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by dumberquestions 29d ago
You do realize that regardless of what was in the training data, the final solution included insights no human before had known, right? I share the same concerns regarding academic integrity but it would take a lot of motivated thinking to
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
No one really knows how this will play out, but it's still uncomfortable to think about robots figuring out how to reliably make things that look good, sound good and are full of meaning, would people still have any motivation to creat
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
It should be noted that these stories were 1000 word stories, with each one taking 5 minutes to read on average.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Well you have people in this very thread calling all of this a nothingburger.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Yet we have wiped thousands of species completely by accident, breed some for slaughter and consumption and trap some for entertainment.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
The most sympathetic interpretation possible of the events for OAI is that they learned two mathematicians were closing in on a solution and decided to throw all of their weight behind getting there first, which honestly still doesn’t paint
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
The decline started in early to mid 2010's, this has little to do with AI.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Not that I have strong reasons to think this is not true, but what reasons do we have to think it is? Has this been audited before?
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Why do you find it to be extremely unlikely?
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
>...has solved a millennium problem and is sitting on the result Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the work involved here is not the actual millennium problem, but it concerns versions with an added external force that the author
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
I’m probably biased, but do you really think Meta is, on net, a positive to the world?
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
I don't think Facebook advertisers are being particularly irrational, it's just very interesting to point out how this ad business, despite leaving most of its users ultimately unsatisfied, can be so profitable.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
I wonder what's the net value Meta offers for the world today. I had a similar thought about Elon the other day, for all his billions, only several million people use Tesla or Starlink, and SpaceX is cool I guess, but value and wealth
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Something that needs to be light and runs on a traditional navigation stack (no AI) would be served well by an RPI.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
They're generally aren't as accessible.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Raspberry Pi's are essential for a certain class of robots, they're small, light and mobile enough while still being computers, and they have all the pins you might need, most people who don't understand them are usually actu
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Good thing that "would be nice" doesn't entail that they have to.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Predatory pricing is a separate issue from supply and demand.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
I think people write a rough draft and let AI clean it and fill in the gaps, which leads to all usual phrases. I suspect some people have become so reliant on this they're now desensitized to AI speak.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
True, it's a different issue when you don't have a choice, but I still think the ego aspect is not explored enough.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
They actually fired many of the people warning about this.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
A very gradual carbon tax that could've been introduced a couple of decades ago would've been more tolerable, and would've given the market and consumers more time to adapt.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
I remember feeling a little bad the first time seeing AI create a UI as good as the one I did using a niche library and only a picture reference, when I focused on the feeling I realized it was an ego issue, nothing is stopping me from doin
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
The tools, business models have changed just as much as the demographics if not more.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
The internet is the people using it, if many of its users have come up with more effective ways to exploit the rest than the internet has become a worse place.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
I'm not sure China's emissions can be considered a separate thing when the rest of the world relies on them for plenty of manufacturing. The West is still a massive emitter per capita.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
As a freelancer, clients often simply refuse to use anything other than PayPal, I've faced that scenario dozens of times.
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by dumberquestions 1mo ago
Yes, the labs will be fine as long as investors believe in them, and they overwhelmingly do, trying to draw comparisons based on traditional market wisdom will fail because none of this is precedented.
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by dumberquestions 2mo ago
If it was only a matter of painless killing I agree that it would've been a lot more gray, but that's not the type of world we currently live in.
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by dumberquestions 2mo ago
The demand for them is growing _per person_, not just across the wider economy, if tokens cost half as much but you want to use 3 times as much you're going to have to pay more.

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