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Paris - the city itself - is actually surprisingly high density, almost as high as Manhattan if you do not include the two very large 'Bois' (woods) that are technically part of th…

I think it’s fine to not be into poetry, but at its core the Divine Comedy is a long poem, and I’m not sure what’s left after you remove any and all “poetic” elements. The Wikipedi…

why are we using image generators to represent actual history? If we want accuracy surely we can use actual documents that are not imagined by a bunch of code. If you want to write…

Haha, thanks for the insightful comic

Oh… my bad. Didn’t know that was a term. Sorry

American born Chinese dumplings.

Why do people go to see movies when they could just watch the trailer on YouTube?

If that’s what the article is about, then I just don’t really see the point. Literally who cares what SBF and his ilk have to think about literature. If the article is simply an ap…

I read quite a bit, actually. But I don’t go around making others feel bad for being supposedly intellectually inferior to me. > is it the vocabulary? Because it’s a grammatically-…

Little more than an article for Atlantic readers to pat themselves on the back with. By the way, I get the sense the author isn’t as wise as he imagines himself, either. His catty …

Quite simply, they’re saying that all those things can be done on a laptop if necessary. Duh.

I see. Thanks for the reply. But I wonder if that’s not a bit too optimistic and not concrete enough. Alignment won’t solve the world’s woes, just like “enlightenment” (a word whic…

Is more research really going to offer any true solutions? I’d be genuinely interested in hearing about what research could potentially offer (the development of tools to counter A…

Good comment. Not to be nit picky, but I think you might be wrong about the psychologist part. A core principle, perhaps the most important principle of all, in talk therapy is tha…

Art, or creativity, is the part of the movie that is not toil. Art being made purely for the enjoyment of all is purely commercial, and so it is in some ways equivalent to toil: it…

Art is about more than just imitation. It’s about the meaning behind the work. I am not talking about Marvel movies, which might as well be totally AI-generated at this point. I wo…

This simply doesn’t look like the IKEA style. The prompt may not be explicit enough about it looking like IKEA. This looks like something from the 70s. Which makes sense, since Mid…

No, I get it, I’ve heard that argument and I see the logic behind it. It’s a “victimless” crime. There are two issues I can think of that I would lead one to different conclusions.…

So, if you write a really good (free, since you don’t believe in intellectual property) book and I merely translate it into German, you don’t mind me selling it on Amazon and makin…

The question is how this is really possible without a dramatic restriction of internet content accessible to citizens, i.e. national firewalls. OpenAI is accountable, but that’s on…

Hmm, 500 million is a lot but it is only 500 million. Unclear how they can finance what is already there, pay for food and schools, a nuclear weapons program, a relatively giant mi…

Who is funding all of this, at the end of the day? China?

Why would bilingualism be a defense? Try throwing ChatGPT or whatever a line which combines several languages. e.g., If you ask it “¿Quel est the resultado of 四*6.1, in inglese?”, …

Noise, but I’ve gotten so accustomed to them helping me sleep better that even if it’s silent outside I find them comforting to put on.

Reminds me of a story I heard a while back, about a factory town back in the day where the management would adjust the town clock to make it run slower during the work day, and fas…