totallyhuman

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by totallyhuman 2mo ago
Same here. I soured on it a bit when I noticed them becoming a bit of a rhetorical stick, "well if you think you're right, go place a bet!". I guess that's good if you want people to only make claims they seriously belie
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by totallyhuman 2mo ago
That would be interesting. Probably works best as a non-profit with donations or grants. Be a normal gambling setup, but with the expected value of all the games zero instead of negative. Advertise to existing gambling addicts. You might a
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by totallyhuman 2mo ago
That would cause most, if not all, modern tech companies to go out of business (or massively downsize). I support it.
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by totallyhuman 2mo ago
I imagine most people don't give a damn about others' workflows. But they're not posting about it, because they don't give a damn.
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by totallyhuman 6mo ago
Utilitarianism is a moral system. If you disagree with the risk assessment and are utilitarian, you believe that OpenAI got it wrong and is thus doing bad stuff. If a company making bridges, say, or nuclear power plants, was doing risk asse
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by totallyhuman 6mo ago
Spying on your own citizens enables certain sorts of anti-democratic abuses (and has been used that way in the past), so I can understand the specific opposition to it. Put somewhat melodramatically, they're okay with spying but don&#
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by totallyhuman 8mo ago
If you don't have two weeks of food, you'll be one of those people.
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by totallyhuman 2y ago
Robert Miles has an interesting video about this premise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw
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by totallyhuman 2y ago
I'm not convinced that "laziness" is a weakness of human nature. Businesses are ultimately a way to specialize production without central planning. Allocating some people to bake all the bread in a factory frees up other peop
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by totallyhuman 2y ago
That the author does not think generative AI can solve social problems shows a serious lack of imagination. Therapy, medical diagnosis, improved machine translation, and better information retrieval are all social benefits. There are social
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by totallyhuman 2y ago
It seems to me that this would be life-changing for some people and great for others, but I fear that this is the emotional-intimacy version of refined sugar. It won't be the end of the world, but if everyone can press the intimacy but
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by totallyhuman 2y ago
ChatGPT hallucinated badly when I was trying to learn about generating functions. It took me a good twenty minutes to figure out that I did understand it and the computer was just making things up. I do not use ChatGPT for learning anymore.
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by totallyhuman 3y ago
I imagine it would be possible to construct the system to substantially reduce the risk, even reduce it to "cosmic rays cause bit-flips which launch nukes" levels of risk. It's not like military nuclear command-and-control, y
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by totallyhuman 3y ago
My first job was at a hydroponics store. I wanted to grow some fresh fruit in my basement over the winter, and wanted to build the system rather than buying an out-of-the-box one. I asked the owner a few questions about building a system, a
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by totallyhuman 3y ago
There are some "real" games which started with the intention of being fun and then added some in-app purchases to make money. (Angry Birds, Plants Vs Zombies, etc). Then, there are bare-minimum games which basically only exist as
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by totallyhuman 3y ago
It may be true, if we go by simple quantity of games. Low-quality mobile games with gambling mechanics get churned out at very high rates, especially compared to AAA titles. I wouldn't be surprised if most games are gacha by volume, bu
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by totallyhuman 3y ago
I'm somewhat out of the loop on this whole story -- can you explain how the IPO would have helped? What was his exit plan? My understanding of Ponzi schemes is that they always collapse eventually because everyone will want their money
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by totallyhuman 3y ago
There's already an ongoing antitrust case against Google, so they could be banking on the fact that if it fails there likely won't be enough political capital to go after them again.