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And if it bugs you, you can bug Jack Barron about it

He’s pretty explicit in that regard. He even added an interesting point at the start of the article : most people he knows who actually work with AI and know shit about it are not boosters. It’s an important distinction that Ed doesn’t ignore.

He is against the over hype of “AGI” and skeptical of the hundreds of billions that have been poured into it for sinister reasons. He’s not denying that the tech has uses, but rather confronting the value of those uses with their actual, non subsidized cost.

You’d need a tremendous amount of matter (I’d guess much more than 1 Jupiter mass) to significantly protect the solar system from the outside. But then that mass would probably get pulled in by the sun. The reason the outer solar system remains outer is because it is mostly empty.

Damn, busted :(

The xenomorph is initially spawned by a queen, and Disney owns the alien franchise, so the xenomorph also is a Disney princess!

You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time

Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(

There’s absolutely a push for specialized hardware, look up that company called Groq !

It’s not just statistics. To produce a somewhat coherent sentence in English you need a model of the English language AND a world model.

If you ask a question like “an apple is on a glass, what happens if I remove the glass”, the correct answer (“the apple will fall”) is not a statistical property of the English language, but an emergent property of the world model.

YOLO, say NO-NO Isolate yourself and just roll solo Be carefOLO

If there had been a technological civilization before ours we would notice the depletion of natural resources, especially metal ore and fossil fuels.

The sad truth is we only have this one shot. If we collapse, there is no way another civilization reaches our technological level. All the easy to access fuel and resources have been pumped and used, so they wouldn’t have the energy and materials required to start industrializing. They’d be stuck on a depleted planet with no realistic way to escape it.

I use it to role play historical counter factuals, like how I could win the battle of Cannae through tactics, or how I could invent the telegraph in 13th century France. It’s worth every watt <3

Don’t have to imagine it when you can just remember it. Getting online in the late 90s was a horror show, seriously dialup was super unreliable. And that was 20 years after it’s inception, it was shit but also extremely popular.

Chatgpt definitely does that. It can write small python programs and execute them, but it doesn’t do it systematically, you have to prompt for it. It can even use chart libs to display data.

Not GP but thanks for this great resource!

I think what’s important is to understand that these things work because they are at a certain scale. Algorithms are notoriously bad at predicting individual behaviour, hence why recommendation engines are a specialization that is far from solved. But when you have large amounts of traffic, the law of large numbers allows you to predict group behaviour with some accuracy.

So you can’t follow a user around and predict their next move and show them the right ad at the right time. But you can take 50 000 middle-aged males, and bet that at least 10 of them will buy a motorbike if you randomly show them a picture of a guy riding in the sunset. Once you have a good volume of this kind of data you can do some casino math to tilt all your bets slightly in your favour, and start betting 24/7.

It’s really cold reading, like they do in those mentalist shows. It’s a lot dumber than it looks, but it’s way more effective than you think.

That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.

They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.

For me that’s badly played hardcore punk with an extremely loud drummer :/

He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…

Hokuto No Ken, not because it’s particularly unhinged but because in France it was programmed in the morning cartoon segment with dragon ball etc… it was so out of place that the dubbers had an obligation to tone it down in the translations and add jokes and puns.

It went about as well as you would expect, just a layer of absurdist humor on top of the ultra violence and gore…