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by shmel 2y ago
What do you mean they aren't used to computers making mistakes? Have they ever asked Siri/Alexa something and got useless answers? Have they ever seen ASR or OCR software making mistakes? Have they called semi-automated call cente
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by shmel 2y ago
What is the correct text anyway? Everything around you is somewhat wrong. Textbooks (statistically all of them) contain errors, scientific papers sometimes contain handwavy bullshit and in rare cases even outright falsified data, human expe
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by shmel 2y ago
If you only care about money, sure. I have plenty of friends working in FAANG. For some mysterious reason any time I ask them about work, they say something along the lines "ehh... it's fiiiine. Paycheck is pretty good though&quot
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by shmel 2y ago
Yeah, I am shocked people keep repeating this. We've seen LLMs easily writing mathematical proofs in the style of Shakespeare, come on.
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by shmel 2y ago
I've never used it for business advice. But it is still useful to learn expert jargon if you want to find relevant discussions. For example, I use it to learn about DJing recently and yes, often it answers "it depends on your pers
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by shmel 2y ago
Do you feel the same about using search engines to learn literally anything? What about youtube learning channels? What about the documentation? You know, hackers from the past could write amazing things in assembly using only an outdated b
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by shmel 2y ago
I find ChatGPT incredibly useful to learn the vocabulary of an unfamiliar area. Often basic information in the area I know very little about can be found easily once you know the right keywords. Even if ChatGPT gets something wrong, it does
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by shmel 2y ago
That's a good point, but I think it's important to critically analyze any information you find online. Anything I read online might be bullshit, and yet I've learned a lot from internet. And many other people have as well. I
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by shmel 2y ago
What about Hamas leaders then?
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by shmel 3y ago
Totally agree. While I certainly spent too much time on reddit, there is so much more. I can add to your list messaging with friends, quick payments, uber/train/flight apps, 2FA auth, spotify, quick queries to chatgpt, tracking wo
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by shmel 3y ago
Many places in Europe are very bike-friendly. I used to commute 10km one way daily in pre-WFH time, it was very enjoyable except maybe 1-2 cold months.
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by shmel 3y ago
I think the main difference is that OpenAI doesn't have network effect. AirBnB/Uber/any social network wins because you want to be where everyone else is. ChatGPT is great, but I can switch tomorrow to something else without
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by shmel 3y ago
It is a statistical bias. The vast majority of psychedelics users don't undress and walk around naked. But you often don't notice them precisely because psychs are illegal and people don't advertise their use. It is however w
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by shmel 3y ago
I think it is not apathy, but learned helplessness. People tried to change things and they got nothing. I care about this a lot, but I don't know what to do. The current UK government is openly corrupt, people know it, people want them
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by shmel 3y ago
Why does GDP measure anyway? How much money do we create for billionaires? My life is permeated by tech (and big part of it is AI) and made 100 times easier. I can buy a plane ticket to another country while waiting for a subway (did people
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by shmel 3y ago
I like how not wanting to do complex intellectual work requiring focus in a noisy environment has become a very specific demand.
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by shmel 3y ago
I was banned from many subs just for being subbed to the "wrong" ones. I haven't even posted there.
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by shmel 3y ago
Add an intern in the loop that feeds every chapter separately and then compiles per-chapter summary that can then be summarized again if it is too long or has too many interdependencies.
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by shmel 4y ago
So what? Is OpenAI RLHF dataset more valuable than millions of books and paintings OpenAI used for free without stopping a second? Why is that? Because one big tech corp paid money for that dataset?
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by shmel 4y ago
They exist, but they are more and more niche and hence pushed out into unattractive venues. I've been dancing salsa for 10+ years and I am more and more disappointed by the this. I want to go out and dance in a club where party vibes
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by shmel 4y ago
I am not very familiar with American football. I meant the game where players kick the ball.
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by shmel 4y ago
But playing football or basketball is that easy. I have the same objection about football, so many people love watching it, but relatively few of them play. I never understood why, if you love something, surely it is a lot more rewarding to
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by shmel 4y ago
Are you trying to say that FB was never caught on privacy scandals before? Did it blow their reputation?
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by shmel 4y ago
Don't forget that Merkel's coalition surrounded wind energy with huge amount of red tape and regulations that basically resulted in almost zero new wind turbines built in last few years.
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by shmel 4y ago
Yeah, right, but it may also backfire if all gain-of-function research is banned. Imagine if we accidentally invented a rogue AI that caused as much disruption worldwide as covid did? Would you trust the general public and policymakers to c
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by shmel 4y ago
Look, I don't want to engage into discussions of statistics, flu comparisons and implications. It all boils down to an observation that most people are ready to make _some_ sacrifices for others, but also not too much, sort of "do
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by shmel 4y ago
Do you not find that your self-righteous comment about lockdowns is just about tone deaf as "I had covid, it wasn't that bad"? First of all, here are a couple more countries on the planet except the US. Second, yes, great, yo
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by shmel 4y ago
Oh, there are plenty. First of all, actual energy production with fossil fuel. Second, better insulation/ventilation of existing houses to reduce heating/AC costs. While we are at it, we can fit solar panels on roofs, it will give
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by shmel 4y ago
I don't understand this post. "CICO is wrong", they say. "We put people on two different diets, one group ate 500kcal more and gained weight". So, CICO is wrong? How does it make any sense? Nobody has ever said that
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by shmel 4y ago
>>It seems like they are just trying to create feature parity with WA and Telegram. Which, honestly they are pretty near that already and the differences aren't worthwhile. Yeah, I don't know about that. I started using Sign

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