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by bnralt 2y ago
> They're all badly worded questions. The model knows something is up and reads into it too much. The model knows something is up and reads into it too much. In this case it's tautology, you would usually say "a mother and
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by bnralt 2y ago
Honestly, though, removing standardized testing usually just obfuscates the problem. There are many ways to game the system. The ubiquitous college cramming is usually about temporarily learning for the test the night before a big exam. It&
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by bnralt 2y ago
A large part of the issue, as I see it, is that the university format is just a very poor way for people to learn information. If people want to learn a tech skill and don't care about credentials, they invariably find a lot of other w
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by bnralt 2y ago
I think you're talking about cramming an entire family into one larger hotel room vs. renting an entire apartment/house, right? The thing is if you need two or more rooms, then renting an entire house/apartment often becomes
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by bnralt 2y ago
Yes? If the government can find a better way to help people with disabilities, great. But small business being sued because a booth is 6 inches too small, or universities having to take down lectures because they lacked close captioning see
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by bnralt 2y ago
Right. We can see something similar with the Terry Schiavo case or the opposition to IFV right now. It's clear that this is about different opinions regarding what should be considered a living human being (which doesn't seem to h
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by bnralt 2y ago
Probably. If you had shown ChatGPT to the LessWrong folks a decade ago, most would likely have called it AGI and said it was far to dangerous to share with the public, and that anyone who thought otherwise was a dangerous madman.
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by bnralt 2y ago
It kind of reminds me of fear of nuclear power and GMOs. Are these things capable of causing problems without sufficient oversight? Sure. Does that justify the almost knee-jerk opposition to them, particularly when they could bring about va
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by bnralt 2y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s ignored. Among the general population, the best known polities in the world from 500-1000 (which is a huge stretch of time) are probably the Byzantine Empire, the Tang Dynasty, the Carolingian Empire and the Caliphates.
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by bnralt 2y ago
Those tweets were made on May 13th and 14th, so they’re pretty clearly in reference to 4o, and the effort to make the chat seem more lifelike (similar to the AI in the movie “Her”). The Sky voice came out last year, and it doesn’t seem like
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by bnralt 2y ago
The article says it sounded "somewhat similar." It doesn’t sound like anyone mistook it for Johansson, or thought it was the same voice: > The new personas for ChatGPT are named Sky, Ember, Breeze, Juniper and Cove. Each of the
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by bnralt 2y ago
> A lot of the argument here comes down to whether the article does refute that. It clearly refutes the claims that they got a Johansson impersonator. The article says this is a voice actress, speaking in her normal voice, who wasn’t tol
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by bnralt 2y ago
Right. Even if you think OpenAI isn’t a good place, this is an investigation by an established newspaper that refuted some of the more serious accusations (that OpenAI got a Johannson impersonator - they didn’t, that they modified the voice
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by bnralt 2y ago
The problem is, a lot of conspiracy thinking relies on people being publicly stupid and careless, then privately extremely cautious and careful. The Washington Post looks at what was happening internally when the voice was created, and find
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by bnralt 2y ago
Even further - they hired multiple female and male voice actors to create various voices that people can choose from. There isn’t one ChatGPT voice that would have either gone to this actress or Johansson. People are making the assumption t
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by bnralt 2y ago
> They asked SJ, she said no. So they went to a voice actor and used her. My guess is they would have went with that voice actor either way. They had four different female voices available (in addition to multiple male voices) - 2 for th
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by bnralt 2y ago
And not just white women, Rashida Jones is biracial and a lot of people think the voice sounds like hers. I agree that it actually sounds much more like Jones’ than Johansson’s - I think I’d be able to accurately distinguish between Sky an
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by bnralt 2y ago
> Also looking from the perspective of the lesser known voice actress, does Scarlett Johansson have the right to trample the lesser known voice artists future job opportunities by intimidating her previous employers? Right, it would be o
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by bnralt 2y ago
Yeah, the developer is a bit eccentric, which seems to be common when it comes to these passion products. At one point I believe some of the really big fans of the game were pushing him for a price reduction to increase the amount of player
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by bnralt 2y ago
> People lie all the time, plus they don't want to create friction by saying that a specific game is, well, shit The places I frequent say that about games all the time. For instance, though the game I mentioned gets highly praised
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by bnralt 2y ago
Being passionate doesn’t guarantee a game being a success, though. Look at a game like Knights of the Chalice 2. It's definitely a labor of love, and many people who play it think it has the best DnD combat of any game out there, and m
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by bnralt 2y ago
Quest for Infamy is another a Quest for Glory-style game that’s been very well received (and seems to have been a labor of love for the developers).
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by bnralt 2y ago
> What NASA is doing is like an office worker blowing half their salary on lottery tickets while putting the other half in a pension fund. If the lottery money comes through, then there was really no need for the pension fund. But withou
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by bnralt 2y ago
It’s implying that this is the case for many people, not all. Which it is, in my experience. Particularly since the advice you gave: > then you should get another therapist Seems to be fairly ubiquitous. “Find a therapist you like”/
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by bnralt 2y ago
One could also say that therapists prey on lonely people who pay them to talk to them and seem like they’re genuinely interested in them, when the therapist wouldn’t bother having a connection with these people once they stop paying. Which
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by bnralt 2y ago
The console says “Space Imploder,” which isn’t a real arcade console, from what I can tell. There’s more discussion here[1], but it seems likely that a lot of the things weren’t real (or if they were real, they weren’t were junk that was br
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by bnralt 2y ago
Interesting point. The Clash even celebrated the destruction of instruments on the cover of London Calling (the cover being a photo of their bassist smashing his bass). And though the Apple ad seems like it’s trying to convey they idea that
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by bnralt 2y ago
I don’t get the point. From what I can see, dorms construction often costs around $70,000. Munger was advocating that we get rid of windows and put students in exceptionally tiny rooms, and the cost will be about $267,000 per student? How i
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by bnralt 2y ago
Most of the discussions around "consciousness" would be greatly improved if people avoided that vague and ill-defined term.
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by bnralt 2y ago
The problem is that “certain missions” are often make work, even for robots in space. Hence why there’s a lot of talk about “doing science” and “doing missions”, very little about what the actual goal is. Or you get certain claims like heli

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