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imagine being dead for hundred years, no one visits you, everyone you know is dead and gone then one day someone takes their time to find out who you are, cleans your tomb and places fresh flowers on you? sounds pretty cool to me
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you dont want your kid to read age inappropriate stuff but when i was 12 i read choke by chuck palahnuik which is about a guy that picks up girls at sex addicts meetings and that convinced me reading was cool and i never stopped reading since then so, sometimes its kind of a wash
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This is so simple to fix. Just give the AI company and the prompter equal legal responsibility and watch new, adequate security protocols spring up overnight.
"Experts say you foolish peasants will be brought to heel" has been terrible messaging, it's true
To be honest, I'm surprised when people are surprised by this reaction.
I live at AI ground zero in San Francisco. I am in the top 1% in terms of agent use. *And* I have more optimism for its positive impact long term then most people I meet.
But let's be honest. For the past three years the main narrative Silicon Valley has promoted is:
“AI is powerful beyond your comprehension, rapidly making us rich as it is taking your job, and experts say there is a chance it might kill humanity.”
If you wanted to explain the real value of AI to normal people, it is hard to imagine of a more confusing and counterproductive way to do it.
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Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
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Imagining an indie author who becomes unstuck in time like Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five and starts accusing a bunch of bewildered lit mag editors of taking money from Peter Thiel, because from their perspective 2020 was like four minutes ago.
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"This writer hundreds or thousands of years ago is speaking directly to me right now" is the absolutely ideal mode of encountering the past. Other ways are more "responsible" but above all we need to remember that these are human beings like ourselves.
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Sister Jeanne des Agnes, Father Urbain Grandier, and Father Pierre Barre will all be added to Fortnite at the end of October in honor of Ken Russel’s The Devils 4K restoration and re-release
I've said that automation doesn't look or feel like the industrial revolution of the 1840s but I was wrong when I compared it to cars; actually this is more like the invention of the train, which *was* advertised as the next industrial revolution until the bubble burst
Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them.
businessinsider.com/amazon-2…
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