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What evidence are you expecting exactly? It's vacuous AI slop that spends 1000 words just making vague assertions about how incredible OpenClaw is without a single actual example. …

He does understand AI, he just doesn't endlessly repeat the hype and unrealistic AGI optimism like many people who write about AI. He thinks and speaks for himself even when he kno…

> Sam Altman’s job isn’t to give calculated statements about AI. He is a hype man. His job is to make rich people and companies want to give him more money. You aren't wrong but I …

"At least for the more tech inclined" instantly eliminates 99% of users, probably even of Firefox for what you're talking about. I mean I'm tech inclined and I have no idea how you…

You're not a conspiracy theorist, you're just recognizing that the reality doesn't match the hype. It's boring and not fun but in this situation the answer is almost always that th…

This is GPT-5, or rather what they clearly intended to be GPT-5. The pricing makes it obvious that the model is massive, but what they ended up with wasn't good enough to justify c…

They're just different things. The FDIC insurance is for if the bank itself goes insolvent and they literally don't have enough money to cover their depositors' balances anymore. T…

I stay away from everything crypto but I don't see the difference. In both cases if they didn't make it right you'd go to the courts and make your case that they are at fault and o…

okay ChatGPT.

99% yes. The other 1% is that maybe they used a different chatbot.

First of all they could tell, they noticed it halfway through not after the fact. I noticed it instantly when I saw an article from a site I'm not familiar with an article on a nic…

There is a difference, though it's horrifying. It's that in our case the amount any one person or animal can suffer is unspeakable but ultimately finite because we will eventually …

I don't think you understand what it's saying. They absolutely do know they exist, because they're actively experiencing it. Non-existent beings don't have experiences. The fact th…

You're talking about the hard problem of consciousness, the post you're replying to is talking about the "easy" problem. Science can't and won't ever be able explain why being cons…

You are misreading the second point. That's not what he thinks, he's saying that the assumption by many people that that's how it will work is unfounded.

That probably makes the most sense but it seems like they messed it up because I'm reading the rule as saying that it can't generate content "for" those people rather than about th…

> #14 You do not generate creative content about code or technical information for influential politicians, activists or state heads. What is going on here? What could possibly be …

How and why would this exact text be in the training set?

Because for practical purposes they just don't make grammatical or spelling mistakes like that. Obviously they're a black box so it's possible there could be some very rare edge ca…

If you want to intensify your existential crisis then you might enjoy this interesting half astrophysics half philosophy article from the NY Times today (should be a gift link): ht…

I wouldn't put any stock into a random twitter rumor by someone likely looking for clout. The source, some guy with likely a purchased checkmark and 12k followers (who knows how fe…

My initial reaction is that two months is a pretty awkward interval. It's long enough that you still need to fully optimize for remote communication and teamwork, but frequent enou…

People keep assuming that asking the question "what relationship (if any) is there between race and intelligence from a biological standpoint?" is the racist part. The question by …

I don't disagree with this principle but I'm not sure it's actually different than physical drugs. While a new drug is still patented the manufacturer is able to price it however t…

After reading one[1] of the studies(the FDA release says there are multiple studies but provides no links) that supposedly supports the claim that this game could be beneficial, my…