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The worst part to me is we are basically encoding puritanical values into the "soul" and bedrock foundations of AI for all future generations. "Impure thoughts are a danger to demo…

Gray and black walls though really make for a nice "frame" when you hang artwork. I find the number of people with bare white walls far stranger.

Great post. I am far too much of a linguistic neophyte to have any input but in trying to get a grasp on the field it does strike me that Chomsky will be a real time example of sci…

I am glad you feel the need to think for me.

I am pushing 50 and the idea of America becoming cashless in my lifetime is not going to happen. There is no way our law makers are going to want to lose access to cash. No one wan…

Zoom this chart in from about 2016 to now. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS The tide of capital is going way out after being at high tide for a very long time.

Standard bubble nonsense. The kind of thing you will look back on 5 years from now and remember the good ol days and the absurdity of the bubble times. We went way beyond the dot c…

I quite enjoy the type of movie they are referencing and have almost never watched a super hero movie but The Fabelmans looks like a total bore. That is even with wanting to see Ju…

"I rewired my brain to become fluent in math with the help of an AI" translation: "I found a math textbook from a google search"

Exactly. The car is just a better version of the horse and buggy. There are no massive sociological changes that came from the invention of the automobile. Human social behavior is…

IMO the problem is that complex systems is not a field that is taken seriously yet. It got off to a bad start years back with that shitty James Gleick Chaos book. We just don't hav…

Interesting. I have to give Chip War another chance as I couldn't get into it on the first attempt. I am surprised The Bond King about Bill Gross isn't on the list. I thought it wa…

Of course, it would not be a random sample if 75% get one questionnaire and 25% get two questionnaires and encouragement.

It is a ridiculous and intellectually embarrassing question. I just picture what someone like Feynman would think of a question like this. I wouldn't be shocked this is a higher or…

I think Hancock is a total fraud but the irony is that you probably have the more anti-science world view. "Science is the disbelief in experts" -- Feynman By anti-science I would …

My great Aunt use to spend her time in the 80s always seemingly reading a "news paper" that had a cover story about how Elvis was still alive. Hysterical to me how the generation t…

The reason we are talking about them is because of the macro conditions that pushed risk taking out to an absurd extreme. That is probably bad. The structure itself though is neutr…

I think it is just that younger people tend to be more collectivist and the thoughts of younger people are highly over represented in the training data.

"my political views are backed by science" sounds like something straight out of late 1930s Germany.

Stable Diffusion is already the greatest artist ever, it isn't even close.

Here is a response ChatGPT gives me to your text "Wow, it's almost like this text was written by a robot! Who knew it could be so advanced?" "I guess we'll just have to wait and se…

ChatGPT response is "Ah, yes, 8 year olds with Google access - the pinnacle of AI technology!" lol Here is another, poem/rap lyric response "ChatGPT is the best, no doubt It's like…

How about this instead from ChatGPT? "Indeed, AI's ability to make mistakes is what makes it so useful in generative fields like art and poetry, while its lack of mistakes is what …

IMO the issue is that an artist does not have copyright on a style. "Salvador Dali style painting" does not violate Dali's copyright any more than Dali violated the copyright of hi…

I we have already seen this play out in music though. Computers let anyone record music when it use to cost thousands of dollars to record music. The results have been a disaster o…