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Wolfbeta··on OpenAI says it's "impossible" to create AI models without copyrighted material
> I can't find any place where OpenAI leadership has implied that it is or will be.

have you tried saying the name out loud?

Wolfbeta··on Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data
What rights do you have in this case?
Wolfbeta··on Placemark is going open source and shutting down
Blender
Wolfbeta··on Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data
I do this.

I use Google Maps for trips with multiple destinations or extended routes, and Waze for spontaneous, on-the-fly directions when I need to make unplanned stops.

Wolfbeta··on AI photo editors are ushering in a distrust of everything we see
>When people show me their photos taken with their smartphone cameras, I like to tell them that it is probably not what they really saw

Don't be that guy.

Wolfbeta··on A test of memory for stimulus sequences in great apes
> We can get over that too if we consider that we may not be that special.

Speak for yourself. I trust my mother knows what she's talking about.

Wolfbeta··on AI-generated child sex imagery has every US Attorney General calling for action
>I don't see any massive increase in people having sex with their mothers or what-have-you.

I'm afraid to ask how you're measuring this.

Wolfbeta··on On Sociopaths and Progress
I have a sub to sell you.
Wolfbeta··on Thinking hard makes the brain tired
You need Go Note Go

https://github.com/dbieber/GoNoteGo

Wolfbeta··on BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance
WAGMI
Wolfbeta··on Abecedarium
Simple.

Basic.

Base.

Wolfbeta··on OpenAI crowd sources LLM benchmarking datasets by offering advanced GPT-4 access
We did. Someone younger and hungrier didn't.
Wolfbeta··on Five ways to soothe a mind overstimulated by anxiety, stress and information
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." --Aurelius

"People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them." --Epictitus.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --Shakespeare.

Wolfbeta··on The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It
This might be of interest.

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/

Wolfbeta··on Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
This is your brain on ads.
Wolfbeta··on First Image from Sony Star Sphere Satellite Released
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Wolfbeta··on Surgeon General says 13 is ‘too early’ to join social media
Same as it ever was.

"One wants to do everything and one can do nothing, one is always thinking that from to-morrow one will begin a new life, that from to-morrow one will set to work as one ought, that from to-morrow one will put oneself on a diet; but not a bit of it, on the evening of that very day one will over-eat oneself, so that one can only blink one’s eyes and can’t say a word—yes really; and it’s always like that.” -- "Hlobuev", Gogol, N. Dead Souls (1854)

Wolfbeta··on Maxi Jazz has died
Probably just a disgruntled fundamentalist who believes any reference to God is herecy.

The kind of small mind you expect to find in the comment section of a news site from a puritanical small town.

Wolfbeta··on Maxi Jazz has died
That's some painful projection.

Best of luck on your trials.

"Love of self born simply out of love for you,

And knew that someday people would love me too.

None of that hecklin' about my black skin got through,

I would walk barefoot through hell for you"

-- Faithless - Muhammad Ali https://open.spotify.com/track/14sKGEQOBzJebYKa5XBBQA?si=att...

Wolfbeta··on Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
Look into Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_disintegration

It helped me.

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
The Animatrix - The Second Renaissance Part I & II
Wolfbeta··on Women are more critical of female toplessness than men, which may be expl (cont)
"People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them." --Epictitus.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --Shakespeare.

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: Where do you escape for non-clickbait thoughtful/informational content?
I'd highly recommend adding Capital by Karl Marx to that list.
Wolfbeta··on EPA proposes deeming leaded (aviation) fuel a danger to public health
Make sure you don't have children or anything selfish like that.
Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG
Become a human Generative Adversarial Network.

Reductio ad absurdium.

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG
Who is supposed to feel sympathy for you not getting to stay in your flow state while making 100k?
Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important?
Plato's The Republic

King Fuzi's The Analects

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: How to regain my mind back?
Just wear a headset.
Wolfbeta··on Playstation 2 Architecture
A DVD player was a major selling point for some people when they bought the PS2. For others, myself included, it was the blue LED.
Wolfbeta··on 'deepfake artist' reaches final of America's Got Talent
This is more Black Mirror than 15 Million Merits.

The crowd swaying in unison is what's most dystopian.

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