These other companies do not immediately have 1B+ people using their software. Google AI highlights are constantly mocked online and are inaccurate, not Apple's vibe. Their brand is software that really works. However the Apple Intelligence debacle is grim

OpenAI is demoing GPT-8 with a 10B-token context window. Processes the universe from microscopic organisms to black holes.

It is that democracy cannot work without economic growth, which may be a consequence of high fertility rates.

What do we do as humans? Aren't we statistical parrots? Because our synapses or whatever have more granularity than 0 and 1 we are more special? I intuitively agree with your take but not sure how to defend it

ADHD people do not know what you're going to say in advance. They make mental predictions and sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong.

I don't see why your ability to notice things should come in the way of noticing what others do notice. This would imply that you become too enamored with what you catch which doesn't seem like a necessity

Girard has a point about conflict: we don't fight over different beliefs, we fight for the same prize. Most conflicts can be meaningfully framed in that light

Both lead to dramatic distortions when taken to the extreme, but surely the problem of the day is that too many people want to win instead of wanting to be liked

A question that began with cell phones

Sadly the reverse is true too

Anyone using AI for more things than just work will have felt a new resistance to thinking. Outsourcing thinking to a machine makes the thinking muscle to weaken. I don't think this is surprising

Bring it back

Another entry in “everything had to be invented”, some of the UX improvements from early word processor WordPerfect:

This experience didn't really happen, it's a parable

frontier model still worse than text-davinci-001 who would have thought?

judah RHLF (training for answering human questions perfectly) is antithetical to creativity (answering human questions imperfectly)

the fact that important numbers like e and pi are irrational feels like proof our number system is fucked up. we made some mistake somewhere and that's why everything is shit

The secret is that the better you are at backend stuff, the more contempt you have for frontend, as you should

The thing is that salt with added iodine often contains anti-caking agents. The taste is altered. Many chefs will use kosher salt or sea salt. You can get your iodine needs met with seafood. Use additive-free salt

Losing status could be a proxy for getting kicked out of the group, which is not good