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by ryandvm 3y ago
Agreed. I think one of the Great Filters should be "species invents fully immersive VR and spends the rest of their timeline on the couch because it's way more enjoyable than space travel."
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I think AGI would not extinguish the host species if it didn't have the drive to spread. "Do not go extinct" and "grow/spread/reproduce" are two sides of the same natural selection coin.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Life appeared on Earth almost as soon as it was possible, but it took almost 2.5 BILLION years for it to make the jump to multicellular (a.k.a. complex life). It then took another billion-plus years for life that had the slightest bit of in
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by ryandvm 3y ago
What a boon for genealogy.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Wait until you find out how many employees DocuSign has... (It is literally 10 times more than you would think.)
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Charleston, SC Pros: Beautiful weather, nice beaches and outdoor recreation opportunities, amazing food, culture. Vibrant, if smallish, tech community. Cons: July and August are HOT. Housing and cost of living is a little high (not NYC or S
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by ryandvm 3y ago
We should call it "space"
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Good answer. Thank you.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I really hate flagging. What is the point of a discussion forum where you're not allowed to discuss things just because a minority of people are experiencing cognitive dissonance every time they get in their Tesla? If you claim it won&
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Yes, not paying someone to show pictures of your product is blackmail. We're not talking about the blackmail bit because it's utter nonsense.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I dunno - a guy with 200 billion dollars that thinks the world is out to get him can do an awful lot of damage.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
What I don't understand is all these companies are having their best profits ever since the pandemic with their employees mostly working from home. Why exactly are they looking for ways to screw that up?
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by ryandvm 3y ago
We're looking at this from the wrong perspective. What about replacing the parishioners with LLMs? If we can crack AGI, think of the potential souls for saving. The Vatican should be all over AI development. What pope wouldn't wan
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Sure, but we already have 250,000 medical deaths PER YEAR in the US due to medical errors ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/ ). I don't think people should trust LLMs completely, but let's be real, the
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> The Cybertruck is a novelty item and nobody who wants or needs the utility of a truck is going to consider it over a Rivian or F-150 Lightning. I wouldn't say "nobody". I'm sure there are a few million far-right typ
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Heh. Answering intra-galactic zone transfer requests might be a good solution to the "dark forest" problem.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> I'm confused how simply using Twitter and following Nazi-leaning accounts is an inauthentic usage pattern. Lol. Indeed - if anything it's only becoming more representative every day.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
MS showing that being 2nd place in enough categories is better than being 1st place in one.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Looking forward to ChatGPT exploiting my machine to install Candy Crush every 2 months...
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I would say Google is one of the few companies that directly benefit from OpenAI+Microsoft hitting a heavy patch of turbulence.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Kinda nervous wondering what Altman wasn't sharing with them. I hope it's not that they already have a fully sentient AGI locked up in a server room somewhere...
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I think I'll be using a Christopher Walken clone as my documentary narrator.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Indeed. I feel like people are not even talking about the same thing in here. I've been using GPT-4 daily for a couple months and it's not outputting code that "only looks correct". It is writing functional solutions tha
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I dunno. Sounds like being left out of those groups is a net positive.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Agreed. I don't mind them having their messaging platform. I don't mind it being technically superior to RCS. I DO have an issue with them intentionally doing a shit job of integrating with a telecommunications standard and then s
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by ryandvm 3y ago
It's absurd. Imagine if it extended to voice calls. You could only talk to Apple users if you own an iPhone. Apple, and I guess you, would love it. This is why we have regulated interoperability on many mass-market technologies. Imagin
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by ryandvm 3y ago
As software eats the world, it becomes more and more apparent to the non-developers of the world that software engineering is not, and never has been, a real engineering discipline. Tech Support: "Oh your garage door is bricked after l
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I don't want to be rude, but I'd say if you fall for that then you're a sucker. Tell me which of Elon's companies would exist today without heavy government subsidies or largesse? He is a modern day Ross Perot. No more,
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> middling generalists can now compete with specialists Great point. That's been my experience as well. I'm a generalist and ChatGPT can bring me up to speed on the idiomatic way to use almost any framework - provided it's
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Hard to fathom the damage to society that Elon could do if we funnel 10% of our defense budget through his companies.

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