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Jewish-Ukrainian from SFBA. I support Ukraine, and I support Israel but not Netaniahu. If I follow you, this is because I like reading what you say. There's no need to follow me back.
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Unfortunately the paper is no longer run by journalists, and they have enough pundits there to make it overall useless as a news source. As good old proverb says, if you add a teaspoon of shit into a can of honey, you end up with a can of shit.
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If it is coming from WaPo or NYT, it's not worth the paper it would be printed.
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Agree. I flew like 60 commercial flights this year, only 5 of them were delayed (three by 15 minutes and two for under an hour) and two were canceled (both out of Israel).
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If NYT opinion says X is true, in 99% of cases X is false. So even NYT can be useful, despite not providing paper anymore (and thus being less useful as it was before).
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Not to mention that any such honest comparison would treat the other candidate equally, instead of pretending that Biden runs against a Perfect Candidate who can work 24/7/365.
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Would you have a link to it, by chance?
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Well, a conclusion is that you've failed to convince me and thus lost one more potential adopter. This is typical for crypto projects, and this is why they are only used for niche projects, as I have said multiple times here.
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I would not implement such a project in the first place.
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Yes, I use the weed because we don't have yet a similar example about SCOTUS. But it would be similar, basically some rulings people would support (and they'd be enforced) and some they'd not (and the court would have no way to enforce them).
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Have this paper been peer-reviewed by an economist? It starts with a lot of assertions for which no evidence is provided, and some of which I find questionable.
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The typical issue with all blockchain use cases is that they create the issue to fix with the blockchain, and don't even question whether the issue indeed exists. Why would we even need a "currency pegged to global energy markets"? (and yes every time it's someone with personal stake in it)
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You never provided a general concept; your two options are "it's useful, just keep an open mind" and "It has been used in creating the part with id AC8274, and I bet you'd never be able to create the AC8274 without it".
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With websites it was clear the technology is useful, and it's only being held by the lack of adoption due to limited exposure. With crypto, LLMs the adoption is not restricted by exposure. It's only limited by its usefullness.
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Nope. We humans have been pretty good in creating intelligence, including creating other humans whose intelligence exceeds the one of those who created them.
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I would start with questioning why exactly those requirements are important. But it doesn't matter - as I have said, it's a very niche example with niche requirements. Even buying drugs is a better example of crypto use.
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Daniel, we are talking about something which would provide tangible benefit for the society. I have never heard of Splinterlands before today, and a quick search tells me it's a card trading game - a classic example of extremely niche use.
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You never gave a general concept of HOW the technology to be useful, just "keep open mind and adopt more" but for what exactly my neighbors would adopt blockchain, for example, you've been so far completely silent.
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It's not anti-rhetoric, I only pushed back to state that LLMs are just artificial and have nothing to do with "intelligence" - calling it "AI" is just a marketing grift, done by the people who have done different grifts before and thus are not trustworthy by default.
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There is no adoption because there is no practical use for blockchain (which I define as being useful for at least 1% of world's population). Every single project I've looked at where blockchain was used could have been implemented without it. So I stopped even looking.
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The opposite - the fact that you mentioned a really niche and obscure use case which the vast majority of world's population never even heard about shows how relatively irrelevant the technology is.
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The consequences of doing so are the court ruling to be ignored (by states, for example). The court doesn't have the army to enforce its rulings, so when an entity large enough (i.e. CA) decides to ignore the ruling, there's nothing really the court can do. Look at weed for example.
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Sorry but I don't even understand what you're talking about, and I've never heard of splinterforge. Which somehow tells me it's again a very niche use which probably didn't even need the blockchain in the first place.
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For blockchain, which you said has solved many of the problems it was claimed to solve.
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This is what normally happens when one tries to shoehorn the facts to fit into a specific theory. And it is also quite obvious to every observer.
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You keep speaking in abstracts. Can you provide specific examples so I can understand what you mean by "useful"? I mean, slavery was useful for large number of people, but we as a society are better without it.
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And obviously there's no NYT articles "Voters question is Trump has major health problems ? Is trump hiding in a hospital? Is he even alive?" - being a garbage NYT became.
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Like truly changing things, Internet, GPS, cell phones came in slowly and gradually, and were not promoted by the VC grifters and their marketers. Which is why it's easy to see a next big scam - see any VCs lining up behind them? It's a scam.
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But I'm sure you understand the difference between "useful for me" and "useful for the world". One doesn't follow from another.
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None, actually. It did not make banking more available or secure, did not speed up transaction processing, and nobody is using it to actually buy stuff instead of currency. As I said above, all cryptocurrency serves is money laundering and scams.
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It will remain a niche, suitable for limited and speficic tasks, just like cryptocurrency which did not solve any of the issues it claimed it would solve and instead its main use remains money laundering, scamming and buying illegal drugs.
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The whole "AI" thing will follow the other big things already forgotten as soon as grifters take all the moron's money and switch to the next big thing.
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Don't worry, we will not have a person. A conversation between two ChatGPT will always be incredibly boring to read, and you'd never make a movie out of it worth watching.
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ain't very intelligent either, but at least not artificial.
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Which means it's very simple under the hood. If there was anything truly unique there, we'd hear about it from every news outlet and at every VC conference.
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The point is that there's nothing intelligent here. A human (not ML) chose to use linear regression because they *know* a specific problem fits into linear regression and assembles the data for twisting the coefficients in the formula. There's nothing intelligent there except marketing and VC money.
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Yeah, just represented as a formula instead of a table to account for non-existing inputs.
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A trained ML model is basically a N-dimension database of weights.
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Because NYT is not news, its National Enquirer.
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There is nothing from "intelligence" in GPTs, I'd argue. It's basically a database with rules and some randomness.
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You're responding to a "senior political writer", i.e. someone not even worth reading.
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If you look at per capita GDP, we're #10 in that list, and out of those 10 above us, 6 are European countries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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This is nice to have but not required. South Korea is a quite large weapon manufacturer, and they aren't known for big deserts either.
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Do they report how trump goes down? Rhetorical question, I know, there's no journalism left in this country, just journathrash.
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Yeah neither would win against a sane Republican candidate. But we're talking Trump here. Even my cat has a good chance to win against Trump.
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and NATO. Just look at how Europeans shitting bricks now thinking about trump coming back and withdrawing from NATO and how they'd have to - just imagine - actually spend money on their defense themselves.
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And yet again you're making assumptions with zero evidence.
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You have expressed your personal opinion zillion times already. I'm asking for EVIDENCE, not yet another opinion.
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I'm quite fascinated how full you seem to be of doomsday projections while lacking any evidence, even anecdotal, to support it.
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I have asked you before, and will repeat my question one more time as you have ignored it: do you have any evidence behind your projections? Did anyone you know tell you that they're no longer voting Biden because of debates?
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And I respect him for accepting the responsibility here.
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