oldstrangers

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by oldstrangers 1y ago
This strikes me as "end game" type behavior. These companies see the writing on the wall, and are willing to throw everything they have left to retain relevance in the coming post-AGI world. To me I'm more alarmed than I am s
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by oldstrangers 1y ago
I'm a designer by profession but the majority of my actual schooling was in photography. Capturing a great visual moment feels second nature to me and the process feels so involuntary that you'd rarely even notice I've taken
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Constructive feedback: every piece of design on this site screams I'm about to get scammed somehow.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
If you're a fan of the holographic brain, you could postulate that perhaps the brain’s usual filtering mechanisms are being sufficiently degraded to allow for consciousness to tap into nonlocal holographic information. Or perhaps its a
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Yeah, what you said represents a 'net gain' over not having any of that at all.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
> Can't we just send LLMs back to the drawing board until they have some semblance of reliability? Well at this point they've certainly proven a net gain for everyone regardless of the occasional nonsense they spew.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Wouldn't 500bn into quantum computing show better returns for civilization? Assuming it's about progress and ... not money.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
They don't seem to care about that part.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Saving the planet doesn't make the stock prices go up, so no one will care. Private companies are now getting their own nuclear power stations to power AI. We can't get new nuclear power for public use, but private for profit init
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
This is funny considering WP Engine has been the only thing that kept me developing wordpress sites for years.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
I have such fond memories of Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2, Fable, Black & White, Populous. I think the biggest take away from Molyneux's work is regardless of how seriously he talked the games up, the games themselves never onc
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Looks kinda fun. Basically Dungeon Keeper / Populous with better graphics.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Judging by the success of TikTok, yes, lots of consumers will love new video features.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Now lets get Razer onboard. My $4000 laptop I bought last year is now just a brick. Once it was out of warranty just immediately began to overheat. Repasted it myself, bought it a giant fan to sit on. Nothing ever helped. Thanks Razer!
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Do you think there's more exascale supercomputers on Earth than are publicly acknowledged?
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Aviation is a big one. The SR71 was in the sky in 1964. The gap is probably even closer to 20 years for "consumer" Aviation tech.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
I've always wondered if the US Government's AI research is as advanced as their general technological lead (usually 10-15 years ahead of consumer tech). If so, it would mean OpenAI has more to gain with such a partnership than the
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Yes, someone that owns one rental property probably has it a lot harder than someone that owns 300.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
>Presumably they have dozens/hundreds of workers to manage those units? Correct... which makes being a landlord exceptionally easy. All you have to do is have enough money. There is no cognitive or physical load that a landlord is r
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
It's exceptionally easy. That's why landlords are able to own hundreds to thousands of properties / units.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
"The agency’s new advisory levels aren’t requirements that drinking water suppliers must meet." So it's entirely meaningless.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
I've been slowly getting drip fed bird flu updates through TikTok. Some on the ground people doing some pretty productive coverage. Reports of farms culling entire stocks, farms outright closing, lots of illness unreported. It's p
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
The 'international espionage' trope seems a little well worn at this point.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
On July 19th, 2021 I walked into a private emergency room and somehow convinced them to prescribe me something to treat my alcohol withdrawal (I was down to 2 hours of sobriety before withdrawal was setting in). It was a 15 day supply of Li
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Isn't https://www.twelve.co/ already doing this?
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Lot of commentors missing the mark re: they need engineering leadership! A publicly traded company is a profit driven enterprise, maximizing profits is their first and last goal. Everything in-between that is called risk. Right now they&#x2
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
Correct.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
"until I found myself in situations where direction evaporated." This is the important part. Most people simply work themselves to death and never find the time to ask these kinds of questions. Or, they did ask themselves these qu
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
It's weird that regardless of how many different ways you try to tell this to people they're still more than happy to give the benefit of the doubt to $307 billion dollar pharma company.
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by oldstrangers 2y ago
I'm specifically referring to long covid neurological symptoms like brain fog. Not hospitalization rates, mortality, or whatever measure of recovery most studies of severe patients would be concerned with. https://www.ncbi.n

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