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In 5 years we'll probably have locally run AI which could do something like this in a millisecond.

Probably this will be done more and more often for works which don't have translation in some language because of low interest. E.g. old manuscripts, light novels, fan fiction etc.…

HPMOR is one of those fanfics which make you feel a strong connection to the author, he really poured his soul into it ("rare vitamins" as he put it [1]), the good and the bad, kin…

I would have loved that too but that is quite impossible in this paradigm. Probably the way people in the 20th century envisioned AGI rising out of GOFAI (also quite impossible in …

Thing is, I started appreciating this way of looking at art only after reading anti-LLM arguments, and I am a bit angry at myself for not feeling it during the pre-LLM decades of m…

This effect will disappear when, instead of having 4-6 big models that everyone uses, we'll have trillions of models with memory / continual learning, each independently developing…

I thought it more in the sense of: if a clearer-thinking group has higher status, then clear thinking would be encouraged among the population. (This did not happen that much, ofc.…

Exactly one of them threatens their lifestyle.

Could you elaborate? I think back in the 90s when I was a teenager I thought it to be a good thing that there is a rise in status for a class of people characterized by clear think…

I have been using MonoBook for years (early 2023 I think), I see nothing like that.

What you are proposing is a barrier no AI and no human and no intelligence would pass. The idea of an AI that one-shots a task presumes that the one requesting the task already kno…

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a60b2eb-0b64-83ee-9c76-7931ca1de0...

Every thing passes through the following stages: 1. AI cannot do something. 2. AI starts being able to do something, but one needs to prompt it carefully, so one needs to be an exp…

Now the deed is done, one cannot undo it.

This is a bit of a strawman argument. Hard SF is not just "about tech", it is about making sure the tech agrees with scientific principles and is not just an ad hoc method to make …

By explaining, I just meant writing papers in a human-readable way. For example, the results yesterday were also written up by AI. Explaining in the sense of getting someone who do…

I work in math and also believe in this stuff and have done so for years. You may call me sick if you wish so. My only cope among those was, using the author's words, "We will teac…

He had already disappointed me in 2011 with this post https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality...

> Lots of people hated CGI. then it got better, then it got worse again What do you mean by "it got worse again"? Why did CGI tech get worse?

A robot will send whatever they discover to the FBI. My issue is different: I feel bad with someone working around me while I am lazy. A robot would not pose that problem.

Same here. Anyway I only went to movie rental stores during the brief two-year window in the mid-2000s between owning a DVD player (never had VCR, we were too poor) and having broa…

> The smaller/open models are less good at that. But that’s not how software development is done. You don’t prompt a whole app and be done with it. After open models will also be a…

I pronounce lose and loose exactly the same, and have no problem differentiating them in writing.