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by pyman 1y ago
I like that you saw this with your own eyes and noticed things that are hard to explain rather than just reading about it and settling for someone else's hypothesis. Thanks for sharing!
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What the article says is that fungi produces electrical spikes and those spikes may encode information and function like a primitive language to coordinate activity across the network. But what if the environment was never hostile and they
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Looks like they respond to their environment in complex ways. What if mushrooms avoid trails because they feel the vibrations? Maybe they learned that foot traffic = danger. So it grows out of reach. You should explore this theory and run s
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I don't agree with this. Facebook's power comes from how it gathered and monetised data, how it acquired rivals like Instagram and WhatsApp, and how it locked in network effects. If regulators had blocked those acquisitions or enf
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I get that you're not a fan of this new tech, and I agree with some of what you said, but you missed the point. These models are only as good as the data we give them. Behind them is data generated by people, their knowledge and wisdom
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> "GenAI, as it exists, is fundamentally a tool for undercutting labor. And it’s using stolen labor to achieve it, and mandating that labor implement their own replacement." More and more people are asking regulators and compan
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I find that claim interesting, especially given your background in studying fungus. Could you expand on it a bit?
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A person is flying a hot air balloon and realises he’s lost. He lowers the balloon and spots a man down below. He shouts: “Excuse me! Can you help me? I promised a friend I’d meet him, but I have no idea where I am.” The man replies, “You’r
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by pyman 1y ago
Politicians in the US don't usually like talking about AI, probably because they represent big tech first, and the people second. So with no real action from those in power, actors are forced to protest.
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Why aren't exchanges, which act like banks, regulated like banks? Why are governments allowing them to operate at this scale? They disguise themselves as tech companies to dodge clear regulations, base themselves offshore in the Caribb
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Can we all finally agree that Tim Sweeney, Linus Torvalds, Alan Turing, and Ada Lovelace are the best computer scientists who ever lived?
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This shows a lack of understanding of how software development and deployment actually work. First of all, you manage your production database using migration files. Secondly, you never let GenAI make deployment decisions. At most, it can r
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by pyman 1y ago
Exactly
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Yes, Wikipedia is an organisation, not a company (my bad). They spent years improving its tools and building a strong community. Volunteers review changes and some edits get automatically flagged or even reversed if they look suspicious or
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Those gyms are called schools. The only thing that's changing is how we evaluate students. AI can now write essays, summarise texts, solve maths problems, and generate code. Students can do most homework with a prompt, so traditional t
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People tend to overestimate the impact AI will have in the short term, and underestimate the impact it will have in the long term. Do you imagine a future where journalists are AI agents, writing better than humans? Probably not, because wh
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Thanks for clarifying that. My goal was to question the way we do things. Game streaming, for example, works differently. The game runs entirely on a remote server. The server has a GPU/CPU combo that renders the game in real time and
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+1 Fines, when backed by strong regulation, can lead to more control and better quality information, but only if companies are actually held to account.
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This is exactly why we need to regulate Big Tech. Right now, they're saying: "It wasn't us, it was our AI's fault." But how do we know they're telling the truth? How do we know it wasn't intentional? And m
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I spent 10 years teaching computer science and some of my ex-students now work at Google, Amazon, Uber, and Microsoft. They still come by to say hi. It's teachers who inspire change, and we do it by talking about the past, present, and
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by pyman 1y ago
If Google accidentally generates an article claiming a politician in XYZ country is corrupt the day before an election, then quietly corrects it after the election, should we NOT hold them accountable? Other companies have been fined for mi
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by pyman 1y ago
I'm worried about this. Companies like Wikipedia spent years trying to get things right, and now suddenly Google and Microsoft (including OpenAI) are using GenAI to generate content that, frankly, can't be trusted because it'
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I'm sure the hotel will blame the company that sold them the sensors, and the company that built them will blame some developer who changed the sensitivity value from 6 to 8. Everyone will act shocked, the developer will get fired, and
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by pyman 1y ago
I stopped using Airbnb because of the ridiculous "cleaning" fees and happily went back to hotels. But what Hyatt did in the US is shameful. The government should investigate, and the CEO should probably step down.
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I see two things people are not happy about when it comes to LLMs: 1. The message you sent doesn't feel personal. It reads like something written by a machine, and I struggle to connect with someone who sends me messages like that. 2.
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Initially, it had the same effect on people until they got used to it. In the near future, whether the text is yours or not won't matter. What will matter is the message or idea you're communicating. Just like today, it doesn&#x27
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Didn't our parents go through the same thing when email came out? My dad used to say: "Stop sending me emails. It's not the same." I'd tell him, "It's better. "No, it's not. People used to sit do
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by pyman 1y ago
Thanks for explaining this in such detail
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I see, I didn't know this
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I'm talking about big ideas. Bigger than WebAssembly. My message was about the future of the www, the next‑gen web, not the past.

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