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If AI is so rampent and used for evil purposes. Can we not use it for good purposes like creating a personalized JARVIS like in Iron Man? Would that not be better than using it for fake images?
  • Well, as long as we ensure training data needs to be paid for and can't just be scraped from the web, we will ensure that only large corporations with deep pockets can train models.

    That is the reason there is a big "grassroots" push to stop AI from training on all our web content: it's a play to ensure no small players can make AI, and that AI is dominated by a few big players.

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    If AI is so rampent and used for evil purposes. Can we not use it for good purposes like creating a personalized JARVIS like in Iron Man? Would that not be better than using it for fake images?
  • The best way to ensure AI is used for good purposes is to make sure AI is in as many hands as possible. That was the original idea behind OpenAI (hence the name), which was supposed to be a nonprofit pushing open-source AI into the world to ensure a multipolar AI ecosystem.

    That failed badly.

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    In what videogame you're currently stuck and you gave up or drop it for a while?
  • Space Engineers.

    It’s not so much that I’m stuck, as that I hit a motivational wall when I realized I have no goal.

    Just building stuff isn’t so interesting to me. I like to build stuff to solve problems.

    For a long time my goal was to get to the moon. Now I’m just bored. I’ve done a little stuff on the moon, including making a specialized drilling ship that gobbles up ore at a ridiculous rate then lifts it back to my moon base, and a welding ship that stores massive numbers of plates, and a loading station that automatically fills it from the base’s network.

    But I’m just bored. Kinda want to play it multiplayer, but all the servers are too ephemeral to build anything of consequence on.

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    What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?
  • If it’s an adult doing the selling, then it’s a consensual interaction.

    Exploitation in the negative sense requires a violation of consent.

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  • O’Neill cylinder is that big rotating cylinder space station format that uses the spin for artificial gravity.

    At higher elevations the gravity will be lower. BMX bikes will be fun too. Make a big jump and you can go across the center and land on the other side, or go into a zero-gee part in the middle, which works out if you’re always inside a curve.

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    I’ve noticed ChatGPT gets less able to do precise reasoning or respond to instructions, the longer the conversation gets.

    It felt exactly like working with a student who was getting tired and needed to rest.

    Then I had above shower thought. Pretty cool right?

    Every few months a new ChatGPT v4 is deployed. It’s got new training data, up through X date. They train up a new model on the new content in the world, including ChatGPT conversations from users who’ve opted into that (or didn’t opt out, can’t remember how it’s presented).

    It’s like GPT is “sleeping”, to consolidate “the day’s” knowledge into long term memory. All the data in the current conversation is its short term memory. After handling a certain amount of complexity in one conversation, the coherence of responses breaks down, becomes more habitual and less responsive to nuance. It gets tired and can’t go much further.

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    I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.

    GPT's output is also pasted into the comments.

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