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Elextric

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    Comment #46336815

    Ideally, one should explore all possibilities. It is remarkable how far "merely" predicting the next word has taken us.

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    Comment #46276004

    I can’t take it too seriously. It’s peak oil all over again.

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    Comment #44983843

    Technically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_representation

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    Comment #44922332

    https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports

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    Comment #44583964

    You can certainly rationalize anything, but I fail to see what help that is to us. "The great subverter of Pyrrhonism [radical skepticism] is action, and employment, and the occupa…

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    Comment #44583190

    Let me reframe it. Among these trillions of people, there will be many who are 99% similar to you. Wouldn't you want that version of yourself to live a great life?

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    Comment #44354030

    tldr: it's impossible to know for sure which choice is the absolute best. In a sense, I get why they write verbosely, but... The first and most important task of our lives is to de…

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    Comment #43718272

    first telephone vs first iphone

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    Comment #43533825

    Even if we achieve 2x every 3-4 years, isn't it still massive in absolute ?

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    Comment #43220292

    The difference between a rational person and a narcissist is this: one recognizes the sufficiency of world-destroying power, the other will always demand more, regardless of the ab…

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    Comment #43219116

    Imagine the paradox: holding the fate of the world in your hands, but still feeling under threat from a military alliance like NATO

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    Comment #42493193

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFc1jxLHhyM

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    Comment #39582247

    This is how I look at this issue. I am a layman. Question of intelligence is more or less irrelevant in LLM. All we need is something that can mimic an average human. I would say w…

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    Comment #39165348

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering

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    Comment #38347882

    The last point is indeed true. It's quite mind-boggling to me.

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    Comment #35776562

    Sorry for being pedantic. The intelligence of something is inconsequential. What truly matters is its ability to convincingly imitate intelligence.