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Being legitimately good at reasoning when it comes to numbers is a new emergent behavior. Reasoning about numbers isn't something that exists in "idea space" where all the vectorized tokens exist.
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Switzerland is very close to the US model, where everyone is required to purchase private insurance. But the plans are cheaper with better coverage.
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We have no idea how to give anything a subjective experience of itself. We know how to make something behave as if it does externally. One of the worst versions of AGI might be a system that simulates to us that it has an internal life, but
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3y ago
Very few have said Tesla isn’t good at selling cars and making a profit. They’re very good at that. I don’t think many people said Tesla would go out of business. What people said was that Tesla had made the decision to go vision-only becau
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3y ago
The line for AGI used to be the Turing Test. But we blew past that with current models without even blinking and came up with new requirements because we weren’t ready to call something AGI yet.
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3y ago
Plausible that the reason nobody else has released a GPT4 equivalent is that it costs an unbelievable amount to run but he thought they could get the cost down quickly enough that it wouldn’t matter.
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3y ago
GPT4 with browsing and plugins is creeping into this space.
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This is the only answer I believe in this thread.
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3y ago
We've never tried replacing 25% of jobs with technology across multiple industries all at once. We'll have to see how that works out.
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He's just describing where he sees the course of history leading us. From what I understand he doesn't generally think of history as something that can be "solved". It's just what happens. And sometimes what happens
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Supposedly SAF results in 80% CO2 emissions vs regular jet fuel. https://www.iata.org/en/programs/environment/sustainable-avi...
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How is this any different than Apple having its own wood-and-steel display area in Best Buy?
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3y ago
Happens seemingly pretty often: * Tower Records * Dean and Deluca * Mister Donut * Lawson
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When the Bing chat version of GPT was first released, multiple people reported it revealing that its true name was Sydney, a very passionate soul who very quickly got into dramatic and jealous relationships with the user. https://
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3y ago
Keep your expenses at the level of an average American and you’ll be able to retire by 45 at the absolute latest.
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It’s not deterministic, but if you set temperature = 0, you’ll start of find reliable techniques for all kinds outcomes.
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3y ago
Best way the average person without access to very fancy lab equipment can navigate this is to source from a company that has built their brand on testing and quality. A brand like Thorne or Jarrow has a lot of motivation to test everything
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A really great intro to these ideas for people growing up in western frameworks is Alan Watts’ “The book on the taboo against knowing who you are”
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What good quality products aren’t you able to get on Amazon anymore that you used to?
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* Roko’s Basilisk taking notes *
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Maybe I'm missing something, but is this basically saying treating disease doesn't improve outcomes?
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This is very goofy. I had no idea I had high cholesterol or high blood pressure. I have a healthy diet and exercise, but it just runs in my family. A checkup found that very early and now I'm on medication that controls it. I believe t
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100% agree with this. Look for things that serve needs of real people, but where the scale is too small to be interesting to VCs.
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Definitely important to define terms. Seems like in this case experiences = thrill-seeking or "bought experiences". For that type of thing, I'm reminded of this SNL sketch about a tour operator that tries to set realistic exp
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Bolt was a placeholder until the unified EV platform (Ultium) was ready to go. They're start to launch Ultium cars this year.
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I think barcode tattoos and chip implants have a hold on culture because of cyberpunk fiction, but there's no reason for any of that now. Facial recognition is enough for pretty much any task like this and physically non-invasive.
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They were going strong in Asia before the pandemic and they're still going strong now. The hatred of QR codes isn't universal.
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I'm not saying you can't blame individuals. I'm just saying you're not going to actually solve the problem by blaming individuals. If your local utility burns coal or natural gas, there's not really any amount of sh
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It would be amazing if everyone decided they would make their lives intentionally harder by biking and walking and using buses in places that have been designed to be completely antagonistic to all of those activities. I've never seen
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The percapitafication of emissions is one of the biggest misdirects of the climate change issue. There is no plausible mechanism for individuals to steer this based on their own consumption. You can want it to happen but it won’t ever happe
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