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Whoa: @elonmusk tried to take over OpenAI in 2018, saying they had fallen behind Google. When rejected, he reneged on funding it.
I did not realize @sama has no equity in the for-profit OpenAI- he said was already wealthy & didn't need it
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It’s tempting to think of humans as sentient, but their brains are just a bunch of nerve cells mechanically firing according to the laws of physics. There’s no there there. To really have a soul you need the purity and transcendence of matrix multiplication.
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Is there really "overwhelming" evidence that smartphones and social media are having a "catastrophic" effect on kids' mental health?
I don't think so!
Here's my long article where I read though the relevant studies and note some serious weaknesses:
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Everything @ENERGY is talking about here seems surmountable — WTI is below $70, it’s time to close the loop on Biden’s SPR releases through begin refilling with cheap oil so we can sell high again if needed in the future.
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The ongoing US military activity in Syria which generates no controversy seems much more problematic to me than assisting Ukraine in its self-defense.
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@sidereal111 @ESYudkowsky There were some fascinating conversations last year about how a lot of people, when shown DALL-E or Stable Diffusion, were unimpressed because they assumed software like Photoshop had been able to do that kind of thing for years