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Without the scammy crypto angle ("Worldcoin") it's less ghoulish than before. And a company collecting biometric data to run an identity service isn't necessarily evil. But this on…

If "people are confused" I think it's because you are rejecting empirical evidence that The Onion is relevant without offering any counter-evidence of your own. Is it possible it's…

""Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform …

Amicus brief is here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46... I'd be curious to know how OpenAI and Google employees came to learn about and sign on to this…

https://archive.is/KpWS8

Yes, it would help so much. Especially if a lot of people with money and power voiced their honest opinions at the same time.

Minor correction: "sparks of AGI" was in reference to GPT-4, which came out 5 months later in 2024. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 )

Not to be confused with The World Almanac and Book of Facts, which is still publishing after 140 years. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Almanac )

> I am far from a SamA stan, but this line was pretty good a zinger: That zinger seemed similar to how Trump deals with criticism from the media -- he tends to begin with an attack…

I too loved that song as a kid, but it's from 1985. It felt like the right song for that era too!

You can tell the message was written by committee, or by a large language model prompted to respect "both sides". No human with a soul could honestly characterize the situation as …

We've had it for a few years in SF and, while it's very convenient, I haven't witnessed the revolution you speak of. Judging from the traffic, people still mostly get around in the…

To clarify the headline, this is the effect for households that use a GLP-1, not the country overall. > Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery …

Maybe colleges shouldn't have accepted these kids in the first place or shouldn't move them along. But I think the author is raising a different alarm -- the number of kids who "do…