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I imagine a good model of the brain would contribute enormously to alleviating psychiatric/mental health disorders.

What's the tell? It doesn't seem AI generated to me but I may not be a great judge.

I don't think the quality of discussion about social media suffers from lack of specification. Whether or not you consider HN to be social media, or wherever your decision boundary…

I use the firefox extension "Unhook" to completely hide suggested content on Youtube. Really effective, I kindof can't believe how much time I spent getting suckered into watching …

Just to be clear, your comment had a general statement about how you perceived the motivations of "people buying vinyl". That's what I was responding to. (People using VHS filters …

There are plenty of people who sincerely enjoy the aspects that make older tech less convenient or practical. Maybe it's an appreciation for the engineering or "comprehensibility,"…

Not asking adversarially at all here: what do you mean by resisting with "real numbers" without media campaigns, social media, or protesting? What do the vested parties actually do…

Author really should have figured out a better word than "vanity."

It looks to me like OpenAI's image pipeline takes an image as input, derives the semantic details, and then essentially regenerates an entirely new image based on the "description"…

You must not end up reading much scientific literature then.

lol

The two dogs I know that share this behavior are border collies.

The seahorse emoji is one of the canonical "Mandela effects". These are things that a large group of people collectively (mis)remember, but turn out to have never existed. Classic …

I've always been surprised by the official homeless population count, but it turns out there's a lot more to it. The department of HUD generates this ~771K figure from a "point-in-…

Wow, there really is an xkcd for everything.

My read is that the author is saying it would have been really nice if there had been a really good protocol for storing data in a rich semantically structured way and everyone had…

It's very easy to imagine a world where all these things are solved, but it is a worse world to live in overall. I don't think it is "bad" to be sincerely worried that the current …

To be clear, I'm pretty sure the half-trillion figure is the projected combined investment between SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. Not public, US tax-payer dollars. If that's no…

Sounds like there's not enough tax revenue!

This is one of the many many experiences in the tapestry of people figuring out how to use this new tool. There will be many such cases of engineers losing their edge. There will b…

Exactly. If the whole "deep research" thing pans out, and we have models that can reliably produce proper literature reviews in 10 minutes...that alone will be an enormous boon to …

Crucially, this doesn't just require noise but it requires "taste." I tend to fall back on music creation as an example of this notion. Lots of innovation in music is experimentati…

Especially with the proliferation of generative AI, I anticipate something of a tech backlash in the next decade, and performatively NOT looking at one's phone will be part of it. …

Definitely interesting, but I'm not so sure that such a study can yet make strong claims about AI-based work in general. These are scientists that have cultivated a particular work…

What is dogfooding?