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You have a point. I would further add that private ownership of these things requires capital concentration that cannot be healthy for society. On the other hand, are we replacing …

The end of the UN seems plausible if we continue to move from a rule-based world order to a power-based one. For the same reason, there is little chance we will see the end of the …

The scaling laws are also power laws, meaning that most of the big gains happen early in the curve, and improvements become more expensive the further you go along.

LeCun has already proved himself and made his mark and is now in a lucky position where he can focus on very long term goals that won't pay off for a long time (or ever). I feel li…

I would say GPT itself is less an event and more the culmination of decades of research and development in algorithms, hardware, and software. Of course, to some degree, this is tr…

Basically what we have done the last few years is notice neural scaling laws and drive them to their logical conclusion. Those laws are power laws, which are not quite as bad as lo…

That's fair enough, there are problems with this way of thinking. I suppose you could say the take-away should be "Don't donate to charities where close to your whole donation will…

I suppose in the beginning, it was about finding ways to measure how effective different altruistic approaches actually are and focusing your efforts on the most effective ones. Ef…

> It seems that you're saying that a therapist will be "rubbish unless they use basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy concepts" ? i.e. that this is the only valid approach to therapy…

With many drugs that are used both therapeutically and recreationally, it is the case that the average recreational dosage is much larger. Ketamine is an exception here, as therape…

I think we have seen a general trend towards centralized platforms on the internet. Where you had many individual niche sites before, now you have a few all-encompassing platforms.…

Yes, there is additional context that is not explicitly stated in the question. It is clear that you are looking for a job to earn money and live your life and everyone already kno…

It's not like the US doesn't have a problem with affordable housing, so I don't see how this plays any role in the divide. Germany has plenty of applied research organizations, fro…

This seems like the classic shifting of goalposts to determine when AI has actually become intelligent. Is the ability to communicate not a form of intelligence? We don't have to p…

I keep seeing this argument, but I don't buy it at all. I want a phone with an AGI, not a phone that is only AGI. Often it's just easier to press a button rather than talk to an AI…

This is clearly a joke, but just for completeness: This would be terrible idea as dosing is very important with this drug. Too little doesn't make sense, too much is extremely dang…

It is true that Germany (and Europe as a whole) suffers from a less than ideal investment and innovation landscape. The companies you mentioned, however, worked on products that ba…

> humans are infinitely better for this purpose and way cheaper to produce. Most of the western world is having demographic issues. We are having trouble getting people to reproduc…

I feel like as an individual user, I'd rather have my social media data siphoned off by a foreign government than my own. On a societal level, having everyone's data siphoned off b…

It does seem that there are periods and places where things are in equilibrium, or stable. At some point, something typically comes along and disturbs that balance. This can be see…

You sound like you have a good overview. Is there any chance you could point me into the direction of good literature? I'm used to reading scientific literature and would love to l…

I've been applying to jobs for the last three months and many companies use systems that automatically parse your resume and then let you manually correct the parsed data. It's nea…

foobar2000 is actually available for Mac.

I think it's important to distinguish between two directions here: 1) can someone figure out who I am based on my profile and 2) can someone find my profile if they know who I am. …