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Comment #24354572
I don't get it. Saggitarius A at Milky Way center is 4 millions times Sol mass. So why is 100 impossible?
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Comment #24337519
Wow, girl, you're really desperate to prove this. I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you I was just contradicting you, I know that must be hard. So... you're in realityland and I'm i…
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Comment #24332219
I think that's good logic about suitability, but it shouldn't mean it's universally the only language that programming languages use. By the same logic, I think an argument could b…
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Comment #24332210
That's not actually true tho. Chinese Mandarin has ~ the same number of speakers as all English speakers, it's just your Englo-centric bias that makes you see the world in your ske…
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Comment #24332135
Really? You're gonna fight over some discrepancies in sources, as if that changes things. The main point is that there are huge numbers of people who speak these languages and ther…
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Comment #24331880
Now to everyone else, because it sounds like you will find this very hard to listen to right now, I think a good antidote to the fake narrative that "the Chinese government does no…
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Comment #24331858
Triggered sounds like irrational and unhinged so...if it's what you need to say about other people's views to (in your mind) censor them and protect your own views, I get it, but I…
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Comment #24330509
Sorry actually it's not an extension, it's a "controller". It attaches to the debugging port of your Chrome instance. I tried implementing it as an extension but there's a lot of (…
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Comment #24330383
Only ~5% of Earth speaks English natively. Another 15% speak it as an nth language. I think English based programming is an anomaly that came out of the post-WWII US/UK cultural wo…
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Comment #24329703
THat's probably the best fucking explanation in a HN comment I have ever read. Mind expanded. I actually feel like I get this stuff, which I didn't study at college, a little bit. …
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Comment #24303469
Yes, but it's not "the singularity". Saying AGI will be like iPhone and therefore underwhelming, is not to demean iPhone. But to place in correct perspective the overinflated ( I t…
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Comment #24293716
Ghost in the shell reference? Motoko Kusanagi
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Comment #24290235
I think it's possible. Certainly when they draw the timeline in history textbooks in future, GPT-3 could be somewhere at the start, like one of the "ape men" to human transition sp…
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Comment #24290232
I think there will be some limit that means it's not about speed. I think we can't just scale up the speed factor (even if we reach speeds that are fast enough for this in the firs…
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Comment #24281189
iPhone is revolutionary, but it's productized revolution, which feels smoother. It's not "the singularity"
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Comment #24280424
I think this is wrong (not to say you are wrong but this idea which is very common). The idea that we develop AGI and it is this program that is what we run on a regular device, an…
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Comment #24280384
That's what I'm questioning. I don't think it means that.