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by kweingar 3y ago
I know the things he said, the context he said them in, and the reasons he might have said them, and I still find it appalling. There were some headlines that took some of the quotes out of context, but that doesn't mean that what he s
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by kweingar 3y ago
I'm not sure what you think I'm implying about their relationship. It is well-known that Gates continued to associate with Epstein after the latter was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution. There doesn't really ne
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> Should we shun Bill Gates because of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? In my opinion, yes, absolutely.
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He objected to the word "assault" being used to describe Marvin Minsky (allegedly) having sex with one of Jeffrey Epstein's underage victims.
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Well, in human history there have been many people bred as inputs to an industrial process. Today most people of conscience look on those situations (past and present) in horror. I would hope that humans someday learn to never allow that to
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Are you and I alive by choice? I don’t know what this means. I will go further and boldly predict that some of these future people will like living.
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> Do people still think there will be any humans left alive in a few hundred years? I will go on the record and predict there will be some human beings alive in a few hundred years.
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I didn’t spend that much time looking, but on https://github.com/features/copilot/ I found this FAQ: > What data has GitHub Copilot been trained on? > GitHub Copilot is powered by Codex, a generative pretrai
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Yeah, it’s basically stable diffusion but for music
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Where can I sign up to participate in a study that involves taking 200 ug of LSD? :)
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> Wasn't the dose high enough to be easily distinguishable from the placebo without any experience? This was my first thought. There’s no way that anybody would mistake 75 ug of LSD for placebo.
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Yeah, I totally agree. The only annoyance I see is that you have to experiment with what cables and power adapters through trial and error to find what works with particular devices. I mentioned in a different reply in this thread that ther
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by kweingar 3y ago
Using the Xbox controller cable with an actual charger does work. The confusion came with how the PC delivers power to the controller but not the headset. It’s ultimately not a big deal, and it’s surely something I can learn to intuit. But
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by kweingar 3y ago
To be clear, I am pro USB-C, but I do get the arguments from the other side. If I have a lightning cable and a device with a lightning port, I can plug it in and not really think much about it. If I have a device with a USB-C port and a USB
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Not sure why this was downvoted. This has been my experience. It’s quite high maintenance.
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ChatGPT would have used simpler words, but it bloviates like hell. It’s one of the reasons that people on HN can usually spot and downvote ChatGPT-generated comments: they go on and on for multiple paragraphs when their point can be made in
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by kweingar 3y ago
I hadn’t heard of “truthiness” outside of Boolean comparisons in programming languages, but when I looked it up, it doesn’t seem like something worth aspiring to: > Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is tru
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by kweingar 3y ago
> I can also describe a new/novel game or puzzle to GPT4 and it can have a go at playing and solving it. It’s interesting that you brought up chess. It can do chess reasonably because there is a huge amount of chess data on the web.
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Saying that "I'm hungry" is a problem that people will want to pass directly into the computer seems like the opposite of myopia (hyperopia?) Usually when presented with a problem like a growling stomach, a person will at lea
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Here is my experience using ChatGPT to find local Indian restaurants. The responses took about 90 seconds in total to generate and gave me very little information. Why would anybody use ChatGPT instead of a search engine for this kind of th
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The UX for ChatGPT is awful compared to search engines, at least for quick, easily found facts like what I mentioned.
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Ok but what exactly is the benefit of using ChatGPT for that? It is more than a year and a half out of date. It doesn’t know the Thai place’s current hours and doesn’t automatically surface a one-click link to their menu or reviews. Why wou
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> In Google's case they are still really focused on search whereas LLMs arguably move the focus to answers. I would love to see what proportion of searches are questions that would benefit from natural language answers. The huge maj
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It might be easier to delete all personal data indiscriminately than to process individual requests. A government might suggest that as a way to stay in compliance.
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You don’t always have control over what is published about you online. Comments are only one aspect of this. I’m sure you would not be happy if I widely published your full name, address, birthday, names and ages of family members, occupati
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ChatGPT can be a great supplement for independent research. But when the article mentions a “curious seventh-grader”, I think we should focus on getting them quality human instruction whenever possible instead of just pointing them to ChatG
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I'm biased because I work on ChromeOS, but Chromebooks seem extremely secure.
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One thing I haven’t seen yet in these comments: the cheating scandal brought a lot of attention to the game. It was a great story to pique a young and curious imagination: - chess is a board game in my closet next to parcheesi and backgammo
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This is the problem with using AI tools without thinking. It reads like PR copy, repeats facts that everyone here knows, and doesn’t invite any discussion. I’m glad that Dan has clarified that HN comments are not allowed to be copy/pas
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by kweingar 3y ago
Currently LLMs cannot construct factories, grow crops, or transport goods. Even if it leads to brilliant inventions that were otherwise impossible before, it takes a while for humans to physically make or do things. How confident are you in

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