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I disagree that this is a uniquely Chinese problem or a direct result of recent Chinese history. This (buying in to bullshit medicine) has nothing to do with China specifically. There are literally tens of millions of well educated people that believe in superstitious nonsense. For example, there are college graduates who got sucked into Scientology. Humans are just generally bad at rational …

It's a tough situation with this stuff. It's almost certain that there are no moral blocks to this technology in places like China and Russia, so do we play ball or stay out of the game? I don't know the correct answer to that question.

What annoys me the most, by the time this effects our economy, a Democratic president or Congress will be in place and take all the blame. Meanwhile trump gets to take credit for Obama fixing our Bush economy

It's sad that the government can't keep from making people uncomfortable about this. I don't mean the Trump government, I mean any government. Facial recognition technology is a godsend for the police. It makes it hard for criminals to keep away from the law, but at the same time it can be abused to track everyone who isn't a criminal at the same time. If you could trust the powers that be to…

The fact that companies will be able to use it for profit is how you know nothing will be done about it. At best we will get a limp dick "oversight board" or something with no power to stop abuse, and with half the higher ups being retired CEO's of face recognition companies. If you haven't noticed yet, if it makes rich people money, it happens. Kick and scream all you want, profit will be made…

A few container ships are worse than all but the biggest country’s worth of cars. https://medium.com/@victoria27/heres-how-much-pollution-shipping-containers-and-freight-trucks-cause-b358cb034c70

It is ludicrous to us AI screening with out human oversight in ANY industry. The best results are always AI assistant a human expert.

Not by social media but by Russia edit: Backup in [article format](https://medium.com/@cache_86525/russian-govt-and-putins-deeds-1c9de24b3526) - [Invasion of Georgia]( http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-appears-to-be-taking-georgias-land-inch-by-inch-2017-7) - [Doping all Russian athletes for every Olympic game]( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/sports/olympics/ioc-russia-winter-olympics.h…

So which is it. Wuhan has widespread infections that China is hiding from the world, or it had good lockdown procedures. People change the narrative to suit their story so much it’s so annoying, especially China bashers who jump as soon as they see the capital C.

I don't think the desire to socialize with coworkers is an extrovert vs. introvert thing. I'm far on the introvert side and I love socializing with my coworkers. As an introvert, I have a hard time talking to strangers; I feel awkward/self-conscious and have no idea what to say. With coworkers, there's an automatic icebreaker (start off by talking about anything tangentially related to work), and…

Yup. A friend of mine is in your exact position. Unlikely to make rent next month. Plus his landlady was texting him about raising his rent and complaining how unfair it was that she couldn't raise it more because of city ordinances. Like how tone deaf can you be?

To everyone playing the nO yOU argument this might be a good anecdote: You built your house in at a plot because you found it for cheap. Now you're mad the newly moved neighbour trying to build their own house follow the regulations that you completely ignored for decades. In short you can't expect developing nations with 6X the populations to not pollute as much as the west completely ignoring …

This is interesting to me. I breed racehorses and sometimes a baby can be born “maladjusted” which was previously thought to be caused by a reduction in oxygen going to the baby during delivery. The baby can often “star gaze”, won’t be able to nurse properly, sometimes have trouble getting up on their feet, have no interest in their mother etc. Well one of the new ways in which you can treat …

I wear my sunglasses inside, so I can, so I can Watch you heave then breathe those covid lines

In his book [The Wisdom of Crowds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds), James Surowiecki suggested that there are already algorithms that exist which outperform humans for decision-making. He suggested that due to their high cost, it would be logical to replace CEOs with AI. Having worked with a CEO, I agree. There's nothing special about them that justifies their wages, espec…

Does that mean Bing AI will be able to generate... \*looks over shoulder and whispers\* ... fart jokes?

I heard in a podcast that eventually we will have AI writing and sending, then summarizing for the receiver of emails. The same process happens in return, and we just end up with AI expanding and contracting information. I feel like this is a start lol.

A large use I've noticed my using chatgpt for, is that I generally ask it questions about stuff I might not feel comfortable asking another human being. Granted, most of this is for entertainment purposes.

I think that Altman understands that the existential threat of an uncontrolled recursive intelligence explosion is real. OpenAI's chief scientist Sutskever definitely seems to. There was an interview recently where Yudkowski said that he spoke to Altman briefly, and while he wouldn't say what was said, he did say it made him feel slightly more optimistic. **EDIT:** Correction! Yudkowsky said it …

>I’d rather see the topic of mainstream discourse switch to this from abortion edge-cases I get what you're saying, but this still comes off as very insensitive to the millions of women who had their reproductive rights severely curtailed throughout the US last year when Roe was overturned. It's very easy to downplay the significance of this issue if you're not a woman. Mainstream discourse …