joules77

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by joules77 1y ago
Putin the magnificent has said "whoever leads in AI will rule the world". So it is a war. An arms race. Weirdly being run by private capital cuz there was no incentive(unlike during WW2/Cold War) to fund a state run Manhattan
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by joules77 1y ago
These kind of people make their living freaking out kids. I mean if you are that full of yourself, that you think your thoughts are critical to saving the lives of "millions and billions" of people why would you go and talk to a k
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by joules77 1y ago
> The evidence is overwhelming; the debate is long over. This assumes everyone is the same. The detachment philosophy of the Buddhist/ Epictetus/Stoics emerged for a reason. It has lasted in one form or another for thousands of
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by joules77 1y ago
Ad prices (and revenue of these companies) keep going up tho... 2010-2022 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU365 2023-2025 - https://data.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/WPU366
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by joules77 1y ago
Why not? These are not new problems. They are ancient and different people have dealt with them with different levels of success. AI has access to all those strategies. So maybe one day AI dawns Mr. Rogers persona to solve one problem and A
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by joules77 1y ago
Its all subjective. There is no clear quantification of X Attention consumed = Y Value produced. So saying what the algo does is important is like saying astrology is important. Or HN is important ;) At the end of the day most info produced
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by joules77 1y ago
Not just your dad but the vast majority don't use these features either. The human brain has a natural upper limit in how many times it's beliefs can update per year. If the Total new features shipped by every company in the land,
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by joules77 1y ago
Cause the story is no more about Business or Economics. This is more like the nuke arms race in the 1940s. Red Queen Dynamics.
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by joules77 1y ago
He is an Attention addict. Just like Trump. They keep churning out shit everyday to get people to pay Attention to them. Why else buy Twitter/start truth social etc. So that their drug keeps flowing. Their biggest source of anxiety in
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by joules77 1y ago
Or they can move elsewhere. Just like their ancestors and every other immigrant on the planet does when they can't find a job at home.
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by joules77 1y ago
What you are talking about is info overload and break down of "shared stories" as content explodes faster than there are people or time to consume it all. In Economics they will tell you what happens when Supply drastically oversh
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by joules77 1y ago
> creativity is, and should remain, human-centered Gentle reminder human creativity did not produce photosynthesis or crispr or the color blue. Throughout history its a small self praising gatekeeping elite that decides what is labeled c
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by joules77 1y ago
Or just tell ChatGPT not to spoon feed you and to make you think and work harder on things you want to learn. We are not living in the world of Windows or Google anymore, where you have no input into what Windows and Google does.
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by joules77 1y ago
But I don't think it makes a diff. My friend circle has had a few guys drop into hermit mode. We have tried all kinds of things to pull them out, but it's like they have decided monastic life or whatever is their thing.
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by joules77 1y ago
Don't ask it if an idea is good or bad. Ask it to show you weaknesses, missing pieces or blind spots.
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by joules77 1y ago
"I don't know off hand, but I'll have a better answer for you in X mins/hours/days."
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by joules77 1y ago
Jan 6th showed everyone the level of competence they have to control the unpredictable. And he is just making things more unpredictable for himself and the people who support him.
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by joules77 1y ago
Good idea. Especially the data ownership flip. Check out Philosopher Andy Clark's work (Surfing Uncertainty/Natural-Born Cyborgs) on these kind of "mind extension" tools. His work was before LLMs showed up, but is still
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by joules77 1y ago
Good to see such experiments. Thought C-Suite would see it happen before Govt/Cabinets though. That is surprising.
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by joules77 1y ago
Eric Schmidt type leaders use fear and doubt to get the chimp troupe to do things. Mostly always benefiting Eric Schmidt more than anyone else. He used the same methods in google and everyone can see what google has become thanks to the see
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by joules77 1y ago
Well before it was the pedo priest with the same dialogue. So maybe an improvement. Good friend of the Church, Nietzsche predicted dystopia long ago but it never plays out the way people think. The chimp troupe is highly unpredictable. One
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by joules77 1y ago
Philosophers say Modernity already produces that effect - "shared stories" start evaporating as individuals start focusing on their own needs, interests, goals etc (see Charles Taylor's The Secular Age). No AI required.
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Hitchcock Demonstrates the Kuleshov Effect [video](youtube.com)
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by joules77 1y ago
Marriage has outlived it's historical purpose. It's 2025 "make kin, not babies".
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by joules77 1y ago
Nothing is permanent. Once upon a time investors loved the Steel magnates and Railway tycoons. Today its these tech companies. But by themselves they don't solve structural problems. For example - On the Housing front, Tech has made co
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by joules77 1y ago
Read some actual scholars like Charles Taylor (instead of the under developed/work in progress theories of Peter Thiel) who shows why Technocracy is not capable of generating Meaning/Shared Story/Transcendence the way religio
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by joules77 1y ago
Matters to exporters. Not to everyone. SK is a 2 Trillion $$$ economy. What numbers are involved here is in the 20-50 Billion a year. Not like life or death.
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by joules77 1y ago
Go deeper. Why does society needs parents at the current rate of change? The ants discovered hundreds of millions of years before even the chimps got social, that parents are not required for functioning society. We will get there soon with
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by joules77 1y ago
It's like being behind a McDonald fry station when suddenly thousand people show up for lunch. So sort of like a Prank video. Now the real question is why do prank videos mesmerize people? The chimp troupes handles randomness and unpre
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by joules77 1y ago
They are Attention capture specialists. Nothing else. Even Trump got kicked off social media. No one cried. It was the right decision. In an Attention Economy where Attention is finite pool, like Land or Oil just allowing random people to s

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