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I'm just assuming now that the population of every animal except mosquitos is declining

Lab mice are probably evolving via artificial selection to be more prone to respond to drugs in a way that maximizes paper citations.

I actually prefer the first one

That's why u never become an employee in the modern age. The only way to become wealthy nowadays is to own things: own companies, securities, certificates that allow you to perform certain useful jobs. The actual work is dirt cheap; access to the results of the work is pure gold.

what kind of health issues keep people from drinking decaf coffee

The negativity over Dall-e's failures to make perfect images reminds me of the Louis CK stand up about the guy pissed about in-flight wifi not working, basically you're angry about not having this amazing technology you didn't know existed until this very moment.

The winner will be a model that bypasses the automatic fake image detection algorithms that will be added to every social media site

Literally the same thing could be said about Google images, but google images is obviously avaliable to the public.

Google knows this will be an unlimited money generator so they're keeping a lid on it.

however the fuel constitutes 97% of the radiation of all waste

30 feet

Nuclear power is unpopular because of media messaging. Coal releases more radiation into the environment on average, even accounting for Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Idea for an addition for the project: Have it count in real time when a person opens the website, but have it play a differently pitched tone for every place value in the tree. I wonder what it would sound like

AWS is hard to use because it maximizing ROI for Amazon. If it was profitable to make it easy to use they'd make it easy to use.

Good tool though.

But what about crypto completely revolutionizing transactions, decentralizing the economy and providing a stable universally accessible data exchange medium? What about tracking the food you buy on the blockchain? What about web3? What about muh NFT monkeys?

All nuclear waste ever produced in the US could be stored in an area the size of a football field

The potential is 100x more with vocal synthesis imo. No need to make programmatic mad-libs style formats. Complete freedom, even though the quality isn't optimal.

This battle between bots and detectors will consume 99% of computer resources by then. Total GANnihilation.

Thanks to chemical pesticides and industrial fertilizers.

yes according to modern media sentiment. Never once have I watched a movie that argued for the antithesis of the "Avatar" respect nature mantra. I mean even without the warmongering factories are never portrayed in a positive light unless they're Willy Wonka's.

Fair point, but I have a counterpoint. The dunning krueger effect means most "widely specialized" people assume their competence is leagues higher than it actually is in fields they have marginal understanding of. This leads to people overestimating their abilities and fucking things up, when they really should rely on 0.1% experts. This of course isn't true for simple things like cooking, knot tying and email writing, but the more technical a task, the greater the threat of overestimated competence vs known incompetence.

I can imagine. Imagine a podcast generation system. You'd simply have to describe the personalities of the host(s), the topic, the general vibe of the theme music, length, hardcode any sponsors, and a GPT-4 powered MLops service could produce something liked by a list of demographics 8 times out of 10 in 5 minutes.

There really is no stopping this train. In 2030 90% of internet content adopting the guise of being from the "real world" will be entirely generated by machine learning models. 90% of conversations you have with strangers online will likewise be with bots catered to influence you in subtle ways to maximize the return on revenue of your attention.

The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

This is true. Capitalism is at it's best when it manageably distributes supply and demand forces in a minimal surface, maximizing net utility via the price level and transactions. It's at its worst when those at one side of the transactions (healthcare buyers) are systematically denied information and held hostage via contracts.

The American healthcare system operates on this, and it's such a valuable tactic that it's worth more to waste resources on managing this degree of litigation than just charge reasonable amounts.

In more cases on average, the healthcare providers must be making a net profit via these tactics, otherwise they wouldn't do it. The fact that this tactic is even theoretically profitable means the system is fundamentally broken.

What vocal synthesis program did you use? Sounds 100% real at parts.

Very good idea and execution. I think you could do a lot more interesting stuff than making it about horoscopes.

Also as a turing test you should make one and never reveal it's entirely automated until it develops a big following. Due to the speed of automation you could mass produce podcasts of different types until one sticks, then the ones gaining more traction put 10x more resources into, etc.

The world economy and the mega-prosperity of the 20th century onwards depends solely on providing the means for individuals to become highly specialized in return for a livelihood comfortable in proportion to the utility of their specialization.

Of course it's good always to learn new things, but expecting everyone to be able to "plan an invasion, butcher a hog.. program a computer" is a rhetorical judgement on the potential of humans that ignores the realities of the modern world.

when you say veteran do u actually mean veteran of a real life combat war who later joined the games industry or veteran of the games industry

What narrative? That rockets can never be bad? I think rockets' contribution to greenhouse gasses are insignificant as a ratio to emissions:value to society compared to airplane flights/commercial travel.

Low level workers should be able to count their work hours the same way celebrity CEOs do. Commuting, work socializing, even thinking about work count as hours worked.

If noone knew who Picasso was this could pass as a depiction of how dementia affected the work of an artist over time, like this one:

https://www.boredpanda.com/alzheimers-disease-self-portrait-...