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Also: "Sea-level rise and climatic change threaten the existence of atoll nations. Inundation and erosion are expected to render islands uninhabitable over the next century, forcin…

Is this a test to see whether people actually read the article? Because this is just copy-pasting the first paragraph. Edit: Looking at the comment history this is a spam account t…

You're talking about an optimization strategy that's a few hundred thousand years old though. (And might not even be an optimization strategy at all) Its applicability to modern li…

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams – unless you are part of their dream, then they become really interesting.

Although that's not really a good argument: (1) we don't know a lot about anything outside our solar system and (2) if this has happened a second time on earth it would be impossib…

Volkswagen just announced their next generation electric car that will be similar to the normal Golf/Polo and cost under 25k€ (which would be quite normal for an ICE car like this)…

> We don't learn by gradient descent, but rather by experiencing an environment in which we perform actions and learn what effects they have. I'm not sure whether that's really all…

What is it about humans that makes you think we are more than a large LLM?

Thanks for the added explanation! German is my mother tongue as well and I also think "Bei diesem Bild habe ich mir nichts gedacht" is very elegant and basically not translatable.

Firstly, I like this project and the art itself. As others have said this is not a new thing in art but I think the presentation, the stamp and everything are quite nice. Now secon…

"Really understanding the issues" might just mean "deeper neural networks and more input data" for the AI though. If you are already conceding that AI has the same capabilities as …

I understand almost nothing of the technology behind ChatGPT but even to me it seems obvious that a model designed for natural language processing should not be very good at simple…

It enables action. Knowledge is not pointless but it is not the end goal. An education is not pointless but it is meant to lead to some action afterwards like designing a house aft…

Interesting. I have heard about this famous speech many times but I have never made the connection to the pastry "Berliner" (or heard anyone mention this association). Also, as a n…

Of the 78 studies that this Cochrane report looks at only 2 were studying COVID-19.

In some (online) newspapers it's not uncommon for headlines to be just an interesting quote from the article and not the actual topic of the article. It's somewhat clickbaity and c…

Hacker news comments would not be a good replacement, though.

Why is complexity interesting if there are no humans to observe it?

But why? Why are algae better than rocks and ants better than algae if you take humans out of the equation?

A laugh track on top of the original laughs (the whole set was filmed in front of a live studio audience)? The audience laughter is an important part of the show, with the person h…

I think it's reasonable to assume that ChatGPT has politically similar viewpoints to those that made the fine-tuning and those are (in general) well-educated people living in Calif…

I like the small details, for example that the "pause" button doesn't immediately paus the music but it's (sort of) a very quick fade out instead. Actually, I would love to have th…