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by pegasus 3y ago
> is it? It is. And I bet most people would agree with GP. Most people (including engineers building these systems) have experienced surprise with some of the outputs of these models. Is there anything better to gauge creativity by than
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by pegasus 3y ago
There's a somewhat recent post by dang saying that (if I remember correctly) moderators sometimes manually look over rejected posts and give them a second chance if they feel it's worth a shot.
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by pegasus 3y ago
I read "fun stories" to refer to cyclops, male pregnancy and the deep mystery of the real purpose of the appendix. That's a plausible critique to me, and one which is compatible with the appendix being still useful. Same fo
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by pegasus 3y ago
I think you misread GP, they only said the appendix is not an evolutionary mystery, not that it doesn't serve a purpose. In fact, he noted the presence of lymphoid tissue, which makes is useful to the organism, as stated by the articl
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Apple Shakes Up Open-Source AI with MGIE Image Editor(decrypt.co)
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by pegasus 3y ago
Good question, being investigated in the field of consciousness studies. Like Thomas Metzinger's minimal phenomenal selfhood: https://youtu.be/8f4ykI9har8
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by pegasus 3y ago
Certain drugs, amongst them MDMA, can help with talking things through. Both in relationship with others and with oneself (self-reflection). GP never encouraged couples to numb themselves (opiates would be more conducive to that).
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by pegasus 3y ago
If inference costs keep going down, I expect pirate LLMs trained on pirated and much more complete text libraries will proliferate.
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by pegasus 3y ago
search.marginalia.nu is one option. Apparently Kagi also has a "Small Web" option. Check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38821248
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by pegasus 3y ago
Names like Chomsky, Assange, Snowden pop first to my mind. Or someone like Navalny in Russia or Mandela in South Africa. Scientists like Dyson or Bohr could go under that rubric as well. And of course, many artists are bona fide cognitiv
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by pegasus 3y ago
Sure, we're shaking our head about DDT, but we're still very much relying on DDT's less obviously harmful successors. I hope it won't be the same with self-driving cars. Where there's a will, there's a way, and
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by pegasus 3y ago
Seems naive to me. For one, countries have committed suicide before. And Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine is not a real country, that it's a part of his country lured away by the West. I'm pretty sure his ideal scenario i
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by pegasus 3y ago
I'm sure that if they suspected that variance in mass could support their theory, they would have investigated that possibility instead of proposing a new test.
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by pegasus 3y ago
"Seem" only seems to be doing lots of work. Here's a relevant article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
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by pegasus 3y ago
Because it just can't. And it won't. It can't even reliably produce consistent shadows in a still image, so when we talk video with a moving camera, all bets are off. To create flawless movie simulations through a dynamic and
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by pegasus 3y ago
Nah, I agree with GP. Who didn't suggest making 3D scenes by hand, but the opposite: create those 3D scenes using the generative method, use ray-tracing or the like to render the image. Maybe have another pass through a model to apply
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by pegasus 3y ago
This assumes that the more money a company makes, the more beneficial it is to society. Seems dubious to me. For example, there's a case to be made that the large social media companies are doing irreparable harm to our societies. I
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by pegasus 3y ago
Anna's Archive got them all and then some.
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by pegasus 3y ago
Well put.
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by pegasus 3y ago
There are scientists who are weighing these questions. For example, see Thomas Metzinger's latest research on these kind of states presented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f4ykI9har8 (and in the followup video
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by pegasus 3y ago
Not necessarily, see for example Nick Bostrom's Simulation Hypothesis. Maybe one could argue that too requires adherence to some religious dogma (Scientism? Reductionism?)
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by pegasus 3y ago
That was my first reaction too, but on second thought it could be quite useful for spotting one's topics of interest on a page. I often do a cursory scan of the HN front page for discussions which might interest me, for example, and I
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by pegasus 3y ago
I didn't see it like that. It makes perfect sense in the context it's being shown in: a personal wiki system. Even if such a system would be extended to the browser, I imagine the principle of auto-linking based on the user&#x27
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by pegasus 3y ago
The official ChatGPT app has had voice-recognition for a while now. Still not closing the obvious loop with text-to-speech, but probably they have bigger fish to fry. It might be that the projected extra subscription revenue would not mak
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by pegasus 3y ago
I don't think it's necessary to believe in eternal damnation in order to be a Christian. Hans Urs von Balthasar and David Bentley Hart are two preeminent theologians who would agree. That's just from the little I know on th
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by pegasus 3y ago
"The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich is a profound analysis of this aspect of human experience and on how to relate to it. Warmly recommended.
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by pegasus 3y ago
There's also a good 15 min youtube documentary on this condition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTCZ-hO6iI
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by pegasus 3y ago
Agreed. I find "confabulating" more appropriate.
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by pegasus 3y ago
You do if you want to "see for yourself". Which was GPs entire point.
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by pegasus 4y ago
Well, yes, this is kinda the whole point of the argument. That's what LLMs bring to the table - machines that can better deal with data and documents meant for human consumption.

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