briansm

Oof. Harsh but fair.

a LLM is just a hugely lossy-compressed version of its training data, an abstraction of it.

Much in the same way as when you read a book, your brain doesn't become a pirated copy of the text as you only store a hugely compressed version of it afterwards, a feeling for the plot, generated images and so on.

sort of like the idea of practice - repetition of something concentrates more brain space to that thing so the compression ratio of it can decrease and become less abstracted / more exact.

Then again, if you believe that it's not 'too many people' and you also concede that population will continue growing as it has for the last 650+ years and the planet obviously isn't growing then surely you must also concede that at some point it has to become 'too many people', the only question is when.

"I'm waiting Santa Claus You will come on a bison sleigh I'm waiting for Christmas gifts I want to get a space ship"

Space Christmas, Shonen Knife

I dunno. 'Ignorance is Bliss'. I only have so much brain capacity and attention, I'd rather direct it to what's important to me than leave it wide open to the sewage-infected firehose of incoming information that is life in the 21st Century.

An article who's title implies the inevitability of parenthood is probably not good mental fodder.

Yup, I lost a chromebook that way. I think magnetic connections are fine for 5V power with no data line, but as soon as you add more connections and try increasing voltage/power you are asking for trouble.

"See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead." - Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984.

In such a catastrophe it is unlikely that preserving printed works would be a priority and would bring into question the very existence of 'future archeologists'. Archeology is a consequence of an age of abundance that would be gone in such a scenario.

Metabolism also slows with age, calorie requirements correspondingly drop and so should food intake really. There's a reason (healthy) seniors tend to be on the skinny side. Also something-something-three-score-and-ten.

It's not like anyone on this message board has a little 'crash the economy' button on their keyboard.

Here in the UK, if I had to travel 'just 4km' then I wouldn't take a car. In any case it's the other 50% of journeys that are 4km+ (20% of journeys are 10+ miles) that are the problem:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-marc...

The USA is a young country, built from the ground up around the automobile. Undoing that both physically and psychologically is just not possible in my opinion.

Atlantis.

Nope, more specifically:

Lossy compression = Intelligence

That's where the Hutter Prize falls down, it's based on lossless compression, which is nothing like how the brain works.

not that simple, need to compensate for all external magnetic flux, crystal compression and so on.