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jwalgenbach
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
The treatment is for type 1, not type 2. Very different causes.
jwalgenbach
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Campaign donations are not personal gifts, and regulated by election laws. This is a false equivalency and at best whataboutism.

This is not to say Citizen's United shouldn't be repealed and campaign contributions much more tightly regulated. But it ain't the same.
jwalgenbach
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Cars don't run. And even if they did, or you tortured the definition to include rolling on fairly straight prepared paths as running, it is only better for specific definitions of better.

Cars are faster on reasonable traversable terrain. Are they more or less energy efficient? Under what circumstances? Do they self navigate the best path around obstacles? Better is really subjective.

And this applies to the large language models too. Just like calculators, they are going to do some things better, or maybe cheaper. But I've played with them trying to get them to write non-trivial programs, and they really do fail confidently. I suspect the amount of source code online means that any common problem has been included in the training data, and the LLM constitutes a program. So, at this point for programming, it's fancy Google. And that has value, but it is not intelligence.

I am not saying we (as a society) shouldn't be worried about these developments. Near as I can tell, they will mostly be used to further concentrate wealth among the few, and drive people apart because we already can't settle on a common set of (reasonably) objective facts about what is going on -- both problems are probably the same thing from different perspectives...
jwalgenbach
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Except it is the speech of those pressuring the company that is free. I can tell a company that supports things I don't agree with that I won't be a customer. If enough of customers vote with their wallets, the company will change it's policies because it cares about profit.

No one is obligated to give either their money or attention to Elon Musk, or to third parties that are perceived to support Musk's companies.
jwalgenbach
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I think it is the use of the term "landchad". I've never heard it before. Maybe it's a thing, but it sure sounds like a phrase from the incel world.
jwalgenbach
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I'm sure he didn't care. It's not as though there is video of him...

Oh, right. There is.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-i-will-be-appointing-pro...