Elextric

Ideally, one should explore all possibilities. It is remarkable how far "merely" predicting the next word has taken us.

I can’t take it too seriously. It’s peak oil all over again.

Technically.

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

https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports

You can certainly rationalize anything, but I fail to see what help that is to us.

"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism [radical skepticism] is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. [...] I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther."

Hume

Let me reframe it. Among these trillions of people, there will be many who are 99% similar to you. Wouldn't you want that version of yourself to live a great life?

tldr: it's impossible to know for sure which choice is the absolute best.

In a sense, I get why they write verbosely, but...

The first and most important task of our lives is to determine what our goal is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead#God

yes

first telephone vs first iphone

Even if we achieve 2x every 3-4 years, isn't it still massive in absolute ?

The difference between a rational person and a narcissist is this: one recognizes the sufficiency of world-destroying power, the other will always demand more, regardless of the absurdity.

Imagine the paradox: holding the fate of the world in your hands, but still feeling under threat from a military alliance like NATO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFc1jxLHhyM

This is how I look at this issue. I am a layman.

Question of intelligence is more or less irrelevant in LLM. All we need is something that can mimic an average human. I would say we have arrived at such point.

How many people have truly new ideas? So from my perspective we achieved AGI.

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

The last point is indeed true. It's quite mind-boggling to me.

Sorry for being pedantic.

The intelligence of something is inconsequential. What truly matters is its ability to convincingly imitate intelligence.