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I really detest the idea that there is a correct way to speak. Speaking is communicating, it is the fundamental way you develop relationships with others. Public speaking is no different, just more people. Is there a correct way to be friends? No. And there is not a correct way to publicly speak either.
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> let the machines negotiate I think you're on the money as to where that's headed. However, your understanding of technology seems to be entirely as weapons to gain advantage over others. Is that a fair observation? Might technology have other uses?
Thats what nature is. State copying itself until it runs out of matter and energy and starts to copy itself over other stateful creatures. Gras vs flower, flower vs tree, savannah vs forrest, animals for whichever ecosystem feeds them. Why should be a social apex predator be a inherent save role in human society? Nothing of value there, that cant be reproduced by machines.
> Why should be a social apex predator be a inherent s(l)ave role in human society?
If you truly believe what you say about "nature" it becomes;
Why would a social apex predator, knowing the love of Jesus, the insights of Einstein, Penrose, Hofstadter, being a greater warrior-poet than Colonel Kurtz, then create and unleash another more potent agent than itself (ostensibly for amusement)?
Three possibilities come to my mind.
- Hubris
- Self-loathing/suicide
- Extraordinary stupidity (misjudgement of our own intelligence)
Do you have a preference?
Looks like an interesting tool from the landing page. When I tried to create an account with Google it asked for fairly expansive permissions: - See and download any calendar you can access using your Google Calendar - See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Are all these needed? Why would you need to delete a calendar from my account?
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i m not sure that telling unconfident people that they re weak and have no friends helps
> not sure that telling unconfident people that they re weak and have no friends helps You're right. That would just be mean and rude. But I'm not doing that. I'm telling confident people (like the developers and fans of this software) that they ought not to mislead people who lack confidenve into beleiving a web application can substitute for real friends.
If you want this functionality but not with some sketchy startup, Microsoft PowerPoint has this built in for free (not free exactly, but with whatever you pay for the Microsoft bundle of crap)
Looks like an interesting tool from the landing page. When I tried to create an account with Google it asked for fairly expansive permissions: - See and download any calendar you can access using your Google Calendar - See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Are all these needed? Why would you need to delete a calendar from my account?
(By the way, it's not lost on me that you probably already do have such a setup, it's just, I know far too many folks who don't!)
This looks really exciting but I want to warn that this fulfills the following criteria: - feels to good to be free - it targets a problem that we all sense and fear when we interact with other people - the privacy and security policy is legally invalid in California and the EU (missing both is quite weird as they’re very well known privacy standards) - the email address listed inside the privacy and security policy…
It's pretty clear what/who the product is here ...
Why? Why not have my videostream analyzed and the coach synthesize a better communicating videostream? Cut out the feeble middle men and let the machines negotiate with a shopping list of interests ? I dont want to be socially ept, cunning and able, if a machine can do that for me.
> let the machines negotiate I think you're on the money as to where that's headed. However, your understanding of technology seems to be entirely as weapons to gain advantage over others. Is that a fair observation? Might technology have other uses?
Why would the "machines" "negotiate" (presumably with other machines) using human tools like conversation and presentations? There are multiple algorithms and mediums at which this can be done more efficiently (and is being done more efficiently).
We are at peak singularitarian delusion in these threads already. 'Humans do something, machines can (deus ex machina enters) do it better, machines will do it in the exact same way but instead of humans". Can't wait for the next AI winter, we desperately need it in light of these idiotic takes.