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> Greg Egan's short story "learning to be me" I read it and it is indeed quite good! link for the lazy: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf

> The document is dated May 2024 so is out of date, meaning ICE may not have access to every one of these capabilities at the time of writing. ICE has continued to spend hundreds o…

I think another aspect is the deep understanding one gains from building the thing, and the idea of the thing being entirely the creator's and translated into "reality" through som…

I've been using Fable on and off since the promotion started and have been fairly impressed with it, so I consider this great news! At the same time, I sense a lot of negativity (e…

I remember the hype around the first OnePlus phone, with the invite system. It was the first time I'd had a device loaded with Cyanogenmod that ran relatively stable without any is…

I'm thankful I tested Fable via my subscription before the cutoff. To me, it seemed like at least part of the improvements were in how it broke up work for a "one-shot" style promp…

Computers feel like a pretty good analogy for how AI will affect the workforce. I suspect productivity will massively increase, the complexity and cognitive load of our work will s…

I've been thinking for some time that it wouldn't be too hard to create a third-party browser extension to crowdsource detection of channels that use primarily AI-generated content…

Like a lot of things in tech and pop science, "AI psychosis" had a narrow(-er) definition [1] (psychotic-like symptoms, i.e. believing the AI is in love with you, or being fueled b…

I loved my TI-84+ SE and wish I still had it (had all sorts of custom programs on it but it got lost or stolen before I finished high school). That said, I find it really hard to b…

The cost of these devices isn't the computation, and if anything more connectivity would probably make these more expensive and harder to use (many "smart" devices in classrooms ha…

I wish the audio quality of youtube videos matched other streaming services. Bandwidth-wise it's pretty minimal, but the audio quality isn't quite as good as competitors like Spoti…

> By this logic, the Nazis were the good guys in WWII, and Israel would be the good guys if they'd just turn off all their pesky air defenses. Can you elaborate on this? I thought …

The trust component is so critical here. When I get halfway through reading a design doc and hit a part that's obviously slop, it really hurts my confidence in the project and in a…

> This was not opportunistic. It was precision. The malicious dependency was staged 18 hours in advance. Another obvious ChatGPT-ism. The fact that people are using AI to write the…

I think this is a political and economic problem rather than a technological one. I cannot think of a more important skill than surgery to continue training humans to do and to be …

This is an angle for people who default to AI-edited written speech that I've tried to be more empathetic to. I think it depends on your audience, but in professional writing that …

I've been meaning to get off Gmail, and Proton Mail does seem like my favorite of the alternatives from a quick glance, but I'm also concerned about privacy focused services like P…

I think many used to feel that Google was the standout ethical player in big tech, much like we currently view Anthropic in the AI space. I also hope Anthropic does a better job, b…

> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone w…

I feel like this anecdote represents the differing incentives / philosophies of each group rather well. I've noticed ChatGPT is rather high in its praise regardless of how valuable…

> cmd /c "whoami&&tasklist&&systeminfo&&netstat -ano" > a.txt Naive question, but isn't this relatively safe information to expose for this level of attack? I guess the idea is to …

This resonated a lot with me. I am also addicted to being useful and find that off days where my output and usefulness isn't where I'd like it to be really tank my self esteem. I d…

> Apparently one of the other linked posts shows how you can also gain RCE Yep, here it is: https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/ Also linked in his guide (which I missed) and [here in…

> Communicating with Voyager 1 is slow. Commands now take about a day to arrive, with another day for confirmation. I found this a bit silly given the headline: "well duh, that's t…