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Comment #49213050
It's a sequence of thin lines, between using Chrome out of the box, to using something like Brave, to using a highly customized Zen Browser, to having ChatGPT look up a particular …
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Comment #49212868
Well agreed, but it's not new, the web has been actively made user hostile by every website owner and their "273 partners".
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Comment #49177048
>Results: Overall, 22% of L4 crash involvements were deemed police-reportable or maybe police-reportable, and two thirds of these occurred in driverless operation. L4 vehicles were…
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Comment #49163546
Sorry, I'm confused. My formulation "experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person" and your "topic experts overestimate how much the …
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Comment #49161372
There's also the idea on the other side of the coin - whereby experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person. And of course there's a r…
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Comment #49157706
> Especially because it takes weeks before the infected start showing symptoms. I just wanted to say that your phrasing here is a fabulously ominous one for the first episode of an…
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Comment #49121748
Sorry about the nitpicking, but s/monopoly/duopoly/
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Comment #49110422
Yes, pretty much, but stopping at the cpu level (about the first half of the course).
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Comment #49097976
I appreciate the grammar refresher, but my comment was about a monopoly on AI being very unlikely rather than it being an ontological impossibility. What am I missing? Why should w…
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Comment #49096258
What monopoly? What I'm seeing over these last 3 years is the fastest and fiercest competition I could imagine.
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Comment #49092272
While I'm as cynical as anyone, for what it's worth, it seems to me that such deceleration is broadly in line with their founding charter, where they wrote: > We are concerned abou…
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Comment #49073764
You're making this very dichotomous, but I'm not convinced. Why shouldn't there be a way to bring issues to the parliament's attention without private money? For example, while fla…
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Comment #49030191
I don't get the argument. It sounds to me like you're saying that because my own chess skills are insufficient to allow me to have a proper game with a grandmaster and I end up los…
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Comment #49028252
> Do you feel like you're having a conversation with a peer when you prompt an LLM in the topic you're an expert of? For the love of God, I'd hope not. Yes, I do feel that. Make of…
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Comment #49026919
But it's not the same thing. I went through this conversation between Terry Tao and ChatGPT about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample [0] and it looks a lot more like a conversa…
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Comment #49023943
Maybe you forgot to put "Enhance" in the prompt? /s
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Comment #48957026
https://archive.ph/ZgrAP
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Comment #48918382
But the thing with "pure" math, is that it can unexpectedly get adulterated by debased concerns such as enabling cryptography for the world economy.
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Comment #48908610
I'm not a grifter and am not looking to use this for anything myself, but I just found myself nerdsniped to get Codex to reproduce this, and had it also write it up as a skill - ht…
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Comment #48908484
Sorry, I couldn't resist and just got Codex to replicate this for me as an OCR-d page on top of an AI-generated image - https://jsfiddle.net/wmLvojr7/
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Comment #48904283
> Donald Knuth's code would be much more likely to meet my standards during a code review than some LLM output. Just to nitpick - will it actually? I don't know what your relations…
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Comment #48904205
> "Apple" is a generic name, that does not actually really express anything particularly specific. ... > "apple" as an idea doesn't really express anything concrete without lots mo…
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Comment #48900124
But the underlying table changed since. I'm not very familiar with these myself, but it seams to me that the best solution is to keep a session cursor for the user, and these are a…
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Comment #48892731
What do you mean? Are you arguing that it's impossible to fully translate things? Would you argue that "apple", "manzana", "pomme", "mela", "maçã" etc. all refer to different ideas…