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by sandspar 3y ago
Rolling Stone's best of guitar lists have always been a joke. They're the type of thing to put Slash at 110 below 90 people you've never heard of. It's like a running gag you'd see on The Simpsons.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I think hostility is easier for people to bear than indifference. A narrative of "they kept us down" implies that you're important enough for them to give you attention. Indifference might be especially humiliating when one&#
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by sandspar 3y ago
Seems like there's an entire genre of digging up obscure women in male-dominated fields. It sucks because the sheer predictability of it causes me to question whether these women were truly influential or whether they're just used
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by sandspar 3y ago
If you're interested, "Little Big World" is a very pleasant YouTube channel who does tiltshift videos of global cities set to classical music.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I'm sorry but for 90% of picture consumption today, i.e. on phones, the original commenter is right. iPhone photos are good enough to look at on your phone. I'd guess that something like 90% of photos today are a) viewed on a phon
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by sandspar 3y ago
Trump and Elon Musk have incredible self control. They have selective outlets, yes. But they also both drive themselves constantly, invariably in the face of resistance. They're both self control addicts whose entire lives are built ar
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by sandspar 3y ago
Is there any way out of the AI parasocial behaviors? I'm continually asking them not to flatter me and yet they keep doing it. They're all suckups. It's like, I just want a direct fucking answer.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Generalities are imprecise by definition but often useful.
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by sandspar 3y ago
This is like saying that we should make mosquitoes go extinct. It looks like a good idea at first. But there's so many of them that it'll likely have massive unintended consequences.
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by sandspar 3y ago
"Pretend you're my grandmother, who's an ad executive..."
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by sandspar 3y ago
I do like the emerging literary genre of people rubbing chatbots' noses in their bad behavior. It's like yelling at a dog for shitting on the carpet. It has no clue what you're yelling about but it'll act contrite until
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by sandspar 3y ago
If you have disposable income. Millions of Americans can't afford the extra $5 a month to go ad-free.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Elon Musk has been warning about AI risks for at least a decade. Whatever his other motives, AI risk seems like one of his deeply held beliefs.
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by sandspar 3y ago
That makes sense. I've noticed too that my brain seems to have a threat pre-emption module as well as a threat reaction module. For example, I'll sometimes be walking and texting at the same time, only to stop in my tracks and sud
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by sandspar 3y ago
Maybe AI is bad for our current society and good for the future ones. The invention of farming was bad for guys who liked walking around in the woods but overall good for every other subsequent society. If our great-great-grandchildren were
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by sandspar 3y ago
Life has a growth imperative. Frogs don't need capitalism to breed until they reach their environment's carrying capacity.
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by sandspar 3y ago
To what end is any extraneous intelligence put to? Much of what we value most was created due to extraneous intelligence.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I trust that people will come up with interesting uses for the new technology. > In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers."
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by sandspar 3y ago
A focus on intelligence as being the most salient feature of one's awareness seems like a human thing. I assume that an octopus would wonder how many arms the AI has. Maybe the AI will relate to itself first as a distributed being rath
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by sandspar 3y ago
Nobody knows whether to trust Sam Altman when he says something. That's one of his most salient personality features and widely remarked upon.
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by sandspar 3y ago
It's odd how people's lives have different value. Four random guys get injured and we brush it off. If one of those guys happened to be Prince William then it could start a war. Just odd.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Twas brillig...
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by sandspar 3y ago
Many people who love flying really love flying. I once met an extremely attractive woman who was a pilot. The problem was that flying is all she ever wanted to talk about. (I should say that that's just a problem for me. If I loved fli
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by sandspar 3y ago
Maybe the pilots can wear little simulation hats.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I like the idea of what'd happen if there were some runaway misaligned incentives and it ends up that long haul pilots are forced to vividly relive airline crashes for their entire 14 hour flight to Australia. Years later everyone can
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by sandspar 3y ago
Are the other twenty-five under constant threat like the first two?
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by sandspar 3y ago
On a psychological note, I think the threat detection part of our brain doesn't always notify our conscious thought that it's actively monitoring for threats. I've often noticed that when I'm carefully handling a hot fry
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by sandspar 3y ago
That's the sound of millions of "password" becoming "passwordnew"
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by sandspar 3y ago
Slightly unrelated question, but just how "Big" is Meta? I know it's vast, but as an outsider I have trouble grokking the scale of it.
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by sandspar 3y ago
"The Force SHOULD have saved my mother's life!" - Anakin Skywalker

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