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but the non-TV part of the internet is, on its own, probably more valuable than TV ever was

My guess is that whoever develops superintelligence first will have a big number in their bank account while their body is disassembled to make solar panels and data centers

the article reads like a press release talking about how innovative and exciting their product is for dozens of paragraphs, but never actually giving details about what the product…

do you think vinge and kurzweil in the 90s and 2000s were imagining the singularity occuring exactly at the advent of LLMs? are you supposing that LLMs are the only viable path tow…

i feel this way about twitter since logged out users can't browse tweets anymore. now i can give myself just a tiny bit of friction to break the habit. i still waste time on my pho…

you should give it a try to be honest. metaculus.com

i wonder how many of the commenters who bemoan how GPT-4 can't do this or that task, could have predicted 2 or 5 years ago what GPT-4 can do easily today

i like how the article never explains or even mentions what "we're doing wrong"

>Tinder and Bumble are in decline do we actually have any evidence this is true? people have complained about dating since we were neanderthals; articles like this have written the…

the supermajority of humanity doesn't know what chatGPT is useful for, so google's total amount of searches are almost certainly the same. you could only detect the difference for,…

evolution also programmed us to yawn, yet doctors can't figure out what purpose or benefit it has

there's a lot of suffering in the world, and it doesn't matter too much to me who's fault it is (in the case of kidney failure, is it anyone's fault?). for me, morality isn't about…

not meaning to attack you on this point--it's your life and you can do what you want--but why would you only consider being a donor for your family? i'm guessing the reason might b…

just so you know, around 1% of people die in conditions where their organs are elligible for transplantation. then there's the factor that kidneys from living donors generally last…

selling kidneys doesn't preclude us having the same thorough screening process we have now, although it means there may be people who try harder to game the screening process. i ju…

park your army away from the black hole and build up your weapons and drones before the battle. you could build up resources at speeds orders of magnitude greater than the black ho…