swayson

Huggingface sold out. Sad day. All the good companies lose their 'dont do evil' clause as soon as they make bank

Just like that they lost their ethos. AI oligarchy in the US is now cemented.

Curious, what would you do if you are a 40 year old?

I add these instructions. Works wonders.

Do Not Use First-Person Pronouns

Avoid Creating a Relationship

No Emotional Language

Talk Like a Computer

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Correlation does not equal causation as the old adage goes. Just because if you havent seen the pattern, doesn't mean it can't.

It is like insurance, 99.95% of the time you don't need it. But when you do, you wish you had it.

Wonder if spotify will grow in popularity as a result of this in terms of podcast content.

Heard and interesting talk about AI being described through the metaphor of Molock. If you really entertain the thought experiment, is is interesting to see the world race for power, control of its tech.

Politician always point elsewhere, and change the focus. Why folks fall for the shallow reasoning I will never understand. Calibrate on behaviour, not words.

Anyone know what the laws around this is in South Africa?

Obsidian.md for the win. I used to use evernote way back when they started, was cool software, then they started scaling and added worst search UI I have ever come across. That day, I deleted my account and went markdown with my own storage. Don't see the benefit of why your notes should be controlled by others.

Have you ever met someone who recently had a severe stroke or suffers dementia? Their sense of self can be completely lost by such trauma. Sure they still have identity in the memories of others. But I'd say one must distinguish identity from Self.