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by dalbasal 4y ago
100 year old events allows us, to some extent, to sidestep some of the deep feelings monetary discussions tend to evoke. These things recur. Tricks from the Napoleonic wars are reused during WWI. WWI lessons form the basis of WWII's mo
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Yes, and I am fascinated to see what happens in this space as we go. Terminal based applications have always had the advantage of playing nice with eachother. That's at play here. Produces an easy way to have multiple models interact.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
The anti-hype around GPT is quite a thing. It got out of a gate at a sprint, determined to get ahead of the hype. So sure... if you want to point to hype statements that are silly, you'll find them. If you want to find monopolies inve
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Look at the forest. Sure. It's an encyclopedia. It's heavily edited. Sometimes it's conflucted. There are cliques. Etc. But.. they produce an encyclopedia. It's actually free. It's transparent. It's very high q
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I don't agree. First recall all the crazy, dangerous stuff that spread on twitter/FB/yt/etc. ISIS, for example. Proud boys, other stuff. Second, consider Wikipedia. Freer than almost anything web, and THE juiciest target
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Looking back, it's quite surprising how stagnant, in some sense, the social media space has become. How centralised and how... lame. The big hitters really did pillage and burn. Now, between moderation norms becoming increasingly sensi
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by dalbasal 4y ago
The techniques themselves are very cool and inspiring. That said, the reason such things do/don't take off isn't about how cool they are, generally. It's about how useful they are. Even for games, immersion and realism a
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Idk but that might be one hell of an interesting trial. Remote work opens up a big old gray area between slacking off and fraud. A judge would be deciding to take this from labour domain to another one. Also, there's the prevelant lie
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>And if the answer is "obviously it's not binding!", why should I trust anything else your bot tells me? Well... I dunno that your trust of the bot is all that important. You may or may not trust the human chat support...
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Why is this worrying? At least for exists, talks back... it even has messianic and apocalyptic potential. Maybe we shouldn't have deities, but so long as we do, better cybergod than spirit god.
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anthropomorphisation is inevitable. It mimics humans. It's also a decent metaphor. It doesn't matter if got actually has malintent, or if it's just approximating bad intentions.
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Not (AFAIK) the elections, but everything else. Highly restricted media (many journalists in jail) and now social media. Many opposition leaders, judges jailed, exiled or otherwise "purged." Over 100k of them. Constant fiddling wi
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Interesting, but I don't see the massive cost advantage. $150k for a 150 m2 kit. That's before you have constructed the outer shell or the internal dwelling(s). What am I missing?
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Precisely. OTOH... using AI to create art shifts around supply and demand such that there will be practical implications. The way email correspondence between A customer and a bank may look very different once both are using GPT enabled e
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by dalbasal 4y ago
It usually trends to the way over time. When you're demonstrating or studying a tech (like we're doing with gpt now), there's a tendency to go "here's what it can do." Once people start using it for more mundan
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>>Major mistake to rely on one business to keep ours afloat. Good luck avoiding that one. Doing business, these days, means eating "platform risk." Whether it's your facebook page, payment processing, AWS, app store or
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by dalbasal 4y ago
So galaxies are falling off the edge of the universe never to be seen again?
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I don't disagree with anything specifically, but think this is naive. First, startups are deeply intertwined with monopoly. Financially, a startup is a small chance of huge success. The ultimate win scenario is becoming a monopoly li
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Anti-establishment startups becoming their parents are instances of a very common pattern. Gods murder their primordial parents. Republicans overthrow kings and crown a Napoleon. The liberator-opressor complex litters history. The first s
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Mount Rushmore is a good example. Ancestral leaders, mythical heroes, apocryphal stories. When we describe the cult of a dead Pharaoh of living roman emperor, we're quite comfortable using terms like "cult," "rite,"
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Honestly, I feel like "ritual use" makes for a good placeholder. Cliché is better than creativity, in this instance. Everyone knows "ritual objects" means stuff without known/obvious use. We know that people's
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by dalbasal 4y ago
alcohol.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Idk... Lots of conquests were hard, but time did them. Then they put down rebellions as necessary. I think the difference was that there was no way for time to "win" as they we used to. No palace to install governors in. No temple
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Above board, perhaps. This way of researching and publish does, OTOH, mean something quite different from science of the past. This isn't applying the method more efficiently. It's applying a different method. Reading old papers,
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Why is "reserve currency" the central issue? Also, the US stock market, US Dollar and US economy/gdp aren't hard linked to one another these days. The companies listed can be selling to non US markets, employing internat
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I feel like there's some cherry picking going on. I mean, issues with germanic tribes and inland conquests did play a role but... what about upper egypt, paetrea, britannia, etc. The edge of the empire was the edge of the empire... wit
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what does and how do you measure its size, in a sense pertinent to this thread?
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Know any good ones?
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I think this is both very wrong and very right. The title, " You can't..." starts right. The subtitle... "startups can't" takes it off course. It's not about startups, small companies or whatnot. I mean,
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Absolutely! A lot of completely new immersion possibilities to try. GPT powered characters will be a fascinating thing.

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