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One of the Voyager probes measured the density of the interstellar vacuum at 80,000 protons (and the same number of electrons) per cubic meter. A proton going through a piece of al…

I suspect load-bearing is a euphemism for 'not garbage'. Ad in 'most of what you said I can mostly ignore'.

This reminds me of when a friend saw that someone had Liked something he had posted online, and he wanted to Like the Like. There was no interface to do that, so he was "reduced" t…

The idea that a producer is at fault and not also the consumer paying them to do that is strange to me.

Can anyone find (or draw) a picture of the construction?

It's really not clear. We might all become unemployable. But as coders become more powerful, they can do more, which makes them more valuable, if they or the businesses empluying t…

What an alien preference ordering.

It might be a bad idea to put that in all caps, because in the training data, angry conversations are less productive. (I do the same thing, just in lowercase.)

As a consequentialist who shares the author's concerns, I feel fine (ethically) using AI without advancing it. Foregoing opportunities meaningful to yourself for deontological reas…

This might sound snarky but in all earnestness, try talking to an AI about your experience using it.

They're not saying the election results are in. They're saying Orban's style of rule has been a disaster for Hungary.

I love 3B1B but generally don't have time to watch long videos. Can anyone sum up the punchline?

Yes, without a good experiment (maybe a natural one [1]) we can't know. Even if the study controls for everything observable, there may be unobserved differences that lead to the c…

Dogfoodung usefully connotes getting off your high horse, getting dirty, getting your face in it. I think it's perfect.

As someone who has received death threats, I can tell you, the comfort from the fact that they're usually not acted on, while real, is not huge.

But does it have network access, or access to other apps (perhaps via shared storage)? There's no reason for it to have any of that, and there exist systems for tracking whether an…

When I go to enable it I get 'may be able to collect all the data you type, including ... passwords'. 'may be able to'? How is this not knowable? Do I have to wait for effect syste…

This feels like the most important comment here. Do other Mastodon users feel the same? The OP Madden me want to try Mastodon.

You sound offended. Not my intent. It is linguistically difficult to avoid connotations of intelligence when describing artificial intelligence. What term instead of 'judgment' wou…

Something I love about emacs is the ability to tab complete the name of a command. I do know a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but I use way, way more commands than I know the shortcut …

This feels like an opportunity for afversatial truth-gindibg, like the legal system uses. If bias is inevitable, then have at least two AIS with opposing viewpoints summarize the s…

They usually say no if they judge what you're asking to be bad. And they might enjoy the work. Or they might have no feelings ar all. Slavery is an abomination of a life that could…

Needs audio examples! A YouTube link!

I tried the API once. Burned 7 dollars in 15 minutes.

This surprises me: "These modern systems are developed to sound human, natural, and conversational. Unfortunately this seems to come at the expense of accuracy. In my testing, both…