Elextric

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by Elextric 9mo ago
Ideally, one should explore all possibilities. It is remarkable how far "merely" predicting the next word has taken us.
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by Elextric 9mo ago
I can’t take it too seriously. It’s peak oil all over again.
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by Elextric 1y ago
Technically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_representation
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by Elextric 1y ago
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
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by Elextric 1y ago
You can certainly rationalize anything, but I fail to see what help that is to us. "The great subverter of Pyrrhonism [radical skepticism] is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. [...] I dine, I play a game of ba
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by Elextric 1y ago
Let me reframe it. Among these trillions of people, there will be many who are 99% similar to you. Wouldn't you want that version of yourself to live a great life?
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by Elextric 1y ago
tldr: it's impossible to know for sure which choice is the absolute best. In a sense, I get why they write verbosely, but... The first and most important task of our lives is to determine what our goal is. https://en.wikipe
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by Elextric 1y ago
yes
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by Elextric 1y ago
first telephone vs first iphone
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by Elextric 1y ago
Even if we achieve 2x every 3-4 years, isn't it still massive in absolute ?
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by Elextric 2y ago
The difference between a rational person and a narcissist is this: one recognizes the sufficiency of world-destroying power, the other will always demand more, regardless of the absurdity.
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by Elextric 2y ago
Imagine the paradox: holding the fate of the world in your hands, but still feeling under threat from a military alliance like NATO
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by Elextric 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFc1jxLHhyM
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Intelligence Evolved [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Elextric 2y ago|0 comments
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When will computer hardware match the human brain?(web.archive.org)
1 points by Elextric 3y ago|0 comments
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by Elextric 3y ago
This is how I look at this issue. I am a layman. Question of intelligence is more or less irrelevant in LLM. All we need is something that can mimic an average human. I would say we have arrived at such point. How many people have truly new
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by Elextric 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
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by Elextric 3y ago
The last point is indeed true. It's quite mind-boggling to me.
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by Elextric 3y ago
Sorry for being pedantic. The intelligence of something is inconsequential. What truly matters is its ability to convincingly imitate intelligence.