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Seems like this article had a large impact on your understanding of the housing system. Could you post it so that others can read it too?

oil is a commodity, and yet the oil industry is massive and has multiple major players

not sure what this sort of naval gazing accomplishes. software companies are designing their products around user preferences. you or anyone else are welcome to create the kind of …

giving a single counter example does not mean "most of the world" is not true here

do you really think that if I said "he is american" that 96% of the world isn't going to think I mean the USA?

Thanks for the insight. Very cool to get your perspective on this

Agreed, blind people and sighted people are able to experience different kinds of beauty that are inaccessible to each other. As a sighted person, if there was a technology that co…

The thesis is simple: these programs are smart now, but unreliable when executing complex, multi-step tasks. If that improves (whether because the models get so smart that they nev…

I don't think this is true

lol you got me

I'm starting to think there's no difference between this website and reddit

there are ways to support yourself without supporting a corporation

you'd rather everyone die than to see experience requirements for certain jobs go up?

if y'all think that being in the dark about market wages is going to result in employers offering higher salaries then I don't know what to tell you

it wouldn't surprise me if what we think of as intelligence is nothing more than brute force attempts at prediction with educated guesses

Are you saying that companies lose the ability to secure financing once they go public?

Thanks for the comments, that was really enlightening. Not sure why people on a tech forum seem so eager to dismiss an emerging technology rather than using their imaginations a li…

> But second, it's easy to say, 'it's probably fine' from the outside, when your neck and your future isn't at risk. Yeah this was basically going to be my response to the first pa…

Israel is surrounded by nations which want to see Israel destroyed, and which have banded together in the past to attempt exactly that (e.g. the Yom Kippur War in 1973). If Israel …

Could you give a clear mechanistic model of how the US would handle such a danger?

He means the article is saying they will need $3 million in today's dollars to retire

I lean libertarian but I'm very much in favor of AI regulation

It takes energy to produce food and various goods

OpenAI is clear about the fact that ChatGPT can hallucinate, where have they ever said otherwise?

if they can make me feel like I'm having a face to face conversation with someone who lives hours away then that would be fundamentally different