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“Human-level” means we can drop the bullshit qualifiers.

Human-level intelligence should adapt to many uses.

It may require teachers, but not prompt engineers.

The article author is very valid in the stance that this is far from intelligence.

Yes yes, you wouldn’t criticize a fish’s intelligence for not being able to climb a chessboard.

But these things are stupid as hell. They are not even close.

I recommend a hybrid approach.

Till a new yard. It probably has chunks of concrete and other garbage from previous owners. It’s worth taking the garbage out of the ground.

Then smother the whole yard with cardboard. Then layer wood chips on that.

Dig out individual holes for plants and absolutely murder the rest of the ground with mulch.

In those holes, add compost, then plants.

With good layering, cardboard can even smother the bermuda grass menace.

if you have multiple threads working a queue of like-kinded jobs, you’ve given up the determinism of using any sort of global seed

you could pull different set lengths of pseudorandom numbers from the different seeds

Especially with AI. It’s better to teach the AI many examples and let it understand the implicit abstractions. Who needs to worry about reusable higher order abstractions when the machine just busts out the code you need in a single file?

Maybe she’s attractive because she meets a very median set of attractiveness characteristics.

I.e. maybe being hot is actually less about being unique and more anout being consistent.

Maybe sultry female voices only have so much variety.

I didn’t think of Scarjo during the demo. That said, I don’t need robots to be sexy, so it doesn’t matter.

I feel the real goal is to slow OpenAI down with distractions.

I take it as a fair enough assumption for my judgements that all people have the same average personality potential at birth.

I’ve been around a lot of very Catholic people. I’d say half are well intentioned, whereas half are belligerent antivax etc.

The ones with good intentions prop up and obey the bad actors.

The ones with good intentions end up feeling trapped by the community and the religious trauma. Sometimes the good ones end up taking it out on their spouses/kids, perceived as units of the oppressive structure (though they are victims alike).

The difficulty of reform is all the more reason I’m happy for the slow decline in religiosity.

“some great value in religion” takes a long time of filtering through stories and metaphors to find the actual point.

I get it, some lessons are hard to teach and it’s easier to present the framework of the lesson in a story, then people make connections as they grow.

But you also have to consider all of the harmful misinterpretations that come with it.

If most people come away from religion less ethical than nonreligious people, let’s see if we can take the good parts of the texts and throw the rest away.

E.g. learning about mystical buddhism versus just going to therapy and breathing for a while.