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by chinabot 9d ago
The AI optimists are not that much more rational if you dig deep. Like any deep problem it is best to look at the facts not the hype and make up your own mind, outsourcing your thinking to other people never ends well.
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by chinabot 9d ago
Agree, but natural languages have ambiguity, the AI output should really include the assumptions and we seriously need to replace the word "prompt" with "conversation".
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by chinabot 9d ago
I noticed an ex-colleagues sci-fi novels are all now free epub downloads here for anyone interested in sci-fi [rodyne.com] - halfway through his last book and really resonating so far.
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by chinabot 4mo ago
Good, I hope he spends it all on big fucking rockets, fast cars and space cities.. but I am sure the usual haters will find some reasons why we should all be angry..
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by chinabot 4mo ago
I think its obvious that a few billion neurons connected together are not conscious either.. Yet!
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by chinabot 5mo ago
Why bother, if the bad actors was that good it could just make up the conversation using your voice and AI.
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by chinabot 5mo ago
There has been a very big adoption of ENGLISH as a programming language in the last year or so, and, painful as it sounds, AI is already generating machine code without compilers, so let's see where we are in 2030.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
If people are going to live in space for any period of time then they are going to need gravity so long term, yes.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Kindle gone, Kobo in. Bit more friction but I mostly just read library ebooks, free ebooks or the 500 ebooks books I took off my old kindle library a few years ago before I left.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Keep Calm, (Install KoReader) and Carry On.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Valuable real-estate, it wont have any tariffs!
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Shame, I only tried one once and it tasted quite nice, too expensive though. I guess I was in the minority.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Interesting looking at the data, that Norway generates 4x the electricity of NZ and they are roughly the same size and population I assume it exports most.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
I'm going to try and give it a go on a zero2 I have lying around. Thanks, this is exactly what I come to hacker news for.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Respectfully, not everyone shares this view.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
If the government knew every single user on the internet's name, address, phone number and what they had for breakfast, it would not stop monsters like this, or even slow them down.
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by chinabot 6mo ago
big opportunity here for therealhackernews.com
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by chinabot 6mo ago
Humans know this too, that's why they prefix sentences with "I might be wrong, but.." or "I think.."
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by chinabot 10mo ago
If you work in C and are happy with the standard libraries and don't want to go too deep into the hardware then most of the 8-bit micros are pretty similar. During COVID and the component shortages I had to do a bit of swapping around,
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by chinabot 10mo ago
It was tested on humans first
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by chinabot 1y ago
Party like its 1974
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by chinabot 2y ago
I miss Steve Jobs.
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by chinabot 2y ago
Rather than top scientists, the fund should target the young scientists, and or promoting companies that will employ these guys locally. Once lost to somewhere like the US, they rarely return. Me and a Lot of my friends who left in 97 and I
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by chinabot 2y ago
Already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282985 Great intro though
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by chinabot 2y ago
There used to be a local hackathon where I used to live in London. Amazingly talented people used to attend, great social, I really miss going to these events
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by chinabot 2y ago
Works really well for me. tks
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by chinabot 2y ago
I hope my idea for a dating app for dogs is not on this, it's going to make me millions!
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by chinabot 2y ago
You may be right, but I would approach this with an open mind. Whether the trajectory of AI development remains an asymptote to human intelligence or surpasses it entirely, the increasing investment, involvement of diverse stakeholders, and
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by chinabot 2y ago
Speculation can be enjoyable, but given the rapid pace of AI advancements, where today's capabilities may be obsolete within a year, it's wise to approach any claims with a healthy dose of skepticism.
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by chinabot 2y ago
homeschooling is a pretty amazing solution if done right

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