This is an engineer perspective. Reading/studying is only really about learning what knowledge exists so you can find it and employ it later in the service of building something. Trying to memorize many specific details…
The article is not fluent, it's difficult to read and written in broken English. Possibly not written by AI? Understandable enough but difficult and weirdly painful to read. Definitely don't rely on AI to substitute for…
Seems like excessive government overreach. Even California hasn't gone so far as to ban mere hiking as far as I'm aware. Failures by the government in forestry management and firefighting shouldn't be used to restrict…
You can just ask chat GTP to help you plan your vacation.
Pretty clear that OP signed away his shares and ended up with only 1% of what they were worth. Presumably they told him his shares would be worthless anyway an if he didn't take this "great offer" it would expire when…
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Turing test failed, human.
Darn
My first thought was who could possibly say with a straight face that we are close to super after the spectacular failure of AI to scale up with more compute. Oh right, Sam Altman.
Lesswrong: The support group for humans who are bad at the Turing test.
"Player Piano"
While it's true most people can't fly around the world to shop, e-commerce brings the shops of the world right to their door. And sure, middle class westerners don't have a lot of servants that physically work in their…
Octopus are a tricky case. We just don't know. On the other hand we can confidently say clams don't believe in conspiracy theories. Neither do jellyfish.
"conspiracy theory" is usually defined narrowly so that it is invariably something "only other, stupider people believe" I think that's hypocritical.
Interesting information but his key point wasn't really presented with any evidence. He didn't make a good case that octopus don't believe in conspiracy theories. How would we know? Instead he assumed they don't because…
But there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own website. There are even lots of free options for hosting, the problem is audience, which is captured and driven by platforms. There must be a way to dispense…
DNA is a form of code, but it doesn't encode programs. Instead, like an STL or STEP file it encodes HARDWARE designs. While you could think of it as encoding infrastructure AND code (as in IaS) you'd need to go beyond…
An equally valid and troubling question, doesn't really make your point.
His best example of a patient outcome is "patient came to believe in a Higher Power and felt at peace". Why are we being so credulous?
Physical damage is not the only kind of damage. I'd be more concerned with psychological damage. People who drink alcohol typically don't go around telling people they communed with entities from another dimension and…
As I said, rhetoric.
It is a very unpopular opinion, I am well aware. Mind-altering drugs are bad. If you have used them, you may have damaged your mind permanently. You wouldn't even know. And you'd even go far as to tell me that it made…
Calm and acceptance are two different things. It's self defeating to judge a situation as "I can't do anything about it I should calmly accept it." You can rarely if ever know with 100% certainty that you "can't do…
Our bodies have the enzymes to process alcohol (as opposed to similar chemicals like isopropyl alcohol) since animals have been ingesting fermented foods since the beginning of time. These rhetorical attacks on Alcohol…
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different. Especially not someone whose mind has been impaired by drugs.…
This is an engineer perspective. Reading/studying is only really about learning what knowledge exists so you can find it and employ it later in the service of building something. Trying to memorize many specific details…
The article is not fluent, it's difficult to read and written in broken English. Possibly not written by AI? Understandable enough but difficult and weirdly painful to read. Definitely don't rely on AI to substitute for…
Seems like excessive government overreach. Even California hasn't gone so far as to ban mere hiking as far as I'm aware. Failures by the government in forestry management and firefighting shouldn't be used to restrict…
You can just ask chat GTP to help you plan your vacation.
Pretty clear that OP signed away his shares and ended up with only 1% of what they were worth. Presumably they told him his shares would be worthless anyway an if he didn't take this "great offer" it would expire when…
[flagged]
Turing test failed, human.
Darn
My first thought was who could possibly say with a straight face that we are close to super after the spectacular failure of AI to scale up with more compute. Oh right, Sam Altman.
Lesswrong: The support group for humans who are bad at the Turing test.
"Player Piano"
While it's true most people can't fly around the world to shop, e-commerce brings the shops of the world right to their door. And sure, middle class westerners don't have a lot of servants that physically work in their…
Octopus are a tricky case. We just don't know. On the other hand we can confidently say clams don't believe in conspiracy theories. Neither do jellyfish.
"conspiracy theory" is usually defined narrowly so that it is invariably something "only other, stupider people believe" I think that's hypocritical.
Interesting information but his key point wasn't really presented with any evidence. He didn't make a good case that octopus don't believe in conspiracy theories. How would we know? Instead he assumed they don't because…
But there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own website. There are even lots of free options for hosting, the problem is audience, which is captured and driven by platforms. There must be a way to dispense…
DNA is a form of code, but it doesn't encode programs. Instead, like an STL or STEP file it encodes HARDWARE designs. While you could think of it as encoding infrastructure AND code (as in IaS) you'd need to go beyond…
An equally valid and troubling question, doesn't really make your point.
His best example of a patient outcome is "patient came to believe in a Higher Power and felt at peace". Why are we being so credulous?
Physical damage is not the only kind of damage. I'd be more concerned with psychological damage. People who drink alcohol typically don't go around telling people they communed with entities from another dimension and…
As I said, rhetoric.
It is a very unpopular opinion, I am well aware. Mind-altering drugs are bad. If you have used them, you may have damaged your mind permanently. You wouldn't even know. And you'd even go far as to tell me that it made…
Calm and acceptance are two different things. It's self defeating to judge a situation as "I can't do anything about it I should calmly accept it." You can rarely if ever know with 100% certainty that you "can't do…
Our bodies have the enzymes to process alcohol (as opposed to similar chemicals like isopropyl alcohol) since animals have been ingesting fermented foods since the beginning of time. These rhetorical attacks on Alcohol…
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different. Especially not someone whose mind has been impaired by drugs.…