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Value Capture(philarchive.org)
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Interesting ideas but terribly overwritten. "The normal technology frame is about the relationship between technology and society. It rejects technological determinism, especially the notion of AI itself as an agent in determining its
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You can measure hype by how many people are talking about an idea space. Write an article about "X hype is bad" and yup, you're talking about the idea space i.e. you're participating in the hype.
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If the world splits into a China bloc and an American bloc, Japan would almost certainly join the American bloc, right?
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Huh? Rome had career soldiers. Don't quote me on the numbers, but a Roman soldier might see 2-5 major battles and dozens of dustups and minor skirmishes. They served for 25 years. Overall death rate was 25-40% but most of that was due
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I don't understand why people fixate on Dyson spheres. Why would a Kardashev type 2 civilization rely on something that a type 0.7 civilization could come up with? Surely in the intervening 1.3 they could come up with something we can&
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There will probably be a first, perhaps it's this one.
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Is this correct: OpenAI will sequester 4.1 in the API permanently? And, since November 2024, they've already wrapped much of 4.1's features into ChatGPT 4o?
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The top level comment was questioning why sentiment changes so frequently.
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There doesn't need to be a team. Individuals can act according to personal incentives and still create coordinated behavior. Look at flocks of birds. Each bird acts for itself; together they move in unison.
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Guys who write about tech for a living tend to enjoy working with gadgets in their spare time. He's probably just having fun with a nifty idea.
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Facebook has size and inertia. Bluesky is small so needs high status early adopters. Such people have reputations to maintain so will avoid toxic drama like Bluesky. The sites are in different life stages.
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"Kind" people is a shibboleth. "I'm kind to kind people" = I'm looking for an excuse to not be nice to someone.
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"Join our site if you're enraged" users act enraged.
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Saying that BlueSky resembles Facebook comments isn't exactly a glowing review.
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Social media really brings out the best in people doesn't it? Dogpiling, self-congratulation, mimicry, dehumanization, scapegoating. It's so lucky for society that many people spend hours a day on there!
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There's never mention of integrity or honor in these discussions. As if students are helpless against their own cheating. Cheating is shameful. Students should be ashamed to use AI to cheat. But nobody expects that from them for some r
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Cool! I'm looking forward to having a live AI drawing tutor. None of the models are there yet but we're getting close!
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Who cares? Judge the information.
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Cafes use it too. E.g. a corner coffee shop may stock pastries that nobody buys. When people walk in "wow look at all their pastries!" And they feel good and become regulars.
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These voices are all annoying, though. The thing about Sesame's Miles is that he's cool.
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COVID lockdown divorces come to mind.
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I did it for several months for fun and enjoyed it. They use a placement test to figure out where you'll start. They offer a college level statistics course. And you're in luck: their marquee course focuses on ML math.
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For what it's worth, I've tried and I loved it. It feels a bit like grinding Anki flashcards - nearly 100% of your time is used productively.
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It's like how people tend to evangelize Anki. Is it hyped? Yes. Is it actually worth the hype? Also yes.
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The next few years are gonna be interesting.
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Altman stated they won't release o3 by itself. They plan to release it as part of GPT-5. GPT-5 will incorporate all sub types of model: reasoning, image, video, voice, etc.
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You're on HackerNews so I assume you work in software. Your income is top 0.1% globally. But that doesn't solve your problems, does it?
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Nutrition consensus notoriously flipflops between "eggs are healthy" and "eggs are unhealthy" every year or two.
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Interesting to be around for the birth of a false fact like "the media is right leaning". Overnight you see people start parroting something that's clearly untrue.

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