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by somesortofthing 2y ago
Depends on the time horizon you choose. If you look at US stats, we're only 1.5 suicides per 100000 people above a previous post-WWII peak in the early 80s. Suicide rates in the first half of the 20th century were downright apocalyptic
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
Journalist salaries, especially at prestigious piblications, are quite famously set such that only people who can rely on external support to the tune of 5-6 figures a year can become journalists. It makes sense that the journalists union w
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
But are they using it for anything else? Even GPT-2 was "good enough" for high school writing assignments. The fact that this power user class of young people hasn't found any other use cases for LLMs despite vast improvement
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
Sure, AI represents a substantial improvement over other heuristic methods in some areas. But that's a long way down from the "AI is going to be a permanent fixture in most people's day to day lives" claim that the tech
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
> I can't think of a single recent technology that was so widely adopted by tech and non-tech people alike, immediately integrated into day-to-day experience. I've heard this asserted sometimes, and I just don't think it&
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
Seems like this article is putting the cart before the horse - what recent breakthroughs have there been to justify saying that we're entering some new era of neuroscience, or that AI has anything to do with that new era?
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
Hypothetically, if the yeast could work fast enough(I'm 99% sure it can't unless he's leaving the mixture in a sealed container for a few months before drinking it) wouldn't this result in straight vinegar
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by somesortofthing 2y ago
I have really awful genetics for drinking(I'm 23 and already experience the thing you're describing with taking multiple days to feel good again, and instead of physical symptoms I get crushing depression) so I'd love to just
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
This is dependent on a world where immortality is expensive because it's difficult to actually make someone immortal rather than because it's difficult to figure out how to make someone immortal. For all we know, immortality is as
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen a self checkout removed, even in downtown Seattle locations where everything's been locked up and security is patrolling every floor. I've seen increased surveillance and scare tactics at self
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
Presumably there was a practical side to the difference in approach beyond marketing.
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
If this was the universal(or even most common) outcome of people organizing against sources of suffering in their lives, we'd still be living in stone age city states. The process you describe has time and again led to net-positive out
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
An increasing number of people being unproductive doesn't rule out an increase in total production. It does suggest that for those whose jobs are now obsolete, there is increasingly no alternative to subsidizing their entire existenc
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
No, and I have no idea what I said that makes you think I do.
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
Past technological breakthroughs have required large, costly retools of society though. Increasingly, those retools have resulted in more and more people working in jobs whose societal value is dubious at best. Whether the next breakthrou
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
I think the reason they don't is because the overlap between users with the general internet savvy to use an ad blocker and users who have the general internet savvy to literally never pay attention to or click on ads is pretty high. I
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
Though it was far less clear when this article was written than it is now, if you're starting from scratch on a webapp today it's hard to go wrong with React.
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
You only need to generate a single patentable refinement once every twenty years. In a lot of places, this is a horrible pace relative to the organic rate of progress. Compare the progress made since the main patents for FDM 3D printing e
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
I think a more appropriate conclusion to draw is that big leaps in automation required huge, costly reorganizations of society to ensure enough people have jobs to avoid civil unrest, increasingly in ways that were dubiously productive comp
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
A lot of it seems to be the machinery behind the Chesa Boudin recall taking on a life of its own by tapping into a previously-unknown donor base for right-wing causes in California.
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
> Word traveled, and he discovered that new jobs would only hire him with longer vesting schedules and sign-on bonuses that had to be paid back if he left before 2-3 years. I've occasionally heard anecdotes like this but I have a h
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
They're exaggerating the efficacy of their technology, and are demanding a regulatory moat that currently doesn't exist under the pretext of the danger of that technology being misused. Notice the singular focus on "extinct
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
Researchers aren't immune to the incentives the rest of the field has. They're every bit as financially incentivized to push the AI risk narrative as the rest of the industry.
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
This is ignoring the fact that the material basis for the 15 minute city people's complaints and the complaints of, for example, privacy advocates are not only completely different but irreconcilable . The right-wing complaints come f
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
A unipolar world order is a local optimum by its very nature. Regardless of who's in charge, conflict arises from parties thinking they have a chance to secure leverage against another power via violence. If there's a sole power w
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
Maybe he sincerely believes the line OpenAI's PR department is pushing, but that's an even better reason not to listen to him.
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
I'm in the same boat. I got all the way to the checkout page before realizing that they won't ship to the US. Seriously considering buying these and asking a friend in the EU to ship them to me in hopes of them making spare parts
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
To be honest, I trust the CCP to have my best interests at heart more than I do tech executives. One side is driven by straightforward, predictable self-interest while the other has spent the past decade looking for elixirs of immortality a
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by somesortofthing 3y ago
The difference here is that steam engines were "less powerful than a horse" in an easily quantifiable, easily diagnosable way. They produced fewer newtons of force. You could tell this was the case because your mechanism just woul
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by somesortofthing 4y ago
> Then you should defeat them in the marketplace of ideas and be able to counter their facillous words. To suggest otherwise is to stand in a position where you claim that some people are incapable of intelligently reasoning about someth

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