tediousdemise
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For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened - Matthew 7:8
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Comment · 3 years ago
Total nonsense.
Using valid words in one language doesn’t mean that they directly translate. Only the author knows the intended meaning—no one else would, without some sort of table that maps the nonsense expressions to the proper loanwords.
No one but the author would be able to decipher the true meaning of this essay, making it useless as a form of communication.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder if indicating likeness would be legally safe, i.e., “Song name - Artist [Drake-like/Drake-style]”
Comment · 3 years ago
This seems like something there should be some AI safety ground rules for.
The number one rule for firearm safety is: always point the muzzle in a safe direction. Even if you know the gun is unloaded, you always obey this rule.
Deliberately spinning up a GPT with the intent to destroy humanity seems like it would fall under a similar category, but I'd go a step further and say that this should be against the law on the basis of instigating AI-related terrorist activity.
Comment · 3 years ago
When layoffs like this happen, I cringe for these companies and the poor souls who keep joining them. What HR really needs to do is a full retracement.
Who hired "X" employee, and why? Follow this up the chain. Follow it as far up as it needs to go, to the very email or slide deck from an upper-level exec whose failure of a pet project was greenlit to begin with. Fire the entire chain of command complicit in the lowest level employee's firing.
Truly, drain the entire swamp, otherwise the execs will keep making bad choices and playing music chairs while the boots on the ground get mutilated for them.
Comment · 3 years ago
We have free will, and the atrocities you mention are acts of men. Why would you blame God for them?
Comment · 3 years ago
What is the actual mechanism of action here?
I assume it was an elephant coincidentally born without tusks, which then survived being poached thanks to the adaptation that was then passed on to subsequent offspring.
An impeccably timed advantageous mutation for an endangered species. We rely far too often on the word “coincidence” to describe what is clearly an unknown gene expression phenomenon, which gives me chills and seems to borderline the supernatural.
At what point to people throw in the towel and say, yup, God’s real? Or do we just keep saying these unexplainable things are coincidences since it somehow jives better with our worldview?
I never understood why people think that spirituality and science are mutually exclusive. In 2014, even the pope himself came out and said the Big Bang and evolution are real [0]. Maybe it’s part of the whole “works in mysterious ways” tidbit, if you believe that kind of stuff? Let’s try having an open mind.
[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-evolution-bi...
Comment · 3 years ago
As have plagues and other pandemics. I'm curious to see if there will be any more interesting volcanic activity!