coldtea

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by coldtea 5mo ago
> That does represent 70% or so of the current world population. Cooking is about different cuisines and recipes of important, not population count. Italy is "just" 60M people but has huge cuisine and big influence in global t
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Well, they have all the characteristics of a fad (driven by imitation, viral adoption, unserious, novelty over substance) aside from short lifespan. There are fad diets that have been around for 50 years after all...
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by coldtea 5mo ago
That's how the burden of proof in such claims works in science. They naysayers didn't come around claiming they invented a form of intelligence in a program, AI companies/advocates did. Burden on proof is on them.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
If the task is ghost writing, absolutely.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
>from 11 sources spanning seven languages, English, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, German, and Indian-English So hardly "all of human cooking"...
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Helping you "write or rewrite something you want to convey" is already using it as a replacement of thinking.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Even the human generated content is written by humans increasingly influenced by AI generated content
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Just it being the only thing that matters for humanity
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Likely the classics: voting a certain way, supporting a certain state, supporting a certain cause, and buying things.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> For something like customer service, I can understand why an AI would be deployed I can't. And the only reason you can, is because we've been accustomed to rote script-based zero quality human customer service first.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> And this was a principal secops guy who thought the appropriate thing to do was to ask Copilot. Firing them on the spot and telling them: "Thanks for opening our eyes to the fact that asking you is just asking Copilot with a midd
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> That's a lot of money, but it's obvious she could make more in some of those other roles. She should be told "thank you" then, and let go to make more in some of those other roles. Such corporate/political wor
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> How is this not equivalent to the Python 2-3 jump? The same way triping on a small pothole is not the same as falling into a giant sinkhole. The claim was not that Ruby had no incompatible changes whatsoever.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
This is about " major AI-focused and hyperscale data centers running AI workloads". Not any random one. It also accepts user reporting of new developments, breaks them down in several categories (tracking proposed, operational, un
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by coldtea 5mo ago
A small community driven team could manage all that fine. Like with Mozilla, it's not let to.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
No donated cent should be going to such "foundations" anymore. Projects like Wikipedia should be run strictly by volunteers and paid contributors with moderate pays. Not Wall Street people, big corporate execs, and lavish offices.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Regulation of drugs has caused deaths due to high cost of compliance with FDA regulations meaning far fewer drugs get developed that may save lives. What about the lives saved by crappy unsafe drugs coming to an unregulated market, ei
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> "observation about certain common tendencies" is literally what generalization is I know. Are you maybe confused? I qualified it that it's not generalization "to the group at large". Not that it's not any
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Ah yes, how virtuous to consume so much pointless detail. A, yes, how efficient to denounce anything that's not mere plot driving dialogue as "pointless detail". > Looking at the aesthetics of the era, there is just
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by coldtea 5mo ago
One thing that drives me nuts about modern readers is how shallow their attention spans are.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Quotes are also used to quote something verbatim, which is their more traditional role than "questioning". They're also used to refer to a term in a meta way - like I did with the term questioning just now. In this case, he u
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by coldtea 5mo ago
If you try too hard to be anti-regulation you cause even more deaths and misery.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
>* But I still don’t see the point it.* The point is any society and micro-society works like that in many cases. Doesn't have to be the specific form in the story (don't want to spoilt it for others).
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Only if it gets ridiculous. Like after a marathon drinking a gallon on the spot (and dying from it). Drink 2-4lt a day and you'll be fine.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
It's racism when it's (a) racially motivated, (b) not a correct fact. In this case the person is itself a member of the group, and the statement they made isn't even a generalization to the group at large - just an observatio
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Generalizing doesn't mean everybody or even most in the group. It means it's a common behavior in the group relative to other groups.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
How about a novel theorem escaping mathematicians for close to a century? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-just-solved-an...
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> So while I agree it is emergent from the complexity, it isn't some unknown mechanism. Just complexity at scale. So like humans? Like the universe?
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> and yet we all function well Sure... https://news.gallup.com/poll/694199/u.s.-depression-rate-rem... > this would be a tool usage which will take human intelligence to another pinnacle. Between the endle
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Not to be pedantic but the emergent properties are in the training set, and thus the model and algorithm. There's no magic coming from the universe. You are either being pedantic or missing the point of emergent however. Yes, it&

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