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by gizajob 1y ago
It’s also easy to forget that “reason is the slave of the passions” (Hume) - a lot of what we regard as intelligence is explicitly tied to other, baser (or more elevated) parts of the human experience.
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by gizajob 1y ago
I’m not sure I agree with this - it took humans about a month to go from “wow this AI generated art is amazing” to “zzzz it’s just AI art”.
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by gizajob 1y ago
It would be trivial for most of Europe to improve productivity by 0.5% or even 5% but they’re too busy drinking nice wine outside a cafe in the sunshine most of the day.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Daphne Oram didn’t use computers. Check the title of the book.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Yeah totally agree - whether it’s Keir or Boris or whoever in charge, the one thing I want to scream at them is “turn the ‘net off! Turn it off!” People are simply too stupid to handle social media. If I was in charge of authoritarian Brita
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by gizajob 1y ago
It does raise the question about what we lose when the last person with Downs has died out.
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by gizajob 1y ago
One person’s “cognitive impairment” is another’s empathy enhancement.
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by gizajob 1y ago
An issue with this is that even if pensioners are millionaires and getting state pension, they’re definitely the right people to trickle it down to where it’s most needed. I think “30% of pensioners are millionaires” is also a bit moot give
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by gizajob 1y ago
An even simpler addition would be “Strawberry Fields Forever”. https://youtu.be/44GB53rnI3c?si=v7Uw3By6LwkE7w-F
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by gizajob 1y ago
I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy the article from the title, but it turned out to be bang on the money with regards to creativity.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Crazy talk. All the others have been playing catchup and still aren’t there with some things.
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by gizajob 1y ago
A list more notable for its glaring omissions than what it includes.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Do you have a timeframe for the pop? I need some excitement.
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by gizajob 1y ago
You win the award for instant karma
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by gizajob 1y ago
Nokia.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Contra to Thiel and comments in this thread, something in my gut tells me Elon is still fairly serious about Mars. If humans don’t make it, then I’m pretty sure within 20 years he’ll be sending off teams of Optimus robots to walk all over i
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by gizajob 1y ago
See: Blackmagic Design for phenomenal investment in SERDES brains and how it shows in their world-beating products.
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by gizajob 1y ago
No idea. Ask all your programmer buddies.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Apple should have called it Liquid Vista.
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by gizajob 1y ago
For any of their finance or planning people using Excel as a daily driver, the productivity lost will far outweigh any financial or ethical gains. We’re also at the cusp of AI getting added throughout MS Office and Windows which will be the
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by gizajob 1y ago
I’ve never heard of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon so I’m now wondering what the week ahead holds for me and the gang.
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by gizajob 1y ago
The problem is that this totally unmoves the layman, same as an incremental change in a metaphysical system would unmove the layman. Just one costs a lot more than the other.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Ok sorry. I’ll go back to slashdot.
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by gizajob 1y ago
That’s kind of what “experimental” means though - it isn’t an experiment if you know the results in advance.
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by gizajob 1y ago
The only safe way - just don’t.
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by gizajob 1y ago
Where do I buy a wife to do my typing and grammar checking?
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by gizajob 1y ago
Scunthorpe problem in the title
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by gizajob 2y ago
Telling AI to write computer software.
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by gizajob 2y ago
"If you're doing business the same way you were 5 years ago, you're going out of business." I'd say they were more like Nokia than AT&T.
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by gizajob 2y ago
I've commented here for a while that I feel like Tim Cook could be the problem. I don't know where in the Steve Jobs playbook they are getting "stagnate for a decade and miss every boat by years". The Vision Pro releas

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