timdiggerm

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by timdiggerm 7d ago
> I consider OpenAI to be as economically motivated as any other actor in this space and playing around with user data like that would destroy their business. It's a gamble that this would be overlooked compared to the reputation th
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by timdiggerm 3mo ago
It's been more than a year since his last post. Anyone know what's up?
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by timdiggerm 4mo ago
You know, he's the perfect subject for a kind of Chuck-Norris-joke-esque thing
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by timdiggerm 4mo ago
What a failure of university leadership to allow or even encourage that practice
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
> Ask them about the chickens hanging from the bottom. Maybe you should tell me about the chickens, since I am unlikely to ever get to ask anyone at Southwest HQ.
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
This list is just a promo blog post for the author's book
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
The periodic table in the "Create Everything At Once" collage is not so impressive.
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
What did you think it was before you read this brief Wikipedia article?
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
> Our electricity is unmetered and included in our rent. My unit has an individual circuit breaker box, but how would solar power be fed into such a system I don't understand. These systems just plug into wall outlets. The big diffe
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
https://www.nps.gov/cong/planyourvisit/trail-information.htm
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
It's not as though people intentionally made these endangered because they have insufficient love for penguins. We have unintentionally done it because we have insufficient love (care) for them and many, many other things, creatures, p
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
Yeah but HN commenters are not a representative sample of the ebook consumer base
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
It's not a shallow dismissal; it's a dismissal for good reason. It's tangential to the topic, but not to HN overall. It's only curmudgeonly if you assume AI-written posts are the inevitable and good future (aka begging t
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by timdiggerm 5mo ago
So you're saying Pangram isn't worth much?
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by timdiggerm 6mo ago
The key line "I’m getting a similar sense for the recent US foreign interventions and wars. They all seem to work slightly better than they should." There is no measurement of efficacy here. It feels like these things are working
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by timdiggerm 7mo ago
Wait where does the idea of consciousness enter this? AGI doesn't need to be conscious.
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by timdiggerm 8mo ago
It's not a liquid, but it's pretty soft.
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by timdiggerm 9mo ago
But can he speak Italian lawn games?
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by timdiggerm 10mo ago
For that to be relevant to this post, they would need to write with secretary hand.
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by timdiggerm 10mo ago
I look forward, should this prove correct, to the explainers from Quanta, Numberphile, etc.
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by timdiggerm 10mo ago
The edginess was, at the core of it, what made them fun in the first place
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by timdiggerm 10mo ago
You're right, you just can't make memories without injecting ink into your skin.
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by timdiggerm 10mo ago
Right, which tells us that what was fun about it was feeling cool for doing something unusual.
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by timdiggerm 11mo ago
> Progress in AI is happening faster than ever before Is it happening faster than it was six months ago? a year ago?
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
Yeah, and definitely not AITok
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
That's interesting, but how many people are actually going to just scroll and watch these (thereby generating ad revenue)?
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/trad
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
If it's ad-supported or I'm seeking donations, I only want people reading it on my website. Why would I want people to access it through an LLM?
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
His notes, of course, were assembled by his producers, based on the notes & writing of those academics (and others, I'm sure, thus the weekly reading list). He sometimes made reference to this, saying things like "Well you sai
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
A nontrivial plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars" (1993)

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