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dogwalker5000

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    Comment #48755133

    Wow, they literally put an antivaccer in charge of the health department.

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    Comment #48754935

    If you decide to buy into Sony’s future, make sure you do it with your eyes wide open. Unlike Valve who has never taken away what people have bought without a refund (to my knowled…

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    Comment #48754888

    I’m just saying, you can stop buying new games. If enough people do it, Sony will fold.

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    Comment #48751656

    > they know consumers are trapped. Gaming is a luxury good. We can all just walk away.

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    Comment #48715245

    > What's the cost, probability and trade off between those possibilities? I read an old article that compared the various scenarios. https://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/the-perils…

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    Comment #48714611

    People invest in what would get them the highest ROI. No one is really thinking about “improving the world”* when they invest. What’s scary about the AI boom is people over investi…

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    Comment #48671453

    Yet spacex is losing money … only StarLink is profitable.

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    Comment #48671434

    If AGI = Data from Star Trek, it would be a huge leap. Frankly, anything less I wouldn’t consider as AGI.

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    Comment #48638817

    JangFX is the company I believe. They have many products. One of them, EmberGen (a fluid simulator), is fully written in Odin. No idea what the rest are written in.

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    Comment #48637006

    Until AI comes for your mechanics job too, https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell... I feel we are getting the worse of “both worlds”. Fiction has sold AI in …

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    Comment #48619229

    > Because they are expensive and useful and if they have autonomy with goals that do not include self-preservation, they might end up destroying themselves in ways which are expens…

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    Comment #48583771

    I heard it would just refuse to talk about that incident.

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    Comment #48563688

    At what cost though? Everyone will now need to submit real ID to access social media. Smaller social media sites will probably just shutdown since it’s unlikely they can afford the…

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    Comment #48553538

    > the robots, as active agents exploring the space of possible futures and plans, would be entirely capable of thinking about their soon-to-be-former owners in the same way. That h…

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    Comment #48408297

    > - External map providers were iced out of hte market until this past year Foreign internet content companies (like Twitch) got iced out a few years ago too due to “sending party …

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    Comment #48407189

    The fact that a fast track was even considered is controversial IMHO. People flipping out, especially if their retirement is tied up with those indices, is to be expected. No one w…

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    Comment #48394746

    > When the Chinese land on the moon sometime in 2030 and the US still doesn't have a way to get there, will Elon finally reap the consequences for his lies or just the interim NASA…

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    Comment #48392709

    > If a machine has to learn to understand humans to complete text, then that is what it has to do. And there is no theoretical or practical basis for suggesting that this is someho…

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    Comment #48392625

    > If you think 'most people are completely put off by AI slop', you're living in a blessed bubble I think most knowledge workers don’t like AI because most of them are aware that A…

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    Comment #48364694

    Amazon has assets in the form of warehouses though. What assets do these AI companies have other than rapidly depreciating GPUs.

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    Comment #48318810

    > The psychopaths that are pushing it will be arguing over who gets to be president of the world in 2044. I’m suddenly reminded of Metal Gear Solid 2’s plot … In 2044, “the Patriot…

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    Comment #48318272

    After cases like Madoff, Theranos, and FTX … I don’t know about that.

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    Comment #48307005

    Prompt engineering is such a weird thing. Isn’t interacting with AI using natural language one of its main selling point? You don’t have to learn an artificial query / programming …

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    Comment #48303459

    > If Google isn’t carefully they’re going to push people away from their golden goose. Won’t be surprised if Google thinks their Golden Goose is terminally ill and AI is the replac…