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Life Inside the Everything Machine(metastable.org)
2 points by pbw 3y ago|0 comments
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Human creativity in an AI saturated future(metastable.org)
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by pbw 4y ago
> Humans are not exposed to "billions of words" ... continuous signals Yes humans need to learn to extract words from signals, but that does not mean it's not correct to count the number of words they've been exposed
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by pbw 4y ago
I don't have the source, it was a video interview, but Sam said he has personally invested in around 400 startups. And it says here he employs "a couple of dozen people" to manage his investment and homes. At that scale I thi
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by pbw 4y ago
Meter thick panels with the density of rock? I’m seeing current satellite solar panels are 1-2mm thick with talk of getting them down to < 100 nanometers.
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AI is not alien, it's us(metastable.org)
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ChatGPT as Personal Tutor(metastable.org)
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AI is not alien, it's us(metastable.org)
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AI is not alien, it's us(metastable.org)
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by pbw 4y ago
The last 1/3 is really about existential risk of any kind, beyond AI. And it says our relatively small Minimum Viable Population (~500) might allow us to bounce back from even really bad disasters, like nuclear war or an extremely dead
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by pbw 4y ago
Plenty of MLM's will be "anything goes". That OpenAI does not want its brand associated with the worst things its users dream up, especially this early while it's still a research preview, makes sense to me. OpenAI was b
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by pbw 4y ago
Is there any prior work on how to integrate a LLM with something as primitive as a simple calculator? I suspect it's hard. Does ChatGPT even know what question to ask? Integrating LLM's with logic/reasoning/computation s
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AI is not alien, it’s us(metastable.org)
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Soft Reboot: The Evolution of Intelligence(metastable.org)
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by pbw 4y ago
I wrote about training my TikTok a while back: https://metastable.org/tiktok.html My take-away was there's good stuff on there and awful stuff on there. Similar to the internet itself. The HN comments on my post were v
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by pbw 4y ago
Medium is paywalled. Unless they are paying you a lot to post there, it’s a bad idea because many people will not be able to read your article. People can read X articles for free then it’s paywalled. I don’t know how the “don’t paywall my
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by pbw 4y ago
Elon thinks PR is "manipulating the press" and that Tesla is better off spending their time and energy on product development. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2021/06/07/..
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by pbw 4y ago
Like many TikTok reviewers, she's unknowingly broadcasting to the world her own tastes and preferences in describing "what is on TikTok". TikTok is like the Harry Potter mirror, it shows you exactly what you are looking for.
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by pbw 4y ago
I went into college expecting to major in physics. My first non-general physics class was Modern Physics. The first half was a review of all of classical physics and I got an A on that half. The second half was quantum mechanics and I got a
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by pbw 4y ago
The genome, all of our DNA combined, is just a bunch of 1D strings like "cgtattctgcttgta". Those strings encode proteins, which fold up into a 3D shape once created. This 3D shape is what determines what the protein actually does
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by pbw 4y ago
I think that AI will deliver a form of StrechText for every document, plus video and audio. It will condense the media down to any length you want. A funny example of this is many people pad their YouTube videos out to 10+ minutes because t
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by pbw 4y ago
Some companies offer unlimited PTO. The catch is the culture often discourages people from taking more than a few weeks off. It's been shown if the company just offers N weeks people take more time off than if it were unlimited, which
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by pbw 4y ago
We don't have to have "so few people on earth we are stuck". As the BBC article[1] says China could go from having 100 workers supporting 20 elderly people to 100 workers supporting 120 elderly people. So workers have to supp
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by pbw 4y ago
You are right the more space we have the more we dream up ways to use it. However I wouldn't go as far to say "drive sizes always stayed about the same in relation to what you could put onto them". People still store text but
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by pbw 4y ago
A modern HDD is 15-30 million times cheaper per byte than that 10mb “hard disk you’ve been waiting for” ad according to diskprices.com. What will get 30 million times better in the future vs. what is tapped out? ‪If you adjust for inflation
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by pbw 4y ago
> Bruh, get real. TikTok is filled with women complaining about dating. Why not just admit what is staring you in the face? I’ve never see a video with a woman complaining about dating on TikTok. In years of use. I’m not saying you are n
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by pbw 4y ago
People think you get dopamine hits when you find cool stimulating things. You actually get a steady drip while seeking, it’s what keeps you transfixed looking for the next thing. And as this shows a variable reward gives you a stronger drip
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by pbw 4y ago
I visit my YouTube “home” screen on my TV and I like most of what’s on there. It finds good stuff. Unlike TikTok’s one video at a time with YT I’m scanning through dozens of thumbnails for what to watch.
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by pbw 4y ago
OP here. Once trained I still get videos I don’t want. So the mix is much better, but you are never totally done training. Videos that make you smile or laugh might be a hard criteria for it to learn. Compared to specific interests like “wo
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by pbw 4y ago
I’m amazed how seldom I see political posts on TT. I’m not really sure why that is. My Twitter is highly political even though I try to follow very few political people. Maybe the hurdle of making a video is just that much higher than typin

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