throw310822

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by throw310822 4y ago
> Try and get it to produce a poem that doesn’t rhyme Good one, I hadn't tried that. Seems that the mention of a "poem" puts it in a special frame from which it finds very hard to escape (I managed to get it to avoid rhymi
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by throw310822 4y ago
> I don't think GPT on its own will lead anywhere close to AGI Serious question: why isn't ChatGPT already considered AGI? It looks general to me in its domain (text). It can indifferently: understand and execute instructions
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by throw310822 4y ago
I think I understand your point. Telling someone that they have a distorted view or reality can definitely be manipulative and abusive- no question about it. The problem though is that being told that your view of reality is distorted doesn
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by throw310822 4y ago
> "abuser" and "victim" and since these terms are subjective I'm not sure that "abuser" and "victim" are that subjective. I can imagine a lot of situations in which the roles of abuser and vic
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by throw310822 4y ago
> I doubt there is ever a really good reason to gaslight someone. "gaslighting" is defined as a form of manipulation that an abuser uses to sow self-doubt in a victim . But telling someone that they're dead wrong- whi
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by throw310822 4y ago
Sometimes when trying to convince someone that they're wrong, you need to point out that there is a bias in their vision of reality. A bias is not a wrong logical step that can be fixed simply by pointing it out: it affects the ability
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by throw310822 4y ago
Let's see. 1) Big corporations are not really ethical unless it benefits them or they fear negative repercussions; 2) Ceasing an action doesn't produce a positive outcome but can avoid a negative one; 3) Anything that is outside
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by throw310822 4y ago
> I’m simply explaining how brand advertising works. You just claimed to know how it works and that your opinion is correct. Maybe you could provide me with an example of a brand losing sales because of one of these negative associations
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by throw310822 4y ago
> They just want to be associated with something cool, and Twitter isn’t cool Ok. I disagree: advertising has nothing to do with coolness (the WP or NYT aren't cool, they're read by good customers). Coolness has to do with spon
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by throw310822 4y ago
> You can debate whether the changes should be of concern to advertisers (to which my opinion is that they obviously are) This is where we disagree. While our opinion of the company has undoubtedly changed (e.g. I wouldn't want to w
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by throw310822 4y ago
> You make it seem like he’s some kind of cult leader Not at all (though there is certainly a small subset of... devotees). But he's definitely someone who has a huge audience. You, on your end, seem to assume that people will on t
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by throw310822 4y ago
> For example, if Elon suddenly starts sharing pictures of himself giving a nazi salute and promoting holocaust denial, most brands won’t want to be associated with that. Brands can back out if and when that happens , no need to do it p
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by throw310822 4y ago
I see that a lot of people talk about Twitter's reputation as changed. What I don't understand is whether this change is real and determined by an actual change of Twitter the product (yet), or because of a more or less concerted
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by throw310822 4y ago
Are people who don't read the NYPost really concerned with which brands advertise on the NYPost? And are US consumers so seriously engaged that they will punish a brand for advertising in the wrong newspaper- autonomously, without conc
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by throw310822 4y ago
I frankly don't understand what the problem is. Advertisers should put ads on the platform if they bring in more revenue than they cost. Have they 1) decided that Twitter users are not worth the cost of the ads because they don't
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by throw310822 4y ago
> Do you truly mean this? Because if you do, the answer is to simply capitulate. Yes! Has the world gone crazy? Everyone is talking about the sacrifices they're willing to make to avert the risks potentially connected with climate c
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by throw310822 4y ago
A quick googling brings up this: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/02/diplomacy-watch... Apparently reported on in an article on Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian
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by throw310822 4y ago
> if he spent barely 20 minutes writing 3–4 trivial unit tests for this function, we would have saved probably 6 hours each ... The math was beyond simple. 20 mins invested and 12 hours saved. I've heard this reasoning before. The m
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by throw310822 4y ago
What I don't understand: it seems iOS just passed the mark of 50% market share in the US in the last year, and it's now at 50-something. Which means that Apple users prefer to have a crippled experience when talking to approx. 50%
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by throw310822 4y ago
> Perhaps I'm mis-remembering, but I remember US policymakers repeatedly warning Europe, over many decades, about the dangers of depending on Russian energy sources. The alternative point of view is that Europe is in an energy crisi