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p. 27 > THE LATEST INCARNATION of Apple's resurgent Newton, the $799 MessagePad 130... [emphasis mine].
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> Reversing the aging process looks to be much easier problem to solve than uploading the brain. I dont understand why Elon didnt put his money in that direction. Perhaps because it's much less prominent in science fiction.
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> ...but it’s also important to demonstrate that ChatGPT is both useful and senile, and so you need to validate its responses with secondary sources. > So this concern might be rephrased as (something like) "Kids will need to lea
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4y ago
I won't believe it at least until see a reference to this item NASA itself, and even then, I'd still be skeptical. It's getting filed under "April Fools."
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> ...and so you need to validate its responses with secondary sources. If you have to do that, what's the point? And of course, few will actually double-check it. Easy is more important than correct.
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4y ago
> But I can see how someone who wasn’t there might think this is what it was like. ChatGPT pseudo-history. We need to educate our kids with this.
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> This, to me, is the more terrifying prospect of the AI revolution: people arguing that humans aren't sentient either. If we're going let the AI revolution fulfill its potential, it's a cognitive shift we're going to
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4y ago
> Yeah, have to wonder how many people, if they had the money, would want to buy out Twitter just to wipe it out. Doesn't a huge chunk of HN hate Twitter and wish it were dead? > (Regardless I think that would be useless in the l
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> I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing. Is it boosting? Others are claiming this code is just for metrics collection: https://news.
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> Not as much and to the depth of despair that it has been foretold So what? What you say would be true even of all the predictions were right, but just 1% less in magnitude. It's setting an unreasonably high bar. A lot of people do
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> It's just as much of a fantasy as your dystopian scenario, because neither has happened yet. I'm also somewhat of a luddite and am not at all excited about LLMs or the new wave of "AI" that many others have been swe
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4y ago
> People have been claiming since the beginning of time that things will fall apart. During that time period (beginning of time to now), things actually have fallen apart, many times.
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> But now you're asking the government to regulate against a hypothetical damage that may never occur. That is entirely reasonable ask, especially when the harm could be large. It's a lot harder (and often impossible) to put a
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> So you're saying OpenAI should collect more personal data? Or I supposed they could sell their models as packaged software, and the store clerk can check the ID. The model of standalone packaged software has several benefits to co
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4y ago
It's not so random. I got Austin, Malta, and NY LaGuardia twice each in about 10 clicks.
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> That's right and then they go and find stuff that is not appropriate. But most kids don't manage to do that for some time. School libraries (typically) don't have porn in them, and internet access is often supervised or
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> 'exposes "minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness."' > So do (certain) books. Minors are typically given books that are appropriate to "their de
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> I have a unpopular opinion about this, but IMO it is the population that causes this. Vast swaths of Europe are rural especially in the south. Very, very averse to any kind of change. And vast swathes of technologists are insanely ove
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> I quoted the relevant section in another comment ( https://youtu.be/AAZLOygmR78 ). Your link is wrong, but now I probably know what you watch on youtube. > I would be sure to make note of who is suggesting that lega
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4y ago
> ChatGPT is a massive pipe that will allow for increase in throughput of information into curious brains for almost no cost. With increasingly more valuable answers over time. And it can already quiz you on math and teach you math. >
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> AI could provide limitless capital and eliminate the need for humans to work. Humans could then spend however much time they wanted on "higher level" creative work. I doubt it will be leveraged in this way, but the potential
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4y ago
>> Leverage ChatGPT so students learn by repetition in innovative games with cool interfaces > It's astoundingly useful and you are wrong here. It may be useful, but I'm not wrong here. Software engineers and the like are
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4y ago
Why did you post that? It's basically spam. It took no effort, and it's worthless. No one should trust anything coming out of ChatGPT, and they should trust random text purported to be from ChatGPT even less.
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> Leverage ChatGPT so students learn by repetition in innovative games with cool interfaces You mean shitty, derivative games that haven't been tested at all? There's no good reason to use ChatGPT in education like that, and do
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> ...but I'm continually surprised that people ignore what seems to me like the worst realistic danger of AI. That is the use of AI by militaries, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. The "worst realistic danger of AI&qu
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> The NY Times called the case an "untested legal theory" and said "it is not easy to point to a direct precedent for the case Mr. Bragg appears to be contemplating". > IMO any case made against a DA's politic
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> Treaties have an effect similar to a constitutional amendment. They obviously do not. If they did, you could basically abolish the Constitution with one with only the presidency, a bare majority of the Senate, and the cooperation of
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> For this reason I think it's great to connect different temperature bulbs to each light switch in your house and switch between them during the day. I keep all of my bulbs on during the daytime and then switch to just the warm on
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> There's a lot wrong with LEDs in general and retrofit (E27 bulbs) in particular. In no particular order If all that's true, it explains my experience that LEDs have totally failed to live up to their promise. Sure, they use
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4y ago
I hope they trained it on the insane ChatGPT conversations. Maybe it could be the very start of generated data ruining the ability to train these models on massive amounts of genuine human-created data. Hopefully the models will stagnate
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