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GPT4 is multimodal in the sense that it can take images as input. The person is using a speech to text system such as OpenAIs Whisper and serving screenshots and voice transcripts to GPT4 and GPT4 is returning a text response which is converted to speech using a text to speech system such as OpenAIs TTS API.

I don’t know how one would settle the question but I’d venture to say that Theravada is not less close to the Western impression of Buddhism than other parts of Buddhism.

Additionally, many people’s ideas of Buddhism is understood through their knowledge of mindfulness which was brought to the West through Theravada to a large part.

Effective altruists are most commonly donating to specific relatively high-evidence causes in low-income countries or much more speculative existential risk causes. Donations such as his donations to Carneggie Mellon University are an example of donations that is not common among effective altruists.

While I agree it is worth noting that this was already tested in some kind of sandbox environment that only ‘simulated’ replication.

I would like a source for the first claim. When I read the preprint for this paper half a year ago it was actually one of their claims that to the best of their knowledge their Pong experiment was the first to show human neurons being ‘better’.

Surely this cannot be an argument for whether something is a legitimate field. Surely there are some scientists somewhere studying the risks of a very risky viruses. At least prima facie, such research would neither be boring or unnecessary.

I think I heard of people with brain damage who does not keep an internal state, they feel like they continuously wake up and only remember memories from before the brain damage. That would be a kind of parallel to consider, or at least somewhat analogous. I think most of us assume that such people would have phenomenal consciousness / subjective experience / qualia

Seems very unlikely to me that it would not be a combination. We have both rational and irrational parts, conscious and unconscious parts.

I'd venture one does not have to look far in the anthropology literature to find good evidence that gifts just like other favors serves a function in building reciprocal relationships. Since it is likely so fundamental, I have a hard time believing it would not have any effect on the independence of the doctor.

Might be wrong, but I think they just mean that when you do large scale trials you aggregate over the population, and determine if the medication had a statistically significant effect. You can get evidence that a subgroup does not react well, but you might not, if that is not your focus.

A key concept and solution here is 'precision medicine', tailoring medicine based on more precise information about the individual.