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3y ago
It could be true in the sense that you don't live in a cave, weren't murdered because of ever-marginally losing your physical edge at age 35, haven't died of a tooth infection, defecate indoors in a climate controlled structu
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3y ago
>I only asked why no one can be an expert. Other than the fact that "disinformation expert" is a fake expertise invented to facilitate fallacious appeal to authority in the void left by a distrusted press: There are two answers
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3y ago
The scientific consensus is that the earth is shaped like a globe. Though, not really a globe. More like a mishapen sphere-like object. All science is never-ending discussion and consensus. Really poorly supported hypothesese can be infinte
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3y ago
Boom
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3y ago
They can't be publicly trusted experts unless they can demonstrate that they correct disinformation at a better rate than it is delivered by the MSM. I haven't seen that. Apart from mundane fact checking chores, my observation is
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3y ago
They do call themselves truth experts. Nothing prestigious about being a sad, untrusted, and failed backstop for failing trust in journalism. See the fact that media calls them "prestigious" after being forced to concede their sup
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3y ago
At first, I bought into the "switch off weird (Ai) settings" talk. Quickly, it became apparent that I couldn't come close to the overall picture quality potential with manual settings. This is for a late model qled. The chip
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3y ago
The completely anomalous board that specifically doesn't have a profit mission and therefore doesn't hold the company's well being as the first priority? That board is supposed to make decisions on purchasing? What this comes
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3y ago
This is the right take.
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3y ago
You falsely assume that dishonesty has been established.
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3y ago
>This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. Doubt it. This type of thing is very common. >Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation. Altman is back because OAI had no choice.
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3y ago
The military has always been a caste, and will always be.
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3y ago
But pronouncing that 700 people are bad at critical thinking is convenient when you disagree with them on desired outcome and yet can't hope to argue points.
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3y ago
Disagreeing with employee actions doesn't mean that you are correct and they failed to think well. Weighting their collective probable profiles, including as insiders, and yours, it would be irrational to conclude that they were in the
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3y ago
What is socially defined as beneficial-to-humanity is functionally mandated by the MSM and therefore capricious, at the least. With that in mind, a translation: "OpenAI will be obligated to make decisions according to government prefer
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3y ago
Said purpose and values are nothing more than an attempted control lever for dark actors, very obviously. People / factions that gain handholds, which otherwise wouldn't exist, and exert control through social pressure nonsense th
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3y ago
>groupthink shows there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees either. So the type of employee that would get hired at OpenAi isn't likely to be skilled at critical thinking? That's doubtful. It
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3y ago
Corporate profits should be the driving force. Because then at least we know what (who) and where the controlling source is. Whereas "humanity" is a PR word for far-more fuzzy dark sources rooted in the political machine and its e
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3y ago
Who says that the OpenAi Board has humanity's interests in mind? Copy and reality are often different. It's more likely that said Board feels most of its pressure from the Press, which is for-profit and often has partisan agendas
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3y ago
I couldn't imagine a statement that would better predict company failure at the hands of its competition.
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3y ago
I agree with your premise. You're right: I haven't seen evidence of LLM novel pattern output that is basically creative. It can find and remix patterns where there are pre-existing rules and maps that detail where they are and how
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3y ago
If the primary issue is was safety vs performance, then in the near-future-end performance is going to win. As is the nature of AI that has been written about for decades. But right now, the board undoubtedly feels the most pressure in the
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3y ago
On both sides, everyone thinks the other to be low IQ and uninformed. The reality is that IQ has less to do with it than information. Everyone attempts to vote their self-interest with the information that they have. A dirty secret of polit
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The article is quite the poorly reasoned effort to try to justify authoritarian court abuse toward persecuting political enemies. When "mechanisms of political accountability stop working". In other words, when prior political arg
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3y ago
This couldn't be a better example of partisan "blindness". Unironically, I've found some of the most simplistic and emotional (unsolicited) takes on US politics when engaging with people abroad.
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3y ago
Individual false claims of party affinity aside, which exist within both parties (assuming a two party system): The more articulate way to put your sentiment is that, in the end, partisan politics is about percieved correct action in the se
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3y ago
It's self-deceptive to think that significant renewable use can be anything except lies. The only question is what end of the conversational spectrum are the lies offloaded? Potential for energy supply parity with non-renewables? Popul
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Re: Swift None of those advocacies being effectively controversial / MSM disfavored. Essentially, they read as an almost required checklist for establishment darlings. Advocating for them isn't bravery, today. It's common bus
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Celebrities depend on media favor for career survival. Their favor on crucial political topics is therefore captured. In other words, most celebrities don't have the effective freedom to be able to advocate for any political cause. Sur
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3y ago
France's math culture is a facet of its rigorous education system. Which in contrast to other western nations that will remain unnamed, doesn't easily award advancement through it.
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