jackphilson

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by jackphilson 1y ago
Then everyone can just get their own personal movies and infinite content stream. Honestly people would probably like that given how atomized society has become.
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by jackphilson 1y ago
I think the result of an art piece is "wow that looks pretty cool / makes me feel this certain way". Human properties aren't required there. Sure, some art rests on there being human properties, but then AI wouldn't
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Yes. everyone will eventually have the job title of "problem solver"
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by jackphilson 1y ago
I think we think of it as 'extracting' because people are coerced into jobs that they hate. I think AI can help us exit the paradigm of working as extracting. Basically, passion economy (ai handles marketing, internet distribution
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by jackphilson 1y ago
the answer is of course not to somehow convince society to devalue entertainment, but it is the responsibility of the educators to become more entertaining.
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Everyone will just turn into a problem solver until there are no more problems.
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by jackphilson 1y ago
I'm optimistic on AI enabling the passion economy helping out with this. If anyone can get their taste out there and an AI handles most of everything else (marketing, niching), people can focus on what they are good at (what they lik
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Even the amount of agency you have is a privilege. Hard determinism.
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by jackphilson 1y ago
probably access to chatgpt4o is a million times more useful than wikipedia imo
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Parodoxically, this aversion to convenience decreases his ability to make a positive impact. Much better to focus on improving your ability to make a positive impact instead. Filling your mind with negativity makes you unhappy, outsources y
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Don't be mad about their opinions, be grateful for the arbitrage opportunity
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Fourth type: smart people who like hype because hype is fun and having fun is good.
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by jackphilson 1y ago
Very interesting phenomenon. I feel like the term 'phenomenon' is too unsubstantial for something like this.
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by jackphilson 2y ago
Actually this is the best time in human history since you get to choose your universe (where you live and who you interact with)
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by jackphilson 2y ago
I think a way to maintain agency as well as avoiding overly restrictive regulations is an AI 'guardian' app that uses coherent extrapolated volition to nudge you toward your ideal self. Blocking sites, pushing productive content (
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by jackphilson 2y ago
you may like @JungleSilicon on twitter.
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by jackphilson 2y ago
This is so cool. I love this application of LLMs
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by jackphilson 2y ago
i think its the opposite. if you do actions that you consider to be good without considering how to be good more effectively, you probably just like the feeling of thinking of yourself as a good person more than actually being a good person
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by jackphilson 2y ago
i wonder when people realize that this pattern of hating abstraction has always been wrong and foolish in retrospect
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by jackphilson 2y ago
I would recommend mathacademy.
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by jackphilson 2y ago
which is why we need to adopt nuclear power so we run thousands of these so the odds of them picking up a bot instead of a person is overwhelmingly likely
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by jackphilson 2y ago
i mean this is surely a prompting problem isnt it?
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by jackphilson 2y ago
I think 'fun' is a prerequisite for optimal learning, you can definitely have both. And I think greater purpose is definitely a thing if you subscribe to a utilitarian moral framework
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by jackphilson 2y ago
I wonder - why isn't this talked about more? We have had tens of thousands of software companies, each with probably a dozen people focused on hyperoptimizing everything. Why hasn't this point been talked about more on the interne
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by jackphilson 2y ago
I think its safety implications
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by jackphilson 2y ago
How to combine the learning efficiency of this with the structure of a textbook?
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by jackphilson 3y ago
There's a detterence factor in play. Terrorists won't try to get through precisely because of the intense security.
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by jackphilson 3y ago
Curious - I wonder why they didn't preload image X+1 on image X
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by jackphilson 3y ago
It's interesting how much a community can improve performance. It's hard to imagine him doing all of this without a hacking community to motivate him.
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by jackphilson 3y ago
If I'm into web development, how practically useful is learning low level stuff like this, factoring in opportunity cost?

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