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- Comment on AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora) 4 months ago:
You are correct and it drives people crazy. Just consider, though, that people were saying that the web allowing anyone to publish their views as fact would undermine the averages person’s ability to know what is true. It kind of did.
I don’t have a hot take. I agree with you. But I also think this will change things in ways we don’t fully understand yet.
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 4 months ago:
“we can hide your leak for a modest subscription fee”, probably
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 4 months ago:
Do you have paid subscriptions to web sites you like?
- Comment on ‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under scrutiny 4 months ago:
How does that make you feel? /s
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 4 months ago:
I really think a lot of this is “the other popular kids are doing it” and boards and VC saying basically the same thing to the c-suite.
- Comment on Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China 5 months ago:
Very interesting, thank you.
- Comment on Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China 5 months ago:
When you say “they can’t” do you mean “they haven’t constructed a facility and hired people that can do this” or do you mean even if they did those things they would not be able to?
The reason I ask is I have been in several discussions on here where people have insisted it is the second.
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 5 months ago:
Hence “won’t happen at Starbucks, might if Mossad is after you”. Thanks for adding the details. I feel like most people think vpns are magic but also radically overestimate their personal risk.
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 5 months ago:
Unless they intercept the handshake as a proxy and have access to everything after that. The average Starbucks employee is not doing this.
An Israeli spy tracking down an arms dealer might figure out how to do this at a hotel the target was using, but the arms dealer would know that.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 5 months ago:
You cannot make a difference this way. Their music is a commodity they have signed agreements to sell. They probably (in the vast majority of instances) had almost no bargaining power in this and a lot of signed artists don’t make a penny from their work, at all.
If you really like an artist, contact them via their official channels and ask if you can send them money directly or donate to a charity they like.
- Comment on To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole. 6 months ago:
You have to select starchy potatoes, not waxy, and let them steam dry (e.g. drain water in metal colander and toss in a warm oven or on the stove for a bit). Mix in the seasoning and milk/butter after they are mostly mashed for better control of consistency.
- Comment on World’s first off-road solar car ‘Stella Terra’ succeeds in cruising from Morocco to the Sahara 6 months ago:
They can finally do that Dark Angel sequel series.
- Comment on Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful. 6 months ago:
This level of control is still desired by businesses in the modern era. Company towns were common early in North American history and now corporations use health insurance, equity and bonuses tied to “loyalty agreements”, and so on. All designed to make it harder to leave your employer. The market also suppresses wages for low end workers but inflates it for CEOs, in the same way feudal lords would live it up relative to serfs. The average quality of life for the peasants is better (our bread and circuses are great!) and we have a higher chance of social mobility but things are still not great if you really look at it.
- Comment on Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere 6 months ago:
And we will all be merged with cars.
- Comment on Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere 6 months ago:
I heard this guy going on about this amazing machine a company had invented to sequester carbon. They were not happy when explained that a tree does the same thing and they grow like crzy just about anywhere.
We already know what we need to do but people don’t want to do it.
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo... 6 months ago:
Tech, yes. Lived experience, meh. :)
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo... 6 months ago:
One of my most disappointing moments as an adult, which is really saying something, was getting my wife a 5g phone and realizing it was not noticeably faster in any way to the one it replaced while on a 5g network using any data service.
- Comment on Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. 6 months ago:
This sounds like what I was learning 20-some years ago. The hardware and software are better (and easier!) now and the compute is so, so much better. I priced out a terabyte data server with some colleagues back then using off the shelf hardware: $10k CDN. :)
- Comment on Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. 6 months ago:
One of the things our sensory system and brain do is limit our input. The road to agi might involve giving it everything and finding the optimum set of filters, not selecting input and training up from that.
You’d need the baseline set of systems (“baby agi”) and then turn it loose with goal seeking.
- Comment on Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation 6 months ago:
You just described all the men in my extended family that served in the Canadian military.
- Comment on Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better 6 months ago:
I was speculating about how you can overcome hallucinations, etc., by supplying additional training data. Not specific to ChatGPT or even LLMs…
- Comment on Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better 6 months ago:
Another way to think of this is feedback from humans will refine results. If enough people tell it that Toronto is not the capital of Canada it will start biasing toward Ottawa, for example. I have a feeling this is behind the search engine roll out.
- Comment on YSK about Sketch Toy 6 months ago:
Paper. You can use paper and take a picture with your phone.
- Comment on Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green 6 months ago:
I was kind of joking, kind of not, but thank you for this info.
- Comment on Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green 6 months ago:
“Mice don’t reproduce many aspects of human disease for their physiology being too different from ours,” senior study author Zhen Liu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told CNN.
But we test all our new stuff on them and write articles about Cancer cures without adding “in mice” to the title, and that gives people hope.
- Comment on An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space 7 months ago:
Down voters don’t get how amazing it is that a fish can talk, let alone heckle.
- Comment on Purported Insider Details about OpenAI Ousting of Sam Altman [/u/Anxious_Bandicoot126] 7 months ago:
I didn’t actually know that when I fired that off but not for profits do care about revenue and expenditure.
- Comment on Purported Insider Details about OpenAI Ousting of Sam Altman [/u/Anxious_Bandicoot126] 7 months ago:
Translation: disagreement over how to maximize revenue.
- Comment on This video of David Attenborough narrating a programmer's life shows Hollywood actors were right to be afraid of AI 7 months ago:
Capitalism 101:
- as productivity of individuals increases, increase the workload and higher fewer people
- if people are better at “life” and have more free time and money, charge more for discretionary experiences and goods
And so on.
I do think it will improve life for some but for others it will suck. Example: it much, much easier and cheaper to give each gig worker a micro-managing AI voice I their ear than it is to replace workers with robots (work in Amazon warehouse if you don’t believe me). And job automation in white collar sectors will mean more people are taking gig economy jobs.
Maybe it will be cool. Show up at a construct site, sign in, and get told what to do to help frame a house with no real skills (“take a stack of studs to the location on your HUD”). You are now making money without needing other people to supervise that much (skilled framers still do most if it but you keep them more productive). And you could do that for two hours and hand off to the next person.
- Comment on Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem 7 months ago:
And if your biggest userbase is teenagers you are on shaky ground. Trends change quickly and as soon as they have to pay for it themselves it’s goodbye luxury item for a lot of them.