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by sadtoot 2y ago
but the non-TV part of the internet is, on its own, probably more valuable than TV ever was
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by sadtoot 2y ago
My guess is that whoever develops superintelligence first will have a big number in their bank account while their body is disassembled to make solar panels and data centers
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by sadtoot 3y ago
the article reads like a press release talking about how innovative and exciting their product is for dozens of paragraphs, but never actually giving details about what the product is
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by sadtoot 3y ago
do you think vinge and kurzweil in the 90s and 2000s were imagining the singularity occuring exactly at the advent of LLMs? are you supposing that LLMs are the only viable path towards advanced AI, and that we have now hit a permanent ceil
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by sadtoot 3y ago
i feel this way about twitter since logged out users can't browse tweets anymore. now i can give myself just a tiny bit of friction to break the habit. i still waste time on my phone, but at least it's not quite so effortless no
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by sadtoot 3y ago
you should give it a try to be honest. metaculus.com
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by sadtoot 3y ago
i wonder how many of the commenters who bemoan how GPT-4 can't do this or that task, could have predicted 2 or 5 years ago what GPT-4 can do easily today
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by sadtoot 3y ago
i like how the article never explains or even mentions what "we're doing wrong"
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by sadtoot 3y ago
>Tinder and Bumble are in decline do we actually have any evidence this is true? people have complained about dating since we were neanderthals; articles like this have written themselves for the past decade
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by sadtoot 3y ago
the supermajority of humanity doesn't know what chatGPT is useful for, so google's total amount of searches are almost certainly the same. you could only detect the difference for, say, searches that would return stackoverflow re
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by sadtoot 3y ago
evolution also programmed us to yawn, yet doctors can't figure out what purpose or benefit it has
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by sadtoot 3y ago
there's a lot of suffering in the world, and it doesn't matter too much to me who's fault it is (in the case of kidney failure, is it anyone's fault?). for me, morality isn't about avoiding being evil, or being bet
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by sadtoot 3y ago
not meaning to attack you on this point--it's your life and you can do what you want--but why would you only consider being a donor for your family? i'm guessing the reason might be 1) you have some condition and you're worr
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by sadtoot 3y ago
just so you know, around 1% of people die in conditions where their organs are elligible for transplantation. then there's the factor that kidneys from living donors generally last longer for the recipient
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by sadtoot 3y ago
selling kidneys doesn't preclude us having the same thorough screening process we have now, although it means there may be people who try harder to game the screening process. i just don't see kidney donation as being a significan
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by sadtoot 3y ago
park your army away from the black hole and build up your weapons and drones before the battle. you could build up resources at speeds orders of magnitude greater than the black hole civ