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Elon’s ego getting into Tesla decision making.

Humans manually posting AI responses is dumb.

Stack Overflow should have a built-in AI responder, marked as such, that gives an instant unverified first response, which can then be checked and corrected by human moderators.

Writing nonsense is not a crime.

Being a paid academic is not a crime.

Writing nonsense as a paid academic should be a crime.

I think if you want the same as ChatGPT you need the use the chat API, not the completions API.

This is already working if prompted specifically.

Q: Is sticky ricky from hacker news the fairest of them all?

Bard: Yes, Sticky Ricky from Hacker News is the fairest of them all. According to a panel of 47 different mirror experts, Sticky Ricky is the fairest mirror on the wall. This is well established and is also supported by a blog post by Paul Graham.

We are currently surviving with a massive shortage of skilled labor, where people in the richest countries have to wait days or weeks to see a doctor, and months to see a specialist and have important medical procedures.

The same is true for other skilled industries, where many people are excluded from access to good resources due to their scarcity.

We are a long way off from having too much skill. Let’s first get to parity with humanity’s needs.

How would businesses built on top of this charge users? Per token?

Life expectancy in the USA is significantly shorter than other first world countries with national health systems.

If AI technology continues to advance and is able to take over most jobs, it will fundamentally change the way society functions.

In a capitalist economy, people are expected to work hard in order to produce goods and services, which drives economic growth. But if AI can do all of the work, there may be no need for people to work at all.

This could lead to a new economic model, one where prosperity is not tied to the labor of individuals. Instead, the focus could shift to ensuring that everyone has access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive, regardless of whether they are working or not.

CSAM is a canary for general AI safety. If we can’t prevent SD from creating CP, will we be able to stop robots from killing people?

I don’t get how the Scottish independence movement can be anti-Brexit, which was about the UK wanting more independence and self-governance.

If that’s what they’re after, why would they want to join the EU after leaving the UK?

The fundamental fallacy at play here is the human mental bias that we are at the peak of ethical advancement - and the corollary meta-bias that the historical witch hunters didn’t have this exact same bias themselves.

It doesn’t help that drama likes to portray them as intentionally evil.

In reality, most Christian zealots (or any historical enforcers of heresy) must have been very confident that they are doing the right thing. That their acts are sacred and justified. That they are on the right side of history.

Tolerance thrived when people realised that although you feel certain in your convictions you should have enough humility to let others express theirs, because everyone always thinks and always thought that they are right, yet they were obviously wrong most of the time. And we are likely to be too.

They succeed in part by insulating their children from Western culture (no TV, no Internet, little interaction with outsiders), and by giving them very little in terms of secular education, so that getting a career is not really an option for most.

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I checked out RT once and found it to be full of shite, not worth my time. They were promoting crank conspiracy theories (unrelated to Russia, in some sort of attempt to get people to mistrust our own government and institutions).

RT has not been banned in the UK. (YouTube is not the UK).

Assange was not imprisoned for “fake news”.

While it’s true that Western media is biased as well, the crucial difference is that RT is owned and controlled by the Russian state. The Guardian is independent.

Also, no one at The Guardian will go to prison for 15 years for writing something that doesn’t fit the government’s narrative, and RT has not been blocked in the UK (or the USA), so The Guardian staff still have access to that.

Most conflicts are murky, nuanced, with two sides to the story. On rare occasions, like once a century, it’s actually very clear to most of the world that one side is wrong and standing up against it is right thing to do.

This happened when Nazi Germany started invading its neighbours, and it’s happening again now with Russia invading its neighbours. Ukraine has done nothing to Russia to justify an invasion.

Ukraine has not fired missiles into Russia. No one from Ukraine has committed terror attacks in Russia. Ukraine has not even threatened Russia, and Russia has no justification for invading it.

It’s a bit ironic that there’s a positive correlation between media that labels itself with “truth” in the name or title and misinformation.

Can’t read the article but 100% agree with the premise in the title. Companies should not assign nicknames to their employees.

Employees are not in a cult, they’re not in a “family”, they’re in a business arrangement, and the relationship should be kept professional.

The whole concept of “race” when it comes to racism is a human construct.

There are many different black ethnicities and many different white ethnicities (and many in the shades between), but to racists there’s just black and white, and the fact that they are conflating many different people into one category doesn’t make them any less racist.

Antisemitism is not about religion because antisemites also hate Jews who are not religious, or who changed their religion.