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Alchemista

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    Comment #48638753

    How many people who are that invested in their Steam library don't already have a mid to upper range PC?

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    Comment #46427577

    So you are really going with the unreasonably optimistic take that wealth will actually be redistributed to those that don't have it? Take a look at the slums in India and other pe…

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    Comment #44917330

    I firmly believe that we are not even close and that it is pretty presumptuous to start "preparing" when such metal energy could be much better spent on the welfare of our fellow h…

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    Comment #44917132

    Honestly, I think some of these tech bro types are seriously drinking way too much of their own koolaid if they actually think these word calculators are conscious/need welfare.

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    Comment #39436165

    Efficiency has everything to do with it. To run your original thought experiment would likely take more computing capacity than humanity will ever produce with current silicon base…

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    Comment #39435742

    Why not respond to the comments you feel are poorly constructed directly rather than posting what looks like a copy pasta. Some of the items in your list seem like strawmen, becaus…

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    Comment #39435363

    I feel like you are being deliberately obtuse here. They said "Give it a few years" and linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development_stages . How is this not strongly imp…

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    Comment #39435135

    > You are the first to suggest any such thing, in this comment chain. I'm sorry, did you miss the original post: "Because they are at a child level of development. Give it a few ye…

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    Comment #39434804

    Don't you think the onus should be on the people making the fantastical claims to prove it? If human cognition is ill-defined, then define it before making grand claims like ML mod…

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    Comment #39434677

    LLMs aren't designed to emulate human cognition, they are a statistical model designed to predict the next word in a sentence. It happens that they seem to exhibit some similaritie…

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    Comment #39434617

    This is silly, that's like talking about building a fusion reactor modeled after the sun. It is easy to propose something like that, but we always seem to be 10 years away from rea…

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    Comment #39434469

    I don't think anthropomorphizing ML models is very useful

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    Comment #35569386

    Yeah, I don't get it. It doesn't look very good to me. It is also obviously AI generated, with the telltale signs of deformed limbs and hands.

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    Comment #35248762

    This is a pretty extreme stance. There is a fine line between "learning from" proprietary code and outright stealing some of the key insights and IP. Sometimes it takes a very diff…

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    Comment #11224529

    Thanks for your personal anecdote. Unfortunately, it is fallacious to try and generalize it to the entire population.

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    Comment #10829896

    I understand how any trip to the hospital might lead to a reflection on your health. However, I fail to see how appendicitis is related to a lack of sleep.