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by apantel 3y ago
It’s like free vs paid tiers of anything: you don’t put all the features in the free tier.
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by apantel 3y ago
But you’ll need a fourth person to watch in case all three fall asleep.
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by apantel 3y ago
Yes, curiosity and the desire to create and explore. Those are probably my main drivers though I certainly can feel and acknowledge that greed and lust are key drivers. I wasn’t saying greed is the only driver. Edit: I’d also add, I think
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by apantel 3y ago
It’s not that clear-cut. “Greed” as defined this way is one of the main drives making people do things. They go out into the world and exert themselves in order to acquire wealth, power, and renown. It’s a core part of what has produced
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by apantel 3y ago
“Greed” is one of those words where the definition doesn’t really tell you where the line is: “intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.” (Oxford via Google) Who doesn’t feel “intense and selfish desire”
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by apantel 3y ago
I think the premise is wrong. ChatGPT has supercharged my understanding of Java by exposing me to so many different parts of the language and development patterns that I didn’t know before because it literally knows ALL of Java. If you loo
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by apantel 3y ago
We are going down the rabbit hole big time.
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by apantel 3y ago
Requiring an email address to read their content is not going to stop people from AI-cloning it. If all you need to do is provide an email address, then a cloner can do so and then take all their articles and clone them. How will they kno
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by apantel 3y ago
Just to add one thing: LLM’s as a force multiplier are much more than an order of magnitude (which is 10x). How long does it take a human to write a 1000-word article? Let’s say an hour, which is being generous. It won’t be a high-qualit
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by apantel 3y ago
All of the blah blah blah about “damage to national security”. If any single person with access to these networks can do this kind of damage if they so happen to wake up on the wrong side of the bed one day, then ‘national security’ is not
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by apantel 3y ago
When it comes to protecting yourself from danger, you can’t leave it up to others. It doesn’t matter if it should be their responsibility to do xyz in your interest. An example: when you are crossing the street in front of cars that are st
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by apantel 3y ago
Clear evidence of moles reincarnating as humans.
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by apantel 3y ago
It was a joke: technology has collapsed the attention span, therefore Luddites would have long attention spans; only someone with a long attention span would be able to read a long-form article like this one.
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by apantel 3y ago
Only a Luddite would have the attention span to read that long of an article. Alas, I am not a Luddite.
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by apantel 3y ago
One could theoretically replace traditional web interfaces with LLMs… that code the JavaScript of the web page on the fly! Finished it for you.
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by apantel 3y ago
Finally, space tractors!
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by apantel 3y ago
Dr John Sarno got all of this right in the 90’s. Thirty years ago.
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by apantel 3y ago
It’s going to spread to the little people too. Once deepfake technology proliferates to the point where anyone can train and run a model on consumer hardware using photos and videos from someone’s social media profile, what do you think th
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by apantel 3y ago
Things die, new things are born, things die, new things are born. It’s the circle of life. It’s natural and ok for things to die.
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by apantel 3y ago
Yeah this is the irony: whether or not climate change is bad is relative, like everything else. (Tongue in cheek, but there’s a nugget of truth)
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by apantel 3y ago
Does that have Dopewars?
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by apantel 3y ago
Human: “How do I solve x problem?” GPT: “You can buy {x} product. Would you like me to put it on your card? It will arrive in two days.” Human: “Sure!” This is what Google wants to control.
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by apantel 3y ago
1) Make Google Search Great Again Cut everything else.
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by apantel 3y ago
I’m pretty sure my esophagus goes through my brain too… the way I think about food… Edit: I can also jump!
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by apantel 3y ago
Seconding the constant downgrading of quality to 480p.
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by apantel 3y ago
I would say it’s recreational pessimism because I’m usually an optimist except I can’t help but feel that lately everything is starting to seem increasingly unreal. The Moloch dynamic is a serious thing — it’s a name used in some circles t
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by apantel 3y ago
I’m actually generally optimistic. I’ve spent my whole life singing the tune of tech optimism. But it’s starting to seem like we’re passing an inflection point specifically with respect to being able to maintain a grip on the real. Most
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by apantel 3y ago
I was basically saying that there are no more order-of-magnitude type gains to be had in CPU performance (edit: with current technology, as far as I’m aware). A top-of-the-line processor today is maybe 3x more capable than one from a decad
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by apantel 3y ago
We're currently living through a race to the bottom in everything: technology (degradation of platforms like Google and FaceBook — Google has become practically unusable; proliferation of bots, SEO junk, AI junk; also the degradation a
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by apantel 3y ago
This is because CPU’s haven’t gotten any faster in almost 20 years because of the problem of heat dissipation, so all that can be done to make computers feel more powerful is to get better at writing parallelizable software… which is just

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