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Just burn some tokens in a browser & IMAP proxy, scanning for what you don’t want to see and substituting images of clowns or puppies for every undesirable image and rewriting the text to something more anodyne.

Who needs a firewall like the Great Firewall of China when you can now do a MITM rewrite to a more acceptable tone. You could call it The Phantom Edit.

At the time people didn’t understand that — they thought photography would kill painting. Then for a long time photography wasn’t considered an art form. Your comment reflects an understanding/ viewpoint that is much less than a century old.

We are currently at the point equivalent to when photography was just appearing (so to speak)

True, but a transformer system regresses to the mean. I don’t mind that with my bank’s app (in fact thats probably a good thing) but there are other kinds of applications where creativity will be required.

I really doubt we’ll have systems that come up with the Apple folding phone’s “blurry image of the outside screen as you open that snaps into focus as you finish opening it” feature, at least for a very long time. The very training system of these foundation models works against it.

Photography didn’t kill painting, as some people feared. A painting can be more accurate than a photo, in some ways.

I think the same will be true of programming and other skills.

A lot of Bay Area folks thought they were immune

Fortunately I only realised that after we’d already registered Cygnus.

We know so little about biology that the only way to do it is test on humans.

In another comment I said that if the area of biology/microbiology etc were the size of the surface of our sun, the area of our knowledge in those subjects would be perhaps a square millimeter.

And if you think that’s bad, don’t get me started on higher level areas like neurology.

Almost a perfect superset.