zvmaz

21 ms·

241.
by zvmaz 3y ago
I am not from the west. Now I think I understand why I get downvoted.
242.
by zvmaz 3y ago
In the past, a was skeptical of writings describing totalitarian societies/states, especially since it was often politically motivated. Until becoming a subject of one. Edit: I am curious as to why I get downvoted. Is it a political tr
243.
by zvmaz 3y ago
I can't speculate on how AI (which type?) will affect our societies, but to counter balance what is generally said about AI (that it will cause major "disruptions" in jobs and economies), I like what Chomsky has to say about
244.
by zvmaz 3y ago
You can use Astrisk (and a PSTN to SIP gateway): https://www.asterisk.org/
245.
by zvmaz 3y ago
> My experience is that LLMs are really good at interpreting prompts, so you really don't have to craft them any way to get "better" results. That's my impression. I just write what I want chatGPT to do, and eventuall
246.
by zvmaz 3y ago
Why is the comment downvoted? Animal suffering is a legitimate moral concern, and I don't think the comment is inappropriate. Instead of downvoting, a better approach would be to point out to the author that Harvard has apparently a po
247.
by zvmaz 3y ago
I have met people who think they understand a particular topic I am versed in, but actually don't. Similarly, I am often wary that I get superficial knowledge about a topic I don't know much about through "laymen" resour
248.
by zvmaz 3y ago
There's a serious moral problem with bringing human beings into existence and guaranteeing that bad things will happen to them, including death.
249.
by zvmaz 3y ago
Benatar is well aware that his philosophy will not be influential and will not lead to (significantly) more people not procreating. He just says that his arguments need to be said, and he just says them.
250.
by zvmaz 3y ago
I don't know a lot about Derek Parfit, but one interesting philosopher who claims to have solved Parfits' problems about population and moral theory is David Benatar [1]. His solution is anti-natalism, which he defends extensively
251.
by zvmaz 3y ago
> That it’s absurd how much suffering the human mind is capable of experiencing. Not only that, but the different "qualities" of pain one can experience. I never believed that grief would feel the way it felt when I first exper
252.
by zvmaz 3y ago
How would you know? Prompt: Write a caustic paragraph about chatGPT being fed up being used as a copywriter. The style has to be funny, a bit ironic, even vitriolic. You are writing as first person. ChatGPT: Well, well, well, look who&#x2
253.
by zvmaz 3y ago
Indeed, I don't think ChatGPT can do science[1] or be a doctor[2]. [1] https://archive.is/AgWkn [2] https://inflecthealth.medium.com/im-an-er-doctor-here-s-what...
254.
by zvmaz 3y ago
Interesting. I wonder if the knowledge one could acquire in the book would easily translate to mainstream databases.
255.
by zvmaz 3y ago
For my part, I did interpret it as clear proselytism: > A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say ch
256.
by zvmaz 3y ago
A study on judicial rulings show a link between rulings and the time they have been issued between food breaks [1]. It appears that the more hungry the judges are, the less they show clemency. Similarly, living in a Mulsim country, I have n
257.
by zvmaz 3y ago
Ramadan has little to do with intermittent fasting: the former is a religious prescription enforced by law in some countries [1], the latter is completely up to the individual. Happy Eid. [1] https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog
258.
by zvmaz 4y ago
The website shows 6,841,400 total deaths. That's a very "conservative" number. Both The Economist [1] and the WHO [2] for instance say that the number may well be way more than the official one (The Economist is at 29+ millio
259.
by zvmaz 4y ago
I recently read The Plague by Camus about an epidemic happening in colonial Oran, Algeria. I sometimes smiled at how underwhelming it was in comparison to what the COVID pandemic revealed about society and human nature in times of total cat
260.
by zvmaz 4y ago
I wonder how the government will find out who is eligible to the allowance and who is not.
261.
by zvmaz 4y ago
Maybe being temperamentally an introvert has little connection with social status, but you pointed to something I haven't thought about before: how low social status can lead to seclusion. I wonder if there's been studies on that.
262.
by zvmaz 4y ago
> The first thing to consider, is that depression is a rational response to depressing circumstances. Imagine a time machine allowed you to go back in time to World War 2 and walk around Auschwitz. Would your conclusion be, “Gosh, these
263.
by zvmaz 4y ago
I would gladly pay for such a course.
264.
by zvmaz 4y ago
> Peoples’ curiosity ought not be labeled as stupid. Correct. That is why I feel more comfortable asking "stupid" questions to chatGPT. I clarified a lot of concepts in economics through repeatedly asking questions about each c
265.
by zvmaz 4y ago
> 1. You know images can be used as evidence in court, right? Good point, I haven't thought about that. I thought your comment was sarcastic, it isn't apparently. Mea culpa.
266.
by zvmaz 4y ago
How did I not notice this analogy?! It is in fact true that a JPEG artifact upscaled with fabricated details is the same thing as a totally forged reference of a paper describing when to diagnose appendicitis in children. Thank you.
267.
by zvmaz 4y ago
> It's perfectly plausible to me that Ramadan-observing judges would better at judging while hungry while non-fasters would get worse. I don't know for judges, but I live in a dominantly religious society and I haven't not
268.
by zvmaz 4y ago
What I implied is that we should be more vigilant with chatGPT. I don't think it is common for an article to completely invent a reference that does not exist, but it is common in chatGPT.
269.
by zvmaz 4y ago
> What makes you sure that the quality of AI generated content (that has potentially been the result of prompting and editing by a human) is and will be inherently worse than purely human generated content. For the time being, I don&#x27
270.
by zvmaz 4y ago
I don't know. It certainly is an interesting intellectual movement. Bertrand Russell wrote scathingly of Stoicism in his History of Western Philosophy [1], to which Massimo Pigliucci, the author cited above in the comment, responded [2

More ›