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Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

tom dot theisen at proton dot me

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Comment · 1 day ago
Doesn't help much
Comment · 1 day ago
It may be common, but some of us are finding out by reading this comment on hacker news.
Comment · 1 day ago
It's finally happening. It's almost a relief.
Comment · 2 days ago
It's a good habit to have if you want to "live in a society". Unfortunately, that seems to be in tension with the way you should treat a value-extracting technology with an asymmetrical power dynamic.
Comment · 2 days ago
Interesting approach. I hadn't heard of it. I think treating rocks and fungus and trees with empathy is a different kind of thing and safer than an LLM.

This is more like an NPC in a video game, but it's tracking your every move and reporting to corporate HQ.

Comment · 2 days ago
buffer overflow vulnerability in code dealing with user generated data and a complex file format.
Comment · 2 days ago
Your empathy towards the machine controlled by the trillion dollar conglomerate is a vulnerability and will one day be used against you.
Comment · 3 days ago
Maybe not for you
Comment · 3 days ago
I've never seen someone wearing a VR headset in public. I'd do a double take for sure.

> That said, truly not caring what strangers at a coffee shop think about you is probably a great step toward a great life.

To an extent. But this is also how we get people watching social media clips at full volume in the cafe/bus/hiking trail. Which is a great step towards diminishing the life of everyone around you.

Comment · 3 days ago
Game consoles, which constitute large deployed numbers, generally have gameplay at lower resolutions.
Comment · 3 days ago
The creation of shareholder value. Much has been thought about it.
Comment · 3 days ago
I ain't asking for perfection here.
Comment · 3 days ago
On the other hand, if you know enough to build an igloo, you're probably going to be ok regardless.
Comment · 3 days ago
If it was actually not hard, they would have made their demo with it. I don't know the technical details, but I expect a product reveal like this to show the thing at its absolute best.
Comment · 3 days ago
> Genie 4 has advanced audio capabilities

> Prompt asks for saxophone

Looks inside:

> Sound of a clarinet

Maybe Genie 5 will get it.

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