Engineering-MD

2 years agodiscuss

I would think it would not lead to a transfer of consciousness and instead just make a copy of you. I recommend black mirror, it deals with one technological change (usually) and shows how it can be dystopian (usually, there are occasional happy endings). Each episode is standalone.

Engineering-MD

2 years agodiscuss

Out of interest, what do you think would happen to your sense of subjective experience on sci-fi upload? And secondly have you watched black mirror? In that show they show many great ways there the end of death is just the beginning of eternal techno suffering.

Engineering-MD

2 years agodiscuss

That’s is true and a reasonable point. But looking in This thread you can see there has been this reaction from quite a few.

Engineering-MD

2 years agodiscuss

I agree, it’s just more about the intent than anything else, like boasting about your amazing new job when someone has recently been made redundant, just before Christmas.

Engineering-MD

2 years agodiscuss

Can I just say what a dick move it was to do this as a 12 days of Christmas. I mean to be honest I agree with the arguments this isn’t as impressive as my initial impression, but they clearly intended it to be shocking/a show of possible AGI, which is rightly scary.

It feels so insensitive to that right before a major holiday when the likely outcome is a lot of people feeling less secure in their career/job/life.

Thanks again openAI for showing us you don’t give a shit about actual people.

Engineering-MD

3 years agodiscuss

I wouldn’t personally disagree, but I’m more commenting on your style of arguing. Rather than seek discussion and truth you seek to force a view and discourage debate. This leaves us less informed, the truth less validated, and us all worse off.

Engineering-MD

3 years agodiscuss

Your argument style closes it to any counterpoint. Anyone in your head with a different opinion is weird or lying. Perhaps others have a different rationale to you?

Engineering-MD

5 years agodiscuss

A tiny percentage (less than 1%) [0]of people read terms and conditions- they are long, repetitive and often in legal language. If you expect to read every terms and conditions and privacy policy (and every change there of), you would waste over 240 hours over the year.[1]

[0] Bakos, Y., Marotta-Wurgler, F. and Trossen, D. R. (2014) ‘Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard-Form Contracts’, The Journal of Legal Studies, 43(1), pp. 1–35. doi: 10.1086/674424.

[1] McDonald, A. M. and Cranor, L. F. (2008) ‘The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies’, A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 4(3), pp. 543–568.

Engineering-MD

5 years agodiscuss

Hide the hay in a pile of rotten hay as it were.

Engineering-MD

5 years agodiscuss

I think an interesting analogy is if you rewrote a book in your own words but with each paragraphs meaning intact. So you rewrote Harry Potter but with slightly different sentence structures, but meaning was otherwise near identical. It’s that copyright infringement? I think it would certainly be plagiarism.

The other similar analogy is of translation: a translated work is still copied by ‘derived from’ copyright laws.

Is this just what copilot is doing in some ways but for smaller components?

Engineering-MD

6 years agodiscuss

It was a great video and I agree with your conclusion. However it’s important to note he specifically states not to generalise his findings as he’s not an epidemiologist and human interactions are often much more complex. I personally don’t see how they would be effective in this instance, but they may have indirect/occult effects not obvious to those without the extra data The Japanese have.

Engineering-MD

6 years agodiscuss

Well that’s why I factor it in as a donation to Firefox instead of paying for the features (which I agree with you the price point is way too high for what you get).

Engineering-MD

6 years agodiscuss

So I pay for Pocket Premium as it is wholly owned by Mozilla as a way of diversifying their income away from search and donations. I like and use pocket and get something in exchange for my money (which makes me more likely to keep a rolling payment going on). II know it’s not open source, but tbh that doesn’t hugely bother me given that Firefox itself is.

Does anyone object to this indirect way of funding Firefox? Does it cause indirect harm by making them prioritise pocket over Firefox?

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