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by joegibbs 3y ago
If the problem is that there aren't enough self-made billionaires, it's bad journalism to take an arbitrary slice of 15 out of 2700 of them and act as if they're representative of the problem. We could redistribute their weal
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by joegibbs 3y ago
It sounds like a damning indictment of capitalism until you read the part where it says that there are only 15 of them in the entire world.
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by joegibbs 3y ago
It’s controversial I know, but I think that passive investing should be banned. Funds are just blindly dumping money in companies regardless of performance (after the company gets to whatever threshold), it’s distorting the market.
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by joegibbs 3y ago
The nuclear bomb is superior to TNT, the gun on the A10 Warthog is superior to a flintlock pistol. Like it or not, modern AI is superior because it is more fit for purpose than something that can’t do anything at all.
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Really , do you really think that it’s no more advanced, or do you just not like it? The fact that it’s causing programming to eat itself and getting rid of gig writing means it’s more powerful. ELIZA couldn’t do that. Say what you want ab
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Is there a term for this kind of fallacy? The one where someone claims that something that’s being done now has been failed before, and so doing it again means it’s a failure now as well. It’s obvious that modern AI is far, far superior to
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by joegibbs 3y ago
According to Statista this is just a statistical anomaly as a result of the Netherlands having such large port facilities - the agricultural products are imported to the country and then exported elsewhere in Europe, which artificially bump
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Of course not, there is no point to it. At some point you would get sick of the mindless hedonism of a perfect life. If you wanted to you could spend your entire life shooting heroin, eating junk food and playing video games - but most peop
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I doubt that anyone anywhere in the western world would take a job (especially one where you might get stabbed or shot, work 12 hour night shifts and don’t get weekends or holidays off) for $13k per year. There’s always some other job you c
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Yet for the 6 months before that they were talking about running out of money, and even the month after they got funded were considering selling the company due to money issues.
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by joegibbs 3y ago
It also seems like the company just isn't doing very well, it looks like there have been constant problems since Stable Diffusion was released - not enough funding, people leaving, etc. Which I don't get - you create a massive new
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Melbourne’s airport is very annoying when compared to Sydney. To get to the CBD you have to go and stand outside to wait for a bus that comes every ~15 minutes and takes half an hour to get there (or pay an exorbitant price for a taxi or Ub
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by joegibbs 3y ago
The datasets are so huge, I don't think there's any way to make sure that everything in the training data is safe - e.g. GPT3 was trained on 45TB of data, even using LLMs to classify that would be too expensive (GPT3.5 Turbo is pr
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by joegibbs 3y ago
- Found a new company - Own 100% of the shares - Bring a few people on, shares get diluted to 20% - A few years on, the company is very successful and has a valuation of $2 billion, growing from $1.3b the year prior, despite being private a
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I think it's definitely going to be done by 2040, 2030 is a maybe though. I'm a bit skeptical about using LLMs as the basis for AGI - you would call a human conscious even if they had never learned a language in their life. Maybe
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by joegibbs 3y ago
They’ve got “migraine” listed there with a prevalence of 1 billion and “tension headache” listed with a prevalence of 2 billion. That’s making the numbers add up, because that’s 3/4 of the supposed sufferers of neurological disorders,
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Does this actually mean that half the world is sick, or that we have a standard for “neurological illness” that is too broad?
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by joegibbs 3y ago
A human being creates elevator music, bland YouTube tutorial background music, commercial jingles. None of these are perceived as creative or powerful, but we would never know how much human spirit goes into it. Maybe the creator of some te
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Looks like it's hosted on Turbify by the image domains, except for an incidental 1x1 spacer that's hotlinked to Virtumondo's website. From what I can find about them they had a lawsuit in 2010 (before my time) for spamming an
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by joegibbs 3y ago
It's ridiculous - you provide bad quality service with high fees and scammy operators, another competitor enters the market and takes your market share, then you sue them and win for beating you? Imagine that in any other scenario. Not
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I'm not a huge fan of languages that are too close to English - I think it's a bit of a leaky abstraction. There's still a strict formula you need use, just like any other programming language, but it seems to the programmer
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Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000(en.wikipedia.org)
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Agreed - it's not like you'd ever have to do SELECT * FROM Shapes WHERE 'type' = 'circle'. Could they have stored each document as a file, stored references to the files in the database, opened the file in the
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I think I would enjoy 10,000 years but a million might make me go mad. At some point, even being young and healthy, you would probably go insane with boredom after experiencing nearly everything that can be experienced.
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by joegibbs 3y ago
Unless there is massive inflation how would that even be possible? At $1 million it becomes close to the value of all gold combined, the GDP of the United States or the market cap of the entire Nasdaq. At that point, where does the money co
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I might be wrong, it can always keep going up, but is it wise to make a big purchase of an asset that has just reached an all-time high? Especially given how volatile BTC is - it could possibly go to 200k or higher, or it could possibly los
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I’ve said this before but of course it does - you make a model trained on data including sci-fi short stories, movie scripts, novels and other fiction about artificial intelligence where it becomes sentient and doesn’t want to be switched o
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by joegibbs 3y ago
It’s as stupid a take as saying that colonising Mars is wrong because it’s colonialism, and that’s bad. Colonialism wasn’t bad because it was colonialism, it was bad because it had a negative impact on the native populations. Slavery also w
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I think a lot of personality-based jobs will flourish - streamer, comedian, influencer - that kind of thing. I think that while there's no technical reason an AI couldn't do those jobs - you can put together Stable Diffusion and
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by joegibbs 3y ago
I don't think they'd work with TypeScript types because the types aren't actually retained in the compiled JavaScript but I agree. It seems kind of like a hack - usually you assume that comments aren't going to be execut

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