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by nostromo 3y ago
The answer isn't banning it, it's some basic regulation of the industry. For example, look how well the Nevada Gaming Control Board keeps Vegas casinos honest. And the casinos welcome it too -- because it shows that Vegas is a pre
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> ChatGPT is restricted from accessing this website Huh... they're banning ChatGPT specifically from accessing anything on their website. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/robots.txt User-agent: GPTBot Disallow
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by nostromo 3y ago
Don't forget that you can "vouch" for an article or comment that you think was unfairly flagged. From the FAQ: > If you see a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it. Click on its timestamp to go to
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by nostromo 3y ago
The US real estate to gold ration has always facinated me: https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/ If you bought a house with gold in 1890 or 2023, the price would be... about the same.
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by nostromo 3y ago
Survivorship bias... When the coverup works, we don't hear about it.
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A lot of us also spend too much time in quiet environments. When I’m outside, my tinnitus is barely noticeable. It’s only when I’m in my silent office does it drive me crazy.
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by nostromo 3y ago
Stop blaming SEO and start blaming Google. Ultimately they're responsible for creating the incentives that are killing the web.
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I’m struggling to think of any metro that’s more filthy than New York’s, so I’m not sure that’s saying much.
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by nostromo 3y ago
You're correct. When people say they want safe AGI, what they mean are things like "Skynet should not nuke us" and "don't accelerate so fast that humans are instantly irrelevant." But what it's being inter
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Adam D’Angelo is looking worse and worse in all this, if only by process of elimination.
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Maybe people aren't actively leaving YouTube, but they are using a lot less of it for other platforms like TikTok.
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by nostromo 3y ago
It's more "how" than "who" (although "who" also matters) If the board talked to Altman and said, "hey this is the wrong direction" or "it's moving too fast." Then if they'd g
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by nostromo 3y ago
This is what they were created to do. Their founder has created several Super PACs and has been an advisor for the Clintons. Their largest donor was George Soros. They are political in nature and always have been. That's fine, but p
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by nostromo 3y ago
Media Matters was being very disingenuous here. They curated feeds specifically trying to find offensive content and then refresh their feeds until they could find an ad placed near offensive content. You could pull this trick on any tech c
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by nostromo 3y ago
GPUs run on cash, not goodwill. AI researchers also run on cash -- they have plenty of options and an organization needs to be able to reward them to keep them motivated and working. OpenAI is only what it is because of its commercial wing
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by nostromo 3y ago
I don’t believe it was ever about principles for Ilya. It sure seems like it was always his ego and a power grab, even if he's not aware of that himself. When a board is unhappy with a highly-performing CEO’s direction, you have many
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by nostromo 3y ago
This is sorta brilliant. Microsoft has access to almost everything OpenAI does. And now Altman and Brockman will have that access too. Meanwhile, I imagine their tenure at MSFT will be short-lived, because hot-shot startup folks don’t real
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by nostromo 3y ago
I hope making the person in charge of "trust and safety" doesn't further neuter the company.
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AirBNB is all but banned in NYC. So the hotels are full of migrants, not tourists, and there are few other options, which further hurts the local economy.
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NYC is housing migrants in hotel rooms that it pays for. https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20230926176/hou... Some hotels are charging the city $300 a night. https://www.bloomberg.com&#x
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by nostromo 3y ago
New York's budget is a disaster and it's only getting worse. They spent like Covid stimulus would never end, and didn't expect the migrant surge to ever reach their doorstep. Open libraries on Sundays does seem like a reaso
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by nostromo 3y ago
73% of antibiotics globally are used for livestock production, not for human use, and yet we tend to only hear about how humans need to cut back. How about we require ranchers to decrease their animal density so they don't need to use
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> why is the problem so acute now? Money printing and bad economic policy. The government has printed trillions of dollars and injected it into the housing market, via guaranteed loans and loans directly purchased. All this money pushe
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by nostromo 3y ago
Yeah it’s pretty telling… The fifth most-recently posted thing on Threads is 77 days old. On “X” it was a few hours ago.
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Some interesting people left Twitter, but they mostly left social media entirely. I don’t think anyone interesting is actually on threads. It seems to be a graveyard with only Instagram influencers posting boring influencer stuff.
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These surfaces at scale will be a game changer for fighting climate change. They seem like magic. Here’s a key quote from Wikipedia: > Some estimates propose that if 1–2% of the Earth's surface area were dedicated to PDRC that war
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Just be prepared for OpenAI to pull the rug out from under you at some point... and probably sooner than you realize. This is always the approach in our industry. During the land rush, you offer very affordable, very favorable terms for pe
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Their on-screen chemistry is super odd -- particularly considering they are married and cofounders. It's giving low-rent Apple.
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This strikes me as a less-functional Apple Watch that you wear on your shirt instead of your wrist. (Yes, Siri is not great today, but that will change very quickly with Apple working hard on their own LLMs.) Cool project, but not something
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Yeah, I honestly think this would be a good thing. ML already exists as market makers. It’s a big-ish industry maybe, but not massive. It probably should be as automated as possible which would reduce the risk free profit to be made to n

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