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by nickpp 3y ago
Is this a real problem model trainers actually face or is it an imagined one? The Internet is already full of garbage - 90% of the unpleasantness of browsing these days is filtering through mounts and mounds of crap. Some is generated, some
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I am sorry, I greatly respect and admire Nick Cave, but that letter sounded to me like the lament of a scribe decrying the invention of the printing press. He's not wrong, something is lost and it has to do with what we call our &quo
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Please expand on that.
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If it’s a good comment, does it really matter if a human or an AI wrote it?
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> Why would one person owning something so important be better than being publicly owned? Usually publicly owned things end up being controlled by someone: a CEO, a main investor, a crooked board, a government, a shady governmental organ
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Doomerism was quite common throughout mankind’s history but all dire predictions invariably failed, from the “population bomb” to “grey goo” and “igniting the atmosphere” with a nuke. Populists however, were always quite eager to “protect u
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Many OpenAI employees expressed their support for Sam at some point also on Twitter. Microsoft CEO (based in Redmond) tweeted quite a lot. Tech media reporters like Emily Chang and Kara Swisher also participated. The last one is quite criti
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What tribe is that? And why would they favor one network over the others?
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> Proliferation of more advanced AIs without any control would increase the power of some malicious groups far beyond they currently have. Don't forget that it would also increase the power of the good guys. Any technology in histor
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To say that communication was lacking is an understatement. Clarifications were missing and sorely needed.
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I’d be rather reluctant to question the financial decisions of one of wealthiest men on earth. Losing 40B could feel quite different to him than to you or me. Besides, it’s unrealized loss until he sells.
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They didn’t tweet, but did they communicate in any other way?!
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On a side tangent, absolutely amazing how all this drama unfolded on Twitter/X. No Threads, no Mastodon, no Truth Social or Blue whatever. Say what you want about Elon’s leadership but his instinct to buy Twitter was completely right.
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Agreed. Sorry about it. Removed
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Reading less news does not shield you from the real world. I thought I can survive in the private world respecting the law and limiting my government interactions. That worked until my kids started school and my parents' health deterio
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> I've lived in dictatorships and non-functional democracies Same here. Corporations at worst got a bunch of (unearned) money off of me. My "democratic" government can (and tried to) put me in jail, disallow me to make my
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The world at large is even worse. There are about 200 countries on the planet. How many of them have functioning democracies? I am betting around 10% or less?! Here's some data: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of
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Nope. The rivers where just fine to cool reactors, it was that they were heating the water too much for the (outdated) environmental regulations.
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The litmus test for all these funny ideas about human nature, societies and economy is the reality. Remember: communist countries during the Cold War had machine guns on the border turned inwards so people couldn’t leave. We were trying t
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My guess is pure ambition. Tends to attract ambitious people who in turn have a higher chance of making those dreams a reality.
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> why you think so? Because human nature is inherently selfish. The great majority of people generally tend to do stuff that benefits them and their close ones. Capitalism recognizes that and realizes that the great majority of value cre
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Let me know when you start closing fossil fuel power plants like you closed your nuclear ones. So far you’ve just restarted some coal-fueled ones until the LGN terminal is done next year. And that terminal will bring in GAS, not solar or
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> Germany is building about 1.5GW a month of solar and wind I root for them to succeed. I do love renewables. But I know that in my country at least the waiting time today for panel purchase, installation and grid connection is over a ye
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> Free markets have not a lot to do with the technological leap of solar, that was mostly German subsidies The technology used to make solar panels is the same used for semiconductors. It evolved al Moore's law speed thanks to an un
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> There is no power generation that has a potential for serious damage compared to nuclear Of course there is. Good old oil, coal and gas burning. Since we’re fear-mongering on potentials here, would you like to estimate the cost of a ru
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Yes, free markets have fuelled a technological boom that delivered us renewables - an incredible, completely unexpected feat. But it may be a case of too little too late. The problem is we spent last 100 years spewing CO2 into the atmospher
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Nuclear is expensive because of overregulation. Hence no free market when it comes to building nuclear power plants, unfortunately. Otherwise we’d have a glut of safe electricity at amazingly low prices. Of course safety was the pretext for
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I don't know any pro-nuclear that is anti-renewables. We see nuclear as an alternative to burning coal, gas or oil, not to renewables. Renewables are great. We all love them. It's just that they are not here just yet, not 24h&#x2F
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It's never "true communism", of course. That has never been tried. Yeah, right.

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