ace
1yr ago
Joe Rogan is no longer the biggest creator in podcasting. He stopped making podcasts 2 years ago.
ace
5mo ago
Nonsense. Punching somebody in the head is attempted murder. Them actually dying makes it 2nd degree murder, minimum.
ace
9mo ago
... because of hostility to religion.
Maybe, but I think you need to show more work here for your conclusion? Eucharist involves taking off a mask and eating something that someone hands to you or places directly in your mouth. Even pre-COVID, I remember thinking this was not particularly sanitary. A secular gathering might not involve taking off a mask at all. The risk profiles are different. And while terrible, the pandemic gave people a stake in others' private sanitation habits. (Whether or not you think that stake thereby gives the general public the right to restrict behavior, the stake exists.)
ace
1yr ago
The moral of that story isn't that you shouldn't covet material wealth, but rather you'll get even more of it later if you follow Jesus.
ChatGPT's words are not even close to equivalent to a human's words. You have peek under the hood a little bit to understand why. ChatGPT is a prediction engine that predicts the next word in a sequence (as would be typical in its training corpus), and then applies that capability over and over again. ChatGPT has zero capability to abstract and apply its reasoning to its own thought process. ChatGPT can't wait and think about a question for a while before it starts answering.
The LLMs will continue to get better as researchers throw more parameters at the problem, but this avenue is ultimately a dead end for pursing general intelligence. ChatGPT is a neat parlor trick, but it can only make impressive-looking tech demos so long as the context is kept very narrow. Play around with it a little, and the cracks start to show.
All this is not to detract from your main thesis. Artificial general intelligence is still coming for lots of jobs at some unknown point in the future, but don't confuse ChatGPT with the herald of the jobs-apocalypse.
ace
10mo ago
I get that part. Are you advocating we follow his example? Please speak plainly here.
ace
1yr ago
But doesn't that money have to be spent at some point in order for the owner to derive benefit? It's taxed now or later. In the long run, it should be a wash.
ace
6mo ago
Oh thank you for being the lone voice of reason on this page and explaining so well.
I was shocked when I found out how many people in my workplace were religious. (Not interested in doxxing myself, but it’s a place strongly selected on analytical thinking ability, though now that I think about it maybe not enough.) And now I guess I can be shocked at the purchase religious ideas find here. I had thought atheism thoroughly won the religion-vs-atheism wars of the 2000s, but I guess I was watching different screen from everyone else.
ace
6mo ago
@zeke5123, maybe you're thinking of your conversation with @jfk. (https://www.themotte.org/post/716/israelgaza-megathread-2/150623?context=8#context) in which @jfk kinda sorta questions whether anyone was killed, and you called him Alex Jones rather than your conversation with @Tomato where he brought up a news article (https://www.themotte.org/post/716/israelgaza-megathread-2/149971?context=8#context) and you said that it's Alex Jones-level denial.
ace
7mo ago
It's not my area of expertise, so I'm not going to debate it with you. These debates have all been had at length online already. I would just note that the genes that reach fixation in a species must do so by increasing their own prevalence (by helping themselves or their kin), not by making their group survive. If there are genes for helping the group and they die with the bearer, that doesn't do much good for those genes. Seems tautological to me, but if you want more detail, I defer to the experts.
ace
8mo ago
It might be an interesting question if the typical American isn't a trainwreck appearance-wise. Without objective data backing up the comparison, this comment is just "boo outgroup".
ace
10mo ago
I understand your point. Though I posit that people generally understand there are differences in taste in a way they don't understand differences in morality.
Be that as it may, my concern was more narrow, specifically that @PerseusWizardry will have a better time if he drops all of his moral questions. They are simply not questions that can be resolved through conversation or better data.
ace
11mo ago
I own 1 suit I've worn twice in ten years (weddings). And I feel a sense of mistrust for people who spend more than a de minimus amount of time thinking about their clothing.
ace
1yr ago
OK, fair enough, you're right. You're doing good work, and this place is better for you being a mod.
ace
1yr ago
If the pan is hot enough to say, sear meat, is that an issue?
Even if the chemical itself is stable (which AIUI is the root of the problem), is there a problem of the chemical leeching into the food?
ace
1yr ago
This is a cheap shot at China. It's of course possible to research corona viruses without doing gain of function research.
ace
1yr ago
Can the link to context in the janny duty link to an anonymized context? I guess you'd have to use pseudonyms in the context because a single poster can have multiple comments in the context. And it wouldn't help a dedicated de-anonymization effort b/c it's simple to just load up the site in another window, but maybe it would still help preclude casual biasing.
ace
1yr ago
My brother, you don’t have to question your fundamental beliefs if you get them right the first time.
Then it's not a podcast. It's some streaming service.
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