jackbrookes

Maybe compilers? instead of using them to make 1950s software faster, we used the abstraction they created to build vastly more complex systems like operating systems, browsers, cloud platforms, and modern games. AI could be another jump in abstraction, making software possible that would previously have been too expensive or complicated to build.

> LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output

> The magic and absurdity of life is a necessary thing to create such works.

These two points seem slightly conflicting. Why if a human is truly more creative than AI, must it experience "the magic and absurdity of life" if it can be creative without "combining things into output"? Is a creative human then just not splicing and recombining their experiences into their creative output? And therefore, if an AI had more data that mirrors that experience in some way would it be sufficiently creative to create something "truly original"?

My view is that intelligence and creativity is all just purely recombination. AI can do that well just as humans can. The gap is that the data humans have access to is much more analogue, emotional, and grounded in the real world compared to the data that AI is currently trained on.

The irony is that beef and cattle feed use vastly more water than oat milk production. Oat milk would help reduce water use if its used as a substitute for dairy.

By that logic, 'Basque', 'Cantonese', 'Cajun', and 'Tex-Mex' shouldn't exist either

> why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?"

I mean... have you ever used a phone?

This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?"

Imagine it’s 1992:

Cookbook: Open book, follow steps.

PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fiddle with floppies, pray the printer works, hope the shareware recipe isn’t weird.

Not saying you're wrong but its easy to miss the big picture

just record as mp4 in the first place, gif has limited colour palette, low frame rate and poor compression

Yes I'd bet most users just 50/50 it, which actually makes it more remarkable that there was a 56% selection rate

Playlists allow spotify to create a moat. It encourages you to listen to (and build) playlists, that wouldn't then be easily available if you try to switch platforms

It just needs a little hint

    Me: spell "strawberry" with 1 bullet point per letter
    ChatGPT:
       S
       T
       R
       A
       W
       B
       E
       R
       R
       Y
    Me: How many Rs? 
    ChatGPT: There are three Rs in "strawberry".

Apple delivers ads (for e.g. Apple Music) in the Settings app of iPhone. Wouldn't be surprised if macOS ends up with similar things.

Well, my point was made in reference to the original comment which said

> If consciousness is not well understood, how is AI on silicon allowed, or any computing machines at all

Which implies that we should care about some kind of suffering inflicted on conscious beings. My argument was that we don't care about AI suffering because we don't really care that much about suffering generally, because of what we chose to do to animals.