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The meaning of life
  • The question doesn't even make sense. You have to redefine it to "purpose" or some other word to even get started. The only literal interpretation is "what does 'life' mean?", which is just something like "a metabolic system capable of Darwinian evolution".

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    ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
  • When they hallucinate, they don't do it consistently, so one option is running the same query through multiple times (with different "expert" base prompts), or through different LLMs and then rejecting it as "I don't know" if there's too much disagreement between them. The Q* approach is similar, but baked in. This should dramatically reduce hallucinations.

    Edit: added bit about different experts

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    OpenAI Creates a Voice Cloning AI Tool, Not Available for the Public Yet.
  • Yeah, I'm surprised Google or another big player hasn't released something yet, or that the people like the IETF haven't had any RFCs or produced any practical standards. Now's the time to get market dominance. Perhaps nobody will react until the shit hits the fan.

    I mean, pgp is great, but in this day and age we need a simple standard people can use to sign media without a hassle and we may also need chain of custody in light of social media (edits and whatnot). Developers will likely need or want to build it into their software, so we need a standard. I don't think the pgp approach really worked for most people.

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    Is nuclear energy the answer? Probably not
  • Yeah, you'd need to produce 2 nuclear power stations per week to keep up with growth in solar alone. It's going to have a part to play, but it's ever slipping into irrelevance.

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    Joe Biden "drives me crazy"—Former Obama strategist David Axelrod
  • Don't be offended at the language - that's just friendly banter for an Aussie. You get used to it.

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    Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds
  • You may not have discovered TVP yet. You should do so.

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    Organic Maps vs OsmAnd?
  • Oruxmaps is pretty good too.

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    21.19°c New record for global sea temperature
  • The max on this graph is 21.2. Each year, the time when cooling begins is getting later. If it's anything like last year, it seems possible it could break 21.5. Where is this 21.9 coming from?

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    AI can be easily used to make fake election photos - report
  • Wait until they discover what stable diffusion can do, running locally.

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    The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content
  • Ah, you're suggesting using RFC 3514. Good thinking.

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    What are some reasons why we are definitely NOT in a simulation?
  • Fractal universe theories have been proposed. I don't know many details myself, but just thought it was an example of how you can still have theoretically infinite detail within a finite system.

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    What is the worst mental state you've ever been in?
  • I'm not sure this is going to help your mental state, but the word is "worst". A is worse than B, but C is the worst of all.

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    There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
  • No.

    automaton — Noun: 1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions., 2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion., 3. A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton., 4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automaton

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    There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
  • I said automaton wrong for years. I said auto-maton instead of au-tomoton. I still cringe a bit thinking about it :-/

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    Are there any good alternatives to concrete/asphalt
  • Ferrock is an interesting new development. Stronger than concrete and absorbs CO2 when curing.

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    Google to cut thousands of search quality rater jobs after dropping contract with Appen
  • I was just looking at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and it listed appen as a site that breached my details. I had no idea who they were or why they had my details. I guess this is related?

    Appen: In June 2020, the AI training data company Appen suffered a data breach exposing the details of almost 5.9 million users which were subsequently sold online. Included in the breach were names, email addresses and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Some records also contained phone numbers, employers and IP addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

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    Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
  • They have released it on github. The code is only about 500 lines. But releasing the model is arguably more important because that sort of compute is not affordable to any mortals.

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    When talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.
  • That's UBS, Universal Basic Services, one possible alternative to UBI, but more likely, we'll end up with a bit of both, I think.

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