflected in these school outcomes. In my kids' school, about 80% of kids' parents don't speak that much
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You're allowed free usage of the web interface because the web interface uses your data for training. The API interface does not use your data for training. It's a classic 'if it's free, you're the product' sit
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If your reply were correct, then why did so many millions of Americans die? You've about a million Covid deaths, and about a hundred million cases. By number of deaths the US is number 1 by far ( https://www.worldometers.in
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IMHO, the pandemic has ripped off the mask of living in the US; those in power would see you rather die (from Covid) rather than risk losing a dollar. Other countries have not been as harsh, yes long lockdowns, but also social support and
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hence the entire Andy Warhol case! >Echoing a recommendation from Joe Biden’s administration, the supreme court focused on the specific use that allegedly infringed Goldsmith’s copyright – a license of Warhol’s work to Condé Nast – and s
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I feel like the R ecosystem was there first; but perhaps two completely separate groups of people. Ecologists, researchers working with geological or geospatial data use R and have been using R for a long, long time. The 'old 'sta
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> Deep Mind's work on AlphaFold, which generates predictions on proteins that haven't been seen before I have used AlphaFold a bit in my own work, and if I showed it 'unusual' proteins like rare mutants it usually gen
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I don't think the comparison with human learning holds. NNs and humans don't learn the same way - humans can fairly quickly generalise what they have learned and, most importantly, go beyond what they've learned. I haven&#x
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We have had tangible proof for climate change for more than 80 years; predictions from 1896, with good data from the 1960s. What you are falling for are fossil industry talking points. We have had not any proof that AI will pose a threat
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Climate change is a generally accepted phenomenon. Extinction risk due to AI is not a generally accepted phenomenon.
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I miss David Graeber >Graeber Um…that’s a long story. But one reason seems to be that…and this is why I actually had managerial feudalism in the title, is that the system we have…alright—is essentially not capitalism as it is ordinarily
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> it simply raises awareness I don't think it simply raises awareness - it's a biased statement. Personally, I don't think the advocated event is likely to happen. It feels a bit like the current trans panic in the US: you
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>No credible scientific evidence exists that ingesting fluoride is beneficial. ??? >Regular toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste is the principal non‐professional intervention to prevent caries, but the caries‐preventive effect vari
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People don't really read fiction outside their bubble anymore, especially in the HN community; there are a few hacker 'classics' that get repeated over and over (like Heinlein or Rand), and that's it. People don't r
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>Data submitted through the OpenAI API is not used to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering. Data submitted through non-API consumer services ChatGPT or DALL·E may be used to improve our models. https://open

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