ViktorRay

There are certain genres that the big AAA studios basically pump out and certain genres that indie devs basically pump out.

Anyway this is all pretty interesting. Thanks for taking the time to write those responses. I may not fully understand what’s going on with this article but I do feel like I know more than I did a few hours ago.

I took a look at a young Dustin Hoffman on Google Images. He looks like a regular white dude with black hair? Somewhat similar to Al Pacino (who isn’t Jewish).

Why does it matter if the author is Jewish? He mentions it multiple times as if that fact would make himself unfitting to be the lead in the movie…

Like there’s this sentence which is confusing to me:

”I remember thinking, They’re trying to take the Jew off my face, and it ain’t going to happen. All I wanted to do was go home, to ethnic New York, where I belonged. I knew I was no leading man. I knew my place.”

This is very confusing to me. I don’t understand where the author is coming from.

There’s even this part:

”“You’re saying you’re not right for it because you’re Jewish,” Mike said. “Well, because Benjamin’s so not Jewish.” There was a pause. Then Mike said, “Maybe he’s Jewish inside.””

What the heck does any of this mean? Jewish inside? What?

I’m guessing they don’t have films either.

They do have written books though.

Now the Star Trek TNG film Star Trek First Contact takes place in the 21st century and features rock and roll and characters talking in “modern” parlance.

I’m guessing that in between the 21st century and the 24th century mankind advanced and stopped watching tv and movies and went back to reading books.

Perhaps they advanced and abandoned social media as well. The Star Trek’s version of forums and the internet could be an idealized version of Hacker News where everyone actually follows the rules and Dang the AI moderator can just chill and not do much. It’s very possible.

How is this website doing it?

Many people spend hours browsing Tik Tok rather than watching film or television.

Even long form YouTube videos are highly popular. Many folks spend time watching those rather than movies or tv. I believe Tom Hanks was speaking about this many years ago.

That being said….

I remember growing up and my teachers would always emphasize the importance of reading. I’m sure it would be a great thing for humanity if everyone spent their free time reading books rather than on film or television. In such a scenario would people complain about job loss then? This could be a fruitful idea for a science fiction short story come to think of it.

They originally used Gmail in that way. Many years later they stopped. This was a major victory for privacy. The fact they seem to be doing it now again is bad. Saying they’ve “always done this” is the kind of empty conspiratorial cynicism that dampens action and makes people feel it is futile to notice these changes or speak up about them.

Makes one wonder if there were technologies that did something similar to humanity in the real world…

I wonder if all the investment in smartphones and LLM’s may have taken away from focus on other things…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Concerning_Diet_and_Ap...

Above is a Wikipedia article about that law. And here is a direct link to the text of that 1363 law:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000017915496&seq=...

But we still have no self driving cars. Seems like the automation came by in the opposite direction. Perhaps driving will actually be the final thing automated.

We’re talking about fraud about medical results over technology that essentially violates basic principles.

Honestly it’s kind of astounding Theranos ever became so hyped. The mythology of Silicon Valley and the glorification of shady shit probably helped. Reddit for example started out by doing shady shit. They would fake activity on the site with bots.

Y Combinator and Paul Graham glorified this kind of fake it until you make it bullshit. Reddit was an early Y Combinator startup. So I think they have an indirect responsibility of promoting this culture.

(Obviously they were not directly involved in Theranos)

Apologies if I have misunderstood you but I believe it was explained. See the following:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

The quote I posted above is from Dune.

Especially when you go into rooms with giant mirrors and you can see yourself. As in you can see the camera. Which is the little guy on the cloud. Such a charming wonderfully creative concept.

This is a legitimate question. The Chinese companies are releasing their open weights models for free. Here in America, Meta is doing that as well.

Do you know where “the ball” is going? Do these math students? Do the professors? It’s easy to say a vague nothing platitude like “target where the ball is going to” but such empty vague platitudes do not help anyone and just waste time.

Here is an archive link of the original blog post:

https://archive.is/zi6qn

Going to post it here in case someone several years from now comes to this thread and wants to read the original blog post.

But Gandhi did know what hospitals were.

-He received surgery in 1919 for an anal fissure

- When his wife was sick he denied her antibiotics in 1944. She later died.

These are important things to keep in mind.

https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf

I posted more in another comment on this thread but here’s a PDF of his book. Gandhi says in the “A Word of Explanation” section that he would welcome the natural destruction of hospitals. How is that timeless?

For example he says it would be a good thing if all railways and hospitals ended up being destroyed.

If all hospitals ended up destroyed what would happen to the people who need treatment for bacterial infections? Or need treatment for heart attacks? Or need dialysis? Or get necrotizing fasciitis and need surgery? Or need cancer treatment?

And if all the railways and factories and such are destroyed how do you manufacture medicine and antibiotics and other devices to save lives?

I understand the things I mentioned just now weren’t around in 1908 when Gandhi wrote that essay but who knows what advancements modern AI could bring that we can’t imagine now?

https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf

This is a PDF of that Gandhi book. Under the “A Word of Explanation” you find Gandhi saying he would welcome the natural destruction of hospitals and railways.

People incorrectly think LLMs are conscious because they output language. Yet we question consciousness and intelligence and so on in dogs, cats and now babies.

It’s a ridiculous human bias. Nobody thinks an image generator is conscious. Nobody thinks a human image generated by an image generator is real. But LLMs generate text and so people mistakenly assume they are conscious. LLMs can deep fake personas and act like characters and people think that’s what they actually are. It’s all a deep fake. When you talk to an LLM you are “talking” to a deep fake of a person in the same manner as an image generator deep faking a human image.

An now a paper of record is questioning whether babies are conscious. Why? Just because they don’t use language or have access to memories we question this!? Ultimately that’s what it boils down to regardless of what this article says.