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by vba616 4y ago
Sure, although, why would it develop intelligence prior to acting in a coordinated way? Wouldn't it make sense that something on the level of a hydra or flatworm would develop prior to a rat-like entity, prior to a human level consciou
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by vba616 4y ago
I'm not looking for wisdom, just patterns. I guess that I'm looking for whether things that I don't see on the internet do exist somewhere. If they are in the model, then perhaps I'm just in the wrong bubble. If they are
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A question about the AI doomsday that's been bothering me
5 points by vba616 4y ago|8 comments
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by vba616 4y ago
Sometimes restarting the page isn't enough. I forget exactly what I did, whether I logged out or whatever, but I know the third conversation when I got the error, the first level of restarting didn't revive it. I interrogated Chat
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by vba616 4y ago
"presumably violent police response" The article appears to describe a non-violent response, so you may be wrong in this case as well as about the normal outcome.
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by vba616 4y ago
That's not what I was trying to communicate. I know I can't win the argument you'd like to start about the absolute risk and whether it's tolerable. I don't want to! My point was about the variance, and false confid
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How often does ChatGPT error for you?
2 points by vba616 4y ago|3 comments
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by vba616 4y ago
There are estimated to be thousands of swatting incidents in a given year, so the "super boring" result evidently happens the vast majority of the time in the US too. It's also not always that boring in other countries. Her
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by vba616 4y ago
Every medical practice I know of still has a fax number, in 2022.
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by vba616 4y ago
You wouldn't be saying "everyone should be paperless" if everyone was paperless!
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by vba616 4y ago
"Printer" doesn't imply "wireless connection" necessarily. A lot of "smart" devices can be used without giving them access to the world. Just. don't. give. them. your. password.
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by vba616 4y ago
As far as grammar goes, I think I was implying that "gatekeeper" does suggest the older meaning more, and "gatekeeping" the newer meaning. But I'm not sure if that's a rigid rule or why the pattern exists.
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by vba616 4y ago
Elon is paying a large amount, certainly in the billions per year, for the privilege of running Twitter. Either in interest on loans, or opportunity cost of investing the lump sum he paid elsewhere. In effect, his salary is negative a bil
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by vba616 4y ago
"assuming the rest of their balance sheet is legitimate and accurate." How could it possibly be? If being more transparent would not destroy them, they would've already done that. I just read this: "CZ was asked why he w
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by vba616 4y ago
My view is that "gatekeeper" used to - and still does - mean someone or something with actual power over belonging to something, and by extension "gatekeeping" commonly means someone who doesn't have actual power
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by vba616 4y ago
"She packed my bags last night pre-flight Zero hour 9:00 a.m. And I'm gonna be high As a kite by then ... I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no I'm a rocket man Rocket man,
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by vba616 4y ago
There were a lot of Ford models before the model T, as you might guess if you heard that they started with "A" and went through the alphabet (skipping some). More than one of them really looked like a "horseless carriage&quot
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by vba616 4y ago
This seems like dangerous advice if taken as "ignore customers". Someone else said you should never believe customers who tell you what they want, but you should always pay close attention to what customers do . The latter is a
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by vba616 4y ago
I think I agree with you on the point that there is no excuse for the absence of a proper audit. However I don't think there is a shared understanding here of what an audit is. You can find audited financials of public companies on sec
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by vba616 4y ago
How do you identify borrowers, lenders, or custodians of cryptocurrency based on "the Blockchain"? I'm not keeping up on all the latest news, but I had the impression that people use "oracles" to incorporate off-cha
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by vba616 4y ago
"Yes, the Perimeter [Dead Hand] system exists today. She's on combat duty."
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by vba616 4y ago
How is that carbon emissions? It sounds like carbon absorbed?
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by vba616 4y ago
>Mr. Musk’s team is now reconsidering whether it should pay [severance] or just face lawsuits from disgruntled former employees. >In other money-saving moves, Twitter has laid off its kitchen staff... `Imagine being the
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by vba616 4y ago
...aaaand? Were you going to compare him to the other two?
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by vba616 4y ago
>vs, say, Adam Neumann I can't think of a reason offhand to compare her to Neumann and not Sunny Balwani. Can you explain further?
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by vba616 4y ago
Everybody can agree that some bargains are appropriate and others are not, so what people are going to discuss is the dividing line and particular deals.
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by vba616 4y ago
>I have no idea how you think highschoolers are running around casually with bank checks. I don't! They aren't! I wasn't! Nobody does that because they cost (at least then) several dollars. The point of my anecdote was you
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by vba616 4y ago
Speculative questions might be answered by looking at the history of signed limited editions? "One of the main reasons for the development of printmaking [in the 19th century] was the desire of artists to make more money from their wor
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by vba616 4y ago
Invicta has made some watches that are pretty similar for a long time. They aren't "high quality" replicas or counterfeits, but if you just like the look of a Submariner they seem to have similar watches for well under $100.
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by vba616 4y ago
Somewhere I read that a Rolex has a very practical purpose - a real one is a commodity that can fairly easily be turned into cash or a bribe in an emergency, but as a watch, it's not susceptible to being seized by authorities in many c

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