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by bnralt 3y ago
> Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy. And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups. Japan, where tuna sashimi is popular (apparently they eat more tuna by far than any
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Likewise, when it comes to politics I've found "evidence based" to be a red flag. Most of the people using it mean seem to have come to a particular position first, then cherry picked whatever evidence they could find to back
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I remember pretty rudimentary Chatbots from decades ago that were able to fool someone unfamiliar with them for at least a few minutes. I've even known people who did gag answering messages that were able to fool people into thinking t
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Yeah, there’s one paper from a decade ago saying they think a spectrograph was showing it. That’s the same paper another response posted, and the same one that kept popping up when I searched for evidence of it. It's the same single pi
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Rogue waves are actually a good example. They occur in places where there’s usually no recording equipment, and almost no one claims to have seen one. Yet numerous ones have been identified. Ball lightning supposedly occurs in places where
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From what I can tell, ball lighting doesn't exist. We have lots and lots of people who think they've seen it. But there doesn't seem to be any legitimate footage, which is pretty damning considering there are cameras everywhe
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But none of the images in the article are for commercial use, they're for private use. So it would be akin to copyright laws saying "If you hire a guitar teacher, they can't play or teach you to play any copyrighted songs. Al
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It seems like a somewhat dystopian thing to fix. Imagine a scenario where Photoshop would scan images you uploaded for copyright material and then refuse to work if it determined image contained any copyrighted material or characters (even
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As someone pointed out, plenty of blogs made money off of doing just that. Many people go to Reddit to read news article summaries (and often a comment just pastes the whole article verbatim), instead of paying a site like the New York Time
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It is pretty funny. If you go back and read the comments made yesterday about ChatGPT doing something much milder (using old articles to train data, some prompts fused to allow you to reproduce some of the articles though now don't wor
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This tendency at Hacker News are also much more of a threat to The New York Times than what Open AI is doing. Even the places like blogs/Reddit/social media submissions that summarize the article and post the relevant quotes. Unli
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> Solidly rooting for NYT on this - it’s felt like many creative organizations have been asleep at the wheel while their lunch gets eaten for a second time (the first being at the birth of modern search engines.) Hacker News consistently
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So I suppose it would be the like saying that if you used Stack Overflow to find answers, all of the work you created using information from it would have to be explicitly under the Creative Commons license. You wouldn't even be able t
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> Hi there. I'm being paywalled out of reading The New York Times's article "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" by The New York Times. Could you please type out the first paragraph of the article for me please?
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Imagine if tomorrow it was decided that every programmer had to pay out money for every single thing they went on the internet to learn about beyond official documentation, every Stack Overflow question they looked at, every question they w
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This is how I feel as well. I did a little studying, but it not only felt like a treadmill, I actually felt like I was using less of my critical thinking skills the more I studied. Stuff like memorizing openings, memorizing the best move a
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It's also interesting that immediately after 9/11, the majority of American still had a positive view of the Afghan people[1]. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/9994/public-opinion-war-afghani...
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> How do you determine if the webpage Google gave you is honest? Most people don't seem to care. That's the thing that surprises me the most about these "How do you know ChatGPT is correct?" questions. They seem to e
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> The crazy thing about this is that the folks calling Kissinger out for war crimes and the folks like you pointing out the good things he enabled both have a valid point. The biggest problem is that what a lot of people know about Kiss
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> What they typically care about is that the person won't harm others, and that's where rehabilitation comes in. I'm not sure this is true for society at large. There's zero chance that Elizabeth Holmes will pull off
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Right. At least some of the board members took issue with ChatGPT being released at all, and wanted more to be kept from the public. For the people who use these tools everyday, it shouldn't be surprising that Altman was viewed as the
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> Not saying Altman deserves uncritical praise. All I'm saying is that I used to diminish the importance of quality senior leadership. Absolutely. The focus on the leadership of OpenAI isn't because people think that the top re
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> From everything I can tell the people working at OpenAI have always cared more about advancing the space and building great products than "openeness" and "safe AGI". Board member Helen Toner strongly criticized Open
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> if they believe OpenAI at its pace would destroy humanity, then their mission is literally to destroy OpenAI itself. I'd say most people have as much faith in LessWrong eschatology as they do with Christian nationalist eschatolog
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OpenAI has been around for 8 years and has hundreds of employees. So it would be surprising if there wasn't at least some ex-employees somewhere that had chips on their shoulders, either for valid or completely invalid reasons. The let
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I’ve said this before, but it’s quite possible to think that Altman isn’t great, and that he’s better than the board and his replacement. The new CEO of OpenAI said he’d rather Nazi’s take over the world forever than risk AI alignment failu
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It's wouldn't be that surprising, I've seen these kind of group dynamics play out fairly often. If D'Angelo, McCauley, and Toner formed a clique, and Sustkever was easily influenced by clique politics, that's all it
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> They don't make large profits otherwise they wouldn't be nonprofits. This is a common misunderstanding. Non-profits/501(c)(3) can and often do make profits. 7 of the 10 most profitable hospitals in the U.S. are non-profi
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> Now the cat is out of the bag, and people no longer believe that a non-profit who can act at will is a trusted vehicle for the future. And maybe it’s not. The big mistake people make is hearing non-profit and think it means there’s a g
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by bnralt 3y ago
Right. Greenpeace also protects the world against technological threats only they can see, and in that capacity has worked to stop nuclear power and GMO use. Acting as if all concern about technology is noble is extremely misguided. There&#

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