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What? Bill Gates is a fine person. I know this because the decades long multi mullion dollar influence campaign to make me think this has been working to perfection!

What about the children?

It is not true at all. I have already seen more new styles since summer from Stable Diffusion than in the last 20 years of going to art galleries.

Every artist has their influences. If they come up with something new it is from a unique combination of their influences. Stable Diffusion makes this literally trivial.

Yea how stupid.

Everyone in this thread has already recognized how many faces so far today with their eyes and nothing blew up?

Look at the personal computer? It is just a better place to hold your recipes. We basically live in 1980 + having a more efficient way to hold your cookie recipes instead of in cumbersome recipe books.

I just picture someone worrying about people dialing phone numbers while driving in the car in 1990? What a stupid thing to worry about since obviously the cord won't be long enough.

People aren't going to want to have a phone on them at all times anyway and risk possibly breaking or losing the phone. It will just hang on the wall like the rotary phone in a stand so you know where it is but you won't have to worry about the pesky cord anymore.

Technological progress is a linear process that is always good with zero higher order cultural effects based on how new features are used in practice.

Face recognition? What could possibly go wrong. I recognize faces literally every day!

Yea that is just not going to happen.

I have dated so many divorced and separated women that just couldn't deal with the video games anymore. Way more so than financial problems. Financial problems didn't make them feel actively and completely ignored day in and day out.

Almost like the ultimate aphrodisiac in 2022 is a guy who hates video games.

To me, happiness as we age is making sure that we still have dreams and goals. My goal is to make my 50s the most exciting and interesting decade of life and then try to top it in my 60s.

Even if I don't reach the goal that is besides the point.

I am also though not acting out a romance novel with a wife, kids and living happily ever after. Disney is not going to make a movie that the prince gets divorced and lives happily ever after being single , no kids, and the freedom to do whatever they want.

I am curious too but the article is in the style of an English major and I just can't stand that style of writing. It is like the literary equivalent to guitar shredders.

I know he was a doctor and that is obviously an odd career trajectory but I don't know much beyond that.

The main problem is Meta has no imagination and is just going to play it safe and G rated.

The killer VR apps are all in creating a rated R type Metaverse that is seedy and dangerous. 80s Manhattan style, not safe for work or children.

That would be something wild and create a huge buzz. Instead, we have Horizon Worlds. Basically, Starbucks with fake coffee.

The only thing I like about Meta is trading the stock over the next few years as Wall Street goes into convolutions over the burn rate of Reality Labs at each earnings release.

Brilliant. All the American kids can hire Chinese students to take tests for them because it will be a great lesson in how the real world operates junior!

So many utterly ridiculous comments in this thread.

Hundreds of thousands of people screaming at each other.

It really needs a better model because the idea of scaling up the town square is just a terrible idea.

From Introduction To The Theory Of Complex Systems:

• Complex systems can exhibit a rich phase structure and have a huge variety of macrostates that often cannot be inferred from the properties of the elements. This is sometimes referred to as emergence.

This is the term and as common a term in complex systems as there is.

"scale-dependent capabilities" implies inference from elements.

I think some people just don't like the very idea even though it is not unlike the concept of stochastic process. I would think the same reasons to not like the concept of emergence applies to stochastic process. Murray Gell-Mann though couldn't even raise complex systems above arguing if emergence is magical thinking so it is probably a lost cause.

Such an interesting field that always ends up as this conversation.

I will not be surprised at all if many of these words are simply not used in 10 years.

Stanford is about as influential an institution as we have. When tarball and gray hat are seen as racist there are no bounds.

The bold black aggressive lettering on a white background on that Stanford page is next. I am surprised no one noticed that actually.

All kinds of bad possibilities. We seem to also have a bias that Russia and China are just automatically allied and there can never be a war between the two.

Yea, this is the fitness industry.

30 years ago it was a guy in a magazine on every drug known to man that would claim the reason for their size was Muscle Mega 3000 and then on the next page would be an advertisement for Muscle Mega 3000.

30 years ago Mike O'hearn was Mr Natural USA or some BS.

The same thing over and over.

If anything it was even worse 30 years ago when there was basically no information outside of bodybuilding magazines and even Mr Olympia would say they were natural. There was almost an unspoken code of silence and denial.

On the other hand, there are probably quite a few people today that everyone thinks are on steroids but they are 100% natural. People have such huge variance in natural testosterone levels.

Their 2021 financial report is literally comical it is so bad for a company that should have been printing money.

I can't stand Musk but my god did he give the shareholders a free lunch. I can't even imagine what the stock price would be right now with no deal.

I am just too old for NFTs but I can completely understand how that is cool having grown up collecting baseball cards.

There is really no valid argument that paying for a jpeg is any more ridiculous than paying for a piece of ultra thin cardboard with a baseball player on it that tends to gain in value based on going back in time in the players career. As if the rookie card being worth more than the second year is purely logical and not just a type of supply/demand herd mentality.

