permo-w

43 ms·

631.
by permo-w 3y ago
besides being older and presumably more likely to own land - based on what logic does this make sense?
632.
by permo-w 3y ago
all a company would be doing by acting like this would be restricting the size of their user base
633.
by permo-w 3y ago
don't be silly. the DMA is probably the best major piece of legislation this side of the millennium also the EU != the ECHR
634.
by permo-w 3y ago
>Since the last ice age we've been dropping like flies. the last ice age was ~12,000 years ago. the latest evidence for any of these other branches of humans is 3x that many years ago. on the contrary, the human population has skyro
635.
by permo-w 3y ago
in my personal experience, cannabis makes me significantly more motivated to program, but significantly less competent at it
636.
by permo-w 3y ago
could have called it "hashed"
637.
by permo-w 3y ago
your repeated use of the word magic doesn't really hold water. what gpt-3+ does would have seemed like magic even 10 years ago, never mind SORA I asked you for what would convince you. you said: >I have been quite clear about what e
638.
by permo-w 3y ago
>And if the answer is "Well, its not happening at all", then my guess is that its not a real issue. besides the fact that even a year and half ago, I was being added to incredibly convincing scam whatsapp groups, which if not e
639.
by permo-w 3y ago
it's curious to me that almost every reply here doesn't approach this with any measure of curiosity or caution like you usually get on HN. the responses are either: "I agree", or "this is silly unreal nonsense"
640.
by permo-w 3y ago
look, I'm going to humour you here, but my instinct is that you'll just dismiss any potential anyway first of all, by dismissing them as chatbots, you're inaccurately downplaying their significance to the aid of your argument
641.
by permo-w 3y ago
this kind of emotive ragebait comment is usually a sign that the message is close to getting through. cognitive dissonance doesn't slip quietly into the night
642.
by permo-w 3y ago
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is not a universal truth. it's a truism with limited scope. using it to refuse any potential you instinctively don't like the look of is simply lazy all it means is t
643.
by permo-w 3y ago
I get the sense that you just haven't properly considered the problem. you're kind of skirting round the edges and saying things that in isolation are true, but just don't really address the central tenet. the central tenet i
644.
by permo-w 3y ago
yes it's in fact fantastic that mentally-stimulating jobs that provide social mobility are disappearing, and slavery-lite, mentally-gruelling service industry jobs are the future. people who haven't had to clean a strangers'
645.
by permo-w 3y ago
it's hard to react rationally to comments like these, because it's so emotive no, being concerned about the development of independent actors, whether technically conscious or not, that can process information at speeds thousands
646.
by permo-w 3y ago
the key thing is that now OpenAI has something of value, they're doing everything they possibly can to benefit private individuals and corporations, i.e. Sam Altman and Microsoft, rather than the public good, which is the express purpo
647.
by permo-w 3y ago
what do you mean by "make money"? do you mean "make profit"? or do you mean "earn revenue"? if you mean "make profit", then no, that is simply not true. they have to reinvest the money, and even if it
648.
by permo-w 3y ago
you're aware of what a threat is, I presume? a threat is not something that is reliably proven; it is a possibility. there are endless possibilities for how AGI could be an existential threat, and many of them of are extremely plausibl
649.
by permo-w 3y ago
I completely agree. AGI is an existential threat, but the real meat of this lawsuit is ensuring that you can't let founders have their cake and eat it like this. what's the point of a non-profit if they can simply pivot to making
650.
by permo-w 3y ago
it could make a pretty cool film. baby taken as a child turns on his captors and destroys their queen.
651.
by permo-w 3y ago
it's such an interesting subject matter, presented visually in a really nice way, but his script-writing is so jarring to listen to, and it feels like half the time he doesn't even really comprehend the words that he's readin
652.
by permo-w 3y ago
>However, the enslaved ants opportunistically kill the queen pupae of the slave maker ants. I'm guessing by this you mean the species of ants that tend to be enslaved, rather than the enslaved ants themselves?
653.
by permo-w 3y ago
the solution there is to not ban sites, but simply deprioritise them for a while. you get caught being naughty, your entire domain gets hit with a nasty downranking that gradually decays. put a little flag next to the link explaining to the
654.
by permo-w 3y ago
does it? I would happily believe that Google is corrupt in this manner, but the reason big domains have the advantage here is because they can afford to pay teams of people with the express purpose of gaming the system. this is true in all
655.
by permo-w 3y ago
I think it's too late for that, my friend. crypto meaning bitcoin is a word that even the idiots have come to know. in today's blessed society, no intellectual subject will supplant that
656.
by permo-w 3y ago
or alternatively an illustration that the not-for-profit model is horrendously improperly regulated. what is the point of not-for-profit, if it immediately becomes for-profit as soon as it has anything of value?
657.
by permo-w 3y ago
well, true, but it seems strange to me to apply such everyday processes to something as comfortably infinite as maths
658.
by permo-w 3y ago
if you have absolutely no grounding in maths or science, then sure, it would be unusual to think that way, but if you do, which you clearly did, then it should no longer be unusual whatsoever. it would be trivial to artificially construct a
659.
by permo-w 3y ago
this analogy illustrates the opposite of what I think you intend it to. if we could artificially iterate the sun rising infinite times, somewhere very high up, maybe after 10^10, it eventually would no longer rise
660.
by permo-w 3y ago
it's clear that the thought is naive, but that doesn't explain why it was come to

More ›