matt2019

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   by matt2019 4y ago

   The new Pinocchio! Admittedly watched it with AI on the brain, but if you think about it Pinocchio is an Artificial Intelligence with a lying problem, much like GPT. The whole story then explores his journey to become more like a real boy.
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   by matt2019 4y ago

   Your counterpoint assumes there’s a win-win that’s possible. But sometimes that’s wishful thinking. Imperialists have always convinced themselves that they’re actually helping the peoples they intervene on, but they’re often wrong.
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   by matt2019 7y ago

   While I have this book in front of me: "all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book [A New Kind of Science] ... Steve said, 'Isaac Newton didn't have back-cover quotes; why do
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   by matt2019 7y ago

   Tangential, but reminds me of Stephen Wolfram's story of how it got the name Mathematica. It was actually Steve Jobs's idea: "Over the months after our first meeting, I had all sorts of interactions with Steve about Mathemati