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Is it me or does this article seem “off”. The verbatim repetition of the thesis multiple times makes me think this wasn’t written by a person.
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I am not as comfortable having a back and forth on substack than I am on HN. I am not sure as to why people who use tools like [1], [2], [3], [4] have to declare as such that the parts of the content may have been edited with help from computer tools if the end goal of conveying the information has been satisfactorily achieved. This seems like a rehashing of the "AI generated art is not real art" debate [5] again. [1…
We're on HN now. Why have you deleted every comment on your post mentioning GPT-3? There were at least 4 or 5 comments mentioning it and you've deleted every one.
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I think a massive number of 15-25 year olds think it's not only a reasonable career path, but their preferred career path. They don't expect to become middle class though, they expect to become rich and famous.
What people forget is that when everyone is an influencer or a creator, nobody is. When a youngster tells me they want to be an influencer for their profession, I simply ask them "who are you influencing, and what sort of credibility do you have in order to influence them?"....seems to get the kids every time - they haven't put 2 and 2 together. The credibility needed to influence comes before everything else, and pe…
Maybe it's just part of being a teenager, but it's amplified dramatically I think by the fact that there are countless successful teenagers / early adults on the platform and these kids have parasocial relationships with them.
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We're on HN now. Why have you deleted every comment on your post mentioning GPT-3? There were at least 4 or 5 comments mentioning it and you've deleted every one.
I mentioned, I am not as comfortable having a back and forth on substack than I am on HN. That is why I deleted the comments on substack, as they were not relevant to LLMs (or "GPT-3" as you like to call them)
Just using the same language as the deleted comments.
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The problem with an economy like that is it doesn’t scale up to support a modern state. Things like a universal health service (even to the extent of Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP in the US); national road, rail and telecoms infrastructure; a universal education system; social services. You need a massive surplus to pay for all that stuff, that an artisanal craft based economy just can’t support.
I am not sure that an economy where everyone is creating tiktok content can support those type of services either. It also has not been proven that we, as humans, are able to "scale up" as you say in a sustainable manner.
Basically there are trade offs between population level, standard of living and sustainability. More of any one of those will require us to make do with less of one or both of the others. A more efficient economy can give us more to distribute between them.
That’s broad strokes. There are cases where some efficiencies compete with some standard of living concerns for example. It would be a poor world in which there were no artisanal crafts.
The whole article feels to me like it’s generated by GPT-3 based on a few prompts. There’s a reference to Forbes article not linked, but otherwise zero things backing up this 1% claim. The thing that makes this very suspicious is the continuous repetition of the same content, the anonymous writer and the fact that the only other article in this publication is about a tool that’s even better than GPT-3. GPT-3 certainl…
What is the next step then? A more formal reputation system? How long until reputation is just another traded commodity?
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As I said elsewhere, I actually hat to look up what the creator economy is supposed to be exactly. I understand it as producing online content for a living and therefore I would argue that this content should be the primary source of your income in order to make you a proper creator. Does someone in the Microsoft PR department become a creator because they are filming stuff on the campus and put it onto their YouTube…
> Does someone in the Microsoft PR department become a creator because they are filming stuff on the campus and put it onto their YouTube channel Yes. Microsoft also has specific "evangelists" that create content. Briefings, presentations, talks, videos, blog posts, etc.
The whole article feels to me like it’s generated by GPT-3 based on a few prompts. There’s a reference to Forbes article not linked, but otherwise zero things backing up this 1% claim. The thing that makes this very suspicious is the continuous repetition of the same content, the anonymous writer and the fact that the only other article in this publication is about a tool that’s even better than GPT-3. GPT-3 certainl…