I suspect we all will have a tough time as I read about Duolingo layoffs while pivoting to AI, Amazon flooded with shitty AI books, autonomous drones, predictions of animators having three years left on the job market and so on. I can’t wait to unload on my AI therapist.
Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.
You’re talking about metaphysics. Epistemology will be one of the most important issues with AI. And let’s not ignore ethics. You seem to speak as someone who hasn’t read any philosophy. Einstein, Bohr, Oppenheimer, and plenty of other physicists would disagree with your sentiment.
Sex and skin color most definitely influence unique experience (not exclusively of course). I guess you didn’t catch this in your readings of Shakespeare.
The same can be said for most code. It isn’t improving quality of life for most people. Like I really need another todo app. Let all the programmers live on scraps. It’s a primal drive for them. /s
I wonder if a subject has to train it first, such as by reading a bunch of prompts while trying to imagine them. Or, are our linguistic neural networks all very similar? If the former is true, it would at least be a bit harder to work as a polygraph. You wouldn't be able to just strap on the helmet and read someone's thoughts accurately.
This reminds me of my uncle who can quote Shakespeare verbatim and seems to have a photographic memory, but he cannot comprehend Windows' desktop and how to use virtual folders and files.
I had a guy try this recently while I was chatting with a friend in a dark speakeasy at 7pm. He sits down right next to us, opens his laptop at full brightness, and starts working in Excel. He even has the audacity to look over his receipts with his phone flashlight. It lit me up like a kid at a campsite about to tell a ghost story. Completely killed the atmosphere. I was about to have a Larry David moment when the server told him to leave.
The only coworking space I use and love, which is still around and nearly as old as WeWork, is a 'mom-a-pop' one in Brooklyn that never franchised and is used by owners as their office. It has a decent community, including people outside of tech. Of course, they barely make any money.
This is outside my domain. If they are in fact lying and causing unnecessary societal panic (e.g. that AI will cause the extinction of the human race), is there any legal recourse?
I beat it on my own as a kid, but it required extensive note-taking, anger, and a week worth of trial and error. It still feels like one of my greatest achievements. I'm glad I stuck with it. Nowadays, I would never sacrifice so much time to a single puzzle, in part because it's much easier to get hints nowadays, and that makes me sad.
Totally with you. Beauty in the Beast is incredible and incredibly underrated. I enjoyed Switched-On Bach for what it achieved, but, I listen to the former when I want goosebumps.
This is nice. I'm not sure I'd use it for the occasional post, but I could see it being useful for someone who posts a lot. How long have you been working on it?
How did you learn Japanese? And does this overlap with living/work, or do you learn languages as a hobby? I’ve come to the sad conclusion that I don’t have the time to learn Japanese while also pursuing an unrelated career and another serious hobby.
I would suggest you read up on the history of mercenaries worldwide and the history of youth volunteering for wars worldwide. These are by no means traits particular to Japanese people. I would also suggest you read up on the United States global positioning before and after WW2. It was regionally isolated from the brunt of the war, which allowed it to loan money and sell weapons and resources at very favorable rates for the majority of the war. This can’t be excluded from a simple explanation of its global dominance.
I’d appreciate if you made it transparent in the rules how many points are required to post in Ask HN. I recently posted a job related question there, but it never posted. I didn’t even receive a response as to why. Felt like I wrote a letter, handed it to someone, and they tossed it into the trash without even opening it.