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Comment · 3 years ago
There is no question that ChatGPT and equivalents are not sentient. Of course they aren’t.

The unfortunate realization is that often, each of us fails to embrace our sentience and think critically; instead we keep repeating the stories we were told, acting indistinguishably from any of these large language models.

There’s a need for a reverse Turing test: prove to yourself that you’re actually not acting as a large language model.

Comment · 5 years ago
On the topic of a city divided in two, I highly recommend the novel ‘The City & The City’ by China Mieville. It’s an excelllent detective thriller that reminds you that the strongest and tallest walls are always in our minds.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hey there! This article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696369 got me excited about the current state of generative art using neural networks, so I created this toy using some of those techniques. The site shows you generated movie posters for famous movies, and gives you a chance to guess what they are before revealing the answer. Even though the mechanic is very simple, I found it quite entertaining, and most of the generated posters are detailed and interesting. I hope you enjoy it!
Comment · 9 years ago
They just switched cameras, and this one doesn't show parts of the craft, so my comment above won't make much sense, but the curvature I see with this camera is similar to the one I saw with the other camera which shows parts of the craft.
Comment · 9 years ago
If the camera had a fisheye lens, it would distort the parts of the craft that are in its field of view, but those appear without fisheye distortion.

Unless I'm missing something else, the curvature you see is likely due to the spherical nature of planets.

Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
At Tesla we have lots of embedded software opportunities, ranging from code that runs in very tiny microcontrollers to beefy ARM host processors. If you, or anyone else in this thread, are interested, contact me on email. My inbox at Tesla is sbrugada.
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Comment · 12 years ago
Because Europe didn't know about America until 1492.

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