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> LLMs are fundamentally capped because they only learn from static text -- human communications about the world -- rather than from the world itself, which is why they can remix existing ideas but find it all but impossible to produce g
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8mo ago
You wouldn't have to do it all the time. Modern humans are much more likely to get a respiratory infection in the winter (I get sick once a year like clockwork). It could be worth stimulating your innate immune system for a few months
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> The person who showed their work on the math test is 9/10 times is doing better in life than the person that only knew how to use a calculator Sure but once you learn long multiplication/division algorithms by hand there'
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8mo ago
> Currently, the most plausible theory emerging from her team’s research points to metabolism: Healthy and cancerous cells may process reactive oxygen species—unstable oxygen-containing molecules generated during radiation—in very differ
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8mo ago
> Nothing will change Things have already changed!
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8mo ago
You used the world still wrong and the space before punctuation makes me wonder if English isn't your first language
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8mo ago
So your opinion is that humanity should not have burned fossil fuels, we should have kept burning wood, until solar/wind/nuclear were invented? Seems obviously wrong.
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8mo ago
If we don't need plasma physicists anymore then we probably have fusion reactors or something, which seems like a fine trade. (In reality we're going to want humans in the loop for for the forseeable future)
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8mo ago
> It's also, for example, the studies finding that when companies adopt AI employees' jobs get worse. More multitasking, more overtime, more burnout, more skills you're expected to learn (on your own time if necessary), mo
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8mo ago
What is this obsession with "shareholder value"? Moving away from fossil fuels too quickly will hurt normal people. It will increase the cost of everything (energy prices determine the cost of stuff), make it harder to heat/c
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8mo ago
Consumerism is not the problem. Human beings don't stop wanting to improve their lives once they have the bare necessities and there is nothing wrong with this . We can have our cake and eat it, we just need to transition to cleaner f
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8mo ago
What difference does it make what they're referencing? I'm glad we agree that fossil fuels were necessary. It has nothing to do with "shareholder value" -- it has to do with minimizing human suffering. Also, it's no
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8mo ago
Oh we're not living? Am I a ghost typing this? Are you?
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You clearly haven't given a lot of thought to questions like "where does all this cheap food/housing/heating come from?" The fact that fossil fuels -- since their mass adoption in the late 19th century -- are the si
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8mo ago
Tech companies have been laying off employees for a while now. I think it's mostly due to pandemic overhiring and higher interest rates but I suppose we'll see.
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8mo ago
> What matters in the end is that this tech is not to empower a common person (although it could). How do you figure? 20 dollars/month is insanely cheap for what OpenAI/Anthropic/Google offer. That absolutely qualifies as
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8mo ago
> It was a nice little feature that I knew exactly how to do, but I hadn’t prioritized getting done yet because there were a bunch of other things on my plate. But with a little assist, it was quick to implement. Exactly how I feel. AI h
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> Clearly, these models still struggle with novel problems. Do they struggle with novel problems more or less than humans?
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Well I just had an MRI and didn't see one elderly person complaining about bills. Guess that cancels our anecdotes out
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LLMs are great with Typescript. But the fact remains that there are many different browsers and several runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), each of which may have slightly different rules.
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8mo ago
Does that really happen "any time you go to a doctor's office"? That aside, what if novel therapies like this are linked to the fact that US healthcare is expensive? If you make it cheap -- as in other countries -- there'
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8mo ago
For me, the hardest part of software development was learning incantations. These are not interesting, they're conventions that you have to learn to get stuff to work. AI makes this process easier. If people use AI to generate code the
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I think this concern is overblown. AI is an incredible teaching tool. It's probably better for teaching/explaining than for writing code. This will make the next generation of junior devs far more effective than previous generatio
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8mo ago
It's almost like the Trump administration wanted to switch providers and this whole debate over red lines was a pretext. With this administration, decisions often come down to money. There are already reports that Brockman and Altman h
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I'm unsure how to feel about this whole dust-up. It doesn't seem like much has changed in substance. Maybe OpenAI outmaneuvered Anthropic behind the scenes. Possibly Anthropic was seen as not behaving deferentially enough towards
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> If you'd chosen to list that in the first place, I wouldn't have said what I did; "supercharge technology and productivity" is looking at everything through the lens of money and profit, not the lens of improving th
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> The opportunities you chose to list are the greedy ones. Technology covers healthcare. I don't see how it's "greedy" to want to cure cancer. But on some level I guess "wanting life to be better" is greedy.
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Do you really think AI companies/researchers are motivated by greed? It doesn't seem that way to me at all . Stopping AI would be immoral; it has the potential to supercharge technology and productivity, which would massively ben
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8mo ago
Is it because "Meta identifies you as a male" or because men look longer at sexy pictures of women? I assume Meta has some heuristic to determine how long you look at items in their feed even if you don't click anything.
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