meeton

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by meeton 4mo ago
I don't trust a vibe-generated course to be great yet, but some day I will and learning will never be the same again.
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by meeton 4mo ago
> Asking ChatGPT a question uses approximately 10x as much energy as a traditional search engine Traditional search engines use vanishingly little energy, and 10x vanishingly little is still very small. > It is estimated that AI alone
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by meeton 5mo ago
One extra consideration I haven't seen flagged: if you pick Red and the blue pressers die then everyone who's left alive definitely pressed Red. Then there will be a society-wide tacit agreement that this was a fine thing to do, b
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by meeton 1y ago
https://i.imgur.com/xsFKqsI.png "Draw a picture of a full glass of wine, ie a wine glass which is full to the brim with red wine and almost at the point of spilling over... Zoom out to show the full wine glass, and add
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by meeton 7y ago
So I'm one of these seemingly non-verbal thinkers, including when I code. I think it makes me more capable of _making use of_ complex concepts. I came into programming through mathematics, and I treat them both as aesthetic exercises.
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by meeton 8y ago
Podcast pro tip: listen on 0.8x speed. Everything becomes so dreamy and sleepy sounding.
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by meeton 8y ago
People are saying this is 'basically the same as autocorrect or predictive text'. It's not. Autocorrect doesn't make any creative decisions for you, whereas this does. That is to say: we think at the level of words, not
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by meeton 8y ago
This is awful. We need _less_ mediation and commodification of our personal interactions, not more. What is the use of this? At best this is a solution searching for a problem, at worst it's an attempt to standardize our communication
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by meeton 8y ago
... I guarantee that if you draw that out for us, someone will 4-colour it for you. That's what "theorem" means.
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by meeton 9y ago
How about this: when you get into the booth you're given an ID. You then cast your vote for Ms A and you can see on the block chain that it was recorded for A. After you cast, the system shows you a bunch of ids on the chain which vote
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by meeton 9y ago
India did that! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonet...
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by meeton 9y ago
Assuming this is being sold to companies other than strictly self-improvement apps, how can you consider this to be an ethical thing to have created?