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gabbagool

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    Comment #49188599

    Well, I've never been to the Grand Canyon myself, but what you said perfectly aligns with my intuition. Also, you touched on how even modern tech still falls short of the true expe…

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    Comment #49186724

    Or, ask yourself the following question: If you read every single book there is about The Grand Canyon, and watched every single video and/or documentary about The Grand Canyon, do…

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    Comment #49186506

    Probably too late for this, but I have argued before that language is a fundamentally lossy encoding of the human experience. We do our best to describe what we're seeing and exper…

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    Comment #48224653

    I agree with this whole heartedly. What's the point of even having copyright law at this point? What's even crazier to think about is that to use the latest versions of these model…

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    Comment #48182362

    My thought on this is that LLMs should be allowed to touch high stakes projects, but they shouldn't be left completely unsupervised. Here me out. Would you let AI manage your inves…

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    Comment #47840901

    I'm genuinely curious why you think Apple software is terrible?

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    Comment #47678005

    The first thing I thought when I read the abstract of the underlying paper was that this sounds like "model collapse" at the society level. I don't feel super confident that we'll …

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    Comment #47616650

    Just because someone lets the electrician (LinkedIn) into their home (browser) doesn't mean they can do whatever the hell they want that isn't expressly prohibited. If the electric…

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    Comment #45453850

    To this day, I wonder if Google knew that they couldn't be the ones to unleash AI unto the world. They clearly had the wherewithal and expertise to do it (Vaswani et al, 2017), but…