morleytj

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by morleytj 1y ago
You're right that the societal cost is very different. I hadn't thought about people doing the stupid things on video, I think personally I focus on the effects of the consumption moreso. Personally I think the problem with TikTok
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by morleytj 1y ago
Not to be a downer, but even as someone very optimistic about technology and AI generally, "TikTok but AI" sounds like a societally terrible thing to try and create. What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid v
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by morleytj 1y ago
Is it? I thought it was overtaken by the RAV4 a while back.
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by morleytj 1y ago
Wait, are you the person who made a prototype of Halo for the DS? That's extremely interesting!
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by morleytj 1y ago
Yeah, I also tend to have heavier usage of them. I'm not exactly sure why I do though, I don't have a particular incident like yours in high school. I think I just read too many blog posts as a teenager, haha. It is a bit of an od
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by morleytj 1y ago
I 100% agree. I think Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication is so incredibly well written and accessible that anyone interested in information theory should just start with the real foundational work rather than lists of equat
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by morleytj 1y ago
Ah, yeah, I understand that feeling, the sensation is very unfortunate. I feel the same!
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by morleytj 1y ago
That's something I find very interesting, honestly. I think the two way nature of the relationship between the impacts of a tool on humans and the impact of humans on the way the tool develops is a particularly weird little phenomenon
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by morleytj 1y ago
Yeah, it's clear he's going through a lot of pain. Even just going through that many job changes outside of the other events sounds painful and difficult to deal with.
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by morleytj 1y ago
Very snarky, but okay, haha. Do you not get that sort of sense at all from the above structure? I'm curious if it's just in my head and what the perspectives of others are.
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by morleytj 1y ago
I also use emdashes a lot. I'm more talking about the particular contrastive structure.
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by morleytj 1y ago
I do also get that pretty often. Also because I've always liked using hyphens and emdashes, so I get that as well. I don't know if I'd call it "vile" to notice a common pattern like the above though. But it does hav
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by morleytj 1y ago
It's very common to see the particular syntactic structure of restating a point in the following general manner from Claude/ChatGPT in my experience and that of others: "It's not X -- it's Y." or "This isn
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by morleytj 1y ago
This is very unfortunate and I'm sorry to hear that the author has been excluded and is suffering to this extent. On another note though: "This isn't paranoia—it's pattern recognition honed by lived experience." I c
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by morleytj 1y ago
I guess my general question in those scenarios is why spend time and water maintaining a lawn of plants that can't grow normally in the local climate? There are definitely plants which survive in the area year round in many places in t
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by morleytj 1y ago
Lawns use such an incredible amount of water, particularly people maintaining them in deserts, like in Arizona and parts of California. It boggles my mind that people go out of their way to put so much effort and resources just into having
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by morleytj 1y ago
It seems like this would be a pretty good argument for increasing taxes on the high end and having large public works projects to drive forward particular useful goals on a national level (ignoring whether or not a particular governmental o
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by morleytj 1y ago
The argument in the comment above is that lab grown salmon cells should not be allowed to be marketed as salmon because they have had components such as beta-carotene added for coloring. In light of the fact that similar compounds are added
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by morleytj 1y ago
It's not exactly the same, but given that much of it is for coloring, I feel the comparison should be drawn that basically all farmed salmon in the US is specifically fed food containing astaxanthin to give it a more pleasing coloring,
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by morleytj 1y ago
My general disagreements with those axioms from my reading of the literature are around the concepts of immutability and of the belief in the almost entirely biological factor, which I don't think is well supported by current research
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by morleytj 1y ago
The built in assumptions are always interesting to me, especially as it relates to intelligence. I find many of them (though not all), are organized around a series of fundamental beliefs that are very rarely challenged within these communi
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by morleytj 1y ago
I now feel the need to comment that this thread does illustrate an issue I have with the naming of the philosophical/internet community of rationalism. One can very clearly be a rational individual or an individual who practices reason
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by morleytj 1y ago
Very interesting way of thinking through it, I agree on pretty much all the points you've stated. That aversion is really fascinating to dig into, I wonder how much of it is cultural vs something innate to people.
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by morleytj 1y ago
Comment I'm replying to poses the following scenario: "If you could just ask GPT to create a startup that'll be guaranteed to be worth $1B on a $1k investment within one year" I think if the situation is that I do this b
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by morleytj 1y ago
The benchmarks certainly seem to be improving from the presentation. I don't think they started training this 4 months ago though. There's gains, but the question is, how much investment for that gain? How sustainable is that inve
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by morleytj 1y ago
I'm pretty curious about the same thing. I think a somewhat comparable situation is in various online game platforms now that I think about it. Investors would love to make a game like Fortnite, and get the profits that Fortnite makes.
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by morleytj 1y ago
I suppose what I'm getting at is that if there are performance increases on a steady pace, but the investment needed to get those performance increases is on a much faster growth rate, it's not really a fair comparison in terms of
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by morleytj 1y ago
Certainly, yes, plenty of elbow grease required in all things that matter. The interesting point as well to me though, is that if it could create a startup that was worth $1B, that startup wouldn't be worth $1B. Why would anyone pay th
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by morleytj 1y ago
I'd agree on that. That's pretty much the key component these approaches have been lacking on, the reliability and consistency on the tasks they already work well on to some extent. I think there's a lot of visions of what ou
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by morleytj 1y ago
I wouldn't say model development and performance is "leveling off", and in fact didn't write that. I'd say that tons more funding is going into the development of many models, so one would expect performance increas

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