readyplayernull

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Comment · 1 year ago
We humans forget what freedom is, but do we need to be tosed in jails and beaten the shit out of us to remember?
Comment · 1 year ago
So how many Melania coins did he buy?
Comment · 1 year ago
0.0495 mAh
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They'll get turned off.
Comment · 1 year ago
> GPT-4’s text entitled “Why Did I Write GEB?,” if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, me) is adept at fluently stringing together high-flown phrases in an effort to sound profound and yet sweetly self-effacing at the same time. That nonsensical image is wildly off base. The text is a travesty from top to bottom. In sum, I find the machine-generated string of words deeply lamentable for giving this highly misleading impression of who I am (or who I was when I wrote my first book), as well as for totally misrepresenting the story of how that book came to be. I am genuinely sorry to come down so hard on the interesting experiment that you conducted in good faith, but I hope that from my visceral reaction to it, you will see why I am so opposed to the development and widespread use of large language models, and why I find them so antithetical to my way of seeing the world.
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And pandemics.
Comment · 1 year ago
The whole problem is that wisdom is controlled by greed.

But what if, in the future, the brains of current world leaders are examined and they find the cause of their actions is saturation of microplastics? So destroying the planet wasn't their fault, but just like lead and the Romans, they got crazy from pollution itself?

Comment · 1 year ago
> Trump will at least temporarily have more power over federal operations. That’s because in shutdowns, presidents enjoy wide discretion on exactly what to close, furloughing employees, and what to keep open, making workers perform their duties without pay.
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> experts say there is no evidence that a water shortage caused the California wildfires, CNN reports.
Comment · 1 year ago
This guy made more damage to Twitter than a puny DDOS could do. Don't echo unfounded accusations from his bubble.

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