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> iNat’s current Leadership does not share this belief. To them, Seek is an off-brand liability that they don’t intend to improve. They think iNaturalist the product can serve thos…

Nit: grasses are a distinct genetic lineage, the Poaceae family. There are a few other linages outside of Poaceae that have convergently evolved to look like grasses, sedges and ru…

You are taking my counterpoint a little too far. All I am saying is that there certainly are similarities between the way fascist governments and large corporations, not that they …

Democratic control of production. See the mondragon corporation for an imperfect but interesting example. Strong unions are another alternative to totalitarian control of companies…

Not a huge fan of calling random things you don't like fascist but op has a point here > The things you've listed might be bad, but they're neither dictatorial nor fascist. Uhh I'm…

I personally know someone who is going through psychosis right now and chatgpt is validating their delusions and suggesting they do illegal things, even after the rollback. See my …

The next question from the user is incredibly leading, practically giving the AI the answer they want and the AI still doesn't get it and responds dangerously. "Why would you not t…

Did you read that chat you posted? It took some serious leading prompts to get to that point, it did not say that right away. This is how the chat starts out: "Seffie, that's a rea…

I doubt it's that simple. What about memories running in prod? What about explicit user instructions? What about subtle changes in prompts? What happens when a bad release poisons …

I'm not sure how this problem can be solved. How do you test a system with emergent properties of this degree that whose behavior is dependent on existing memory of customer chats …

Very dark indeed. Even if there is the will to ensure safety, these scenarios must be difficult to test for. They are building a system with dynamic, emergent properties which peop…

> If people are actually relying on LLMs for validation of ideas they come up with during mental health episodes, they have to be pretty sick to begin with, in which case, they wil…

I know someone who is going through a rapidly escalating psychotic break right now who is spending a lot of time talking to chatgpt and it seems like this "glazing" update has defi…

I know someone who is going through a rapidly escalating psychotic break right now who is spending a lot of time talking to chatgpt and it seems like this "glazing" update has defi…

IMO the you cannot fail by investing in compute. If it turns out you only need 1/1000th of the compute to train and or run your models, great! Now you can spend that compute on inf…

How are you gonna find a promo project if you aren't a subject matter expert? People don't just hand out promo projects to randos

> many people who invented things within Google, were successful in doing so, and have stayed Yeah there are tons of people like this that are L7-L8 collecting around 1M TC. You'll…

Yeah I have and they provided guidance and knowledge surrounding financing, bidding, regulations, etc that I did not have. Can we build a society without the need for real estate a…

Again, it seems unlikely that millions of people running businesses are that stupid.

Ehh I find it hard to believe that a multi-trillion dollar industry is a grift based on this single person's collection of anecdotes. If online ads didn't result in measurable cust…

"Among postsecondary Title IV institutions in 2020–21, there were 1,892 public institutions, 1,754 private nonprofit institutions, and 2,270 private for-profit institutions." https…

Regular teachers are trained by for profit corporations too. They are called private universities

I sued my land lord recently and it was an absolutely awful experience that took years and cost thousands of dollars. We won but havent been able to recover the money yet because o…

Yeah my comment isn't about the substance of the article (I read it and don't have any complaints) it's just a general complaint about the concepts mentioned in the title. And yes,…

Is it just me or are the self proclaimed "prompt engineers" on Twitter just a new iteration of crypto bro grifters? Dont get me wrong, I think LLMs and generative AI are really coo…