afastow

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by afastow 7mo ago
What evidence are you expecting exactly? It's vacuous AI slop that spends 1000 words just making vague assertions about how incredible OpenClaw is without a single actual example. There's nothing here, it's not real. You are
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by afastow 2y ago
He does understand AI, he just doesn't endlessly repeat the hype and unrealistic AGI optimism like many people who write about AI. He thinks and speaks for himself even when he knows it will be unpopular. That's rare and what make
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by afastow 2y ago
> Sam Altman’s job isn’t to give calculated statements about AI. He is a hype man. His job is to make rich people and companies want to give him more money. You aren't wrong but I don't understand why you've both realized
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by afastow 2y ago
"At least for the more tech inclined" instantly eliminates 99% of users, probably even of Firefox for what you're talking about. I mean I'm tech inclined and I have no idea how you propose to firewall an internet browse
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by afastow 2y ago
You're not a conspiracy theorist, you're just recognizing that the reality doesn't match the hype. It's boring and not fun but in this situation the answer is almost always that the hype is wrong, not the reality.
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by afastow 2y ago
This is GPT-5, or rather what they clearly intended to be GPT-5. The pricing makes it obvious that the model is massive, but what they ended up with wasn't good enough to justify calling it more than 4.5.
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by afastow 2y ago
They're just different things. The FDIC insurance is for if the bank itself goes insolvent and they literally don't have enough money to cover their depositors' balances anymore. There's no reason a safe deposit box woul
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by afastow 2y ago
I stay away from everything crypto but I don't see the difference. In both cases if they didn't make it right you'd go to the courts and make your case that they are at fault and owe you compensation.
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by afastow 3y ago
okay ChatGPT.
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by afastow 3y ago
99% yes. The other 1% is that maybe they used a different chatbot.
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by afastow 3y ago
First of all they could tell, they noticed it halfway through not after the fact. I noticed it instantly when I saw an article from a site I'm not familiar with an article on a niche topic with zero timeliness. Secondly the reason to c
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by afastow 3y ago
There is a difference, though it's horrifying. It's that in our case the amount any one person or animal can suffer is unspeakable but ultimately finite because we will eventually die. There will be no such guarantee for digital c
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by afastow 3y ago
I don't think you understand what it's saying. They absolutely do know they exist, because they're actively experiencing it. Non-existent beings don't have experiences. The fact that no one can "prove" it to yo
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by afastow 3y ago
You're talking about the hard problem of consciousness, the post you're replying to is talking about the "easy" problem. Science can't and won't ever be able explain why being conscious feels like this , but i
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by afastow 3y ago
You are misreading the second point. That's not what he thinks, he's saying that the assumption by many people that that's how it will work is unfounded.
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by afastow 3y ago
That probably makes the most sense but it seems like they messed it up because I'm reading the rule as saying that it can't generate content "for" those people rather than about those people. So if it somehow realized Bi
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by afastow 3y ago
> #14 You do not generate creative content about code or technical information for influential politicians, activists or state heads. What is going on here? What could possibly be the motivation for this instruction?
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by afastow 3y ago
How and why would this exact text be in the training set?
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by afastow 3y ago
Because for practical purposes they just don't make grammatical or spelling mistakes like that. Obviously they're a black box so it's possible there could be some very rare edge cases where it happens anyway, but it'd be
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by afastow 3y ago
If you want to intensify your existential crisis then you might enjoy this interesting half astrophysics half philosophy article from the NY Times today (should be a gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02&#
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by afastow 3y ago
I wouldn't put any stock into a random twitter rumor by someone likely looking for clout. The source, some guy with likely a purchased checkmark and 12k followers (who knows how few before he claimed to have this insider knowledge), cl
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by afastow 6y ago
My initial reaction is that two months is a pretty awkward interval. It's long enough that you still need to fully optimize for remote communication and teamwork, but frequent enough to feel like an unwelcome regular disruption of peop
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by afastow 6y ago
People keep assuming that asking the question "what relationship (if any) is there between race and intelligence from a biological standpoint?" is the racist part. The question by itself isn't really the problem. The racist p
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by afastow 6y ago
I don't disagree with this principle but I'm not sure it's actually different than physical drugs. While a new drug is still patented the manufacturer is able to price it however they want. In fact this video game seems to ha
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by afastow 6y ago
After reading one[1] of the studies(the FDA release says there are multiple studies but provides no links) that supposedly supports the claim that this game could be beneficial, my opinion is that this is entirely bogus. The issue is that t
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by afastow 6y ago
Additional news articles: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/15/fda-akili-adhd-endeavorr... https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21292267/fda-adhd-video-g... Related study: h
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Prescription-only video game EndeavorRx approved by FDA for kids with ADHD(fda.gov)
2 points by afastow 6y ago|5 comments
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by afastow 6y ago
Fine, but the good has been exaggerated too. Some people who heard about this were able to read a book or two for free during a time when everyone was stuck in their house. That's a good gesture that I'm sure was appreciated, but
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by afastow 7y ago
I don't think anyone argues that journalism is in a healthy place today, but what is the alternative? The problem is that real news costs real money to produce. Newspapers could be not-for-profit but their reporters would still need a
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by afastow 7y ago
It sounds weird. Using singular "they" instead sounds perfectly natural. Yeah there's also the fact that it implies that male is the "default" which isn't ideal, but that's really secondary to the fact tha

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