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Hence the desire to tear it down.

But then again, knowing what is fun does not automatically imply that one can build what is fun. Rapid prototyping at the expense of slow development often leads to superficiality …

The general direction of society is still immense destruction of the biosphere. That doesn't change because you can make conditions better locally and in the short term, especially…

But that's the entire purpose of AI: bring the value of the work of others down so that those at the top lessen the dependence of the economy on the masses. Of course, this will in…

Quit? There's no joy in working with AI. Find something else to do in life that doesn't require AI.

Yes, that's correct. I've done research in pure math, but left after the postdoc level. I enjoyed it for its artistic sake but it's not something that gives anything practical. Mos…

Most modern pure math has no practical use whatsoever. It's amazing how few people understand this. Mathematics is a service department and maybe one in a hundred thousand results …

I don't want better search. I'd rather have less commercialization of the internet. And as for SPAM, it's good to have spam filters but even better to have less incentive to send s…

But maybe there's a limit to the usefulness of this abstraction. Perhaps forgetting too many basic skills lower down isn't always as useful as going from Assembly to C. I'd argue t…

I just feel the whole process of emerging AI and then AI detectors is dehumanizing. If someone were to use it on my work, I would feel another layer of the machine between me and t…

Exactly. Luddites are not necessarily completely anti-tool. They were against large scale applications of complex technology to replace human beings en-masse. Personally I'd consid…

The goal of math is perhaps the answer but also the understanding. One can't use the answers without understanding them, which is a fundamental difference between math and a progra…

I guess if you're older, retired, sufficiently wealthy and have few needs (house paid off, lots of savings, don't care too much about acquiring new tech) then you can easily not be…

I switched to fortified soy milk and haven't looked back. Milk is tasty but soy has less sugar as well and now I prefer it. Cheese is harder to make a substitute but eating it 1-2 …

Not exactly. A drawing program could just create a new "blank slate" that substitutes some old skill requirements for new skills. The key point is that SOME machines create a suffi…

> Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology? A de-evolution of culture for the sake of efficiency, sure. The entire culture will shift t…

I wonder if in the long run it's really learning in the traditional sense, or just a shallow version of it along the lines of absorbing a bit of knowledge along the lines of readin…

The scary thing is that the system moves in a direction such that it seems that it doesn't really matter. People on an individual level care but due to the strange economic conditi…

There's always some component of a skill that is not merely knowing something but practising something seemingly procedurally. Even if I understand integration well and have done i…

I think it depends on who has the hot paper and who has the outdated results. I was in academia for quite some time and when sometime cool comes out that renders other results less…

You actually can blame OpenAI for it. Because if a tool exists and people use it, that tool is an effective means of normalizing behaviour. We change our perception and behaviour t…

But one can say that previous technologies only magnify and exacerbate this lack of caring. The internet for example, makes most of our interactions casual and sometimes anonymous,…

I think fighting for a purpose-based ideology of the internet is actually doomed to fail because the form of the technology will dictate how its used and regulation and efforts wil…

I mean this stuff is obvious. I think those that put "human-level intelligence" as a goal for AI are doing so mainly for two reasons: either they like the goal, or they want to be …

The most important thing is that you are really, truly engaged in trying to connect with the person. I've had great success with cold emails, but only because I write to people tha…