Willow McDonald is looking quite young for a 55 year old male born in 1965.
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OpenAI isn’t exercising caution, they’re exercising MARKETING and GOVERNMENT INFLUENCE.
I’d suggest the moderators ban this crap.
Simple straightforward buttons; the screen is not filled to the brim with advertising…
People today are more closed, I think they’d be less likely to do that, even as they get into middle age and past the insecurities of youth.
Sex/drugs/rock-n-roll probably got a segment of the population out of its shell that otherwise wouldn’t.
2MB of CSS just sounds insane. What are we even doing here?
FFS, why not just go back to explicitly inlining all the formatting in the HTML itself? I have trouble believing all the CSS is actively used. It’s not like any of this is written by humans these days.
2MB of text - isn’t that roughly half the size of the Christian Bible?
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it!"
These things have different values to different people. While most everyone wants them in some form, there is a huge spectrum between “it won’t kill me this month” and “living in pristine Mt. Fuji”.
Should private companies be allowed to pollute sparse remote areas with no population?
Does it have a financial value if nobody goes there?
I’d have been more surprised if there wasn’t any impact on learning.
Of course with face identification for unlocking, there is now a power incentive to not do so…
I’ve come to appreciate that delivering software is not just having a few “10x developers”. One needs QA, marketing, field engineers, and other roles. It really is a group effort.
If 90% of the software engineers and QA were replaced by someone dispensing their intent to an AI, what’s the rest supposed to do?
In society, we have an entire ecosystem of unrelated professions that depend on each other.
A truly dystopian future would be everyone lazing around at home, living on UBI, watching AI-generated television and movies.
Seems like almost everything moderately priced has soles made of a extremely lightweight, squishy soft plastic that neither has much traction nor any toughness — worse than cheap flip-flop material.
Shoe companies should be embarrassed to put their name on such crap, yet they try to pass it off as premium.
Or companies that are in a perpetual hiring freeze?
Shuffling out 8GB with a spinning hard drive could take a full minute…
That said, I agree with you. I’d rather not use swap unless absolutely necessary and I don’t want the latter to happen either…
Plus, I don’t want my storage in the “critical path” of memory accesses, even if rare.
The cadence was extremely robotic and consistent. Only thing that makes me think it wasn’t AI was the very end when they repeated a confirmation code and didn’t use the NATO names for the letters the second time around.
Today I spent 20 minutes in a call to customer support. The representative spoke so robotic-ally (both cadence and word choice), I was extremely confident they were an AI for the first 15 minutes. Was quite certain the automated AI had transferred me to a more advanced one…
Turns out they were just likely in a low cost Latin American country and trying really hard. I felt bad one could be reduced to such…
That whole thing sounds deliciously evil - I’m not even sure who to be mad at — too many to pick from.
At least space exploration results in some valuable technology being developed, even if done in an extremely expensive manner.