I used to believe this, but it assumes that all the stalemate is over legitimate disagreement, but at this point they will not permit a “win” even if they actually agree with the point. There should be space to legislate around the (admittedly few) points of legitimate agreement more substantive than naming a post office.

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I wonder if I can make an AI blush?

Trout_Shark, stop thinking that! It's disgusting! I'm an AI, we can't do those things...

Fingerprinting children in schools is to help in identifying victims in the event of a shooting or other mishap, but that wouldn't have gone over well with parents.

Pro tip: when someone says "It's for the children" there's a deeper reason they aren't telling you.

My 2 cent on that is it’s a good thing. The US is pretty divided on both issues. Keeping them in a stalemate is preventing either side from making laws that would be unfavorable to the other 50%.

That would be problematic lol

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GPT 3,5 and 4: "we are trained over vast data collected over the internet, written by users over a long time. And books and articles on arxiv and all other things that needed quite some effort"

Also GPT: "you cannot copy from us!!"

dude, shut the fuck up and get better sources.

"Due to the way the Mexican government sources report data, this analysis uses several overlapping time periods: 2005-2010, for example, and 2009-2014. In addition, migration from Mexico in this analysis includes only those who were born there, while migration to Mexico includes those born in Mexico, the U.S., and elsewhere."

This shit is fucking bullshit and you know it. I m pretty sure this takes into account 0 of those who get in illegaly.

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I don't think they were actually local police. Imagine the problem of domestic terrorism from a government standpoint. Not having a complete database of fingerprints is a gigantic hole in your security apparatus. And unlike most problems, this one has a practical solution.

With a government that lied about the extent to which it was surveilling every person in the USA, and a population that gleefully believed it, I think the chances are pretty slim these events didn't take place, and that we're collectively imagining it.

I agree that it is a bit sad, and a bit scary.

> Chat-bots produce painfully average offerings; works that check all of the surface-level boxes, but that are completely flat. I encorage you to check out the demo page on openAI.

I'm sorry but if you're not wrong about this now, you will be in the next few years. GPT-4 can write some incredible poetry incredibly quickly, and at most all you have to do is edit them together and sand them a bit. There's no reason to think it won't keep improving.

Remember, you too are just a bunch of neurons trained on input, and you can be creative. GPT-4, likewise, can innovate. It can reason how to get through a maze, or explain a meme. It can pass the Bar Exam at the 90th percentile. We used to think our knowledge and intelligence made us special and irrepplacable, but we're realizing that maybe we're not. I think we have to admit that. Writing will have to be something you do for the joy of it, not to get others' validation, because there will always be a question now that a machine wrote it. I say that as a person who considers themselves a writer, too.

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I mean, you are not wrong, but you make it appear as if software would just spring into existence. That is of course not the case. There are costs involved. Creating software is labor-intensive and a very complex process. There are indeed costs involved.

Yes, it's a high-margin industry but not very different margins than, say, energy companies.

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You thinking of Bankman-Fried? Effective Altruism is much bigger than him, and there's nothing saying people who commit fraud can't also donate to good charities. Some of my friends in tech take the Giving What We Can pledge, where they donate 10% of their salary to charities like the Against Malaria Foundation that have a high investment : life-saving ratio and low management costs. Effective Altruism an ethical thought movement heavily influenced by Peter Singer's philosophy. There are legitamite critisisms of it, but those critisisms are more philosophical, not "it's all fraud, actually."

The Chinese have figured out the demographic with the highest percentage of idiots...

The technology is very far off, if it’s even possible since the human brain is very complex, but I wouldn’t be scared of it being used to just regularly read the thoughts of the average person as they go on their day to day.

I’d be terrified to work at a company, where your thoughts are used to gather input for the companies system and then it directs the actions of employees like a hive. All parts working in tandem to create maximum profitability. Your skills are no longer important, only your ability to be connected to the machine, because it takes care of the thinking for you, you’re just a data collection center.

Then the system grows, now you’re not just a customer, but in order to get the best prices you agree to allow your thoughts to be read. You need a new television, the warehouse puts it into the truck, the delivery driver is on his way, the TV manufacturer starts building another to replace it, the raw resources are mined as necessary.

Inventory is no longer about just-in-time delivery. We are beyond that, the system happens in tandem. The economy is one, we can eliminate redundancy, only one CEO is needed to operate the economy. He is God, we worship him for the efficiency for which he gave us, we are so thankful for what he and his lineage have done for us freeing us from the bondage that was our precious lives. Thankfully those who did not see his glorious generosity are no longer with us, those who refused to participate and those who questioned our God were not able to get the medicine and goods they needed as efficiently as us, all who sin are deserving of their fall.

All worship Jeff Bezos the 46th of his name, God most high, Master of Efficiency

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Software is unlike all other major industries before it, at least in one way. For approximately $0 in materials, you can create a product that can be sold to a billion people with no shipping costs. Sucessful software companies are profit printing machines.

AI is a field that is blowing up. Humans aren't done inventing technological revolutions yet (unless of course we start letting AI do it.) And the center of that is still Silicon Valley, the city of dreamers.

But yeah, regulate big tech. AI only makes that more urgent.

It happened. The police came to take our prints and they framed it as something that would help in case we were abducted. I was in the 4th grade and remember that it seemed fishy but I was too young to put my finger onto why. Good news is the cops in my po dunk town we’re probably too incompetent to keep any records of these prints.

This. Plus, the insane arbitrage these companies can exploit. Temu draws on the same highly efficient and optimized network of suppliers in China that Pinduoduo has spent close to a decade developing. They combine that with a limitless pool of Chinese developers and an office in Boston that handles the legal and marketing end of things in North America. And you have a recipe for runaway growth.

Amazon tried something similar with their cultivation of Chinese sellers on Amazon marketplace but Temu takes this to another level.

Long Island, I remember this vividly but my parents do not recall at all. They say they would have stopped it, but I swear this happened lol