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4y ago
It's because they linked to the ElonJet site. He said as much; https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841 >Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else
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>That’s the power of personal branding. It's not because of branding, it's because he could do it himself. It's just unnecessarily complex. It's annoying to be accused of falling for branding if you do anything but au
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Facebook allowed them to disseminate information leading to his murder. You can theorize all day about whether you think it would have happened anyways, but that doesn't really add any facts to the case.
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First it had to be accomplished, then they can work on getting the price down
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HN workers probably tend to be highly educated and the idea of slowly sinking into dementia is especially terrifying for them. The whole amyloid hypothesis has been debated for decades as well, so by now a lot of people are more familiar wi
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4y ago
Yet as an older study found, Men Who Do More Housework Have Less Sex[x]. The only way to have a healthy sex life then is for everyone to not do that much housework. [x] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-who
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Sounds lucrative. I wonder what it takes to become a registrar
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Where in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, etc do they not value family highly? It's the traditional culture in most countries
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It's strange the level of distrust in the west over institutions that the majority of the world find completely uncontroversial. It takes a village to raise a child, and in a world without villages families are the biggest support syst
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It's not that crazy. Even economically, the people that are gonna support us when we are old and senile are currently being reared as part of families
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4y ago
What is it about chatGPT's writing that is distinct? It's artless, and a little overly wordy
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It's mostly well-to-do privileged people saying things like this. The people that have too much themselves, who consequently think all humans are terrible for the Earth. Go around the world and most will find that idea is ridiculous. S
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4y ago
Tell me a funny joke with a dark twist at the end --- Q: What did the barman say to the depressed clown? A: Why so glum, chum? Dark Twist: The clown hung himself behind the bar. --- Hey, that really is pretty funny!
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I think the place you will be able to escape this will be curated communities. As it becomes harder to tell a human and a bot apart, people will value the knowledge they're talking to a real person more. I think this opens up a place f
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I think marketing this as more humane isn't the way to go. That's kind of annoyingly untrue. It's a human consulting a AI. Plus sometimes the AI says things that are untrue too. Sometimes you don't want to tell the other
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Why did you say hello to the algorithm? Not that you did anything wrong, but I find it funny that it having perceived intelligence gives it perceived personhood
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I think this is a cool idea. But I immediately think about privacy and monetization. How do I know my conversations aren't being listened to? I also don't see anything about how they are funded, and that naturally leads me to wond
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It's important not to mistake the type of intelligence it possesses. I tried asking it to give me therapy and it made it clear how bad it is at reasoning; >Patient: I've been feeling very tired all day a long and I have flashba
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4y ago
Hn isn't the only one they should take steps to prevent low qualities AI produced spam. Everyone should. But since we're at hn, it makes sense they are talking about hn
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I asked it to write funny comments in reply to real posts, and it did a pretty damn good job. It was even positively humorous at points(although at other points it kind of made jokes that didn't make sense). That surprised me though
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Kids require more investment today in the first world. 400 years ago you just kind of taught your child your craft, your religion, and your culture and that was their education. Extremely few people went to any sort of school. Raising a chi
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Unfortunately this isn't a conversation a lot of people have until they're conceiving. It ought to be brought up much earlier in women's lives.
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It might be hard to avoid if your water supply is just hard to begin with. Maybe you can use it every second or third cycle.
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>There's a lot of woo-woo stuff out there that I think can be safely ignored, but I did find what I consider strong evidence that families that hand wash their dishes have significantly lower incidence of some allergic symptoms. Yes
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4y ago
Do you have to be out standing in your field, or is it okay if you're laid back?
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My mother grew up in India. There were apparently some asectic 'sages' that would play with mercury she told me about. I don't really know what they were doing, just that my mom always remarked that she didn't understand
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We live in a society entirely molded by Abrahamic thought, so to a lot of people those lines of thinking feel obvious and natural when they were in actuality a progression of human thought. I've always thought it was funny when people
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>you are free to do whatever you do with your own life, not to involve someone else by force. are you a vegan?
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Maybe this glib cynacism has something to do with it. The world, and the people in it, aren't all that great. Both can be cruel. Maybe we have to try to see the good in it all.
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4y ago
IMO it's simply because it gets clicks. People love to see the issues they care about being featured, and this is a issue that is important to a lot of people.
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