alienicecream

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by alienicecream 3y ago
They also encourage innovation, iteration and speed up the pace of progress by providing an incentive.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Yes, because humans have a reference to the world and they can, in some cases check the claim. The examples you give are not facts we can directly check, we take it on authority that they are true or not based on individual conceptions abou
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by alienicecream 3y ago
> There isn't a testable definition of general intelligence that GPT-4 fails that a chunk of humans also wouldn't. Sure there is and it's a basic one: can it determine a fact?
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by alienicecream 3y ago
But the results are indicative of what it is, and they fall short even if your only criteria is usefulness. It can't tell the difference between truth and falsity, let alone do more interesting things like reflecting on an experience,
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by alienicecream 3y ago
The more salient question might be "how do we get rid of what we know". By the time one turns 40 you've accreted enough knowledge that basically your life is over, at least in the sense of seeing anything new. And wonder is g
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by alienicecream 3y ago
But your spite is directed towards the person that humiliated you, naturally. How would you telling yourself in your imagination something nice help that? If someone put you down in public tomorrow and someone else stepped in and said somet
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by alienicecream 3y ago
No, I mean what's the point of turning on autonomous driving mode if you have to keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road at all times? That's worse than actually driving the car yourself.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
What is the point of that? Isn't that even worse than just driving the car yourself? It sounds like being a driving instructor with a student that doesn't listen and you don't get paid.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
There is something with these prompts that is akin to what children do when they have tea parties with their pets.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Honest question: what should we read from the words "sexual violence"? Is it someone was looked at the wrong way, or is it someone was raped? Or if just means anything in between, why don't we use more precise language?
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Oh good, young left leaning people anyways have the answers, and they're always the right answers.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
It doesn't bother you to see someone take advantage of people's naivety with false promises?
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Humans can tell the truth, and humans can lie. GPT can do neither.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
But they haven't achieved AGI, not even close. It can't distinguish between truth and nonsense. An LLM is essentially outputting nonsense all the time, that has been massaged by training to approximate truth through the proxy of l
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by alienicecream 3y ago
> a space which is great for creativity, inspiration and focus. There are lots of snacks and coffee to keep people boosted. Just admit it, you want people in the office because you don't trust them and you want to keep an eye on the
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by alienicecream 3y ago
I thought diversity was our strength?
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Here come the fanatical tree huggers to explain why a megacorp led by a megalomaniacal conman pushing for the government to strangle their competition is ackshually a good thing.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
It's an abstraction. If there was no beginning there was never the possibility of nothing. Just because you can conceive of a question doesn't mean it is valid.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
It's a stupid question, there was no beginning. You cannot get something from nothing, so there was never nothing.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
The cartels are mostly killing each other, those people weren't going to be a great boon to society anyway, they would've found a different criminal enterprise to get into. And if you don't want to go to jail for doing drugs,
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Isn't it weird that we are in the year 2023 and nobody knows what it is? Thousands of generations have gone by and every new one lives with these questions all their lives and it just gets passed to the next one. We don't know wha
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by alienicecream 3y ago
When it's a cold year they say it's the average over decades that matters, when it's a hot year they panic and hyperventilate.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Nobody is getting their ICE engine replaced unless they tuned it and blew it up or never changed their oil.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
The whole world buys oil from Saudi Arabia and goods from China, singling out Russia as some particular evil that it would be a mistake to do business with is nonsensical. Trump wants Germany to drop Russian energy inputs because it benefit
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by alienicecream 3y ago
In the real world, safety is not the only factor. Cost, reliability and availability also count. And nuclear is very safe anyway.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
It wasn't unreliable, and what alternative did they have? Do you know of one where they can get the same amount of energy at the same cost? Because Germany would love to know, quick.
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Faith in science is actually worse. At least religious faith dares to tell you something and asks that you have faith in it. Science tells you this is what is for the time being, until we know better, and there is no guarantee that we won&#
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by alienicecream 3y ago
The solution to second hand smoke is simple, if you don't want to be around it, then don't put yourself near it. That goes for most things. Nobody is forcing people to become waiters in restaurants where there is smoking. It is th
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by alienicecream 3y ago
Then I would say you're not looking closely enough. The impetus is there, but so far there is enough resistance to it to prevent it. That wasn't the point anyway, the point is the contradiction in the antipathy towards tobacco on
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by alienicecream 3y ago
This is the opposite of rational. They are decriminalizing it based on a fashion that drugs are good and when it comes to drugs people should be able to do whatever they want without regard to consequences. Compare this with the fanaticism

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