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by bbor 1y ago
Thanks for the interesting response! I disagree on a few points, though: If your business model is theoretical, we call that "research" instead. Are/were Uber and Lyft "research" companies, then? Is Reddit a
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I love the saying, but there's something of an exception here. Both companies very openly have singularity business models.
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I mean, I included a disclaimer... But regardless, you appear to be wrong on both counts (or at least contradicting Wikipedia): 1. "The presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with OTHER MATTER and with elect
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I'm an amateur but I feel confident enough to answer -- hopefully not a mistake! They're explicitly looking for "Dark Matter", which doesn't "interact" with normal ("baryonic") matter or electrom
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I'm not referencing sales rhetoric, I'm referencing scientific consensus. AGI will have the same kind of impact on our species as fire and electricity did. We stand at a crossroads between unimaginable success and enormous catastr
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To take a moment to be a hopeless Stan for one of my all-time favorite companies: I don't think the summary above yours is fair, and I see why they don't center the summary part of it. Unlike the disastrous Apple feature from earl
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Well put. Honestly the actor part is mostly solved by now, the tricky part is depicting any kind of believable, persistent space across different shots. Based off of amateur outputs from places like https://www.reddit.com/r&
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Glad to see someone is looking out for a forest, here. A diverse host of excuses have cropped up to explain away the anxiety AGI brings, and I totally understand why. Yet again, today we stare into the abyss. Sora 2 represents significa
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by bbor 1y ago
I became “blind” to what the web is really like for most users. I’ve tried to keep this blog minimalist - a clean place to find answers. Those ads not only ruin that experience; they trample privacy too I’ve said it once, I’ll say i
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True, though having unelected entertainers running e.g. the DoD, FBI, and Medicare is something new, I'd think!
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America is run by entertainers, at the moment…
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Pretty funny that you accuse me of being overly political, but then say I'm a far left snowflake for returning a bit of snark. I think I'll have to bow out of this exchange, sorry!
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…I guess I’d just respond by saying that you should reacquaint yourself with the definitions of left vs right. It has nothing to do with what you mentioned. I ask because the python debacle was indeed political — it was rooted in debates ab
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Yeah, I'm open to the idea that women are made for the kitchen and are too stupid to participate in public life. You should keep an open mind! You see the problem here?
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This is an absurd article, I’m sorry. To accept the explanation of “brown people are just worse” as possible, but to throw out “colonialism shaped the modern world” because Australia is rich is so clearly biased that it reads like a strawma
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Idk, “there’s a group of people in charge and we elect them” seems like a pretty basic starting point for any community, not an over-complication!
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I edited the part you quoted (sorry! You were quick), but no fundamental disagreement on either point. I’d just say this in response: 1. Yeah it’s confusing, but keep scrolling — the last one is staying. Also the first one said that they’ll
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HA, wow, thanks for posting. It’s hard to recall another instance of someone writing something so confident that they’ll come off well, while clearly coming off as self-centered; “our (unelected) team was being steered by the (elected) stee
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That paper is pretty... out there, sorry. There's a reason people look for credentials -- to screen out work like this! 1. The random insinuation halfway through that ancient humans had secret advanced civilizations seems completely un
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Well yeah, the illustration on some website (that may or may not actually be in her book) isn't scholarly evidence, that's true. But you're not giving her enough credit here, by a long shot! 1. She's been doing this sinc
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Thanks for the specifics, really fascinating list! I'm sure I'm being a bit flippant, but it's pretty funny that a list including the Playstation 1, N64, and Apple Watches is in the same conversation as systems that need to c
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Apologies in advance for the passionate critique, but I just can't help but attack what I see as a faux-intellectual, misleading piece. It starts with a notoriously-biased pop-science book that assumes its conclusions before any invest
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Isn't that a completely different situation, relating outright refusal based in alignment training vs. subtle performance degradation? Side note: it's pretty illuminating to consider that the behavior this article implies on behal
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I appreciate you bringing up this issue on this highly-provocative claim, but I'm a little confused. Isn't that a pretty solid source...? Obviously it's not as good as a scientific paper, but it's also more than a random
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In glad someone is excited for it! I’ve done a bit of climbing, and I guess I’m just struggling to imagine using it… rocks falling is either not a big enough deal to text about (cause we’re all following safety guidelines by wearing helmets
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by bbor 1y ago
Sorry, I was unclear — that racism comment was tongue in cheek. Regardless of political leanings, I figured we can all agree that racism is bad! I generally agree re:chatGPT in that it doesn’t have moral standing on its own, but still… it d
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I mean this is just some blog, no? I guess quarters are technically a bit more inclusive, but it seems like small beans IMHO — the 12% of humanity living south of the equator is likely used to this sorta thing. Maybe I’m just showing my nor
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As much as I want HN to finally support markdown, I really want them to end the baffling anti-emoji stance. They’re adorable, versatile, fun, and useful - the only reason to ban them from forum comments is banal distaste for the new. Pers
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"Global health crisis" is still an absurd thing to say. The WHO lists three emergencies: COVID-19 (at least 7M dead), Cholera (1-4M cases & 21-143K deaths per year), and Monkeypox (220 deaths since 2022, but could grow expon
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For those of us who are particularly slow: care to cheekily hint at whether this is sincerely intended as satire or not...? In other words, first-order or second-order? First I saw you use "global health crisis" to describe AI psy

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