Pretty much irrelevant where I am at. It wasn't even on a main TV station and then they cut the coverage to go to NFL coverage right after the penalty kicks.

The biggest problem is that soccer and American football are both Fall sports in American high school. A great athlete needs a special love for soccer to not end up playing on the American football team. American football in high school has all the prestige.

Christian Pulisic is a great example. If he has a different upbringing there is a good chance he is playing American Football as a wide receiver.

GPT4 stories might be a huge feature. Usually when I read a story about something I know quite well the reporter gets things wrong or at the least you can tell they are a journalist and don't really know the subject well.

AI just has a very low bar to cross to put most journalist out of business.

You clearly don't like art then. Stable Diffusion is the greatest artist ever and it isn't even close. We are at the art singularity.

I made a logo for the first time with it the other day and not only was it better than anything a human would come up with but I had 10 different super human logos in a few seconds.

I started going to art galleries 30 years ago but I have seen more great art on my screen in the last few months than in my entire life. Most of the stuff you see people post is shit. Darth Vader playing video games. Anyone with even the slightest bit of art knowledge can make things beyond their wildest dreams.

Of course you can't make new digital realistic Roberto Matta paintings if you have no idea who Matta is to start with to put them in as part of the prompt.

I am pretty sure the big sticking point is Carmack thinks they should be doing the opposite of putting out $1500 headsets.

He was pretty much taking shots at people during his Meta Connect talk this year. There is nothing shocking about him leaving.

You first have to define what playing field are we talking about?

The playing field in this context is basically latency arbitrage. Who cares what hedge fund is collecting what alpha?

We live in the most golden age for retail trading. Retail electronic trading inside a Roth is basically perfection for the individual right now. I think people are confusing the market micro structure for the account returns in a bear market.

I worry though we are trying to fix something that isn't really broke.

My first Scott Trade brokerage account years back cost $7 a trade per side Now I pay absolutely nothing. Every trade I make I think about how this probably won't last.

An individual has no problem getting near infinite liquidity on their limit orders with no transaction cost. If someone is getting clipped a tick on a market order, oh well. Don't use a market order.

A problem though is how real world social networks operate. People love to gather with a bunch of strangers over coffee or at restaurants but have absolutely nothing to do with each other besides sitting in close proximity.

Everyone wants to design an online social network as if there is all this spirited high brow debate going on at the local Starbucks when in reality it is a bunch of people shoulder to shoulder ignoring each other.

If people really wanted interaction it would be trivial in the real world. Online social networks let people indulge in their want to talk AT strangers. This is absolutely a feature and not a bug of the software.

Even within myself, the idea of a 19th century style salon sounds really cool but I would never show up to one physically. An online salon with more than a handful of people would be cool but it would break down quickly as it scales up past 20 or so participants until it basically approaches Twitter.

Exactly. We don't have virtual reality at all. We have virtual remote viewing with sound.

We are basically at the Eliza stage of VR with a bunch of people pretending Eliza is not that far from passing the Turing Test.

Once we have virtual skin sensation and virtual physical movement there is no intellectual debate about any of this. Just instruction tutorials about how to have the experience because no marketing needed.

Once we have this I can think of far more interesting things than swimming around in the Avatar movie.

It strikes me as a type of publishing house literary participation trophy. You either write textbooks, self publish or the author is a "New York Times best selling author".

The scientific corpus is mostly wrong information though.

This is how we are going to pay a huge price for this ridiculous system of a citation social network and PhD mills masquerading as science.

lobotomized AI assistant future is already a done deal to me. For that to not happen we would need to be laying the foundations right now with these organizations operating on absolutist 90s cyberpunk values. Pretty much the opposite is happening.

The future is a dystopian G rated Disney movie with authoritarian undertones.

We also always ignore economics in these situations. The reason we all don't have a Boston Dynamics level robot right now is because of the economics of mass producing such a robot. To call that an engineering problem is too simplistic to me.

We don't need to just solve fusion. We need to produce fusion in a manner that undercuts the price of fossil fuels. Then stack "renewable" on top of that. Sociologically, people operate on self interest and will in-group into team Fossil Fuels, Team Wind/Solar and we might even end up with Team Fossil Fuels and Team Wind/Solar forming an alliance to oppose Team Fusion.

Of course, outwardly and individually we play make believe that we are all impartial 3rd party observers that just want the best for Team Human. It is those self interested jerks on the other team that are the problem. Never you and I.

Those quotes are not about trust, they are about the rhetorical technique of appeal to authority.

The actual payload though is the mistrust of authority exactly because we are all so susceptible to the logical fallacy of appeal to authority masquerading bullshit as truth.

There is no problem to solve here. ChatGPT should never be an authority on anything.

I grew up playing ping pong in the backyard because we had no room inside. It sucks just as much as you would imagine it would because of the wind.

It is not quite as bad as trying to surf on a pond but it is down that path.