It's very funny that Bing AI is now also telling people to eat a small rock every day, and citing pages telling people about how dumb Google AI is for telling people to eat rocks.
It's strange. We know that instincts, hormones, and other aspects of our biology have a tremendous influence on our thoughts and behaviors, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of effort to use that to problem-solve. There's evolutionary psychology, but given the fraction of human problems traceable to maladaption to the modern world, one would think "evolutionary anthropo-sociology" would a foundational pillar of science. Like, why doesn't "humans didn't evolve to sleep in a room by themselves at the age of four" carry as much weight as "don't let your kids eat lead paint chips"?
Seems like a company willing to take risks. If this is successful, do you think Daylight will explore options for color devices? I know that I personally am very sad that twenty years ago transflective LCDs were in tons of devices and were perfectly viewable in direct sunlight and now they're nowhere to be found.
It would be cool if we could cast our phone screens to it. That way we wouldn't have to deal with file and app synchronization, cellular tethering, or any of the other friction points of using multiple devices.
The vomitous waste of screen space in UI these days feels like the digital equivalent of inflation. My phone has four times the screen area of my first smartphone yet it shows the exact same number of notification when I drag the bar down.
Because asking a group of people how often they sunbathe is a horrible way to measure sun exposure. Dishonest answers, imperfect memory, differing definitions of sunbathing, and the idea itself that sunbathing and tanning is a proxy for overall sun exposure when they likely don't even make up a significant fraction of a person's UV exposure. Bad, bad, bad.
spending years in and out of a California courtroom
Yeah, that's totally not something a company that's completely full of shit from the top down and bottom up would threaten. Now we can be sure this product functions as advertised.
NASA is excellent at its job. You just have to accept the fact that in 1969, NASA's job was putting astronauts on the moon, and in 2024 NASA's job is distributing taxpayer money to various places that don't deserve it. They're damn good at their job.
We had really better hope that biological brains are fundamentally "bad" at consciousness, because if a human brain is as efficient at generating consciousness as other biological brains are at doing much older, more refined tasks, we're totally fucked. For example, a dragonfly brain takes visual input from thousands of ommatidia and uses it to track prey in 3D space and plot intercept vectors using only sixteen neurons. How many transistors does a computer need to do the same thing? Now scale that to however many neurons and synapses you guesstimate a human brain needs to create consciousness. The numbers are bad news.
There's little doubt that eventually we will be able to design a computer version of a human soul. Whether that sapience fits in a computer smaller than a zip code or thinks any faster than a person is an entirely different question.
Offense is easier than defense. How do you know some other civilization isn't going to, say, get angry at their own decline and unleash destructive Von Neumann machines on the galaxy?
It's already happening. The Pi 5 came out four years after the Pi 4 and is between 50% and 250% faster, depending on the workload. However, it also has a base price almost twice as high as the Pi 4, moving from $35 to $60. It also consumes much more power, peaking at 12 watts compared to the Pi 4's 8 watts. The Zero 2 W is probably the last good product they'll ever release.
Yeah, but I want a tier where I have access to it in a pinch, but won't feel guilty for spending the money and then going a whole month without using it.
If you're interested in supremely detailed breakdowns and animations of accidents caused by safety failures, check out the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's youtube channel. It strokes the brain just right.
Man, we are like 2-5 years away from being able to feed in an ePub and get an accurate graphic novel version in minutes. I am so ready to look at four thousand paintings of Tolkien trees.
I don't understand OpenAI's pricing strategy. For free I can talk to GPT 3.5 on an unlimited basis, and a little to GPT 4o. If I pay $20 a month, I can talk to GPT 4o eighty times every three hours, or once every two and a half minutes. That's both way more than I need, and way less than I would expect for twenty dollars a month. I wish they had a $5 per month tier that included, say, eighty messages per 24-hours.
I like the element of randomness. I hate knowing that every time I lose it isn't because they were better than me, it's because I didn't try hard enough. I play games to have fun, not to push myself to the limit every time. What precipitated my mostly giving up multiplayer was when I noticed I was forming my habits around winning and it was working. If my room lighting was good, if I drank coffee before a match, if I played during the right hours of the day, I won. When I started avoiding using the bathroom because having to pee made me more alert, I knew it wasn't worth it anymore. I like games, not sports.