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I’m not able to duplicate these results following their methodology, which makes me wonder if the OpenAI model is using memories from the reporter’s previous searches as context.

Code samples. This is what’s missing most of the time. Even if you encounter esoteric jargon, if they give a few examples, it’s pretty easy to decipher. Even big companies like Goo…

Reading the whole article, the author clearly states he knows there is no sentience or anything mysterious going on, and acknowledges this is simply mimicking endless volumes of hu…

Douglas Adams, [how to learn to love the internet]: 1. everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2. anything that gets invented between then and befor…

I like to keep an open mind about these things. But they tend to be metaphysical arguments based on asking lots of questions and just pondering the issue, rather than on testable e…

Physicist Sean Carroll’s take, based empirical understanding, and what would be necessary for some essence of a person’s conscious to remain after death. https://youtu.be/jUIjDncKZ…

Animations can be a great way to create a sense of dynamism to a website. But it has to be very subtle, and done right. I sense most people’s knee-jerk reaction is to hate these, a…

Oh no! The U.S. really needs to step up its game if it wants to stay competitive. (Honestly I couldn’t care less, but if a new space race injects further investment into science/sp…

This is fascinating, but also worrying how people might extrapolate too much from innate evolutionary upbringing. We’re social beings and there are so many examples of social const…

All the ways extinction is possible helps to answer Fermi’s paradox. Asteroids, nuclear war, disease, supernova, etc. I was just reading that NASA is getting closer to its [asteroi…

> Is it time for us to simply accept that it's inevitable that, at some point, everything will be hacked, and hacked often? I disagree. I’d take the Economists route, which is look…

I see. So it’s not just about spoofing messages.

Why aren’t GPS signals digitally signed? It would be simple to prevent this kind of attack.

Faster than light communication would violate causation, meaning you could send a message that would arrive before it was sent. What happens if you instruct yourself to not send it…