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That's typical for link sharing communities like HN and Reddit. His title clearly struck a nerve. I assume many people opened the link, saw that it was a wall of text, scanned the first paragraph, categorized his point into some slot t
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It's interesting that AI proponents say stuff like, "Humans will remain interested in other humans, even after AI can do all our jobs." It really does seem to be true. Here for example we have a guy who's using AI to mak
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Thanks for asking a challenging question. I don't know. Historically most systems of popular representation have excluded them. I assume for reasons that made sense at the time. I guess I'd rather live in a country that had univer
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Interesting how a few rare commenters strongly agree with this article and yet most comments here don't. Perhaps HN is full of people with high digital literacy, relatively high reasoning ability etc. People like this can benefit from
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Curiously the BBC also used quotes around "won". >In a speech to supporters, Cuomo said Mamdani - a 33-year-old democratic socialist - had "won" the primary race and that "we are going to take a look and make som
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I broadly agree, but airline engineers are already inventing their little hearts out as fast as they can. Airlines are being squeezed in a hundred different ways every day, whereas building a better engine takes decades.
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This is what ads promised to be. Ads are the automatic, frictionless wallet that we all dreamed of. But the market countered them in various ways so we're back to being stuck.
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For several days I gave custom instructions for ChatGPT to speak like different Alpha Centauri faction leaders. ChatGPT seemed to enjoy speaking as Zakharov best, often giving the longest responses in his voice.
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Good point! These would have been a much easier sell when Warby Parker was for cool young people instead of for aging dads.
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Seems like one of those articles where an editor ignored the content then chose an annoying clickbait title. The author talks about problem solving and curiosity. He says that adults can easily learn coding syntax. While his child is young,
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Fittingly enough, the Rationalist community talks about this a lot. The canonical article is here ("I can tolerate anything except the outgroup").* The gist is that if people are really different from us then we tend to be cool wi
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It might help to see it as a new thing. True, it doesn't have all the strengths of software. Plus you're right, it has many new weaknesses! But it also has new strengths. And I'd bet that the people of tomorrow will invent so
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And future, weirder versions of them.
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Yes actually! He was also a co-founder of OpenAI and head of Tesla AI. He gets around.
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"The Internet of Beefs" https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
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Also note that for young people, the fabric of trust is shredded, cheating is rampant, gambling and sex work are common, drugs are promoted, suicide by doctor is promoted, mental illnesses are the norm, housing is out of reach, young men an
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I guess that rank is invisible to military doctors the same way that money is to rich people or positive attention is to good looking people.
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Sooner or later there'll be a searchable database where you search by name and get their porn history or some other embarassing information.
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Interesting how this has been downvoted to grey. Is it just me or have AI doomers become unfashionable over the last 3-6 months or so, as in rather quickly? OP I'm curious if you've noticed people's responses to you change re
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A knife won't use 10x human persuasiveness to encourage you to kill yourself.
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Dunno what it'll be but I'm positive that we'll be surprised. Grim news like this is always a surprise. The most common headline is "Random city has weird disaster", stuff that you'd never guess ahead of time.
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Lol. If Las Vegas city planners can't single handedly solve climate change then they shouldn't beautify their tourist district. You seem to dislike the article's framing, which is fine, but then you start on a crusade. It&#x2
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Generally, one man armies are actually two person armies: the genius and their spouse. As a typical case, Einstein relied heavily on his wife. He needed vast amounts of time for uninterrupted thought. Guess who took care of everything else
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The lesson of our current era is trust nothing and no one, basically.
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Makes sense. Although I think that's an error. TikTok is "just" a video sharing site. Joe Rogan is "just" a podcaster. Dumb things that affect lots of people are important.
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I just don't understand how people can see "100 million signups in a week" and immediately dismiss it. We're not talking about fidget spinners. I don't get why this sentiment is so common here on HackerNews. It&#x27
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I don't like how it laughs while it speaks. I associate this behavior with the anxious, neurotic middle class. It's discomfiting.
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I support banning porn. You've got coordinated "teams" of men, most of them diagnosable sociopaths, who work as a group to manipulate and destroy teenagers. For every one woman you see on a porn website, there's a networ
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I'm not an expert but I've read that Middle Eastern diplomacy is particularly personal. In places like Qatar, all the top guys know each other and are cousins or whatever, and their family ties go back hundreds of years. It's
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The author dispensing wisdom to high schoolers is himself 20 years old.

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